Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:49 AM | From FilmShaft
*Warning: Contains mild spoilers*
Thought provoking, ambitious, confusing, disturbing. Four words ...
20 Best New York Movies
Monday, October 5, 2009 2:42 PM | From MoviesOddity
Were not talking about the twenty best movies set in New York, and were not talking about the twenty best movies where New York comes-up in conversation. Were not talking about postcards or props. These twenty movies earned their places on the list because New York contributes to their look, feel, sound, dialogue, and development. [...]
Worth Watching: Official New York, I Love You Trailer Arrives
Vivendi has debuted the official trailer for New York, I Love You today on Apple. This isn't actually the first time we've seen a trailer, as we featured one nearly a year ago, although this is a better, high res version that is worth watching anyway. New York, I Love You is in another ensemble film following in the footsteps of Paris, Je T'aime featuring 10 short segments about falling in love in New York City. There are a lot of big name actors in this, like Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Ethan Hawke, Robin Wright Penn, Anton Yelchin, Olivia Thirlby, and many more. It's a great little trailer, so enjoy it!
Watch the official trailer for New York, I Love You:
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You can also watch the trailer for New York, I Love You in High Definition on Apple
New York, I Love You is an ensemble ...
This post was originally published in July 2008, in accordance with the New York and Self-Involvement blogathons. Ghostbusters was recently released on Blu-ray in honor of the 25th anniversary of the film’s premiere.
When I heard that the New York in the Movies Blogathon and the Self-Involvement Blogathon were happening around the same time, I [...]
In the surreal comedy, Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores peoples souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which hes been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of soul-trafficking. Giamattis journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress.
Cold Souls premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and it's easy to see why it has drawn many comparisons to the stories of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine...etc). And the film was equally as polarizing as Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, which probably means I'll like it. Watch the trailer embedded after the jump, leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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Artist Spotlight: TIM BURTON exhibit at new york museum of modern art
Here’s some cool eye candy for all of you art lovers out there. /Film unveiled some sample pics of just a few of the 700 pieces of …rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera” made by Tim Burton, that they will be exhibiting at the New York Museum [...]
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Back in April, I wrote an “Adapt This” column recommending that a studio adapt Alex Robinson’s time-travel story “Too Cool To Be Forgotten” for the big screen. Well, it looks like I’m not the only one who feels that way, as “Synecdoche, New York” producer Anthony Bregman has picked up the option to adapt “Too [...]
"Synecdoche, New York" - New clips!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 6:59 PM | From MovieJungle
See new clips all bundled in the same player and embeddable for Sony Pictures Classics' acclaimed "Synecdoche, New York."
Oscar® winning Charlie Kaufman ("Adaptation," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Being John Malkovich") directs from his own story.
The film premiered in May this year at the Cannes Film Festival and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tim Noonan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Jennifer H. Anderson, Erica Berg, Franco Bulaon, Tim Brennan, Josh Pais.
We have a review for "Synecdoche, New York" whist at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Check it out.
What's this about?
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one.
Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside.
However, as the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria (Jennifer Jason Leigh). His lingering attachments to both Adele and Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire (Michelle Williams) into the ground. Sammy (Tom Noonan) and Tammy (Emily Watson), the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality.
The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems (Dianne Wiest), a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.
Synecdoche, New York (2008)(Released date: May 2008 (Cannes Film Festival), 10/24/2008 EXCL. NY/LA)
Starring:Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tim Noonan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Jennifer H. Anderson, Erica Berg, Franco Bulaon, Tim Brennan, Josh Pais
Confused by Charlie Kaufman? Then Ask Charlie Kaufman!
Our good friends at Empire over in the UK published a really great feature a few weeks ago that we only recently had the chance to take a look at this weekend. It's called simply Charlie Kaufman On Charlie Kaufman and in it, they ask Kaufman himself to talk about his own movies (see, simple, eh?). He's notoriously tough to talk to - both because he doesn't do that many interviews and because he doesn't like to talk about the themes in his movies. Which is why this is such a great feature and why I'm excited to go through it. From Being John Malkovich to Adaptation to Synecdoche New York, Kaufman covers them all.
One of the first fascinating tidbits I found in this is about Being John Malkovich and, believe it or not, other names and actors that he had considered writing the script about instead of Malkovich, if ...
Charlie Kaufman Sick of Movie Studios, Wants to Return to TV
Charlie Kaufman has been praised for years as being one of the most brilliant screenwriters working today, but his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York divided audiences with its cerebral nature and dizzying array of feedback loops. Since Kaufman had complete creative control on the project, he held nothing back, leading to a final product he was happy with, but one that never really found widespread acceptance. The experience has left him feeling frustrated and wondering where to go next.
In a recent interview with The London Paper [1], Kaufman reveals that he's working on a new script that he hopes to direct, "about how we have perceptions on things that are not remotely familiar to us". When asked about writing for TV, however, he admits that it's a definite possibility.
"I am seriously considering it... I would want my own show. I like the idea of telling something over time. It might be a fun challenge. The movie business has changed, and with the stuff I do, it would be an interesting place to go."
My first thought is that television is a medium even less conducive to creativity and experimentation, but that's probably only true at the network level. HBO has been doing some pretty interesting stuff for years now (think of David Milch's John From Cincinnati), and with shows like Lost raising the bar out there, maybe Kaufman could deliver the next Twin Peaks. Besides, he did get his start writing for oddball sitcoms Get a Life and The Dana Carvey Show... it would be pretty interesting to see what the man could do 15 years later. What do you think, would you like to see Charlie Kaufman return to television or is it a waste of his talent?
[1] http://www.thelondonpaper.com/going-out/whats-new/interview-with-synecdoche-new-york-director-charlie-kaufman
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