Tag: Film
Wang Bing’s doc ‘Til Madness Do Us Part will be screening at MoMA this Wednesday, as part of Documentary Fortnight 2014, the museum’s international festival of nonfiction film and media. Gleaned from 300 hours of footage, the film provides an unyielding, four-hour long look inside a mental institution in the Yunnan Province of China. Like the clip above, the […]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s rousing speech as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street just got more rousing, if you’re into Swedish extreme metal. Behold, the Messhugah mash-up version. Really brings out the performative nuances of DiCaprio’s screaming face and that dark camaraderie of the whole chest-pounding/chanting routine, which wasn’t even part of the script, but something Matthew McConaughey does before his scenes […]
The Lego Movie (2014) A LEGO®-based comedy action-adventure with an unlikely protagonist, uplifting message and sensible interlaced multi-world narrative, surprisingly not shit (´･_･`) MOVIENESS: 4.0 out of 5.0 I ＼(☆o◎)／ed, I ヘ（。□°）ヘed, this is like a real movie UNAMERICAN ANTI-CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA: 3.5 out of 5.0 “OMG BROS! LEGO® wants us to make a […]
David Seger and his friends are fighting back against the Hollywood remake machine. The ubiquitous big-budget reworkings of classic films, from Total Recall to Alice in Wonderland, inevitably twist and contort the source material, leaving fans of the originals with little recourse aside from ranting and raving on web forums and making image macros. Seger thinks bigger than […]
Seven years in the making, five and a half hours long, shot with a cast of hundreds in an abandoned RV dealership in Los Angeles, a cathedral and defunct steel mill in Detroit, and a flooding replica of Norman Mailer’s house floating on a barge down the East River — Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s River […]
Here’s the first official trailer of dir. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin starring pale creepy brunette Scarlett Johansson. This is the entire plot synopsis: An alien seductress preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland. For those of us uninitiated to the Michel Faber novel that inspired the film, this abstract trailer says nothing besides that her victims would rather […]
Lotfy Nathan’s 12 O’Clock Boys documentary about inner city Baltimore dirt bike race gangs is finally hitting US theaters via Oscilloscope Laboratories. Dramatic slow-motion wheelies aside, it looks like an engrossing and intimate look on the subculture. Follow Pug, who has “been on this Earth a decade and some years… a grown-ass man,” trying to join a […]
“This is my first visit to America. On the drive to jail, I saw the Brooklyn Bridge. I recognize it from the movies.” That’s the world’s most famous arms dealer Viktor Bout, in the above clip of the The Notorious Mr. Bout. But Lord of War? Nicholas Cage? No, Bout — currently serving time somewhere in Illinois — never lived […]
Here’s a trailer for Arne Toonen’s Black Out. On the morning before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up next to a murdered man with no memory of the previous night or how he and the body got there. Jos soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in […]
Here’s a taste of what Fight Club might look like if Edward Norton’s nameless main character was shown to be the lonely insane person he really is. The special effects artist Richard Trammell edited Tyler Durden out of the film’s iconic “I want you to hit me as you can” scene, so that it’s just Norton on […]
