Tag: Film
The softcore cut of Lars Von Trier’s highly-anticipated five hour explicit sex movie featuring celebrity actors and porn double CGI-mash-ups having explicit sex is being released in Denmark and Norway on Christmas and coming in hardcore all over Cannes Film Festival in 2014. So here are some new Nymphomaniac character posters. They are sexual. Should be intellectually […]
Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten‘s newest project focuses on the cultural and corporate wars between bikes and cars. The international doc focuses on commuters already relying on bicycles for their daily commute — like 40% of Copenhagen. The film investigates the world-wide automotive production business, tracking its evolution into a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on […]
2×1, a forthcoming documentary currently funding on Kickstarter, takes its name from two places: two miles by one mile, the dimensions of Crown Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood where it’s set, and the two distinct communities–Caribbean people and Hasidic Jews–that make up the area’s one whole population. Filmmaker Mendy Seldowitz, a Crown Heights native, hoped to get away […]
Massive Attack V Adam Curtis (2013, at Park Avenue Armory) Adam Curtis “documentary” W GIANT IMPORTANT WORDS — a beautiful pulsating super-cut of found-ish footage re: NEWS/GOVERNMENTS/DONALD TRUMP/THE SARCOPHAGUS OF DATA/RUSSIAN PUNK MUSIC FROM SIBERIA/ALGORITHMS OF SUBMISSION/WAR IN AFGHANISTAN… USA/RUSSIA/YOU.. etc. on many LARGE screens. U stand 4 movie but its really a concert. Massive […]
Sky Ferreira is a singer. “Everything Is Embarrassing,” etc. Ok then. She was ok at singing with DIIV at Basilica Hudson? She just released a music video for “You’re Not the One” directed by Grant Singer and made largely out of pink and purple strobe light, her entrancing gyrations and Tony Scott homages. It’s true! Aside from Sky Ferreira’s Patricia […]
Salinger (2013) Solidish but 2 long doc @ that 1 guy who wrote that 1 book u read in high school & were like woah this book!!! Did u know JD was up in piles of burnt bodies at the Holocaust camps? Dude’s 1st of like 300 straight days of combat was at Utah fucking […]
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adele) is a 15-year-old Adèle and her relationship with art school student Emma. Twitch Film is calling it “one of the most shockingly explicit features to cross the pond in quite some time” and “one of the best films of the year.” It’s also three hours long, in French and based on a […]
The short student film “Noah” follows a teenager mid- and post-girlfriend drama in form of screen recordings of his internet activity. It’s smart. And depressing. Has POV like this been attempted before? Stalkerish Facebook behavior. Chats. Skypes. Porn. Exciting stuff. And then, a cathartic opus with a stranger on Chat Roulette at the end. Directed by […]
Today, a popular Russian television station EvroKino was issued an official warning from Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media for “propagating same-sex relations” by showing a 2007 French musical Les Chansons d’Amour (Love Songs) directed by Christophe Honoré. It’s about three hot French people in a hot three-way relationship. Then, there’s another […]
For this year’s Venice Film Festival, 70 renowned filmmakers made 60-90 second short films. Their concept: Future Reloaded. They that were screened at the festival and just uploaded to YouTube. Well, Todd Solondz owned this little assignment. Remember Life During Wartime? “Are you seeing anyone?” “No, I’m more focused on China right now. Everything else is history, it’s just a […]
