Tag: Film
Paris-based production/sales company Wild Bunch is making “Spring Breakers 2” but don’t get too excited. Harmony Korine is not directing. James Franco is not going to be in it. In fact, “It’s not a direct sequel although there are allusions to some of the characters in the original,” says Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval. It doesn’t look like any […]
The Soviet national ice hockey team placed in every International Ice Hockey Federation tournament they competed in, won almost every world championship and Olympic tournament between 1954 and 1991, and are generally acknowledged as THE dominant hockey team that ever was. What did it take to be the best? Not fucking up. Ever. Not when […]
In 1966, the director Claude Jutra made The Devil’s Toy, a pioneering skateboarding film that was dedicated “to all victims of intolerance.” Yesterday, the National Film Board of Canada, which commissioned the film, debuted The Devil’s Toy Redux, a series of 14 documentaries from directors around the world that reimagine Junta’s classic. A slick interactive interface lets you […]
The Internet’s Own Boy, a crowdfunded documentary about the late internet hero Aaron Swartz, recently debuted at Sundance and will see theatrical/VOD release June 27. The trailer above focuses on Swartz’s later years — specifically, his protest against SOPA/PIPA and the criminal case against him after he downloaded millions of articles from the academic research database […]
To get a better sense of which movie crits are worth trusting, the people at Vocativ did a quantitative analysis of the scores they’ve given the 200 top-grossing films of the past 10 years. At the top of the chart are the critics who are inclined towards fawning, at the bottom are those who, in […]
In 2002, when Richard Linklater began making Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane was seven years old. Over the next 12 years, Linklater crafted a coming-of-age film with Coltrane at the center; by the time they were finished, Coltrane was a young man and so was his character. The trailer, released today, will probably make you tear up. This […]
Here’s the trailer for ‘The Search for General Tso,’ a documentary that looks at Chinese food in America through our country’s favorite dish. Shockingly, it sounds like the American interpretation of General Tso’s isn’t exactly faithful to the original. The film is screening at Chelsea Cinemas on 23rd Street tonight as part of the Tribeca […]
The seminal ’90s band Slint, whose second album Spiderland nearly single-handedly spawned the genre we now know as post-rock, are back at it. They’re playing a few NYC shows next month, and recently reissued Spiderland along with Breadcrumb Trail, a documentary about the band by the director Lance Bangs. May 1, the Wythe Hotel is holding a screening of the film […]
Takashi Murakami’s Jellyfish Eyes trailer premiered on Vanity Fair yesterday. The artist’s first live-action feature-length film is a mix of Pokémon, ET, sci-fi conspiracy and elementary school-aged children being weirdos. It features several Murakami-stylized magical creatures. The mood is reminiscent of Murakami’s Inochi-Kun! shorts but less about the horrors of approaching puberty. Oh, wait, never mind, this kid just conjured […]
A Chocolate Box Kind of Life does a decent job imagining what the opening credits of Forrest Gump‘s opening credits might look like if it was directed by Wes Anderson, our generation’s most easily parodied filmmaker. The iconic typeface Futura abounds, of course — even though Anderson himself has moved on to Archer — and all the pretty […]
