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Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

2 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is what we have come to expect from Gilliam in terms of absurdity and plenty of subtext to chew on and mull over. When you have such classics as Brazil, Time Bandits, and The Monty Python films, you learn to expect much more. This has always been a hard task for a director to accomplish; being able to consistently bring the highest quality to the screen is not the easiest thing to do. Doctor Parnassus looked to be more of the same from Gilliam, but it turns out it might have been a little too much. Doctor Parnassus is a moral tale that follows a traveling theatre consisting of Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer), Anton (Andrew Garfield), Valentina (Lily Cole), and Percy (Verne Troyer). Doctor Parnassus is in possession of a magical mirror that gives the audience the opportunity to walk into another world. Parnassus, who »

- Justin Webb

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Cool Stuff: Martin Ansin’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Poster

7 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

We usually only publish one Cool Stuff column a day, but every once in a while something comes up which forces us to break our one-a-day rule. The Alamo Drafthouse will be screening Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus begining on Friday January 8th, and to promote the film they have commissioned a poster from artist Martin Ansin. A limited edition of 150 24"x36" screen prints will be sold for only $35 on MondoTees. Printed on special speckletone paper with 6 colors and hand numbered. Check out the full poster after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. »

- Peter Sciretta

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Poster Alert! The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

14 hours ago | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Heads up Terry Gilliam fans and fans of gorgeous poster art. Mondotees are putting up for sale today their new creation, a poster for Gilliam's latest Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, beautifully rendered by Martin Ansin, who created the insanely beautiful Metropolis and Phantom of the Opera posters for Mondo in the past.

The poster, a 24"x36" six color beauty, goes for 35 bucks and was printed in only 150 copies. These will go fast if Ansin's other posters are any indication.

Click on the link below to pick it up and check out a larger version of it at the gallery below. »

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Jason Mewes, 'Super' And 'Empire Records 2' In Today's Twitter-Wood

4 January 2010 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Kevin Smith hit his Twitter account hard today in response to a comment made by Neil Patrick Harris about Smith's pal and frequent collaborator Jason Mewes. The discussion is summarized as neatly as possible in the three retweets I picked out, but you'd be well served to sift through the questions Smith has been answering all day. Nph chimed in later in the day on his own account with an apology.

In other Twitter-Wood exchanges today, Edgar Wright and Bryan Lee O'Malley teased their unreleased trailer for "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" and Brian Lynch and Diablo Cody pondered a mad plot to craft an "Empire Records" sequel. Check out those posts below along with a shot of Amanda Bynes at 9 years old and a run-in between Terry Gilliam and Salman Rushdie. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for December 4, 2010.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

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- Brian Warmoth

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Hillcoat’s The Promised Land Not So Promised After All

4 January 2010 10:02 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

I end the year appropriately – gazing into the apocalypse of my own industry.

That is how writer/director John Hillcoat ended his years-long diary he kept while production on The Road was taking place.  He submitted his entries to The Telegraph, and it is with his final entry that the first, worst movie news of the year hits us.  Evidently, Hillcoat’s passion project, The Promised Land, is no longer moving forward, as the financing for the film has fallen into oblivion.

Here is the exact diary entry where Hillcoat explains the situation and give his general consensus on the film industry as a whole:

The joke on set and in the edit suite was that we had to get this movie out before it became a reality. Ironically, the movie industry itself now faces its own apocalypse. The perfect storm has arrived in Hollywood: a global economic downturn combined »

- Kirk

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Box Office Beat Down: Avatar Sets Records with an Additional $68 Million Totaling $1 Billion Worldwide!

3 January 2010 2:13 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Weekend Box Office 1) Avatar - $68 million 2) Sherlock Holmes - $38 million 3) Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel - $36 million 4) It's Complicated - $18 million 5) The Blind Side - $12 million 6) Up In The Air - $11 million 7) The Princess and the Frog - $10 million 8) Did You Hear About The Morgans? - $5 million 9) Nine - $4.2 million 10) Invictus - $4.1 million James Cameron had much to celebrate this New Year's weekend as his 3D outer-space epic Avatar continues to set records and earns another $68 million at the box office. The film, which was seen in 3,461 theaters made an average of $19,734 per theater for a weekend total of $68 million bringing its total gross over three weeks just north of $350 million. Much like Cameron's last feature film, Titanic did over a decade ago, Avatar crossed the $350 million mark in just 17 days and has now made $1 billion worldwide. The movie also set a new Near Year's Day weekend box »

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Discuss: Pleasantly Surprising Performances

2 January 2010 12:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I've already seen my first movie of 2010, and it was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. It was definitely a great choice to kick off a new year! I'm not a huge Terry Gilliam fan either way, so I went in fairly unbiased but excited for a good yarn, dazzling images, and some good-to-great performances. Besides, I can't resist Tom Waits as the Devil. I was immensely impressed with all of the above, especially the eerily seamless way that Terry Gilliam and co-writer Charles McKeown managed to adjust the story and direction to fit the untimely death of Heath Ledger during filming with help from actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell, who stepped in to play Tony in different scenes. Naturally, Christopher Plummer was great, and Andrew Garfield (Boy A, the Red Riding trilogy) was also wonderful as the smitten Anton. And this was definitely Verne Troyer's best role yet. »

- Jenni Miller

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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Eight

2 January 2010 7:01 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

A Prophet

Opens: February 12th 2010

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb

Director: Jacques Audiard

Summary: Sent to prison, Malik El Djebena falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins their confidence but uses his intelligence to discreetly develop his own network.

Analysis: Finally scoring a limited release in the Us in February, Jacques Audiard's violent and hard-edged prison drama won the Grand Prix at Cannes, scored Best Film at the London Film Festival, and is already the hotly tipped favourite to take the Oscar for Best Foreign Film late next month.

Reviews have been stellar around the world for the film which quickly became the most universally admired entry in the often hotly contentious first week of Cannes back in May. From a breakout performance by Tahar Rahim, »

- Garth Franklin

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Audio/Visual: A Decade of Music in Film

31 December 2009 9:08 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Here we are, at the end of 2009. I’m recalling my top ten favorite film scores of the past decade and we’re down to the last two. Some of you may be under the impression that I prefer certain picks on my list more than others. This is not the case. I had a hard enough time picking out a slim ten so I didn’t even bother trying to prioritize them. I consider them all equally important and enjoyable. However, these next two are my last presented because they, out of the ten, are the most personal. By this I mean that I feel my own tastes are most strongly represented by these two soundtracks. Listen to them both and you will have the gist of what I love about music in film. Let’s start with We Are The Strange. If you’ve never seen this film »

- Chris

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