Monthly Archives: July 2010
THR has details of a project mounted by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald being billed as the first user-generated documentary. Individuals whose footage make it into the finished film will be credited as co-directors, and 20 of them will be flown to Sundance for the movie’s bow. “Life in a Day is a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was...
Dark Horizons runs across a quote in the Las Vegas Sun about the status of Steven Soderbergh’s biopic Liberace, in which Michael Douglas would play the sparkly virtuoso, and Damon is set to portray his longtime lover Scott Thorson. “Yeah, it’s going to happen. We’re going to do it next summer. Richard LaGravenese has written a really great script...
At this point, any news at all about the status of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is reason for cautious optimism. From Slashfilm and RoS we learn that the movie is finished, has been submitted to the MPAA, and officially received a PG-13 rating. It’s noted that troubled distributor Apparition is no longer listed in connection to the film, and the production...
Marshall Fine wrote up a first half of the year report (lots of these floating around lately). ¬†And his top five are kind of interesting: 5. Shutter Island 4. Winter’s Bone 3. Toy Story 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo And 1. ‚ÄúThe Ghost Writer‚Äù: Roman Polanski‚Äôs personal troubles returned to the headlines, just as his best film in ages hit...
Although I missed the whole thing, apparently there was a sort of Twitter fight about whether or not the Dark Knight fan base had it in for anyone who dared to say a negative thing about Inception. This, because some have seen the movie and others haven’t. Those who haven’t seen it are in a bit of a pickle as to how to talk about the film. The only thing...
Maybe the only other actor generating as much heat as DiCaprio and Cotillard in the cast of Inception is Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who’s this month’s cover boy in DETAILS. An extraordinarily bright kid, true: Get Joe rolling and it’s only a matter of minutes before the conversation is ping-ponging between Buddhism and Fellini, French poets and Russian clowns....
In the wake of yesterday’s rush of Inception fervor, there’s a recurring reaction we’re hearing. Everyone agrees Nolan’s affection for in-camera effects and aversion to relying on CGI gives the movie a solid grounding in the real world. That’s the same feeling I get from stop-motion animation. There’s an undeniable tingle when the...