The lost Anna Nicole Smith biopic surfaces on YouTube. And it’s meta!!!
I’m at a total loss for what to do with Addictive TV’s “remix” of Iron Man. I put “remix” in quotes because that word usually implies some kind of change in context and/or introduction of new elements; this is more of a reduction, a skimming of context and nuance in order to leave behind everything [...]
I haven’t watched The Simpsons regularly in years, but I got a couple of text messages alerting me that last night’s episode, which follows Lisa (whose talent President Skinner assesses equates to “as if Ingmar Bergman and Penny Marshall had a baby), as she makes a documentary called Capturing the Simpsons, and then takes the [...]
April 29, 2008 – 10:22 am
About a week ago, a YouTuber posted an unofficial music video for the first single off Scarlett Johansson’s album of Tom Waits covers, “Falling Down,” made up entirely of footage from Lost In Translation. Now the official video for the song is making the rounds (see above), and although it’s made up of all new [...]
April 28, 2008 – 12:00 pm
James Marsh takes time out of his MAN ON WIRE victory lap to bring his culinary biography of Elvis to NYC.
The theme song for the Sex and the City Movie, performed with heavy pitch-shift assist by the girl from Kids Incorporated who wasn’t Martika, is the embodiment of everything that has become loathsome about the franchise.
The aesthetics are godawful––the theme song from the television show is injected with helium and then laid over a beat [...]
People are starting to say smart things about Speed Racer, sight unseen. The film has been screened for journalists who attended junkets, but those journalists have so far stuck to stuck to the studio’s review embargo––all of the really interesting stuff is being written by bloggers who are basing their critiques solely on promo materials [...]
Michael Tully, who interviewed Mister Lonely director Harmony Korine for the upcoming issue of FILMMAKER Magazine, points to Korine’s latest work for hire, a series of British TV commercials for Budweiser. There are four short clips, featuring two members of the Silver Jews, and they can all be watched at Bud’s UK website.
April 17, 2008 – 12:23 pm
Today in Miracles of Google Video: Frederick Wiseman’s 1967 prison metal hospital verite.
Celebrate the epitome of French cinema cool as Jean-Paul Belmondo kicks Alain Delon’s ass.
