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Tim Burton at MoMASo you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton exhibit, and it’s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there’s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
John Woo on RED CLIFFThe short form would be that John Woo rediscovered himself in returning to China, but that really doesn’t capture what’s going on. Woo made his name with such beautiful, dynamic, and surprisingly thoughtful urban crime films as HARD BOILED and THE KILLER — pop culture with soul — then made his way to America for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
PIRATE RADIO Part 2: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Richard CurtisRichard Curtis had a death in the family. I’d flown in to London to do the interviews for my PIRATE RADIO coverage, and the director was at the top of my list. Some things, though, take precedence over spending fifteen minutes with a dumpy New York journalist, and for Curtis, this had to be one [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
PIRATE RADIO Part 1: Nick Frost, Talulah Riley, Tom SturridgeSo here’s what I did on my class trip to London: shoot a video featuring people on the street discussing whether they preferred PIRATE RADIO or THE BOAT THAT ROCKED as the title of the latest Richard Curtis film; interview some of the stars of the film itself; and eat British airport pizza. Two of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Aimette and John G. Hofmann on TURNING GREENNot to put too fine a point on it, but the poster for TURNING GREEN lies. It showcases Tim Hutton, Colm Meaney, and Allesandro Nivola, but while they’re prominent figures in the film, it ain’t about them. Off in the lower right, with his back turned towards the camera, there’s your protagonist: A teenage boy, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ti West on THE HOUSE OF THE DEVILTi West sure digs his retro. In THE ROOST — his tidy little horror film about a group of travelers threatened by some really nasty bats — he added a wraparound featuring Tom Noonan in tacky butler drag, holding forth in front of a cardboard set as host of a local Saturday Night Chiller Feature [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Anthony Fabian on SKINYou could probably forge a good, absurdist, dark comedy out of a government where racial identity can be declared and reversed by official decree, and white parents whose child’s skin is, because of a genetic quirk, darker than theirs struggle to get their kid designated Caucasian. I can imagine Terry Gilliam going to town on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
ANTICHRIST: A Conversation“Lars von Trier doesn’t like to fly.” “Lars von Trier isn’t going to talk to a lot of press.” Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn’t talking to us doesn’t mean we can’t talk about him, particularly about his childhood. I have it on good authority that he refused to eat his sandwiches until [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mira Nair on AMELIAYou’re going to have to trust me on this one: I am a romantic. ONCE is one of my favorite films; I teared up at both UP and MARY AND MAX (animated characters struggling for their small bit of happiness just hit some special spot in me). But when you’re telling the tale of Amelia [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
(Almost) Live from London: PIRATE RADIO vs. THE BOAT THAT ROCKEDSo I figured, while I’m in London interviewing some of the people involved with PIRATE RADIO, Richard Curtis’ film about those intrepid souls who in the 60’s brought the UK their daily dose of rock when the BBC was loathe to, why not try a little experiment in whether one dude with a netbook, a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sebastian Silva on THE MAID
New York Magazine’s David Edelstein pretty much called it: About midway through, you could be forgiven for worrying if THE MAID was teetering on the precipice of going the full, THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE route — a concern that’s only enhanced when a stray cat turns up that seems to have “I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Nicolas Winding Refn on BRONSONYou wanna talk extreme? Charles Bronson, ne Michael Peterson, has spent thirty-four of his fifty-six years of life in incarceration of one form or another — most of that time has been in solitary confinement. The system has been violent to him, but he’s been violent back, and an anti-authoritarian cult has risen around his [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tom Hooper on THE DAMNED UNITEDTo be clear, I’ve got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog and the sheer joy of human competition. THE NATURAL? Sure. BAD NEWS BEARS? No prob. THE MIGHTY DUCKS? Let’s not go crazy, now.
But to be honest, I’m more favorably inclined towards films like THE DAMNED [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Florent-Emilio Siri on INTIMATE ENEMIESOkay, so I think we all have something we can now say about ill-advised wars. France, though, learned its lesson fifty years ago. A lot of lives (some 500,000, both soldier and civilian) were lost in trying keep Algiers from declaring its independence. The battle, which ran from 1954 to 1962, has received sparse treatment [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Joel and Ethan Coen on A SERIOUS MAN [SPOILER ALERT!]The Coen brothers are at it again. They’ve already sicced existential hit men, lunkheaded convicts, and over-ambitious hula hoop manufacturers on the populace, now they’ve gone and recruited God as chief tormentor. The target this time: Some poor, midwestern schlub who isn’t gonna know what hit him.
A SERIOUS MAN is a comedy, but a comedy [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SPOILER FREE Joel and Ethan Coen on A SERIOUS MANThis is the spoiler-free version of the A SERIOUS MAN episode.
To listen to the complete version, and to read the introductory text, watch the trailer and get links to the official website, go to the post marked “SPOILER ALERT!”
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Austin Peck on THE BLUE TOOTH VIRGINA TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it’s an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. “Be honest,” the writer says.
This is the way friendships end, and mean, funny films about the deaths of such friendships are born.
In THE BLUE TOOTH VIRGIN, Austin Peck [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Flashback: Sacha Gervasi on ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVILThe rock documentary, ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL is having its TV debut this Saturday, October 3, at 10 PM ET/PT on VH1 and VH1 Classic. In honor of the event, I figured I’d repost the interview I conducted with the film’s director, Sacha Gervasi. Check out the doc — it’s a good ‘un — [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Anne Fontaine on COCO BEFORE CHANELSo last week we had BRIGHT STAR, in which 19th century Fanny Brawne came into her own through her gifts as a seamstress. And now we have Anne Fontaine’s COCO BEFORE CHANEL, in which Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel… well… “comes into her own” is putting it mildly. She frackin’ defined an industry, after all.
Thankfully, this is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Michael Almereyda on PARADISELet’s forget about narrative for now, shall we? Let’s not focus on narrative, let’s live in the moment. And let’s consider a documentary focused on isolated pieces of time, how those pieces can be compiled into a portrait of life as it is lived around the world.
Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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