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Showing posts with label Lars Von Trier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lars Von Trier. Show all posts
Monday, 1 August 2011
Have you seen the new Bjork video directed by Michel Gondry?
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Otherwise known as "Suck on my cloven heels and monumental disco wig, Lady Gaga - you don't know weird from a space stalactite lactating lasers."
"Nyphomaniac now looks certain to be Lars Von Trier’s next feature project, with production slated to begin in the summer of 2012.Von Trier is currently researching the project, which will follow “the erotic life of a woman from the age of zero to the age of 50.”... The film’s subject matter (in particular, its treatment of youthful sexuality and graphic depiction of intercourse) could cause problems with censors. However, the Danish auteur is reportedly planning two versions - one a hardcore cut likely to feature scenes of penetration and a softer version that can be shown in more mainstream cinemas. Despite the likely graphic sexual content, the project is understood to be primarily dialogue-driven."
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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It's been a slow news day so far today. But hark! Here is the list of films showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year! I seriously doubt I'll be going since I've never gone before and I can't see that changing now - although Toronto is a lovely city so if they want to invite me they can do that! - but since it's a slow news day let's name five movies playing at the festival that make me wanna slap some marching boots on and storm the north come September.
We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsey) - Everybody's read the book by Lionel Shriver
by now, right? I hope so. Go read the book if you haven't! Because this book is amazing. AMAZING. And this movie has Tilda Swinton starring in it. AMAZING TIMES TWELVE.
by now, right? I hope so. Go read the book if you haven't! Because this book is amazing. AMAZING. And this movie has Tilda Swinton starring in it. AMAZING TIMES TWELVE.Dark Horse (Todd Solondz) - In the immortal words of Mark Weiner, "Uhh duh." When a new film by Todd Solondz comes out I momentarily understand what it must be like to be religious, because I feel my heart sing.
Shame (Steve McQueen) - Yup, it's the reunion between Hunger star Michael Fassbender and Hunger director McQueen. Fassy's been great every time out but his work in Hunger really is his pinnacle so far, so we're looking forward to seeing what these two can manage this go-round. Oh and this movie's supposedly just stuffed with Fassy having sex all over the place.
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar) - I've given the reasons I'm excited for this movie several times already, and they really do just boil down to a formula. Pedro + Returned Man Muse Antonio Banderas + Horror Elements = Eyes Bugging Out Of My Head. Scientific, that.
Meloncholia (Lars Von Trier) - If you missed what Glenn said about this movie the other day, go read that. I can't even, I am going crazy, I need this now.
Okay that's the first five but there's a second five of very nearly equal importance: I also need to see Martha Marcy May Marlene and I'm super curious about Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt plus a new movie from William "The Exorcist" Friedkin called Killer Joe with Emile Hirsch, plus have you seen the trailer for Nicholas Winding Refn's Drive? That trailer is crazy good. CRAZY GOOD. Plus Alexander Payne's new movie The Descendants!
Argh! Somebody send me to Toronto!
ETA I'm seeing conflicting reports: Is David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method playing as well!? Obviously, obviously, this is one I'd want to see as well butit's listed as yes in one place and not there in another. Oh and Sarah Polley's new movie Take This Waltz should have been mentioned by me too.
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Monday, 25 July 2011
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--- A New Midnight - The third book in Clive Barker's Abarat series will for sure be out in September, says Mr. Barker himself. It's called Absolute Midnight
. It's been listed on Amazon for then for awhile so I guess he's just making we know for sure for sure here. I might have to go back and read the first two volumes, my memory's pretty vague on it at this point. The last one came out several years ago. It's a good series though. Now that I've finished A Dance With Dragons I've picked Barker's Imajica
back up, which is also great.--- One Million Movie March - If you haven't been you oughta be keeping up with Glenn's epic journey through the Melbourne International Film Festival - he's seeing like 30 thousand movies over the course of it's couple weeks and writing up his thoughts over at Stale Popcorn. Of movies I haven't yet seen but am dying to see he's already seen Meloncholia and Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Innkeepers, amongst others. Jealous.
--- Two For Hugh - Two bits of Hugh Jackman news - he's apparently pretty much set to star in the movie version of Les Miz, and it's about time he made a movie musical wouldn't you say? Even if I have very little interest in seeing this I can say that all the same. And secondly, he's revealed who the villain will be in the second Wolverine movie. I guess it's a spoiler but we'll probably hear all about whoever gets cast when it happens so I doubt anybody will be able to avoid this news for too long.--- Frat Boys - Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are teaming up for a fraternity-themed R-rated comedy, says Deadline. Somebody's balls better end up on somebody's chin, is all I gotta say.
--- Head Go Boom - Alexandre Aja is going to produce a TV series based on David Cronenberg's 1981 telekinesis classic Scanners? This is what awesome sounds like.
--- Head Go Boom - Alexandre Aja is going to produce a TV series based on David Cronenberg's 1981 telekinesis classic Scanners? This is what awesome sounds like.
--- Betting On Braga - I say this every time I link to one of these but man I love Craig's Take Three series at The Film Experience. He always manages to make me think about performers that I either don't give enough thought to personally or don't hear other people mention often enough. His latest is on Alice Braga. She was great in Predators; much better than that movie knew what to do with.
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Monday, 11 July 2011
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--- Swimming With Fassy - Michael Fassbender has joined every other Irishman actor in existence in the cast of Brendan Gleeson's adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s 1939 novel At-Swim-Two-Birds
. I am not familiar with this novel, but here's the world's briefest description:"The story follows a teenage student who populates his creative writing with important characters from his own life."
Has anyone read the book? I should read it probably, shouldn't I? The way all the articles speak of it I feel ashamed not being familiar with it actually. Me = flop.
--- Speaking o' Fassy, have you ever wondered what it'd be like to have sex with him? HA what a question. Well over at FF Simone points us in the direction of a burlesque performer's NSFW blog entry about her day spent shooting a (simulated, duh) threesome sex scene with him for the film Shame, his reunion with Hunger director Steve McQueen. Point of lurid interest:
"our scenes with Michael were totally intense! I'll just say that whoever he is dating (I heard its Zoe Kravitz), is most definitely not disappointed with his...er, manliness."
I mean, anybody who's seen Hunger knows this already (link NSFW), but it's always a welcome reminder.
--- Ze Plane - Apparently there was word via Twitter (a tweet which has since been deleted, so who knows) over the weekend that Dominic Cooper had joined the cast of a Hervé Villechaize bio-pic, which is starring Peter Dinklage (who looks nothing like Hervé, height aside). It's called My Dinner With Hervé and Cooper's apparently playing a journalist who interviews the Fantasy Island star about his life, which probably had more to it than shouting, "Ze plane, ze plane!" for a couple of years, right?--- Crazy Girl - I'd pretty much given up on bothering with seeing John Carpenter's The Ward, the reviews were so foul and Im so tired of watching the great horror directors losing this grip, but now that Pax has admitted to some appreciation for the film (save the ending, which apparently everyone agrees is most foul of all) I'm feeling more inclined than I had been.
--- Planet of the Rapes - James Franco would like you to know that he's not a gay rapist, thank you very much.--- Eyes Wide Shout - Glenn tells us all the movies he's seeing over the course of the Melbourne International Film Festival over the next couple of weeks. 59 movies! Egads. Bets of luck, man. That sounds painful. I mean, he's seeing all sorts of awesomeness - most jealous over Lars Von Trier's Meloncholia and Ti West's The Innkeepers, probably - so that'll help presumably. But that's a lot of stimuli for that amount of time.
--- Hour of the Wolf - Arbogast looks back at Brotherhood of the Wolf which is apparently ten years old - god that makes me feel old, that movies I saw here in NYC are having 10 year anniversaries now - and which I need to revisit myself having not seen it since.
--- Solar Flair - It's nothing new really if you're familiar with the books but in an interview at AICN with James Purefoy (mmm James Purefoy) they got him to talk a little bit about his character in John Carter (have they renamed it just JC yet?) and what the filming was like. A little bit."The character is called Kantos Kahn and he is the admiral of the Xavarin, which is a gigantic sort of ship. But in the John Carter world, these ships fly through the air and are powered by solar panels, so they go very, very fast when it’s very, very sunny, and they slow down a little bit when it’s cloudy."
There is more than that if you click over; I just liked that random comment - obviously this will play into the story at some point given in lieu of much more about his character. Oh he's a dude whose ship goes too slow sometimes. Acting!
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Friday, 13 May 2011
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... that I didn't mention in my last post was the official word coming out about Lars Von Trier and Martin Scorsese actually really for real doing that "Five Obstructions" thing. We talked about this before; it's where Von Trier gives Scorsese the task of remaking one of his own earlier films - we don't know which one he'll do yet - five times, each time with a different set of rules that make things difficult.
I didn't mention it there because I talk more about it over at The Film Experience, so head over there to do that. Go on!
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