Movies
Werner Herzog on Death, Los Angeles and Avoiding Introspection
Posted 09/02/2010 255 PM by Bilge Ebiri
Presumably, Werner Herzog needs no introduction. Like an atmospheric phenomenon or a law of physics, the German filmmaker has been some kind of constant for over more than four decades of world cinema. That he continues to be a major presence in the world of film -- churning out both documentaries and narrative features with supernatural regularity - certainly speaks to his uncompromising nature. But it also speaks to his adaptability - the same guy who made deranged German jungle adventures with Klaus Kinski is now making deranged American cop flicks with Nicolas Cage. With the upcoming DVD release of READ MORE »
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Y'Know What Impresses Me About the New Due Date Trailer?
Posted 09/02/2010 230 PM by Matt Singer
The fact that they managed to squeeze not one but two car door getting ripped off their hinges jokes. In one trailer! How often does that happen? The film, directed by "The Hangover"'s Todd Phillips, is, according to IMDb, about a "high-strung father-to-be" (Robert Downey Jr.)" who goes on a road trip with an "aspiring actor (Zach Galifianakis) in order to make it to his child's birth on time." I just hope they didn't give away all their best car door ripping off the hinges jokes. I hate when trailers do that. READ MORE »
Music
Radiohead Gives Amateur Filmmakers Audio Masters For Concert Film
Posted 09/02/2010 130 PM by Brandon Kim
Last year in Prague a group of Radiohead fans set out to make a concert film just using flip cameras in the audience, from about 50 different perspectives. It's not a new idea, nor does it sound like a particularly good one (even with vast improvements in the quality of flipcam video), but the final result of all that footage edited together was surprisingly engrossing. Radiohead thought so too, and in what seems to be one of the greatest rock story wet dreams of all time, they gave the Czech fans-turned-filmmakers the actual sound board recordings to turn the endearing READ MORE »
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Harmony Korine's High Fashion Short Film
Posted 09/02/2010 1000 AM by Alison Willmore
Never one to go with the crowd (which in this case would mean making a perfume ad), Harmony Korine has created "Act Da Fool," a short film for high-end clothing brand Proenza Schouler. You're have to watch it here, there's no embed function. It's very reminiscent of "Trash Humpers," disconnected, low-res late afternoon imagery of abandoned cars in lots, discarded mattresses and shopping carts, and footage of a group of girls wearing Proenza Schouler outfits, spray painting graffiti, drinking 40s and hitting old tires with sticks as an echoey voiceover intones "I believe that the earth is a big ball READ MORE »
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"Rambo 101" at Fantastic Fest 2009
Posted 09/02/2010 945 AM by Matt Singer
At last year's Fantastic Fest, not only could you watch movies about gun violence, a lucky few got to participate in some themselves.
Music
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl's "The Bike Song" - Most Stylish Video of 2010
Posted 09/02/2010 924 AM by Brandon Kim
London/New York's Mark Ronson's new gig is basically being the hippest bastard on the planet with his group Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. If you're the type to recoil at that, just look away now. Their latest video for "The Bike Song" off the upcoming release, "Record Collection" is a collision of all things cool -- at least through the retro lens of a 30-something. The specs, the rhymes, the chicks, and of course the bikes. The ridiculous Japanese/Tron/R2D2/Knight Rider transforming bicycle routine comes out of nowhere, and then Ronson is just rolling, hooking up with his jobless friends, READ MORE »
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"Fuck You" Video: Will the Real Cee Lo Green Please Come Forward
Posted 09/01/2010 1253 PM by Brandon Kim
It's been an eternity in internet time since Cee Lo's "Fuck You" bombed into town with it's sweet refrain and Ooo, Ooo, Oooo's. Immediately, 50 Cent had his opportunistic response/cover version. Then a there were countless acoustic covers with a dude and his guitar straining in front of a webcam. A beatnik jam band rendition. This picture-in-picture A cappella guy. And don't these two in bed. And those are just the good ones. We won't even get into the fan made videos for the original song. I was going to off myself if the Real Cee Lo green didn't step READ MORE »
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Call Toll-Free! Movie Marketers Are Standing By!
Posted 09/01/2010 1230 PM by Matt Singer
STILL A VIRGIN? FOR HELP CALL 888-743-4335. TOLL FREE If you live in an area with a lot of movie billboards, you'll probably see one that looks like that this week and mentions in smaller print at the bottom that the poster is, in fact, a sneaky advertisement for "The Virginity Hit," a mockumentary about a teenager trying to lose his virginity. Calling the number gets you "The Virgin Helpline" where you're greeted by an automated message from Zack Pearlman, one of the film's stars, and a bunch of options for button presses (1 if you're a virgin, 2 if READ MORE »
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"Black Swan" Charms the Critics at Venice
Posted 09/01/2010 1210 PM by Alison Willmore
Darren Aronofsky's ballerina fantasia "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel and Winona Ryder (!), premiered at the Venice Film Festival to shrieks of glee from the critics, though not all for the same reason (there's at least one claim that it's more good-bad than an actual triumph). A few samples: "Every film festival benefits hugely from a strong opening film, and they don't come a lot stronger than Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller set in the world of New York ballet. Powerful, gripping and always intriguing, it also features a lead performance from Natalie Portman that READ MORE »
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"The American," Reviewed
Posted 09/01/2010 1030 AM by Alison Willmore
The melancholic killer, the hooker with a heart of gold, the sinister boss pulling strings from afar, the man of the cloth confidant -- the deeper you get into "The American," the second film from Dutch photographer-turned-director Anton Corbijn, the more it seems like a moving museum of movie archetypes than anything that quite finds its own footing. Underneath the luster of its Euro tailoring, it's a subdued neo-Western run aground in an Italian hill town -- a neo-Spaghetti Western, then, a point underlined, should you have missed it, by a bartender pointing out the Sergio Leone film playing on READ MORE »
INTERVIEWS
Werner Herzog on Death, Los Angeles and Avoiding Introspection
The "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" director on his late friend Bruno S., his Toronto-bound 3D cave painting film and film critics.
VIDEOS
"Rambo 101" at Fantastic Fest 2009
At last year's Fantastic Fest, not only could you watch movies about gun violence, a lucky few got to participate in some themselves.
PHOTOS
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning rock SXSW with "The Runaways"
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning crank up the volume in Austin with the premiere of their new film "The Runaways."
Patrick Wilson and Chloë Sevigny expose "Barry Munday" to SXSW
Chloë Sevigny and Patrick Wilson walk the red carpet in Austin at the the SXSW premiere of "Barry Munday."
