Tag: Film
Today, Noisey premiered a video for the Dum Dum Girls song “Are You OK?” off their recent album Too True. The short film was written by Brett Easton Ellis and stars lead singer Dee Dee, who connected with the author after finding out he used their song “Coming Down” in last year’s cinematic wtf The Canyons. The 11-minute […]
Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down documentary feature just premiered at the One World Film Festival 2014 in Prague. Using unedited news and archival footage and testimonies, the film exposes the 2012 massacre of workers at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine in Marikana. The police had opened fire on protesting miners and killed 34, then falsified documents and testimonies. Some of the […]
Here’s the trailer for Gowanus, a new documentary about the eponymous Brooklyn canal by filmmaker Jessica Philipps. From the looks of it, there’s little to sway us from the vision of the Gowanus as an unspeakably filthy waterway that desperately needs cleaning up. Says one researcher: “We’ve seen things in the water in Gowanus that we’ve […]
Co-directors Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s beautiful new documentary film Watermark opens in New York on April 4th. Here’s the US trailer. At about 0:30, you will have feelings. You will see sweeping aerial shots of Colorado River’s barren desert delta in 5K ultra high-definition video. You will watch a construction time-lapse at the Xiluodu, the biggest arch dam in the […]
Scouting NY has a comprehensive look at the NYC locations of The Godfather as they stand today. We’ve put some highlights in the gallery, including Don Corleone’s Genco Oil (128 Mott Street), the Corleone House (110 Longfellow Ave in Staten Island), and the hospital where Vito stays after he’s shot (104th Street and Southern Boulevard in […]
James Franco the “astonishingly prolific polymath” and actor has unleashed an impressively massive body work, wildly varying in mediums and quality. Now, Franco’s directorial body of work is invading Manhattan’s IFC Center for their “FrancoFest,” March 5th – March 13 and he will be appearing in person eight times. It is a lot of Franco. Screening […]
The Creator Of The Jungle is a documentary film by Jordi Morató, freshly premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. The film follows an eccentric man named “Garrell” who has been building giant, immaculate jungle-like structures and towers in a Spanish forest, for kicks and catharsis. The archival footage used in the film shows him dressing […]
Steven Soderbergh’s post-“retirement” projects keep getting more interesting. First, he was selling t-shirts based on obscure references to fictional companies in film; now, he’s cutting together Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of same into one mashed-up über-thriller. Says Soderbergh: “This…comes from a place of total affection, openness, and honey bought directly from a […]
Here’s a freshly-released trailer for late Aleksei Yuryevich German’s last film Hard To Be A God. Based on the novel by Strugatsky Brothers (who also wrote Roadside Picnic which inspired Tarkovsky’s Stalker), the black and white sci-fi Russian-language film premiered earlier at Rotterdam. Watch the trailer below, via Twitch, for erratic gorgeously-filmed Middle Age-like chaos… with something very alien, far less […]
So you’ve probably made up your mind on Woody Allen. You’ve read Dylan Farrow’s sobering accounts of her child abuse at his hands, Vanity Fair’s “10 Undeniable Facts,” and everything else, and now you’re facing a dilemma about what to do with the man’s works. You’d rather not watch Allen’s films and support a person […]
