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Volkswagen Invites You to 'See Film Differently'
7 hours ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
In an interesting new ad campaign, Volkswagen isn't pushing cars. They are pushing independent cinemas in the UK. In these three ads (which you can check out after the jump), Vw posits that some of the most memorable lines from Taxi Driver, Jaws, and Silence of the Lambs came from the least likely sources. Get more info at the Vw Facebook page. Source: NotCot.org »
Himizu Review: Curious, Firmly-Drawn Disaster Drama
7 hours ago | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Himizu quickly rushes to cement itself in our minds with a powerful opening portion, displaying the grim devastation of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March of last year. With a filmography that is littered with controversial gems like Suicide Circle and, more recently, Cold Fish, this is the sort of confronting work we should expect from director Shion Sono, but most interestingly, the manga upon which it is based predates the disaster by a full decade. Ingeniously imbuing the source material with a completely new context, Sono has crafted an uneven but worthwhile look at survival – both physical and spiritual – in light of grave circumstances.
There are no sound stages here, just the depressing reality of people sifting through the wreckage of their homes and indeed, their lives. This authentic footage is mixed into the drama unfolding between students Sumida (Shôta Sometani) and Keiko (Fumi Nikaidô), both who are neglected, »
- Shaun Munro
Tom Hardy Heads To The Stage For "Crazy" Scorsese-Meets-Bollywood Musical 'Harold's Harem'
31 May 2012 8:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
As Charles Bronson for Nicolas Winding Refn, Bane for Chris Nolan, a Bondurant brother for John Hillcoat and an Mma fighter for Gavin O'Connor, if there's one thing that defines most of Tom Hardy's roles in his meteoric rise, it's pure masculinity. That doesn't look to be changing any time soon as he gears up to star George Miller's "Fury Road," but color us surprised as hell to hear that the actor's now set to team with playwright Brett C. Leonard for upcoming stage musical, "Harold's Harem."
Fear not, though, as the production isn't exactly going to be costumes and wigs with the actor showcasing his high range. Rather, Hardy describes it as a "crazy piece of work" with his leading character "a cross between two guys Robert De Niro has played in Martin Scorsese films, 'The King Of Comedy' and 'Taxi Driver.’ Think of »
- Simon Dang
First Maniac Remake Reactions Roll On In!
29 May 2012 10:23 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
We’ve seen a handful of images and we’ve seen the red-band trailer, but now the new updated version of Maniac has officially made it’s world premiere at Cannes Film Festival and the first word of mouth on the film is making its way on-line.
Based on the original 1980 “slasher” exploitation classic by William Lustig (who also serves as producer on this new one), P2 director Franck Khalfoun helms the pic from a script by High Tension duo Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur.
Elijah Wood plays Frank Zitto, the disturbed & troubled proprietor of a a cloths store formally owned by his domineering prostitute mother where he spends his time restoring vintage mannequins. His extracurricular activities revolve around stalking pretty women in the seediest parts of downtown Los Angeles. (A change from the original’s New York setting.) And unlike the original, this version puts us in the point »
- Rob Galluzzo
With ‘Love,’ Michael Haneke Becomes 7th Director to Win Palme d’Or Twice
28 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
As we all know, “Palme d’Or” is French for Feather Button Hand of Gold Achievement. Or something. Google Translate wasn’t loading this morning. Regardless, it’s as prestigious as awards get, although it hilariously almost never lines up with the Oscars (for good reason). Past winners include Barton Fink, Taxi Driver, Mash, The Third Man, Black Orpheus, La Dolce Vita, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and nearly one hundred other films that should be on a rental queue somewhere. That list also includes Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon which took the price in 2009 and, as of yesterday, his latest film Love (Amour). That’s 2 wins for the director in 4 competition years. It ties him for Most Palmes d’Or Ever (no director has won more than two), where he joins Alf Sjoberg (Iris and the Lieutenant, Miss Julie); Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now); Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror, The Best Intentions »
- Cole Abaius
10 Films To Check Out In Amazon's New 'Never Before On DVD' Section
27 May 2012 7:15 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Taking a page from the successful programs that Warner Bros. and other studios have launched, Amazon has unveiled their “Never Before On DVD” store, which will make DVD copies available for films and television shows that have not yet made the leap to home video.
The catalog currently boasts more than 2,000 titles from the vaults of Disney, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, most of which had already been available from Warner Archive or other similar services. It also includes current content (mostly in the form of reality television) from CBS Networks, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon and Universal Studios Home Entertainment, with seasons of short-lived TV shows like "Mr. Sunshine" or "Dark Blue" appearing on disc for the first time.
The store will utilize Amazon’s CreateSpace DVD on demand service, which literally makes discs and packaging after you have ordered them, »
- Cain Rodriguez
Suck On This - Taxi Driver Poster Art
27 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Nothing better than some Taxi Driver poster art to start your day off. This is one of my favorite Martin Scorcese movies, but that could be partly to do with the fact it was released the year I was born. For a great read on Taxi Driver, check out Suck On This Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver: An Analysis and Review.
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- Tiberius
Seven great rebel portraits of the ’60s and ’70s
26 May 2012 9:57 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The French gave us the word “demimonde” – literally, half the world. But what it has come to mean in English, or so says Webster, is “a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world.”
Storytellers have always held a fascination with the dark side of human nature; that part of the psyche which is normally restrained and leashed, taught to be obedient, held in check – as Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness – by the reproving looks of our neighbors. After all, what was Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but a probing of that other, id-driven half and the entrancing appeal of doing what one wants instead of what one should.
Film is no different than literature, and from its beginning the movies have produced a rich vein of stories about society’s fringe dwellers, those who operate by necessity, »
- Bill Mesce
Stallone 3-Disc DVD & Blu-Ray of ‘Cop Land’, ‘Lock Up’ & ‘Rambo: First Blood’ out in August!
24 May 2012 8:22 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Three of Stallone’s best films are about to be into one explosive package on DVD & Blu-Ray! James Mangold’s under-appreciated Cop Land, John Flynn’s Lock Up and the classic Rambo: First Blood will be in a 3-Pack DVD and Blu-Ray set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment in August! Read below for all the fine details!
From the Press Release:
The world’s favorite action superstar, Academy Award® nominee Sylvester Stallone (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Rocky, 1976), is back with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Stallone 3-Film Collector’s Set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Just in time for the theatrical release of his highly anticipated action film, The Expendables 2, this collection features three of Stallone’s most memorable hit films Cop Land, Rambo: First Blood and Lock Up, together for the first time. A must-have for Stallone fans of all generations, the collection »
- Andy Triefenbach
Strong! First Look At Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master'
21 May 2012 10:32 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"The Master" -- Paul Thomas Anderson's first film since the milkshake-drinking spectacle that was 2007's "There Will Be Blood" -- has its first teaser trailer, and it is strong.
"Are you mixed up?" asks an at-first unseen military officer to Joaquin Phoenix. "Are you more jumpy than you were before?" Phoenix's presumed-troubled soldier isn't -- he ranks his "overall health" as, yes, "strong" -- but you might be after watching the tense 90-second clip.
Judging from the trailer, "The Master" could be a welcome comeback for Phoenix -- who you last saw growing a beard and becoming a rapper. In the short clip, the former Oscar nominee looks like some wild amalgam of crazy Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver" and crazy Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood." This is a good thing!
In development for years, "The Master" was originally thought to be Anderson's treatise on Scientology and its founder, »
- The Huffington Post
Cannes: 'Beyond the Hills' wants to be the art-house 'Exorcist.' Plus, Tom Hardy in 'Lawless'
19 May 2012 9:39 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
At Cannes, the fabled Palme d’Or isn’t like any other Best Picture award. Unlike, say, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, or even the Oscar, it is conferred with a reverence that says: This film is a work of art — and the person who made it has been ushered into the pantheon. He (or she) is now one of the initiated, recognized in the shimmering galaxy of the international film world to be a major artist, a saint of the cinema, a wearer of the supreme auteur merit badge. There have been 65 Palme d’Or winners (the award »
- Owen Gleiberman
Elijah Wood Remake Of Maniac Trailer Released
18 May 2012 6:11 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Drunk, Old, Grumpy Cc Guy Of Course Goes Booooo.
I warned you never to go to the movies again!
I want to be positive all the time, I really, do. I don’t want to be the guy who when you see my name, you go “Oh, it’s that guy who shits all over everything,” and I don’t think I do shit all over everything, but seriously, there’s a Maniac remake and it stars Elijah Wood and there’s a trailer for it and wow, thankfully there’s beer, otherwise this rant could be waaaay more aggro than it’s going to be, because I am a very, very, very happy drunk and, wow, this Us brewed Dundee India Pale Ale is the shit, okay, and I’m Australian and thus know my beer, but seriously, who’s going to actually see this film?
Ugh.
And it »
- Cameron Ashley
Inside Out 2012: ‘Bullhead’ is a raging bull of a picture
17 May 2012 3:05 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Bullhead
Written and Directed by Michael R. Roskam
Belgium, 2011
In French, it translates to, “me parlez-vous?”
In Dutch, it’s “spreekt u aan me?”
Set in Belgium, with dialogue in Dutch and French, Michael R. Roskam’s Bullhead is a taut, uncompromising character study and organized crime thriller that masterfully translates Scorsese’s magnum opus quote, ‘are you talking to me?’
The film stars Mattias Schoenaerts as Jacky Vanmarsenille, a steroid addicted cattle rancher working on his family farm. One day, an unscrupulous veterinarian approaches Jacky to do business with a notorious beef trader, but following the assassination of a federal policeman, a Pandora’s box of suppressed memories is released within him, causing Jacky to kick off a series of unavailing exploits that suffer unto him untold consequences.
Like an archetypal Martin Scorsese film, Bullhead is a study of unlikeable and fatally flawed characters. But with ample amount of grace and dexterity, »
- Justin Li
‘Taxi Driver’ Writer Paul Schrader To Pen Russian Ballerina Drama
17 May 2012 4:50 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
While Paul Schrader currently attempts to get financing for his next directorial effort, the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted drama The Canyons, he will also be penning another project. Coming from Cannes, The Wrap reports that the man behind Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Mosquito Coast, American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and more is set to pen a new project.
Schrader has been commissioned by the Kremlin, to script a biopic focusing on Mathilde Kschessinska, the famous Russian ballerina, who also played mistress to the country’s last tsar, Nicholas II. To attain a larger audience, the project will include an American cast and be shot in English. Check out Schrader’s comments below.
“Kschessinska’s life is a powerful metaphor for Russian culture and evokes the best of Russian arts. She was a first native prima ballerina in the country that saw the highest achievement in that art form. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Cannes 2012: Paul Schrader To Write Kremlin-Financed Russian Ballerina Drama
17 May 2012 4:05 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Paul Schrader, writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has signed to write a drama about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina and mistress to the last Russian tsar, in a ground-breaking project backed by the Kremlin. Producers David American producers David Weisman and Anatoly Davydov announced the project at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The film will be financed by the V. Vinokur Fund for the Support of Russian Culture & Arts under the auspices of the Kremlin, and is an unusual collaboration between a renowned American screenwriter and a »
- Sharon Waxman
The Amazing Spider-Man Extended Trailer Review
16 May 2012 7:51 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
“This Summer’s Most Anticipated Film”, a bold claim, or perhaps a playful taunt from Marvel in a summer when DC Comics release their own ‘darker’, ‘edgier’, rebooted superhero The Dark Knight Rises, only they’re doing it for the third time. “The Amazing Spider-Man” isn’t Spider-Man 4, more Spider-Man 1.2.
So the trailer is darker, at least, it opens at night, but how ‘dark’ is Spider-Man every really going to be? Geek by day, red and blue spider by night, faces off against giant lizard – its hardly Taxi Driver. Hopefully what this year’s Spider-Man instalment can do is take a little of the dark tones which gave Nolan’s Batman its weight, its stakes, yet follow in Marvel’s example set by the Avengers and remind everyone how fun superhero movies can be, and should be.
Well the trailer is a good sign. It opens with our friendly »
- David Howland
Countdown to Cannes 2012: Cosmopolis
14 May 2012 2:15 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
You could never accuse David Cronenberg of abandoning his artistic agenda: he is arguably one of the few so purely locked in auteurs of this generation. Yes A Dangerous Method might not have been one for the Cronenberg die-hards, but Cosmospolis promises to return the strange with full force.
Here’s the official synopsis:
New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close end. Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy, dives into a white limousine. While a visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan, Eric Packer has one obsession: getting a haircut at his barber’s at the other end of the city. As the day goes by, chaos sets in, and he watches helplessly as his empire collapses. Also he is sure that someone is going to assassinate him. When? Where? He is about to live the most decisive 24 hours of his life. »
- Simon Gallagher
From hair to eternity: poll finds Brad Pitt's 'best cuts'
14 May 2012 7:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
So the gods do grant wishes. Here, at last, are the results of a survey to decide which film Brad's barnet looked best in
In recent years, thanks to revelatory turns in the likes of Moneyball, The Tree of Life and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt has finally turned into the actor he always promised to be. Add to this his exemplary clutch of films as producer and it's clear that we're dealing with a heavyweight; a true connoisseur of film. But despite all this, one nagging question lingers.
That's right: which is Brad Pitt's most iconic haircut?
No, seriously. Brad Pitt has made dozens of movies, for which he's required dozens of haircuts. By default, if nothing else, one of them has to be the most iconic. The question isn't as insulting or reductive as you think it is, either. Cast »
- Stuart Heritage
Crowdfunded Cinema: ‘The Canyons’, ‘Out of Print,’ ‘Teenage Scream’ & More
14 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
There are many film projects seeking funds via crowdfunding platforms these days, which offers the unique opportunity for an audience to interact and connect with a film, sometimes before the first shot is captured. This bi-weekly column will highlight projects that demonstrate potential, and deserve a closer look (and possibly a donation).
The Gist: A contemporary thriller, featuring five twenty-something’s in modern day Hollywood, in their quest for power, love, sex, and success.
Why it Should be Kickstarted: What is perhaps most exciting about this project, is the writer/director collaboration of Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) and Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Auto-Focus). What’s also intriguing is that the two are seeking funds to retain complete creative control, avoiding financing and institutional censorship. It allows for immense potential, and an undoubtedly interesting project.
Most Interesting Reward: The opportunity to help cast the film, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Being Flynn
11 May 2012 12:37 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $34.98
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
The drama movie Being Flynn stars three powerhouse actors: Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver), Paul Dano (Cowboys & Aliens) and Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right).
Based on the memoir by Nick Flynn, the film tells the story of a father, Jonathan (De Niro), and a son, Nick (Dano), who have not seen each other for 18 years. A writer, Nick takes a job at a homeless shelter to bring purpose to his life, and one night, Jonathan shows up looking for a bed. Reunited, Nick wrestles with whether to reach out to his father and give them both a chance at a future.
Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Lily Taylor (Brooklyn’s Finest) and Wes Studi (Avatar) also star in the movie, which is rated R. And it was directed and written by Paul Weitz, writer/director of the »
- Sam
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