I like when an off-beat director grabs hold of just barely enough traditional narrative to hook us. I also like trailers that are more concerned with conveying a hint of the flavor and aroma of a film without revealing all the ingredients like a 3-minute condensed recipe. (Just add water, for a bite-sized, easily digestible Insta-Plot. Ready to gulp down in less than...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
It took me nearly 2 weeks to snowplow through the first 100 densely packed pages of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — and 2 riveting nights to ride the avalanche of the remaining 400. To be fair, the tangled plot needs a fair amount of setup as foundation for the interlocking puzzle structure, but the Swedish film adaptation comes front-loaded with a lot of dialogue...
Two new posters for Kick-Ass that IMPAwards calls “propaganda style.” Early word is enthusiastic. Patrick Kolan at IGN says, “it’s more than a teen movie but less than a traditional superhero tale ‚Äì and by treading this fine line, it comes up with its own hugely entertaining balance between the two.” The relationship between Hit-Girl...
Video clip NSFW Steven Soderbergh has made a documentary on Spalding Gray, the writer/performance artist who took his own life. His surviving wife Kathie Russo is one of the producers on the film. She did a small but interesting piece about Grey on This American Life a while back that I found incredibly moving. Karina Longworth calls Everything is Going Fine a must-see...
Christy Turlington production company in Tanzania Craig Kennedy runs down the last of the lineup for the Tribeca Film Fest. One wonders if any of these movies will have a life beyond the fest. But the buzz starts here if it starts at all. Sundance, Telluride and Toronto have become more prominent for the Oscar race. Nonetheless, here are a few titles worth looking...
Collider has posted 4 clips from the upcoming Nicole Holofcener dramedy Please Give. Holofcener uses Catherine Keener as her muse nearly all of the time. Please Give looks almost like a follow-up to her last film, Friends with Money, which also looks at the money’d vs. the non-money’d world. I like Holofcener’s work, for the most part, but you have to...
The South by Southwest film and media fest is underway and Twitter is alive with positive vibration! Well, not really. The fest, it would appear, is spread out and busy so there isn’t a lot of concentration of specific films at the moment. However, The People vs. George Lucas appears to have some appeal, but maybe that’s just because it has the name George...