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The Cast of Arrested Development at The Netflix Original Series...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:57:40 +1000

The Cast of Arrested Development at The Netflix Original Series “Arrested Development” Press Conference at Sheraton Universal

Sydney Film Festival Program

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:02:07 +1000

Sydney Film Festival Program:

Sydneysiders, time to check out this year’s SFF line-up if you haven’t done so already!

This year I’ll be seeing Before Midnight (I’m a hopeless Before Sunrise devotee, how could I not), Grigris (straight out of Cannes, an “uplifting” film by French-African filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) and Beyond The Hills (a rather-less-“uplifting”, prize-winning drama by Cristian Mungiu). I was sorely tempted by a fair few others, but the festival’s perilous proximity to end-of-semester exams has kept me from buying as many tickets as I’d like, unfortunately. A few that particularly struck my fancy were Park Chan-Wook’s English-language debut, Stoker, Nicolas Winding Refn’s second Gosling-starrer, Only God Forgives, Slavoj Zizek’s The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology, Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain, and Kim Ki-Duk’s Pieta.

Enjoy sifting through the program; have you got any personal picks in mind?

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one...

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:45:31 +1000

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one minute or five minutes of where I live in Hong Kong. That is why I can’t leave, that is why I have to stay there. Chungking Express is actually shot in my apartment. […] The bloody film was shot in my bloody apartment! (laughs) I should’ve stayed in a hotel. I’d be working all day and sleeping on the floor at night. We couldn’t mess up the set. The film’s very special in that way given the connection to my personal life…

The interesting thing is after the film—I guess it was the Hong Kong tourist board put out a map of film locations—for three of four years there’d be people following this map to my door. Especially Japanese tourists for some reason. They’d go on the escalator and look for the apartment. So, I’d be going off to work or to a bar and there’d be people waiting downstairs. Once I found kids literally on my doorstep wanting to go in.

— Christopher Doyle

JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO SEE BEFORE MIDNIGHT AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL NEXT MONTH I AM HIGH ON LIFE

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:48:44 +1000

JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO SEE BEFORE MIDNIGHT AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL NEXT MONTH I AM HIGH ON LIFE

zomgmouse replied to your photo: Hollywood Costume exhibition at Melbourne’s… How much of a...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:30:00 +1000

zomgmouse replied to your photo: Hollywood Costume exhibition at Melbourne’s…

How much of a split would you say there was between the modern era and Old Hollywood? I’m not so interested in the former, and it seemed like they really put emphasis on it to attract big audiences.

About a quarter of the costumes are from films pre-1970, and they are great selections at that. There’s a few Edith Head pieces, a couple of Marlene Dietrich’s outfits, the Breakfast at Tiffany’s dress, the Seven Year Itch dress, Ben-Hur’s robe, John Wayne’s costume from The Searchers, the GWTW curtain dress…worth your time, even if you’re not that fussed about the newer stuff, which makes up most of the exhibition.

Hollywood Costume exhibition at Melbourne’s Australian...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:05:00 +1000

Hollywood Costume exhibition at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

I had the good fortune of being in Melbourne a couple of days ago and getting to see this exhibition of Hollywood costumes at the ACMI, straight from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. To put it briefly: I had a really fucking great time.

I didn’t have high expectations, but it is an impressive collection indeed; I’m struggling to name highlights, since there were so many of the 90+ pieces that I would consider to be iconic. I will tempt you with just a few: The Bride’s jumpsuit, Scarlett O’Hara’s curtain dress, The Dude’s bathrobe (THE DUDE’S MOTHERFUCKING BATHROBE), a The Dark Knight Rises-era Batsuit…and there are dozens more equally noteworthy costumes but I’ll stop myself there.

As far as I know, all of them are from the original costume departments, barring a few reproduced accessories, and all are displayed on mannequins with slightly twitching, incredibly creepy digital faces. The show is peppered with interesting facts about each costume, and there are even a few interviews with the likes of Meryl Streep and Robert DeNiro slipped in there for good measure.

I spent the whole time wandering through the collection in a delirious haze of geekery-induced excitement, which afterwards led me to note that an exhibition like this does funny things to the gap between reality and silver screen fantasy. On the one hand, these artifacts can lose a bit of their mystique when you can see the stitching holding them together, and yet, there’s still something thrilling about getting up close and personal with Hollywood mythology and appreciating the craft of the people making the myths. It’s certainly a surreal and fascinating experience.

Anyway, the exhibition runs every day until August 18th, here are the details. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED, definitely worth a visit if you’re going to be in Melbourne at some point over the next few months.

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:30:03 +1100

Jean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:00:23 +1100

Jean Simmons as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948)

BEFORE MIDNIGHT TRAILER YOU GUYS, I THINK I JUST EXPLODED NB....

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +1100

BEFORE MIDNIGHT TRAILER YOU GUYS, I THINK I JUST EXPLODED

NB. Big spoilers for those who haven’t yet seen Before Sunrise or Before Sunset. If you fall into that category, I cannot recommend these films highly enough to you, go forth and watch.

last-baudelaire: evolutionists: Sylvia...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:33:46 +1100

last-baudelaire:

evolutionists:

Sylvia Ballhause.

Cinemas.

First and last ones have a Kubrick feel

The kinds of places I dream about…

Do you guys remember when Britney Spears had her own movie? DO...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:11:41 +1100

Do you guys remember when Britney Spears had her own movie? DO YOU?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275022/?ref_=sr_1

Art Gallery of NSW Film Series: Ain't there anyone here for love?

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:23:00 +1100

Art Gallery of NSW Film Series: Ain't there anyone here for love?:

For anyone who lives in or who will be visiting Sydney over the next few weeks, the Art Gallery of NSW is doing a film series on changing representations of love in cinema. The tickets are free (!!!), though you’ve got to arrive at the gallery early enough to snap them up.

They’re already about half way through the line-up, but the remaining films are Badlands, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Dog Day Afternoon, A Short Film About Love, Happy Together, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and Two Lovers. I am swooning.

To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:22:37 +1100

To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of the aptly named A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).

For the Festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star.

They were honoured at the Festival de Cannes in 1958 – the year of their marriage – with the selection In Competition of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. The links between their story and that of the Festival continued with a series of films directed by Newman, who cast Woodward in unforgettable roles in The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Competition – 1973) and The Glass Menagerie (Competition – 1987).

The poster evokes a luminous and tender image of the modern couple, intertwined in perfect balance at the heart of the dizzying whirlwind that is love. The vision of these two lovers caught in a vertiginous embrace, oblivious of the world around them, invites us to experience cinema with all the passion of an everlasting desire. — Cannes 2013

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:05:57 +1100

mump: Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: The Ellen Ripley Story

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:40:43 +1100

mump:

Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: The Ellen Ripley Story

I'm trying to figure out who owns the rights to the movie Seance On A Wet Afternoon... any ideas? It was an Allied Film Makers Presentation....

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:19:33 +1100

I haven’t a clue, really. You may have already checked this out, but here’s IMDb’s company credits for the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058557/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co I hope that’s helpful in some way.

“The movie is not about ghosts, but about madness and the...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:00:07 +1100

“The movie is not about ghosts, but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.”

The Shining, 1980

bohemea: Jessica Chastain in Armani Prive - 2013 Oscars,...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:11 +1100

bohemea:

Jessica Chastain in Armani Prive - 2013 Oscars, February 24th 2013

Bringing this back because I’m still not over it

Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:00:31 +1100

Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

filmrevues: The Academy Award Nominated Cinematography of Roger...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:00:24 +1100

The Shawshank Redemption

Fargo

Kundun

O Brother Where Art Thou?

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

No Country for Old Men

The Reader

True Grit

Skyfall

filmrevues:

The Academy Award Nominated Cinematography of Roger Deakins