Director Richard Kelly Wants To Revisit 'The Box' One Day With A Director's Cut
Are you interested in a The Box director's cut that restores lots of cut footage? Director Richard Kelly wants to make it happen.
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The Live-Action 'Dumbo' Soundtrack Features Arcade Fire Covering 'Baby Mine'
Hear a clip from Arcade Fire's cover of Baby Mine from the live-action Dumbo soundtrack.
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'The Reflektor Tapes' Trailer: Arcade Fire Documentary Goes To TIFF
Arcade Fire is known for intense, theatrical shows, and also for an interest in the integration of film into its presentation. The Reflektor Tapes is a document of the bands 2013 tour, and the film will premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Kahlil Joseph, whose arresting video/short film Until the Quiet Comes…
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Soundtrack Bits: Kronos Quartet Working On 'Noah', Listen To Arcade Fire's 'Her' Score
Will Butler and Owen Pallett's lovely score for Her is going to the Oscars, but it may not ever come to our iTunes collections. During a Reddit AMA, director Spike Jonze sounded uncertain about the possibility of an official release for the soundtrack. "I loved what Arcade Fire did. I'm not sure if there's going…
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'Her' Behind The Scenes Featurette And Photos, Plus 'Him', The Parody Sequel
Much attention has been paid to Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson's exceptional performances, Casey Storm's eye-catching costumes, and Spike Jonze's eloquent script, but the soundtrack for Her -- from Owen Pallett, Arcade Fire, Karen O., and others -- deserves some love too. Happily, the latest behind-the-scenes featurette spotlights one particularly lovely instrumental track, playing it over film footage…
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Watch Katniss Demand Attention In New 'Hunger Games' Clip; Listen To Arcade Fire's Closing Credits Tune "Abraham's Daughter"
Given how well Gary Ross' The Hunger Games is tracking, it's obvious the film's having no trouble at all getting people's attention. But Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is still struggling to make an impression in this new clip from the movie, which shows her trying to show off her talents to a distracted panel of…
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Watch: Spike Jonze's Short Film 'Scenes From The Suburbs'
Spike Jonze has finally released his 28-minute short film Scenes From the Suburbs online on Mubu. The short is a collaboration with members of the recent Grammy winners Arcade Fire -- Bandleader Win Butler wrote the film with his brother William Butler, and the Amblin-esque story follows a group of suburban kids during a dystopian…
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Details Revealed About Spike Jonze/Arcade Fire Collaboration 'Scenes From The Suburbs'
It's a good week for Arcade Fire: Not only did they win the Grammy for Album of the Year last night, their Spike Jonze collaboration Scenes From the Suburbs will be premiering at the Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday. We reported last year that Scenes would be a "science-fiction B-movie" about "friends growing apart." We've…
Read MoreWatch Arcade Fire's Interactive Short Film The Wilderness Downtown
Music isn't enough for the indie rock baned Arcade Fire. Not only are they collaborating with Spike Jonze on b-movie science fiction short film, but they just completed an interactive short film/music experience titled "The Wilderness Downtown". Directed by Chris Milk a popular music video and commercial director (you've probably seen the videos he directed…
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Terry Gilliam's Arcade Fire Webcast Featured Andrew Garfield And Automatons
Last night Terry Gilliam directed the live webcast of the band Arcade Fire's performance at Madison Square Garden. Prior to the event, Gilliam said he'd mostly just be following along and trying to keep up. But you know he couldn't simply do that. The webcast opened with a fun little skit in which Gilliam is…
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Finances Stall 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote'; Meanwhile, Terry Gilliam Will Do More Work With Arcade Fire
Just when we thought it was safe to have hope for Terry Gilliam's resumed efforts to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the project is stalled again. The famous first stall was a decade ago, and has been documented so many times that I won't go into it again. Now Gilliam seems to have…
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Spike Jonze's Arcade Fire Collaboration Is A Sci-Fi B-Movie Short Film
In April, we broke the news that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. At the time, we didn't know much about the project other than it was supposedly a short film that tells a story which involves "friends growing apart" and that…
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Exclusive: Spike Jonze Collaborating With Arcade Fire On New Film
Today I learned that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. Apparently Spike has been casting mostly late teen actors for the project, which is supposedly a story which involves "friends growing apart." The only bits of information I've been able to uncover…
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Where The Wild Things Are Trailer Attached To Monsters Vs Aliens?
A full 3-minute trailer for Spike Jonze's big screen adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are will screen in front of DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs. Aliens, which hits theaters on March 27th 2009. Scored to the song Wake Up by Arcade Fire, a scooper over on CHUD describes the trailer as "beyond the most grandiose…
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