Tag: Movies
Remember that part of Nightmare on Elm’s Street when Johnny Depp gets sucked into a portal in his bed, then gushes out as a geyser of blood, drowning the ceiling with human pulp in some of the most amazing analog visual effects in horror? (They just rotated the set 180 degrees. Take that, CGI.) That was totally […]
Oliver Stone is no stranger to making movies about things that just happened: W, his George W. Bush biopic, dropped months before the man left office, and he released a film about 9/11 in 2006. So it’s no surprise that the director’s latest project is an adaptation of The Snowden Files, Luke Harding’s recently released book about NSA leaker […]
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 76° F NIGHT 57° F Out in theaters: The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne at Film Forum. Also, We Are the Best! and Night Moves. Bushwick Open Studios, tonight and all weekend! […]
BAM is hosting a Spike Lee retrospective this month that will feature the filmmaker and gentrification-hater‘s NYU master’s thesis alongside his better-known work. It’s called Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, and it was assistant directed by the auteur’s classmate Ang Lee. Here’s the plot synopsis, via BAM: Lee’s Student Academy Award-winning NYU thesis film displays the brash stylistic […]
It’s like the opposite of the “Nicolas Cage losing his shit” supercut: above, watch a 20-minute edit of every single time our generation’s most beguiling actor has laughed on-screen, from Best of Times (1981) to Rage (2014). Enormous kudos if you get through the entire thing. […]
New York artist Scott Cummings has nearly completed a 30 minute experimental film starring the Juggalo community of Buffalo, NY, and is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. BUFFALO JUGGALOS is not a documentary, but a collaboration between Cummings and the people he met over his six months “embedded” in the Juggalo community. The artist explains […]
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 […]
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 […]
