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Watch Lance Bangs’ Short Documentary Her: Love in the Modern Age
Using Spike Jonze’s her as a springboard, Lance Bangs shot a documentary about the modern person’s relationship to love. Culling a wide range of perspectives — from Charlyne Yi to Olivia Wilde to Bret Easton Ellis — Bangs asks us to consider how we relate to Jonze’s unusual tale of boy meets girl. Offers Yi, “Recently, I was thinking about relationships like shoes, and how it’s cheaper to buy new shoes than work on the shoes that you really love and care about.” If the trailer’s any indication, we can expect an eclectic offering. Keep an eye out for Her: Love […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Jan 17, 2014 -
Rome Film Festival 2013
Marco Müller, in his second year at the helm of the Rome International Film Festival, abandoned his insistence on all films being world premieres, but not the ability to program average films. The main reason for the change of tact seems to be to allow higher profile American films to be programmed in competition. The beneficiaries this year were Dallas Buyers Club and Her which were rewarded for their Italian voyage with awards for their actors: Matthew McConaughey has been winning plaudits everywhere for his turn as a drug-peddling carrier of HIV, while one suspects that the competition jury had […]
by Kaleem Aftab on Nov 19, 2013 -
Spike Jonze’s Her to Close 2013 New York Film Festival
The day after the first trailer for Spike Jonze’s much anticipated, futuristic romance Her was released, the New York Film Festival has announced that the film will close their 2013 edition on October 13. In a press release, Kent Jones, the NYFF’s Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair, said, “Like many people I’ve come to expect great and surprising things from Spike Jonze, but Her is something altogether new in cinema. To discuss even a little bit of the plot – let’s just say that it’s about lonely people and artificial intelligence – is to deprive first-time viewers of the opportunity […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: Spike Jonze’s Her
Four years after 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze returns with his fourth feature, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a reclusive writer who develops an ever closer bond with the personalized operating system, “Samantha” (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), tailored to take care of all his needs. Featuring a strong female supporting cast that includes Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Olivia Wilde, Her is the first feature from an original screenplay by Jonze and it will be interesting to see what a film fully constructed in his mind looks like. In this trailer, Her appears sweet and touching, but I’m […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 7, 2013
