Terrence Malick is notorious for deleting subplots and even entire characters during the editing process, but for a director's cut of The Tree of Life he's going to put some of that extra footage back in. Malick's longtime editor Billy Weber recently revealed that the filmmaker is working on a new edit that'll include some…
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With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. Just as you'd expect from Ebert, his list runs the gamut from mainstream blockbusters to more obscure foreign or arthouse projects -- with enough in the…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam continue the discussion over Terence Malick's Tree of Life, praise indie films like Another Earth, Insidious, and Rubber, and ponder the state of television as art. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. We'll be back on Sunday at 10 PM EST…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the transcendence of Tree of Life, delve into some television season finales, and debate the hypocrisy of the Cannes film festival. Special guest C. Robert Cargill joins us from Ain't It Cool News. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993.…
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Here's some good news: the MPAA has evidently rated The Tree of Life, the long-gestating movie from Terrence Malick, and awarded it a PG-13. The good news isn't so much the rating (I don't really care what the film is rated) but that it is finished to the point where it could be submitted to…
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Things change fast. A year ago, the young distributor Apparition looked like one of the most promising new kids on the block. It came out of the gate with a varied, ambitious lineup of interesting films, anchored by Terrence Malick's forthcoming Tree of Life. But in a tough market only a few had commercial potential.…
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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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Briefly: The lineup for the official selection and out of competition films for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning. The big news: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is not among the films that will play on the Croisette. That isn't a huge surprise, as we've known the film is still in the…
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Update: Robin Hood has now been confirmed as the opening night film in an official statement. The Cannes Film Festival is set to kick-off on May 12th, just two days ahead of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood being unleashed in several countries, including the US and UK. It would be perfect timing, then, to have the…
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We know very little about Terrence Malick's new film Tree of Life, said to be a generational family drama. We know it stars Brad Pitt as part of the film's elder generation, and Sean Penn as the adult version of Pitt's son. Beyond that, plot details are sketchy as Malick's team has been very good…
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When press releases and news articles first appeared with details of new distributor Apparition, one thing stood out: Tree of Life, the upcoming and as yet very mysterious new film from lone wolf director Terrence Malick, was planned for release on Christmas Day. This seemed wildly optimistic, as the film's production had been kept so…
Read MoreThere's a lot of casting news tonight, and instead of boring you with three separate news stories, I thought it might be better to combine them into one Casting update. So here we go. Chow Yun Fat has been cast as Master Roshi in 20th Century Fox's live-action Dragonball Z movie. Chow's character trains Goku,…
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