It’s good to see Hollywood finally recognising the dramatic potential of a movie about co-operative shadow puppetry.
Maria Tatar on ‘Grimm Hollywood’
The mythical always stages a comeback in times of high anxiety about technology and the atrophy of our affective life
Interesting comment from Maria Tatar on Hollywood’s ‘resurgence of interest in fairy tales’.
“Up your gizzard, you fat pimp”
Jeremy Duns in The Independent reveals some details from the unfilmed adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, scripted by the so-called ‘Shakespeare of Hollywood’ Ben Hecht. The script was written in the early 1960s and had been sitting with Hecht’s papers in Chicago’s Newberry Library since 1979. Sounds like it would have made a cracking Bond flick.
The Big LEGOwski
Nicely shot LEGO® recreation of certain scenes from the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski by Lennart Bendixen. The moustaches on LEGO® The Jesus’s compadre are a nice touch. (Thanks to Phil Sherry for the link.)
Fahrenheit 451, directed by Francois Truffaut
The imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam
Moon, directed by Duncan Jones
In the loop, directed by Armando Iannucci
District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp
Inglourious basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino
Casino Royale, directed by Martin Campbell
Lars and the real girl, directed by Craig Gillespie
Watchmen (director’s cut), directed by Zack Snyder
The living daylights, directed by John Glen
Thunderball, directed by Terence Young
Romulus, my father, directed by Richard Roxburgh
On Her Majesty’s secret service, directed by Peter Hunt
You only live twice, directed by Lewis Gilbert
Dr. No, directed by Terence Young
The Darjeeling Limited, directed by Wes Anderson