Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood (formerly at Variety, now Indiewire) has long been one of my favorite film bloggers – one of the few who have never dropped off my Google Reader. She also maintains a very useful Twitter stream, and today she pointed to Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. From the website’s “About” […]
Twitch gives Mamoru Hosoda’s (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) Summer Wars some very high praise: Make no mistake, Summer Wars is gorgeous to look at. The surprise success of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time means that Hosoda had far more resources at his disposal for his second film and seemingly every penny was […]
“I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he’d panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, and if he’d panned an inch to the right we would see the airport […]
We waited for our theater to open, a Romanian lady and I, chatting. She hadn’t been home for forty years, she admitted — not even since the end of Communism. Ceausescu (she spat the name like poison) had imprisoned her father for seven years. For what, she didn’t say, and I didn’t ask.
My Modern Metropolis has put together a list of 25 movie posters done in a modern/retro style: What these artists have done so well is take a particular scene or character and create a visual representation of the movie. Most of the time, rather than bombard us with visuals, they ask us to draw on […]
Dave Kehr has a few remarks on the release of a set of woefully underseen films by Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev by Criterion’s Eclipse branch. Which is great news for fans of Eastern European cinema. But then the comments turn into a great conversation about the longevity of the DVD format, and the future of […]
Back when I rallied the troops in early September, this was going to be a fall preview article. Now that fall is falling all around us, we’ll lose the pre. Still a mighty enticing list.
Collider’s Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub reports that his TIFF interview with filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Mother) included discussion of the director’s next project, Snow Piercer: Bong says his next project takes place in a world covered by ice and snow. He says it’s about a group of survivors that end up on a train and […]
Admittedly, this L.A. Times article ventures a little bit into the type of gossip and dirt that we try to avoid here on Filmwell as much as possible. At the same, however, it delves into some of the intriguing methods and challenges faced by the crew of Fantastic Mr. Fox, as well as Wes Anderson’s […]