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Todd Haynes is one of the most distinct voices working in film today. He’s also a cinematic chameleon. For every period film Haynes makes, he and his team of craftsman adapt not only the look of the movies or photography of that era, but the visual language as well.
For example, both “Carol” and “Far from Heaven” are Haynes films set in ’50s-era America, but they are worlds apart. While “Carol” got its color palette and sense of composition from the photographers like Saul Leiter who documented the period, “Far From Heaven” recreated the manufactured studio look of Douglas Sirk’s melodramas of that era.
Todd Haynes is one of the most distinct voices working in film today. He’s also a cinematic chameleon. For every period film Haynes makes, he and his team of craftsman adapt not only the look of the movies or photography of that era, but the visual language as well.
For example, both “Carol” and “Far from Heaven” are Haynes films set in ’50s-era America, but they are worlds apart. While “Carol” got its color palette and sense of composition from the photographers like Saul Leiter who documented the period, “Far From Heaven” recreated the manufactured studio look of Douglas Sirk’s melodramas of that era.
- 5/9/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Hirokazu Kore-eda first established himself as a major filmmaker with a string of audacious dramas that included a harrowing portrait of modern poverty (“Nobody Knows”) and a transcendent vision of the great beyond (“After Life”). In recent years, however — at least since 2009’s “Air Doll,” a contemporary fairy tale in which Bae Doo-na plays an inflatable sex doll who comes to life — the great Japanese humanist has downshifted towards more openly sentimental slice-of-life stories, churning out low-key masterpieces with such regularity and deceptive effortlessness that it can be easy to take them for granted.
So when Kore-eda unloads another gently brilliant film full of characters so real and full of life that it feels as though could fly to Japan and visit them, it may not seem like much cause for celebration. But when one of those films is just the tiniest bit above his batting average, it’s enough...
So when Kore-eda unloads another gently brilliant film full of characters so real and full of life that it feels as though could fly to Japan and visit them, it may not seem like much cause for celebration. But when one of those films is just the tiniest bit above his batting average, it’s enough...
- 3/17/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s film critics and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on movies new and old.
I run hot and cold on Danny Boyle. He has a sentimental weak spot; the ending of Steve Jobs was inane, and T2 Trainspotting just didn’t do it for me. But I think he’s interesting and a very charming personality. I met him briefly years and years ago at a festival and got to chat with him just recently for the new film. Doing the interview (plus having to review T2) led me to rewatch Trainspotting for the first time in who knows how long—since the mid-2000s at least. I’d forgotten what a great movie it is, or perhaps I’d just never understood. The overt references are to A Clockwork Orange and the 1960s...
I run hot and cold on Danny Boyle. He has a sentimental weak spot; the ending of Steve Jobs was inane, and T2 Trainspotting just didn’t do it for me. But I think he’s interesting and a very charming personality. I met him briefly years and years ago at a festival and got to chat with him just recently for the new film. Doing the interview (plus having to review T2) led me to rewatch Trainspotting for the first time in who knows how long—since the mid-2000s at least. I’d forgotten what a great movie it is, or perhaps I’d just never understood. The overt references are to A Clockwork Orange and the 1960s...
- 3/17/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Guys, watch out for Nikki Swango because — as we see in the clip below — she is not playing around. As played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the lady is all business while settling up her check… and… oh man, yeah, that’s Ewan McGregor actually paying the bill, as one of the two brothers at the center of the tale — specifically, Ray Stussy. (McGregor also plays Ray’s older brother Emmit.)
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Watching them carefully is, of course, Sheriff Gloria Burgle as played by Carrie Coon, who was described at this year’s TCAs as a single mom whose personal life was “kind of eroding.” Though she still manages to make time to eat dinner with her son, so that’s something. What should we read into the fact that Nikki and Ray...
Read More: ‘Fargo’ Chapter 3: Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon on Dual Roles, the Accent and Those Character Names
Watching them carefully is, of course, Sheriff Gloria Burgle as played by Carrie Coon, who was described at this year’s TCAs as a single mom whose personal life was “kind of eroding.” Though she still manages to make time to eat dinner with her son, so that’s something. What should we read into the fact that Nikki and Ray...
- 3/6/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
This supercharged 1996 story of drugs, violence and growing up has lost none of its edge ahead of the release of sequel T2
Prior to the guys’ Take-That-style reunion in the forthcoming sequel T2, here is a very welcome big-screen rerelease of Danny Boyle’s original Trainspotting, 21 years on. It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction; it has a version of their spirit and power – and matches them for hardcore violence, horror and drugs. But John Hodge’s screenplay, taken from the novel by Irvine Welsh, brings in a grittily British kind of social-realist pessimism. Watching it again, especially during the periodic “family” scenes in pubs after court appearances and funerals, I thought of Ken Loach’s Poor Cow.
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness: it charges at you like...
Prior to the guys’ Take-That-style reunion in the forthcoming sequel T2, here is a very welcome big-screen rerelease of Danny Boyle’s original Trainspotting, 21 years on. It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction; it has a version of their spirit and power – and matches them for hardcore violence, horror and drugs. But John Hodge’s screenplay, taken from the novel by Irvine Welsh, brings in a grittily British kind of social-realist pessimism. Watching it again, especially during the periodic “family” scenes in pubs after court appearances and funerals, I thought of Ken Loach’s Poor Cow.
Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness: it charges at you like...
- 1/12/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
This Past Weekend:
Another bad weekend where nothing really popped, which is bad news for a month at the box office where only Clint Eastwood’s Sully exceeded any expectations. Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children came out just below my predictions with $29 million, but the Mark Wahlberg-Peter Berg disaster flick Deepwater Horizon was right around where I predicted with $20.2 million. The comedy Masterminds tanked with just $6.5 million for the weekend to end up in sixth place while Disney’s The Queen of Katwe did slightly better than predicted with $2.5 million.
The first full weekend in October has a good deal of competition from the release of the video game Mafia III to the...
- 10/5/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Steve Jobs"The 2016 Academy Awards are getting close now, and this week you have the opportunity to catch up with a lot of the nominated films and stars. Michael Fassbender is nominated for Best Actor for the role of Apple genius Steve Jobs, with Kate Winslet in the running for Best Supporting Actress. The movie comes out on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand Tuesday, February 16. Blu-ray and DVD bonus features include the making-of-documentary, "Inside Jobs: The Making of Steve Jobs," plus feature commentary with director Danny Boyle, writer Aaron Sorkin, and editor Elliot Graham.
Check out this exclusive clip from "Inside Jobs: The Making of Steve Jobs," with director Danny Boyle and composer Daniel Pemberton discussing...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Steve Jobs"The 2016 Academy Awards are getting close now, and this week you have the opportunity to catch up with a lot of the nominated films and stars. Michael Fassbender is nominated for Best Actor for the role of Apple genius Steve Jobs, with Kate Winslet in the running for Best Supporting Actress. The movie comes out on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and On Demand Tuesday, February 16. Blu-ray and DVD bonus features include the making-of-documentary, "Inside Jobs: The Making of Steve Jobs," plus feature commentary with director Danny Boyle, writer Aaron Sorkin, and editor Elliot Graham.
Check out this exclusive clip from "Inside Jobs: The Making of Steve Jobs," with director Danny Boyle and composer Daniel Pemberton discussing...
- 2/15/2016
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Bridge of Spies"
Steven Spielberg's mid-20th Century Cold War drama is nominated for six Academy Awards -- Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Mark Rylance), Original Score, Production Design, Sound Mixing, and Original Screenplay. Tom Hanks stars as Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan, who is sent by the CIA on a near-impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. The movie is out on DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital HD on February 2. Blu-ray bonus featurettes, which go behind-the-scenes of the film and showcase the real-life historical events, include "A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies," "U-2 Spy Plane: Beale Air Force Base," "Spy Swap: Looking Back on the Final Act," and "Berlin 1961: Recreating the Divide.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Bridge of Spies"
Steven Spielberg's mid-20th Century Cold War drama is nominated for six Academy Awards -- Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Mark Rylance), Original Score, Production Design, Sound Mixing, and Original Screenplay. Tom Hanks stars as Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan, who is sent by the CIA on a near-impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. The movie is out on DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital HD on February 2. Blu-ray bonus featurettes, which go behind-the-scenes of the film and showcase the real-life historical events, include "A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies," "U-2 Spy Plane: Beale Air Force Base," "Spy Swap: Looking Back on the Final Act," and "Berlin 1961: Recreating the Divide.
- 2/1/2016
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
Every few months, RollingStone.com shines a spotlight on a forgotten, neglected, overshadowed, underappreciated and/or critically maligned film that we love in a series called "Be Kind, Rewind." In honor of The Revenant and Leonardo DiCaprio's widely predicted Oscar win, we're focusing on an older Leo movie that's been unfairly put in the "noble failure" pile: The Beach.
It's February 2000, a little over two years since Titanic plowed directly into the zeitgeist, and the film's 25-year-old star is now slightly more famous than the ship of dreams itself.
It's February 2000, a little over two years since Titanic plowed directly into the zeitgeist, and the film's 25-year-old star is now slightly more famous than the ship of dreams itself.
- 1/22/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Some horror movies go with a "slow-build" approach, and some go for the jugular right off the bat. The unexpected horror hit "It Follows" definitely falls into the latter category, as you can see in the opening scene embedded below (narrated by director David Robert Mitchell). Are you sufficiently unnerved? Good! That's what we're going for here. As the indie horror hit prepares to expand into over 1,600 theaters this weekend, below I've ranked 18 of the most iconic/frightening horror openings of all time from least to most scary. The result is a completely objective list that will remain set in stone for all eternity. Are you ready? Can you handle it? Countdown starts now... 18. "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) "They're coming to get you, Barbara." While I have no doubt that contemporary audiences covered their eyes in fright during the opening sequence of Romero's original "Night of the Living Dead,...
- 4/2/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
The Conversation is a new feature at Sound on Sight bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their third piece, they will discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up.
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Landon’s Take:
The cultural impact of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up would be very difficult to overemphasize. Upon release, Andrew Sarris referred to the film as “a mod masterpiece” and ‘Playboy’ critic Arthur Knight went so far as comparing the film to Hiroshima mon amour, Rome Open City, and Citizen Kane in its potential influence on filmmaking. The film was also a massive hit worldwide and the tenth highest grossing film in the United States in 1966 – a memento of a brief window in time in which an art film by an Italian auteur could also do boffo box office. And, having been denied a seal by the Production Code Administration, Blow Up...
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Landon’s Take:
The cultural impact of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up would be very difficult to overemphasize. Upon release, Andrew Sarris referred to the film as “a mod masterpiece” and ‘Playboy’ critic Arthur Knight went so far as comparing the film to Hiroshima mon amour, Rome Open City, and Citizen Kane in its potential influence on filmmaking. The film was also a massive hit worldwide and the tenth highest grossing film in the United States in 1966 – a memento of a brief window in time in which an art film by an Italian auteur could also do boffo box office. And, having been denied a seal by the Production Code Administration, Blow Up...
- 3/20/2015
- by Drew Morton
- SoundOnSight
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Featuring a talented young cast including Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen, Sebastian De Souza and Emma Rigby, upcoming heist drama Plastic centres on a ring of university students who become credit card thieves in order to augment their income. When the group accidentally rob a notorious gangster, they are forced to up their game to pay him back 10 times the amount they stole. After travelling to Miami, the group set their sights on a daring jewellery heist that could not only cover their debt but also make them filthy rich.
This crazy story of money, sex and action is based on the real-life exploits of Saqib Mumtaz, a Manchester student who – along with his friends – targeted high-profile victims such as Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and former model and then-wife of Mohammed al Fayed, Heini Fayed with a credit card scam.
To celebrate the theatrical release of Plastic on April 30th,...
This crazy story of money, sex and action is based on the real-life exploits of Saqib Mumtaz, a Manchester student who – along with his friends – targeted high-profile victims such as Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and former model and then-wife of Mohammed al Fayed, Heini Fayed with a credit card scam.
To celebrate the theatrical release of Plastic on April 30th,...
- 4/25/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The video team here at HitFix constantly impresses me with not only the volume of work that they produce, but also the quality. We've gotten very lucky with the people we've hired, and they make any of our collaborations both easy and fun. Last week, they approached me about a new ongoing feature that they wanted to do, and tomorrow, we're going to shoot the first episode of "Ask Drew," which is exactly what it sounds like. I am constantly asked questions via e-mail and Twitter and in our comments section, and I feel like I never fully answer all of them, something that makes me feel terrible. I am grateful for each and every reader of the work we do here at HitFix, and if I can answer something, I try to. To that end, we are going to try something a little different here starting tomorrow. I want...
- 3/31/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
A few weeks back you may have read me talking about the entertainment package that Now TV were now offering alongside movies and sport accessible through their box or online that was £4.99 a month and gave you access to shows from HBO showing in the UK through Sky Atlantic. Unless you have been in outer space for the last month, you may have also heard a little buzz about some small show from HBO called True Detective. Well good news if you heeded my recommendations and invested in a subscription because the first episode of True Detective is now available on Now TV.
I don’t normally review single episodes of anything but I have watched the first episode of True Detective and feel like it should be mentioned, it could well be the best thing to come from television since Game of Thrones. True Detective is an eight part...
I don’t normally review single episodes of anything but I have watched the first episode of True Detective and feel like it should be mentioned, it could well be the best thing to come from television since Game of Thrones. True Detective is an eight part...
- 2/24/2014
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Rewind to 2008 when an important conversation took place. It was a conversation between two Scots that would deliver a shock to the system, and shake up the cinematic social consciousness with a bold and courageous piece of filmmaking. It was the moment that writer-director Jon S. Baird threw his proverbial hat into the ring, and started out on a five year long battle to bring Filth to the screen.
“I said to Irvine, “Look I would like to do it. I don’t want to do it as a social realism piece, I want to do it as a heightened sense of reality, and pull out these big comedic moments whilst retaining the darkness of the character; but certainly with a sense of humour.” He just responded to that and so that way back in 2008 was the start of discussions. As far back as that we started talking about doing this film.
“I said to Irvine, “Look I would like to do it. I don’t want to do it as a social realism piece, I want to do it as a heightened sense of reality, and pull out these big comedic moments whilst retaining the darkness of the character; but certainly with a sense of humour.” He just responded to that and so that way back in 2008 was the start of discussions. As far back as that we started talking about doing this film.
- 2/10/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What happens when the makers of Trainspotting and Four Lions train their sights on the Met for a Channel 4 comedy drama?
Danny Boyle is up a ladder, looking down on the chaos he's created. Dust settles on what's left of a terrace house's bathroom, its plastic peach suite covered in powdered masonry and plaster from the recently demolished toilet wall. A gunman has just burst through it head-first, leaving a beige fog behind him as he runs away. Boyle's hair has little bits of plaster in it as he peers into the monitor, satisfied. "Ok, got it," he says quietly and the crew start clearing up.
We are not in a terrace house but a curtained-off area in the middle of an open-plan 70s office block next to the Tower of London. Boyle, along with Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, is tackling the damaged relationship between the police,...
Danny Boyle is up a ladder, looking down on the chaos he's created. Dust settles on what's left of a terrace house's bathroom, its plastic peach suite covered in powdered masonry and plaster from the recently demolished toilet wall. A gunman has just burst through it head-first, leaving a beige fog behind him as he runs away. Boyle's hair has little bits of plaster in it as he peers into the monitor, satisfied. "Ok, got it," he says quietly and the crew start clearing up.
We are not in a terrace house but a curtained-off area in the middle of an open-plan 70s office block next to the Tower of London. Boyle, along with Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, is tackling the damaged relationship between the police,...
- 2/1/2014
- by Julia Raeside
- The Guardian - Film News
American Horror Story: Coven Season 3 Episode 11: Protect The Coven
The battle between the witches and the witch hunters shook down in “Protect the Coven” and it was over before it started. Fiona (Jessica Lange) and Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) managed to arrange a meeting with Harrison Renard (Michael Cristopher) and his firm at a posh executive conference room. Sitting across from Renard and flanked by four of his goons, they offered the witches a 100-year truce with no hunting during that time – a laughable insult to the Supreme and her new bestie.
Their counter-offer of an indefinite cease-fire, plus mansion and private jet service were disregarded quicker than you can peel-and-eat a Louisiana crawfish, prompting the Axeman (Danny Huston) to make short work of the conference room. It was one of the goriest scenes you’ll see this winter–and it was such a guilty pleasure play out. Seriously,...
The battle between the witches and the witch hunters shook down in “Protect the Coven” and it was over before it started. Fiona (Jessica Lange) and Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) managed to arrange a meeting with Harrison Renard (Michael Cristopher) and his firm at a posh executive conference room. Sitting across from Renard and flanked by four of his goons, they offered the witches a 100-year truce with no hunting during that time – a laughable insult to the Supreme and her new bestie.
Their counter-offer of an indefinite cease-fire, plus mansion and private jet service were disregarded quicker than you can peel-and-eat a Louisiana crawfish, prompting the Axeman (Danny Huston) to make short work of the conference room. It was one of the goriest scenes you’ll see this winter–and it was such a guilty pleasure play out. Seriously,...
- 1/17/2014
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is all in for the Republican presidential nomination race, we'll surely be seeing his name a lot more frequently in the feed. Joe Hill requested a different type of Gop debate between Perry and Mitt Romany last night, while Jonathan Hickman was stuck on rules that vampire stories need to adhere to.
It was a great weekend for artwork, though. Joshua Luna teased his next project, and Mike Norton tweeted some sketches he made at Wizard World Chicago. Their work, a truly awesome Dazzler/Psylocke piece by Janet Lee and news of an unusual birthday present made the list of tweets that brightened our Monday morning.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for August 15, 2011.
@joe_hill Debate I most want to see: Rick Perry's hair argues w/Mitt Romney's hair over which better represents the modern Gop: Vitalis or Brylcreem?...
It was a great weekend for artwork, though. Joshua Luna teased his next project, and Mike Norton tweeted some sketches he made at Wizard World Chicago. Their work, a truly awesome Dazzler/Psylocke piece by Janet Lee and news of an unusual birthday present made the list of tweets that brightened our Monday morning.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is your Twitter Report for August 15, 2011.
@joe_hill Debate I most want to see: Rick Perry's hair argues w/Mitt Romney's hair over which better represents the modern Gop: Vitalis or Brylcreem?...
- 8/15/2011
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
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