Archive for the 'cinema' Category

The Fall

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

This movie by Tarsem Singh (The Cell) looks stunning and intriguing. Looking forward to it.

Once

Monday, January 14th, 2008

What a wonderful and refreshing musical. I can’t recommend this movie
enough. Who needs singing actors? Just get talented musicians that can
half act and there you have it. A gem of a low budget film.

Persepolis - drawn to life

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

The New York Times has posted a nice Audio-Slideshow with commentary by Marjane Satrapi and co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Sweding

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I can’t wait to see Michel Gondry’s upcoming Be kind rewind. The film’s website is pretty fun, get acquainted with sweding! Might be time to swede yourself.

The diving bell and the butterfly

Monday, December 31st, 2007

This movie was screened at Pixar a month or so ago. Due to previous engagements I had to leave the screening half way through the film, a painful thing to do especially given the fact I was already mesmerized by it. As you can imagine I have been eagerly waiting to catch it in theaters [...]

1000 Frames of Hitchcock

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Wow, what an amazing resource. “1000 Frames of Hitchcock“: an attempt to reduce every major Hitchcock film down to just 1000 frames. Can you guess which movie this frame is taken from?

Movie links

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Two completely unrelated cinema quicklinks: first, here’s an interesting interview with Wes Anderson on RottenTomatoes.com. He talks about Hotel Chevalier, Darjeeling Limited (which I loved) and the upcoming animated “The Fantastic Mr Fox” which he is writing the script for. Second here you’ll find the teaser for Stephen Chow’s next comedy “CJ7″, promising.

New Persepolis Trailer

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Did I mention I can’t wait for Persepolis? I think so, a few times actually. Well, here’s a new longer trailer. The movie is getting an arthouse release during Christmas here in the US.

Nocturna - La nuit magique -

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

This Spanish film produced by Filmax Animation looks gorgeous, check the website out there’s images, trailers and more. Hope Nocturna makes it out here to the US.

The Darjeeling Limited

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I finally saw the latest movie from Wes Anderson last night and while going in with medium-low expectations (some reviews have been lukewarm) I ended up really loving it! The portrait of these three neurotic damaged brothers is so alive, each one of their silly idiosincracies adds to this wonderful character study of a film. [...]