Tag: Film
There’s a reason why McKibbin Lofts made it to the Worst Room Tumblr, but shut up and look beyond its notorious “h-word” “frat” reputation. There’s a reason why people do this. Not everyone cares about renovated bathrooms and walls. Who needs walls when you have friends. A French foreign exchange student living there made the […]
Richard Mosse’s fascinating Congo project’s latest incarnation at the Venice Biennale looks fascinating. Mosse had traveled all over eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrated armed rebel groups, and documented devastated, terrorized communities. Since 1998, 5.4 million people died from war-related incidents. No one cared. Mosse shot all this with infrared-detecting aerochrome film originally developed for military camouflage detection purposes. […]
With Steven Soderbergh’s quickly impeding retirement, the director is making new career moves — more producing mostly, but also… T-SHIRTS, T-SHIRTS, come and get your OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Basically, he’s cleaning out his closet and auctioning off memorabilia, slates, scripts with notes, film festival badges, etc., at Extension 765. But also OBSCURE-FILM-REFERENCING T-SHIRTS! Have you ever seen the ’40s film noir Laura by […]
Lars von Trier’s hotly anticipated two-part epic Nymphomaniac did not make it to Cannes because they weren’t ready. They — parts of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, and various fucking pornstars — were still being rendered together into a seamless, hardcore celebrity experience. Producer Louise Vesth explains: We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had […]
More than two decades later, Jodorowsky will still trip you out… without psychedelics. The Chilean-French magic-realist auteur returned to Cannes this year with his first feature in 23 years — La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance of Reality.) Shot in his hometown Tocopilla in the Chilean desert, the surreal epic echoes the memoirs of Jodorowsky’s Communist father, the political conflicts, the bloody battles… […]
Tonight marks the premiere of If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary exploring the New York accent in all its colors and flavors. In the trailer above, everyone from Italian Brooklynites to Asian Staten Islanders weigh in on how their speech does or doesn’t define them, and discuss the history and future of the venerable squawk. “It’s […]
There’s no surefire way to make your creative work go viral, but for designers, there are a few formulas that see success fairly often. One is make over the aesthetics of an already well-known piece of pop culture–especially a movie, and especially especially if that movie happens to be Star Wars. Another is minimalism. So in seeing […]
Quite a few of these breakdowns of color in film have been popping up lately, but this one might be the nicest, even if its choice of films is already a little dated. Film Strip, created by Adam Pearce, gives you a chronological map of a film’s color palette, and when you scroll over the […]
Wildcat, the latest from filmmaker Khalil Joseph, is a meditation on a town in Oklahoma and the “little-known African-American rodeo subculture” that exists there. Joseph’s black-and-white imagery is astounding, from the adolescent boy wearing shutter shades perched atop a horse to the girl in a bridal gown standing on deserted bleaches, and the film doesn’t require […]
Die Hard was based on a book. That book, the 1979 thriller Nothing Lasts Forever, was the sequel to a 1966 novel called The Detective, which was adapted as a film of the same name in 1968. That film starred none other than Frank Sinatra. Yes, Frank Sinatra once played John “yipee-ki-yay” McClane. While the Die Hard-Nothing Lasts Forever-The Detective saga is […]
