Writing in Sight and Sound, Amy Taubin surveys the young Americans at Cannes — John Cameron Mitchell, Rick Linklater, and, finally, Richard Kelly: “It’s about how a bunch of teenagers are dying because we don’t have an alternative fuel source,” said Richard Kelly of ‘Southland Tales’, his hallucinatory, media-saturated, apocalyptic, broken-hearted, future/present follow-up to ‘Donnie Darko’ – which has just a ghost of a chance of being shown theatrically in its two-hour 43-minute Cannes version. As oneiric and overwhelming as two memorial films of Cannes past – David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Dr.’ and Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘2046’ – and a lot funnier, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 21, 2006The lawyers at Paramount, who presumably are not fans of folks like Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and other appropriation-based artists, have launched a federal lawsuit against artist Christopher Moukarbel, who we blogged about recently. They are charging copyright infringement with regards to a 12-minute film he created and put up online which is based, apparently, on a copy of the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center. (Filmmaker‘s blog is cited in the Paramount filing.) The Smoking Gun has all the details, including links to screenplay excerpts, which have been filed as exhibits, as well as a side-by-side comparison of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 21, 2006Larry Clark’s Ken Park, from a script by Harmony Korine, is notoriously difficult to see in the States. According to Clark in this week’s Village Voice, that old nemesis, uncleared music rights, is the culprint. But for those who want to see the movie, Clark relays to writer Jessica Winter some consumer advice while he waits for the song situation to get worked out. In the meantime, Clark directs interested parties to the Internet. “You can go on eBay and get the DVD. The Russian DVD is good, the French DVD is good, the Dutch DVD is good. But don’t […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 20, 2006Via Ray Pride at Movie City Indie: David Lynch is selling ringtones. $3.99 a pop.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 20, 2006Pitchfork Media has just put up one of their mammoth surveys, this time 100 Awesome Music Videos, complete with mini-critiques and, for each one, a link to the video itself. It stretches back to the beginning days of music video and seems to have most of the major clips covered. Check it out.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 20, 2006Over at Caveh Zahedi’s blog, Zahedi is talking about teaching at the European Graduate School in the Swiss Alps where he’s hanging out with and listening in on classes taught by Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy, D.J. Spooky, the Quay Brothers and others.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 12, 2006Over at Suicide Girls, Daniel Robert Epstein interviews the great horror director Stuart Gordon and talks about the reissue of the fantastic 80s horror film From Beyond as well as an upcoming project — another episode in the Re-Animator series: DRE: I read that House of Re-Animator is going to set in the White House.SG: Yeah, we’re excited about that. We’re in the process of writing it, so that’s a little ways off.DRE: Are you definitely directing it?SG: Yes, we hope to start at the beginning of next year.DRE: What has brought you back to Re-Animator?SG: It was when George […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 12, 2006Actor Sung Kang (pictured) stars in both Michael Kang’s indie The Motel, which opens in a couple of weeks and Justin Lin’s very big budget The Fast and Furious 3. Here’s a mash-up that unites the two movies entitled The Motel and the Furious.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 12, 2006The BBC runs a fascinating dialogue between MPAA President Dan Glickman and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Perry Barlow. Here’s a taste: JPB: These are aging industries run by aging men, and they’re up against 17-year-olds who have turned themselves into electronic Hezbollah because they resent the content industry for its proprietary practices. And I don’t have a question about who’s going to win that one eventually. There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends but because they want to stick it […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 12, 2006Over at GreenCine, David Hudson compares and contrasts the work of Joe Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski. Bujalski, of course, is the director of Mutual Appreciation and Funny Ha Ha. Swanberg made Kissing on the Mouth and LOL and also helms a web series called Young American Bodies (pictured) over at Nerve.com. Typically, Hudson’s analysis is full of tons of links, and observations like this one: First, I have no idea how much of an inspiration Bujalski might be for Joe, but that’s ultimately beside the point. I’d argue that each gives us something in his films the other doesn’t. There […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 11, 2006