Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Washington Post |
Toronto Star, Canada - Bob Dylan wasn’t there for Todd Haynes, either. Not in person, at least.
The mercurial rock icon is the subject but not the star of Haynes’ new film I’m Not There, which opens in Toronto tomorrow. Six actors – Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw and Marcus Carl Franklin – portray Dylan at various stages of his life.
Despite having worked on the film for the better part of seven years, and securing tacit approval from Dylan in the rare use of his songs for the movie soundtrack, Haynes still has yet to actually meet the man.
But he’s okay with that. It makes sense to him… [Full Story]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Malaysia Star |
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Renowned filmmaker Wai Ka Fai juggled the roles of producer, director and screenplay writer for the complex and suspenseful Mad Detective.
“For this collaboration with producer-director (Johnnie) To, the idea was to make a cops-and-robbers movie with a difference. We were inspired by the famous Dutch artist, Vincent van Gogh. He’s a talented painter whose art is markedly different from what the eye can see. But, he was thought to be mentally disturbed during his lifetime.
“The idea was that if Van Gogh were a cop, how would he go about solving cases? So, we created a character who is a genius at cracking tough cases. His eyes are not like others. He can see an individual’s inner ghosts,” says Wai during a telephone interview from Hong Kong… [Full Story]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
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Cinematical - What do the Stockholm Film Festival and Tokyo Filmex have in common? Nothing! Except that they both ended and announced their winners this weekend. That’s enough to combine ‘em into one post, I say.
At the 18th annual Stockholm fest, the top winner was 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the Romanian abortion drama that’s been racking up prizes since debuting at Cannes earlier this year. (Cinematical’s James Rocchi reviews it here.) It was named best film at Stockholm, and star Anamaria Marinca won the actress prize.
Jason Patric was named best actor for his performance in the abrasive dramedy Expired (a film I hated at Sundance), with Carlos Reygadas taking best script for the challenging religious drama Silent Light. Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was honored, and Persepolis — it’s impossible to hold a film festival in 2007 without giving Persepolis a prize — got a trophy for Oliver Bernet’s musical score… [Full Story]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Jam! Showbiz |
Georgia Straight, Canada - Sidney Lumet isn’t getting shy in his old age. His new family-values thriller, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, kicks off with a steamy sex scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Capote ) and Marisa Tomei ( In the Bedroom, My Cousin Vinny ) that features a lot more of Tomei than Vinny ever saw.
Asked about the graphic opening during a one-on-one interview with the Georgia Straight just before his film’s North American premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the 83-year-old directing icon ( Network , Dog Day Afternoon ) explained: “That’s what changes his life,” referring to Hoffman’s character, a morally bankrupt money manager… [Full Story]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Minneapolis City Pages |
National Post, Canada - You couldn’t ask for a better symbol of Marisa Tomei’s round of interviews for Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead than the tray sent in to the windowless room where she waited. On it stood a mango smoothie and two boiled eggs in white cups.
Tomei brought sweetness for reporters, while photographers discovered they were treading on eggshells. My photographer and I got the first crack (so to speak) at Tomei, which turned out to be fortunate (another photographer was asked by a member of the actor’s entourage to delete his photos of the actress).
It was one of those 10-minute movie-star-in-hotel-room interviews during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Tomei was promoting the Sidney Lumetdirected drama about a pair of desperate brothers (played by Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman) who plan a robbery of a mom-and-pop jewellery store that, not coincidentally, belongs to their own mom and pop. The robbery goes horribly wrong; mom is shot and things go further downhill from there… [Full Story]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Montreal Gazette |
blogTO, Canada - If you (like me) saw Bruce McDonald’s new film, The Tracey Fragments, at the Toronto International Film Festival, then you (like me) might also be of the opinion that the film sucked. We can get into critical responses on McDonald’s film, which opens today at the Royal, in a minute - but for the time being, let it never be said that McDonald isn’t giving the naysayers the ultimate opportunity to do him one better.
To coincide with the nation-wide release of the highly experimental Tracey Fragments (which stars hottie Haligonian up-and-comer Ellen Page), McDonald has made the complete collection of raw footage from the shooting of the film available on the Tracey Fragments web site, thetraceyfragments.com. The challenge? Do with the film what you will.
The project is called Tracey Re-Fragmented, and like the film itself, it’s a journey into the continued plasticity and destructability of the filmed (and/or videotaped) image in the YouTube Decade… [Full Story]
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