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Color Correction and Conflict Avoidance. BlogNosh 07/07/08

July 7, 2008 – 6:04 pm

Why you didn’t see the SPEED RACER you should have seen (if you saw it at all). Plus: spats in the blogosphere and on the streets of New York, real and invented.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Classics | Comments (3)

5 Reasons Why Speed Racer’s Failure Is Bad For Movies

May 12, 2008 – 11:00 am

…and one reason why it might be kind of okay.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Lists | Comments (14)

Speed Racer’s Suggestion: BlogNosh 05/06/08

May 6, 2008 – 4:06 pm

At the Risky Biz blog, Steven Zeitchik accuses the Wachowskis of “insidious” product placement in Speed Racer, altering the design of Speed’s helmet and the Mach 5 to subliminally invoke corporate partner McDonalds. “It may not be brand placement. It’s something much newer and trickier: brand suggestion.”
FILMMAKER Magazine’s website has published the essay by David [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Indies | Comments (1)

Can The Wachowski Brothers Pull Off J-Pop?

December 7, 2007 – 1:55 pm

For their latest appropriation, The Wachowski Brothers have attempted to replicate the candilicious sense of J-Pop as only a Western, green-screen-happy directing duo can. Courtesy of AOL, here is the first trailer for their Speed Racer, technically the first movie from them as directors since The Matrix trilogy, and it looks like the boys might [...]

By Christopher Campbell | Posted in Hollywood | Comments (7)