Tag: Film
The first outdoor screening of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, the documentary about the Russian art-punk activist group, will happen July 2 at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens. It will be followed by a different film every week through the summer. “With this impressive roster of foreign films, Film Forum has once again put forth an […]
Recently, we saw a fan-edited trailer that imagined what Star Wars: A New Hope would look like if it was helmed by Quentin Tarantino, now here’s a companion piece that does Return of the Jedi in the style of David Lynch. The big difference here is that a Lynch-helmed Return almost actually happened: George Lucas offered Lynch the film back in […]
An Algerian refugee camp hosted the 11th annual Saharan National Film Festival (known as FiSahara) last week, bringing films from around the world to Sahrawi community, who have been exiled from West Sahara for decades and have made their home in the Dakhla refugee camp. For five days, guests flown in by plane or driven […]
The Unknown Known (2013) A portrait of an old man as an orchestrator of history. Master documentary filmmaker Errol Morris puts former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the spot to discuss his ’60s congressmanning to the whole 2003 invasion of Iraq thing WTF WAS THAT AMIRITE?!!?! THE BUILDING SENSATION THAT OUR REALITY […]
Here is Pharrell in a music video for his remix of “Jellyfish Eyes,” the theme song to artist Takashi Murakami’s upcoming feature film by the same name. The film is live-action, but this video is mostly animated, featuring an auto-tuned anime babe cha-cha-ing suggestively, lots of robots doing the robot in unison, smiling spaceships/L.E.D. dance platforms, […]
Scouting NY has another great tour through NYC filming locations, this time from 1971’s The French Connection. The movie spans the city — from Coney Island to East Harlem — beginning with a chase through Bushwick and Bed Stuy near current-day Woodhull Hospital. See highlights from that sequence and their contemporary counterparts above. (Photos: Scouting NY) […]
If Quentin Tarantino directed Star Wars, he would definitely focus on the pre-trilogy exploits of lovable outlaws Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, but the above trailer may be the next best thing. All it takes to recast A New Hope as pulpy, stylish action-comedy gold, it turns out, is Samuel L. Jackson’s voice and some surf rock on the soundtrack. […]
News surfaced that James Franco would be making a movie about The Room in February, when the actor-cum-filmmaker-cum-king of Instagram purchased the rights to the actor Greg Sestero’s memoir about his time on set. Titled The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the “hilarious and inspiring” tome chronicles Sestero’s experience playing Mark in the greatest film of all time, including […]
Rob Noisi has been building a time machine for a very long time, obsessively filing out the flourishes in this faux-Victorian construction. Physicist and author Ronald Mallett has been researching the mechanics and mathematics of time travel for a very long time. These are the subjects of Jay Cheel’s new documentary How To Build A Time […]
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jarmusch made a vampire ☆*:.｡. o☆*･゜ﾟ･ movie ･゜ﾟ･*☆o .｡.:*☆ so he can relish immortal-like in each spinning overhead shot, immaculate hoarder sets, blissfully druggy ceremonial blood drinking scenes, the aching swell of SQÜRL and Josef Van Wissem’s music, waxing monologues about culture, and like this really good long relationship ♥｡. JIM JARMUSCHNESS: 2.5 out of 5.0 […]
