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What are the best music videos of the noughties?
24 December 2009 3:07 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Let us know your favourite pop promos of the decade
What makes a great pop video? Explosive action? Mind-bending animation? Bling? Bottles of Cristal? Being ripped off in the latest TV advert? One viewer's masterpiece is another's dross, and they will never agree.
And there are simply more videos now than there used to be. In the 70s and 80s, quality videos stood out because there wasn't much else around – Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Jacko's Thriller and Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer were events. Now videos cram every corner of YouTube, blogs and TV channels from Viva to MTV.
In the noughties, having a director for your video wasn't enough – they had to be a big name. Hype Williams was one of the busiest, shooting videos such as Kanye West's Gold Digger and Stronger, Beyoncé's Check on It and Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Other directors such as Mark Romanek »
- Dugald Baird
Their Best Role: Bill Murray
23 December 2009 10:20 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
At first Bill Murray was a goofball, a lounge singer or a guy that tried to blow up a gopher. Graduating to movie stardom, he soon found a style of detached cool that worked like gangbusters, or ghostbusters. In movies like Stripes and Ghostbusters, he would make wry comments while the rest of his co-stars acted their parts; he rarely got involved in the drama. But it worked. A decade later, however, he could be seen giving an actual performance in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998). He was still funny, but he found a real emotional connection with his co-stars, and he was touching. From there, you could easily look back and find other moments of greatness: his bit parts in films like Tootsie, Ed Wood, Kingpin and Wild Things, his abrasive gangster in Mad Dog and Glory, in the very dark, anxious and underrated Quick Change, which was his directorial »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Boos! & Whoop-doos!: 12 Months of Toilet Plunkers and Dumpster Diamonds!
23 December 2009 9:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The End of 2009? Whoop-doo! This year has been one hellatious shit storm from the get-go. Pregnant ladies and babies, The Great Depression Part II, pig flu, more than a handful of horrible shootings, a balloon boy, Tiger's indiscretions, and our first black president. Not to mention more dead celebrities than I can shake a stick at. Every time I turned around, some other atrocious calamity was happening right before my eyes. Making 2009 one of the most interesting years of this entire decade. According to Michael Ruppert in his film Collapse its only going to get worse before it gets better. Yes, the Teens are going to see more than half of your friends and family dead. Take account of the folks around you. By the time 2020 rears its ugly head, most of these people will be gone. Turned to dust and painful memories. My advice to you this coming New Year? »
Habib Azar's Top Ten Films of All Time
22 December 2009 7:28 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month, he'll be presenting his debut film, Armless at Sundance. He gave us his top seven (*) as of December 2009. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we bent the rules a little, our profiled filmmaker Habib Azar explains why below, and keep in mind in less than a month, »
El Guapo Presents The Top Ten Worst Movies Of 2009!
18 December 2009 12:51 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Top Ten Worst Movies of 2009 **Disclaimer** This list is for entertainment purposes only. No studio is safe. No actor is safe. No movie is safe! You have been warned.What's more fun to read, the best movies of the year, or the crappiest movies of the year? I know as a writer, I Love listing the worst movies of the year. And 2009 had some pretty big stinkers. From failed comedies, (what a shock that a Kate Hudson movie would make the list two years in a row) to failed action flicks to unwatchable "arthouse", 2009 served up a big ol plate of dog crap. So sit back, relax and see if you agree with any of my choices. Yes, I'm well aware that there are 500 million movies out there that went straight to DVD. I'm only listing theatrical releases. I'm sure there are plenty of films I've missed or just didn't see. »
Votd: Jim Jarmusch Sings Neil Young’s ‘Cortez the Killer’
17 December 2009 12:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Director Jim Jarmusch loves Neil Young. The venerable singer/songwriter masterfully scored Jarmusch's Dead Man and with the band Crazy Horse was the object of the filmmaker's follow-up, the tour documentary Year of the Horse. Jarmusch also seems to love the New York edition of the All Tomorrows Parties music festival which, for the past couple years, has taken place in the Catskills each September. In 2008 as friends and I strolled around Atp one of them said, "hey, there's Jim Jarmusch having a picnic." Evidently the director returned to the scene of his lunch again this year. How do we know? Because there's a video of him singing Neil Young's classic 'Cortez the Killer' in a hotel room at the fest. The video comes from Pitchfork, which has been posting a great series called Surveillance, all of which so far were shot within the small, dingy rooms at Kutcher's, »
- Russ Fischer
The Limits of Control | Film review
14 December 2009 7:12 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jim Jarmusch sets his latest enigma in Madrid, Seville and Almería. Existentialist mystery ensues…
Jim Jarmusch has been writing and directing intriguing, highly accomplished independent movies for a quarter of a century now and occasionally acting in those of fellow independents. His budgets remain relatively modest by Hollywood standards, but he has attracted leading performers like Johnny Depp and Robert Mitchum to work with him, as well as musicians such as Tom Waits and Joe Strummer.
His films are mysterious without being obscure and are sometimes carefully patterned and sometimes linear stories of journeys of discovery. Mystery Train, for instance, retraces the same few hours as it interweaves several stories of Presley fans in Memphis, while in Broken Flowers Bill Murray crisscrosses America visiting old girlfriends (all played by well-known actresses) to discover which one bore him a son. Despite the fact that few of the characters actually meet each other, »
- Philip French
Jim Jarmusch has an Indian project up his sleeve
11 December 2009 2:41 AM, PST | Hindustan Times - Cinema | See recent Hindustan Times - Cinema news »
Some of the master classes held here during the ongoing Marrakech International Film Festival have been masterly. American director Jim Jarmusch’s certainly was. And he began his session the other afternoon in an auditorium packed to its brim with prophetic words. “Life is a series of moments that never come back”. Is that why, he never plans? I have no idea, but his approach to movie making has been unique in some ways. He said he rehearsed with his actors, but never the scenes he was going to shoot. “Because I want my actors to react, not merely act”. His »
Film review: The Limits of Control
10 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Only a successful and revered director could make this colossally self-indulgent and boring film
This shallow conundrum is at once a dull thriller and a humourless comedy, the sort of colossally self-indulgent and boring film that only a successful and revered director could make – or be allowed to make. The Limits of Control demonstrates the very worst side of Jim Jarmusch: a supercilious exhibition of mannerism. Jarmusch noodles and doodles with ideas but shapes them into nothing very rewarding. There is a supporting cast of A-list stars, including Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Bill Murray and Gael García Bernal, each engaged for what must have been an agreeably short period, with their minds evidently on other matters during principal photo-graphy, and producing something very much less than their best work.
The movie has some technical polish and style, I concede, but this only makes its emptiness even more exasperating. Jarmusch's »
- Peter Bradshaw
Film Weekly on John Hurt, The Red Shoes and Where the Wild Things Are
10 December 2009 3:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this edition, Film Weekly twirls from discussing Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt to stomping with the monsters in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes.
First up, Jason Solomons talks to the great British actor John Hurt about his ability to make a cameo count and the pleasure of working with Jim Jarmusch on his new film, the highbrow hitman thriller The Limits of Control. The actor, who was conferred a BFI fellowship at the London film festival this year, shares how his collaboration with Jarmusch started on Dead Man and why he enjoys working with first-time directors.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the week's key releases: they disagree on Spike Jonze's airy adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are and Jim Jarmusch's zen-like The Limits of Control, »
- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps, Observer
Tom Waits to star in The Hobbit?
8 December 2009 3:21 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The gravel-voiced one is reportedly being considered for a role in the forthcoming film of Jrr Tolkien's novel. Our bet is that he'll play Smaug, the fire-breathing dragon
Will Tom Waits battle Bilbo Baggins? A "trusted" source working on Guillermo del Toro's production of The Hobbit claims that the singer-songwriter is up for a part.
Waits has acted before, in films such as Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law. But he has never played the kind of character you would expect to find in a Jrr Tolkien's novel. Though the role under consideration isn't clear, an anonymous source told Ain't It Cool News that Waits is near the top of del Toro's list. "As much as I'd like to say he's a lock, I'm told he's simply someone the production is talking about," claims the source, »
- Sean Michaels
Monologue - Femme Fatale.
7 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here with the Monday Monologue.
The Limits of Control might not be Jim Jarmusch's best film (in fact it was panned by most critics) but there are hints of the auteur's brilliance throughout that overcome the otherwise nonsensical, pretentious existentialism. One of these scenes involves Tilda Swinton (no surprise huh?). She's one of the characters the hitman (played by Isaach de Bankolé) must meet for information.
Swinton enters the scene in a conspicuous outfit made out of a trench coat, a hat and dark glasses. She looks around everywhere before she sits with the hitman. She seems to read through him and makes up in her mind as to what kind of man he is. "Are you interested in films by any chance?" she asks.
She doesn't wait for an answer before she continues I like really old films. You can really see what the world looked like; thirty, »
- Jose
Depp Gives Singer/Songwriter Babybird A 2010 Boost
6 December 2009 3:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Johnny Depp has given British hitmaker Babybird a big boost by insisting the singer/songwriter's 2010 album Ex-maniac will be the album of the year.
The movie star was asked to list his 'Essentials' for U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly and admits he already can't live without his friend's new album.
Depp says, "He's a national treasure, if you're British. For everyone else, he's a diamond waiting to be found. Lyrically, he's black as night, brilliant and sharp as a razor."
The Pirates of the Caribbean star also listed longtime partner Vanessa Paradis' latest album, Divinidylle, among his favourites, calling it "the most beautiful soundtrack to our life en famille".
And there's also mention of his onscreen Pirates father Keith Richards' Unknown Dreams and Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues.
Depp also namechecks Emir Kusturica's Time of The Gypsies and Underground among his favourite films, calling the Serbian filmmaker, "one of the last true auteurs". The actor is in talks to play Mexican bandit revolutionary Pancho Villa in Kusturica's next film.
Also on the star's top film list: his own Ed Wood, Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law and cult British movie Withnail & I, which he can freely quote.
He adds, "(That's) probably the funniest f**king film I've ever seen." »
Another trite, po-faced, clever-clever Jim Jarmusch movie … still, I'll be back for more
4 December 2009 4:11 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Limits Of Control gives us a frustrating glimpse of the conspiracy-therory thriller that the cult director will never make
We expect the work of our favourite directors to develop and expand with each new movie, not deteriorate. An artist's career should ripen before us, not rot, as seems to be happening with Jim Jarmusch.
In his latest, The Limits Of Control, Jarmusch intimates the outlines of a widespread international conspiracy – a lone contract killer stalks his target across an arid Spain – by letting us see only fragments of it. But, frankly I'd rather see the pulse-pounding, cliche-ridden thriller he scorned trying to make. As with much of his increasingly mannered "mature" work, in Control, Jarmusch peppers a trite, transcendently unenlightening and uninvolving script with the usual distracting bits of business (here, the hitman, who spends much time receiving cryptic messages in matchboxes, needs his double espresso served in two separate cups … um, »
- John Patterson
This week's new cinema previews
4 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Box (12A)
(Richard Kelly, 2009, Us) Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella. 116 mins
Will Kelly ever make another movie as good as Donnie Darko? There are signs here that he might, but he hasn't this time. The Twilight Zone plot – press the button on this box and you'll get $1m, but someone will die – opens up more moral/conspiracy/sci-fi elements than the film can handle. Still, too much is better than not enough, especially when it's as smoothly sinister, visually sophisticated and borderline bonkers as this.
Me And Orson Welles (12A)
(Richard Linklater, 2008, Us/UK) Zac Efron, Claire Danes. 114 mins
Efron graduates from High School backstage to Welles's 1930s theatre troupe in this sweet coming-of-age flick, holding his own against Christian McKay's rakish, bombastic Welles – even when they fall for the same girl.
Cracks (15)
(Jordan Scott, 2009, UK) Eva Green, Juno Temple. 104 mins
Set within the confines of a posh girls' boarding school, »
- Steve Rose
DVD Review: ‘The Limits of Control’ Sinks Under Weight of Pretension
3 December 2009 2:44 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Jim Jarmusch’s latest film experiment “The Limits of Control” is another example of a once-intriguing filmmaker becoming bogged down by his own self-aware style, delivering easily the worst film of one of the most important careers in the history of independent film. Jarmusch changed indie cinema in the ’80s. Now, he doesn’t even seem interested in his own films.
DVD Rating: 1.0/5.0
The title of “The Limits of Control” is a reference to nothing that happens in the film but feels appropriate for such an overly mannered exercise in directorial power. How far can Jarmusch push the audience? How little plot will they take? What is the limit of pretension? These are the more pertinent questions to “The Limits of Control,” a film that seems designed to push audience buttons, something that I have no problem with if there’s something worthwhile in return. Nothing but frustration results »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Jim Jarmusch's "Limits Of Control" Makes DVD Debut
1 December 2009 11:25 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
"The Limits of Control" is currently available on DVD.
The Focus Features-made movie, released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, is the latest from art house director Jim Jarmusch.
The story focuses on the mystifying exploits of the Lone Man (Isaach De Bankolé), a lawless renegade whose unusual mission becomes more and more chilling as his tale unfolds. The only thing that matches the strangeness of his tale is the variety of people with whom he comes into contact. Set in Spain and filmed in locations such as Madrid and Andalucía, the movie also stars John Hurt, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Gael García Bernal.
The special features for the movie include the two-part featurette "Behind Jim Jarmusch" and "Untitled Landscapes."
»
Spirit Awards: The Nominees (Final)
1 December 2009 8:01 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
The nominations for the 25th Anniversary Spirit Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson welcomed attendees to the nominations this morning, touting the legacy of the awards and the early nominees, including Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch and others. “We are living in the world that they created,” she said this morning, “This years nominations reflect the same criteria that were important to … »
2009 Stockholm Film Festival Breaks Attendance Record
30 November 2009 2:53 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (top); 9 by Shane Acker (middle); Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (bottom) The 2009 edition Stockholm International Film Festival attracted the two-decade-old festival’s biggest audience ever: 130,000 moviegoers. The Stockholm festival’s 20th anniversary was celebrated with screenings on ice, and the presence of international celebrities such as Lifetime Achievement Award winner Susan Sarandon, Luc Besson, and Precious director Lee Daniels. The ten films that drew the largest crowds during the festival were mostly American-made fare: Up in the Air, starring George Clooney; Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, featuring George Clooney’s voice; Lee Daniels’ Precious, which earned Mo’Nique the festival’s best actress award; Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control; [...] »
- Edwige Andersson
Birthday Suits, An Oscar For Ed!
28 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Each day we're celebriting the birth of various cinematic persons. Can someone in Hollywood please give their Oscar to Ed Harris today? I mean, my god how long does he have to wait for that damn thing? The rest of today's Sagittarians are less easy to shop for. What could we give Jon Stewart, for example, that he doesn't already have?
Ed, Laura and Jon
1896 Lilia Skala, Oscar nominated actress (Lilies of the Field)
1923 Gloria Grahame, Oscar winner (The Bad the Beautiful)
933 Hope Lange, Oscar nominated actress (Peyton Place, The Young Lions, Death Wish)
1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, sex symbol
1946 Joe Dante He'll always have Gremlins, such a great 80s picture.
1949 Alexander Godunov, like Baryshnikov, he was a Russian ballet star who defected to America and co-starred in movies. It didn't go quite as well. He never achieved anything close to Misha's level of fame though he made for a memorable screen presence (Witness, »
- NATHANIEL R
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