You might not know the name Harris Savides, but you know his work as a cinematographer. An award-winning stretch of music videos, including R.E.M.'s 'Everybody Hurts' and Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer,' led to an impressive his feature film debut, David Fincher's The Game, in 1997. What followed was a long stretch of films with Gus Van…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, Russ, and Adam get in a heated discussion over the merits of Mesrine, discuss the tricks of Morgan Spurlock, and debate whether or not they'd spend $30 to watch Hall Pass two months after its theatrical release. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE KING'S SPEECH Approaching a story of monumental scope with charm and intimacy, The King's Speech is a finely crafted crowd-pleaser that…
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/Film reader Cornelis van Dijkhuizen jr. has edited together a montage titled "The Films of Sofia Coppola." It's apparently the first of a series in 12 video compilations which Cornelis plans to release over the coming this year. I especially love how the video edits together some of Coppola's signature shots from the various films.…
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Focus Features has released a three and a half minute behind the scenes featurette for Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere on IMDB (found via FirstShowing). The movie stars Stephen Dorff as a "hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) surprises him with a visit." Watch the video now embedded after…
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Movie City News has an indepth 30-minute interview with director Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation), talking about her new film Somewhere. And anyone who reads /Film on a regular basis knows that we love long form interviews with auteur filmmakers. Hit the jump to watch the interview now. Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation)…
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In an interesting and slightly surprising move, the Venice Film Festival jury headed by Quentin Tarantino has awarded the Golden Lion to Sofia Coppola's film Somewhere. (Trailer here.) The film got mixed to positive notes out of the fest, but Tarantino said today, "This was a film that enchanted us from our first screening...Yet from…
Read MoreThe first reviews of Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere are starting to come in from Venice, and they're quite good. Praise for Stephen Dorff's performance is universal so far, as is an appreciation for the quiet tone of Coppola's storytelling. Let's kick things off with a blockquote from Variety's review, which seems to sum things…
Read MoreWe've seen a trailer and clip from Sofia Coppola's new movie Somewhere, but with festival season approaching and the film making a debut at the Venice Film festival in a week or so, the picture remains a bit of a mystery. But now we know a little bit more, thanks in part to a recent…
Read MoreFocus Features has released the first video clip for Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. In the clip Dorff and film-within-the-film co-star Michelle Monaghan have a cold interaction while doing a photo shoot for a movie they're promoting. Hit the jump to watch it now. The clip below thanks to the…
Read MoreFocus Features has released a bunch of new photos for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Hit the jump to see them now. Click on any of the below images to enlarge: Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), "a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through…
Read MoreWhen the trailer was released for Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, many people noted the similarities/parallels to the filmmaker's previous film Lost in Translation. Of course, both movies are about a girl and her father figure getting to know each other while living at a four star hotel. /Film reader Joel Norn put together a video comparing…
Read MoreIt's been a few days since our last Movie Poster Round-up, and the one-sheets have been building up on my computer desktop. After the jump you can find new posters from films such as: Rob Reiner's Flipped, four character posters for the 3D animated film Alpha & Omega, Conviction, a high resolution copy of the…
Read MoreFocus Features has released the first movie trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. It very much feels like a thematic/tonal sequel to Lost in Translation, another Coppola film about famous father figure connecting with a daughter figure (more metaphoric in the other film) in…
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I have come across what appears to be the first poster for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. While I can't confirm this is in fact the film's one sheet, it does look very much like Sofia's style. Check out the poster after the jump. Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells…
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Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in '04 and '07. That changes this year, as the fest has named Tarantino head of the 2010 competition jury for the festival which will run from September…
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Prefix has learned that the French band Phoenix is working on the score/soundtrack/sound design for Lost In Translation/Virgin Suicides director Sofia Coppola’s next film Somewhere. Thomas Mar, the frontman for the group had this to say about the project: “It’s very minimal,” said Mars of the new work. “It’s almost like sound design. It wasn’t…
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Focus Features today announced their 2010 release slate. Highlights include: March 12th 2010: The Squid and the Whale writer/director Noah Baumbach's Greenberg which stars Ben Stiller April 16th 2010: Thomas Balmès' Babies, a documentary film which simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from birth to first steps. Wednesday, September 1st 2010: Anton Corbijn's The…
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Our friends at Collider scored a shitload of early promotional images and posters from the American Film Market. You can head on over to Collider to see all of the images, but I thought I'd profile a few of the projects that I'm more looking forward to. After the jump you will find photos of Sofia…
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The Coppola clan often tells stories about family, and Sofia Coppola has been known to draw on her life when writing film characters. Some of the inhabitants of Lost in Translation were famously based on her former husband Spike Jonze and the actress Cameron Diaz. (And Diaz's appearance at Comic Con this year suggested that…
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Update: Movieline has confirmed that Benicio is in the film, and that his role "involves a brief run-in with Dorff’s actor at the historic hotel." So it is just a cameo. Has Benicio del Toro joined the cast of Sofia Coppola's new movie Somewhere? The Los Angeles power pop band Rooney reveals in a new…
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Yes, Party Boy. In a bit of casting news already earning groans from snobs and wooo's from slobs, Jackass's Chris Pontius will co-star in Sofia Coppola's ode to Hollywood's storied Chateau Marmont hotel, Somewhere. Pontius will play "Sammy" in the 2010 flick, best friend to the main character, a "hard living actor," to be played…
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Sofia Coppola has announced that she will be returning to the big screen with a dramedy she wrote titled Somewhere. Her fourth film will star Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, and centers on Hollywood's iconic Chateau Marmont, the hotel of choice of many tabloid-friendly celebrities. The story is about a "bad-boy actor" who gets an…
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