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…
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After that last big interview we posted with Vincent Gallo, a lot of readers probably think he's a total jerk, if not quite a cultural terrorist. That being the cast, perhaps his role in Essential Killing is playing directly to the audience who loves to hate him: Gallo plays Mohammed, a Taliban soldier who is…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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It's tax week, so you might not have a lot of money right now, which could be limiting your weekend entertainment options. Sure, there's Kick-Ass opening, and Exit Through the Gift Shop if you're in New York or LA (seriously the best movie I've seen yet this year -- my current draft of a review…
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Jerzy Skolimowski's best known films are likely those he was a writer on and of these none is better known than Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water, a great thriller that was like Dead Calm but 27 years earlier and not actually rubbish. Amongst his work as director are two films from the 70s that…
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It takes a lot to wow me when it comes to animation stills, especially ones conjuring yet another rainy, dreary, effing dystopia. Part of me still hopes for a vibrant comeback for traditional animation and the swathing warmth and human connection that computer animation simply cannot match, at least in my opinion. But there is…
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The movie trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is now online. Coppola's second film in the last 12 years, his first original screenplay since The Conversation, and is the movie is being billed as his most personal film yet. Based from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, Tetro is the "bittersweet…
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No, it's not a tidbit about Terminator 4, it's one regarding a real director and one of the best ever. Over on the official site for Tetro, his latest film set for release this year, Francis Ford Coppola has posted a brief video update on the $15 million drama (shooting has completed in Argentina), the…
Read MoreWhen I first heard that Adrien Brody had hopped on Dario Argento's signature serial killer flick Giallo, I pictured him playing the stylish murderer. Vincent Gallo had been typically outspoken about his loathing to play the part due to the involvement of his former fiance and Argento spawn, Asia Argento. Unsurprisingly, Gallo is no…
Read MoreHaving apparently dropped out of Dario Argento's giallo Giallo because he was disgusted that the director cast his daughter in the film and there after announced his retirement, actor and socialite Vincent Gallo is now set to star as the title character in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro. Maybe cockiness gets you somewhere in life after…
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