Tag: Film
Photographer Reiner Reidler created these images by finding film reels of classic movies, then illuminating them from behind with film lights and photographing them. The color palettes of the films Reidler used–including The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Alice in Wonderland, are distilled into abstract rings of light. “The concept is to confront the viewer with the image of an […]
AHAHA GOTCHA! You thought Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune — the greatest science fiction film never made — was going to premiere at Cannes, but NO. It’s Frank Pavich’s Jodorowsky’s Dune, a documentary about Alejandro Jodorwosky’s ’70s project with H.R. Giger and the guy who wrote Alien, and the guy who worked on The Fifth Element and… and… how that whole […]
This trailer for the upcoming We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks documentary looks legit. Alex Gibney also directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and Client 9, so, yes, it’s probably legit. Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The […]
Since 2011, when we heard about Selena Good-Girl-Tee-Hee-Hee Gomez watching all Harmony Korine’s movies at his house in Nashville and saw James Franco practicing his gangsta cred in some parking lot, we’ve been waiting for this Spring Breakers thing to pop. And it pop pop popped. Yes, of course, I saw the movie last week, and I […]
If you know anything about Minecraft, this stuff takes a long time. This is very impressive. This took two months and makes that KATSU Minecraft stunt even more embarrassing, like whoop-de-whoop man, look at all these undulating black-and-white striped landscapes and shit, and the bit-arty Beetlejuice characters moving around like animatrons. No cut scenes in this capture. Just one meticulous Tim Burton tribute, […]
Legendary film score composer and octogenarian Ennio Morricone, who’s done the music for four Quentin Tarantino films including the Kill Bill series and Django Unchained, has kind of been talking shit about the director and says their working relationship is over. Morricone did a number of spaghetti western tracks for Django and later told his […]
The Square is a documentary on the protests, police violence and the reactionary revolution in Egypt, centered around Tahrir Square in Cairo. See the brutality, the attempts at oppression by destroying cameras belonging to news outlets, and the bravery of the citizens documenting this uprising by sending out raw, unedited video out to media outlets outside […]
Here’s a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at Tate Modern, turning it into […]
Film Biz Recycling specializes in selling and renting all manner of entertainment industry artifacts. If you’ve ever wondered where to get anything from old vending machines to vintage coffins to a giant Legends of the Hidden Temple–style stone head, this is the place to go (the store is open to both film industry professionals and the […]
“I’m interested to explain ‘Who is James Franco?’ and ‘Why is he doing what he’s doing?’ He hardly sleeps or has a life. He just keeps going.” That’s performance artist superstar Marina Abramović gushing about her Friend Since 2010 James Franco. He is “the most interesting actor of the moment” because he’s not afraid of failure, etc. It makes perfect […]
