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The apocalypse goes "1970s pop sci-fi" in The Arcadian
24 November 2009 11:38 AM, PST
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The Arcadian is an upcoming post-apocalyptic adventure that follows actor J. Larose (of Saw III, Saw IV, and Repo! The Genetic Opera fame) as an enigmatic warrior called "The Lighthouse Keeper" who goes on a quest for "revenge and redemption in a strange future world" we're told is "reminiscent of wild 1970s pop sci-fi."
Inspired in equal parts by samurai movies, rock operas, and underground comics, we're told that the visual world of The Arcadian will be an homage to the work of underground illustrators and be something quite unique due to the fact that it was shot entirely on a Canon 5D Mark II camera - chosen for its unparalleled low-light sensitivity.
The Arcadian has just wrapped principle photography and is heading into an intense round of post. It is due Q2, 2010.
To make up for the fact that we have no detailed plot synopsis yet, we've included a
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London Film Festival 2009: A Serious Man
29 October 2009 9:55 PM, PDT
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A Serious Man
Directed by Joel Coen
The Coens are getting positively prolific these days, treating their hardcore fans with a movie a year, and with their latest release, A Serious Man they have taken the comedic strand of their work into uncharted waters to deliver possibly their most haunting and certainly their most personal work to date. Introduced in person in their characteristically succinct manner at this year's Lff, the film, after a mysterious prologue set in a nostalgic Shtetl alights in late 1960's Minnesota. Jewish professor - and I only stress the Jewish status as it is instrumental to the film's chutzpah - Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is not having a good month. After taking tests for a mystery medical ailment Gopnik is accosted by a disgruntled South Korean student who subsequently attempts to discredit his reputation with anonymous letters to the tenure committee after Gopnik failed him in a critical test.
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- Ricky
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Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT
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Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were
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- David Frank
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How Well Do Your Friends Know Your Taste in Movies?
5 October 2009 2:47 AM, PDT
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How well do your friends know your movie tastes? This question came to my mind over the weekend when I texted our box-office guru Laremy Legel asking him if he thought I would like the Coen brothers' film The Hudsucker Proxy. Little did he know I had just finished watching it and wanted to see if he his prediction would be spot on. His reply:
No, it's too zany and PG for you.
Considering it's an opinion relayed in a quick text it's a solid snapshot as anyone that read my most recent What I Watched column already knows, even though I would say I am more so-so on the film than to say I outright didn't like it. That said, I think Laremy understands my tastes to a point he could watch 10 films and most likely come away with at least 90% accuracy as to what my opinion on each film would be,
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- Brad Brevet
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #11
4 October 2009 4:04 AM, PDT
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This week, after reading over Laremy's list of Top Ten Coen Bros. Films I figured it was about time to watch the four remaining films of theirs I had not yet seen. On top of that I continued my viewing of the new 13 film Paul Newman DVD Collection with a film I loved that ultimately ended up inspiring me to watch another 1958 Newman film. It was a relatively slow week for me, but there's enough to make for a conversation.
As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. I now have 50 friends on the movie rental site and would love to have a few more if those of you out there with accounts are interested. Now, here's the recap of my week in movies...
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Quick Thoughts: The Hudsucker Proxy was the first of two Coen films I caught this past week,
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- Brad Brevet
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In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films
30 September 2009 1:49 AM, PDT
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Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller's Crossing
Top Ten Coen Bros. Films
With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined.
I agonized over this list. Why? Because love isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the Coen films. No, something more akin to reverence mixed with a healthy bit of obsessive adoration would be much closer to my relationship with their work. They are the kind are filmmakers who make us think, as we sit in the theater, they are unspooling the yarn just for us. Sure, the Coens weave tales of great violence and isolation, but somewhere in there a quiet grace is achieved too.
Places 11, 12 and 13
Photo: Universal Pictures / Touchstone
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- Laremy Legel
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2009 Gotham Awards Announce Career Tributes
23 September 2009 11:40 AM, PDT
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The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp), the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers, announced today that director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, will each be presented with a career Tribute at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday November 30th in New York. Ifp also announced it has moved the gala awards ceremony to Monday, November 30 at Cipriani Wall Street, from the previously announced date of Tuesday, December 1st.
Signaling the official kick-off to the film awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film. Anchoring the evening's six competitive awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, are four Tributes to film community icons.
This year's Tribute selection represents a range of individuals -
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Buy This: Product Placement Movie T-Shirt
17 September 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Every now and then we'll throw our fanatical shirt-making friends over at Dutch Southern a little love because those cats are always coming up with some cool, refreshing and totally random movie-related t-shirt that I simply must have. Yes, I'm a movie t-shirt guy -- as are a lot of my movie bloggin' colleagues -- and there's always been this unspoken competition amongst us to see who can show up at the next film festival or set visit with the freshest, most fanboy-esque movie t-shirt. And the shirts also make for great conversation starters. In fact, I wore my John Carpenter character shirt to an Extract screening and found myself talking to Mike Judge about it for awhile as he tried to figure out which character was from which flick.
So, that being said, the peeps at Dutch have released their latest t-shirt, called Product Placement -- and basically it
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- Erik Davis
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First Asteroids, Now Viewmaster!
2 July 2009 11:01 PM, PDT
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Frankly extraordinary news this morning. Following yesterday's announcement that rickety vector-based arcade game Asteroids is getting the big screen treatment (which at least makes a sort of sense given the apocalypse-from-space potential) comes news that Viewmaster is next.Viewmaster, for those of you young enough not to remember, which is probably most of you, was a cross between a slide projector and a pair of binoculars. It was originally invented as an educational device for vicarious sightseeing, but kids in the pre-vhs seventies could also use it to look at pictures of The Pink Panther.Now, our first thought on reading this story (which comes from a Twitter tweet, via European site GreekGeek and ComingSoon) was that this might be like The Hudsucker Proxy: a goofy comedy about a daft invention.But no, apparently, according to writer Brad Caleb Kane (currently working on Uprising for Wolfgang Peterson), it's to
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Coen Brothers Smoke Out Dirty Coal Companies (Video!)
26 February 2009 6:24 PM, PST
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The Reality Campaign sounds a little like The Human Fund, the fictitious charity that George cooked up on “Seinfeld” to get out of buying Christmas presents for co-workers. After all who has a quarrel with reality? But the group is very real and it’s made up of a number of top environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and the National Wildlife Federation. And it has the clout to enlist Directors Joel and Ethan Coen ("The Big Lebowski," "Fargo," "The Hudsucker Proxy" “Burn After Reading”) to make a promotional video. What has them so in a bunch? The coalition of environmental groups is attempting to tackle the coal industry, otherwise known as “Big Coal.”
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- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
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Today's Short: "100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers"
16 February 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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This is a pretty incredible montage of 100 quotes from 100 different movies that each contains a number from 1-100, counting backwards. There's really nothing else to say about it, but I do wonder how he even compiled these seemingly random lines. Full list of the movies below the vid.
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100. Night of the Living Dead
99. Laura
98. Dead Poet's Society
97. Bladerunner
96. The Lost Weekend
95. Ocean's 11
94. Star Wars
93. Midnight Run
92. It Came From Outer Space
91. The Right Stuff
90. The Fugitive
89. The French Connection
88. Back to the Future
87. Castaway
86. Quiz Show
85. Silence of the Lambs
84. Titanic
83. The Magnificent Seven
82. Rainman
81. Galaxy Quest
80. Harold and Maude
79. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
78. The Day The Earth Stood Still
77. The Apartment
76. The Great Escape
75. The Hustler
74. Ed Wood
73. The Jerk
72. Raiders of the Lost Ark
71. When Harry Met Sally...
70. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
69. Mash
68. The Breakfast Club
67. The King and
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- Arya Ponto
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Coens' 'Hudsucker Proxy' Becomes a Musical
27 January 2009 12:38 AM, PST
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Big Picture reader Scott pointed us in the right direction on this one after our story about Christopher Guest possibly taking Waiting for Guffman to Broadway: Joel and Ethan Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy will be turned into a stage play as part of the 2009-2010 season at La Jolla Playhouse.
Playbill reports that the play has book and lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Stephen A. Weiner, who writes on his website that the writing duo acquired the rights to Proxy back in 2001, and has spent the past eight years in development. You can listen to five songs from the musical on Weiner's blog.
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- Colin Boyd
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