November 29, 2007 – 8:14 am
Plus: foreign intrigue for Woody Allen, and prizes for CONTROL.
October 12, 2007 – 7:24 am
A number of films that we’ve covered previously on SpoutBlog are either opening or expanding this weekend:
Across the Universe: Julie Taymor’s Beatles musical has grossed almost $9 million over the last month in limited release, mainly drawing (as I predicted) repeat crowds of young women. The weekend, it expands to just under 1,000 screens. I’m [...]
September 17, 2007 – 11:30 am
Derrida explains Ian Curtis.
September 14, 2007 – 6:00 am
THE BRAVE ONE–opening tonight–begs the question, has Jodie Foster lost her edge? Karina reports on movies that moved her from the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, ending tomorrow. (Brad Pitt actually makes the cut.)
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September 10, 2007 – 7:05 am
ReelerTV is back with another episode from Toronto. This time around, Stu talks to Anton Corbijn, director of the amazing Control, and Karina offers up her thoughts on the film.Previous installments:
Episode 2: Scott Hicks, Love Songs and Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Episode 1: Neil Jordan and Terrance Howard talk The Brave One; Karina on Juno and [...]
September 7, 2007 – 5:55 am
Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis film completely upends the rock biopic game.
September 6, 2007 – 5:18 am
Less than 48 hours after reutrning to New York from Telluride, I’m back at LaGaurdia waiting for a flight to Toronto. A couple of weeks back, I made a list of 15 films that I planned to see during my four days in Canada. I made a bit of a dent in that list last [...]
August 27, 2007 – 12:00 pm
In anticipation of seeing Anton Corbijn’s Control at Toronto next week (FYI, that film took a couple of prizes at the Edinburgh Film Festival this past weekend), I’ve been watching some of Corbijn’s music videos on YouTube and iFilm. In the late 80s/early 90s, Corbijn was to go-to guy for Euro-bands looking for something grainy [...]
August 13, 2007 – 11:09 am
Several of our favorite blogs have noted the passing of British music impresario Tony Wilson. Manchester tastemaker Wilson (who was played by Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People) founded Factory Records, and is generally considered at least partially responsible for launching the careers of The Fall, OMD and Joy Division (and later [...]
