Tag: Film
According to Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures is in talks with Danny Boyle to direct a Steve Jobs biopic and Danny Boyle is reportedly in talks with Leonardo DiCaprio to star. Thankfully, the actor’s most notable performances have prepared him for such a challenge, particularly his last three films. ROMEO + JULIET (1996): RICH ASSHOLE THE MAN IN THE IRON […]
Mind Game director Yuasa Masaaki directed an episode of Adventure Time! Watch a preview clip above. You will learn about the circle of life DEATH. You know when Adventure Time whisks you away into a land of whimsy and magical surrealism and existentialist suffering? This one is manic and decidedly one of the darker episodes. And Finn’s […]
Here’s the fucked up trailer to David Cronenberg’s new film Maps To The Stars about a fucked up Hollywood family. This one looks like the non-sci-fi kind of Cronenberg, in case you’re wondering, but there is possibly some sort of sci-fi mind-fuckery going on, or maybe someone with influence over the film’s narrative is batshit crazy. It’s not clear. […]
Nymph()maniac: Vol. I, Nymph()maniac: Vol. II (2013) Lars Von Trier’s latest is a long, long story about a girl named Joe who embraces her nymphomania through an endless variety and monotony of overlapping sexual experiences. For our entertainment. DIRECTIONS: After digesting Antichrist and Melancholia, apply Vol. I and Vol. II directly to eyes in quick succession, unless ArtForum is paying […]
“We’re classified as a cemetery but I’d like to think of us as more of a hospital… caring for patients that are metabolically challenged,” says Ben Best, who was the President and CEO of the Cryonics Institute during the making of this short documentary. Brooklyn Underground Films’ We Will Live Again follows Best through the facility where he says […]
Welcome to the summer of Scarlett. Here’s a trailer for Lucy, a new film from Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element). Scarlett is a forced drug mule, a bag of drugs surgically implanted inside her, a bag that’s leaking and for some reason is causing her to have superhuman powers. She’s a […]
Bruce LaBruce’s new film Gerontophilia is about an 18-year-old with a fetish for the elderly who falls in love with an 81-year-old nursery patient and breaks him out. It’s his biggest budget to date ($2 million). See the trailer above, with soundtracking by Oneohtrix Point Never. Gerontophilia is still LaBruce transgressive (inspired by his friend Marcus Ewert, the teenage lover of Allen […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson’s newest film minces/gallops inside/around a hotel, its visitors (rich hags, writers), staff, proprietors, and one particular concierge whose professionalism is so divine and immaculate, it brings a tear to your eye. And then, the other eye. ALL PERFECT EVERYTHING: 5.0 out of 5.0 This is Wes Anderson’s most opulent […]
It’s among the most reliable tropes in cinema: if Our Hero is heading into a Final Fight with the Bad Guys, he must first take a moment to Gear Up. Guns are loaded and holstered, utility belts are buckled, masks are donned, capes are tied off — or, for a certain kind of protagonist, a […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 58° F NIGHT 32° F “Of Landscape” looks into artificial and unstable images, represented by an aestheticized landscape idea. The exhibition explores, dissects, and re-informs the way we think about […]
