Movie City Indie Archive for September, 2011
Home, Alone: Trailering EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
More than the trailer, which seems more emphatic in its uplift than the finished film might dare, there are names other than director Stephen Daldry‘s that pop out: screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Benjamin Button); composer Nico Muhly (The Reader, Margaret), and, not in the credit block, cinematographer Chris Menges (The Reader, The Killing Fields, Local Hero) and editor Claire Simpson (The Reader, The Constant Gardener, Wall Street). There will be vivid widescreen imagery.
Postering the Lars Von Trier Character
In the U.K., Artificial Eye releases character posters for Melancholia. Here’s Lars von Trier’s, with a special stamp in the upper lefthand corner. The production’s website here. [Via Ultra Culture.]
X On the Jerry Lewis Telethon (1982) (2’02”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgMXJjxyhw&feature=player_embedded
[Via Dangerous Minds.]
TINTIN German Spot (30sec): DIE ABENTEUER VON TIM UND STRUPPI
Postering a disappearing IRON LADY
While it’s not the first horizontal/vertical mix-up on a one-sheet this month (see Janus Film’s reissue poster for Godard’s Weekend), at second glance, this is the most disturbing. Turning topsy-turvy the Houses of Parliament may resemble the streaking of a minor Gerhard Richter painting, but more readily suggest the loss of memory and personality by Thatcher as her Alzheimer’s grows worse. And what streaks away? A mind for all things governmental. Eeeesh.
Halluci-postering Thompson-Robinson’s RUM DIARY
What drugs had our faithful young correspondent Hunter S. ingested by the time of his Puerto Rican reporting days, where he laid his fictional “Rum Diary”? The revisions in the years before publication surely partook of the sort of recreational distraction that this one-sheet genially embraces. Plus: Bruce Robinson. This film must fall within the acceptable bounds of reflecting the writer-director-raconteur’s large and rumbustious personality.
1 Comment »Four Silent Screams (NYC 2011; Eisenstein 1925; Kent State, 1970)
Photojournalism: a silent scream. “Davidscameracraft” is the byline of the photographer from the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. More of his solid work here, where he discovers the NYPD Deputy Inspector who randomly chose whom to pepper-spray at point blank is named “BOLOGNA.”
1 Comment »Robert Bresson at 110
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPiRPk0VzI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWyoEhS_wA&feature=player_embedded
Japanese Art For Monte Hellman’s ROAD TO NOWHERE
[Site.]
THE 3 Rs: David Lynch Trailers Viennale 2011 (1’13”)
Postering Godard’s WEEKEND
[Playdates for Janus Films’ new 35mm print.]
Qwikster Goes For The Classics With First Commercials
And below! Classic Qwikster! From Australia!