Since making a name for himself in 2001’s indie mind melt Donnie Darko and later as Heath Ledger’s lover in Brokeback Mountain (2005) Jake Gyllenhaal has remained somewhat aloof and left-of-centre from the inner circle of mega-earning A list Hollywood actors, largely avoiding the cha-ching! lure of junky action blockbusters. The big exception is The [...]
Earlier this year myself and some Twitter buddies played a game called #nicer filmtitles. As its title suggests, the game all about taking the name of popular films and making them, well, nicer. For example, The Empire Strikes Back becomes The Empire Writes A Strongly Worded Letter. The Day the Earth Stood Still becomes The [...]
Jackie Earle Haley (aka Rorschach from Watchmen) will fill some very big shoes and a very iconic red and green jumper in music vid-cum-feature director Samuel Bayer’s upcoming remake of Wes Craven’s one-two-you-know-who’s-coming-for-you horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Haley will be the first actor to play gnarly dream invader Freddy Krueger other than [...]
The theatrical trailer for Terry Gilliam’s much anticipated phantasmagorical head trip The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which features Heath Ledger’s last screen performance, has hit the net. In terms of pure ocular thrills it’s easily one of the most stunning trailers we’ll see this year. Stocked to the gills with rich, prismatic, distinctively Gilliam-esque imagery, [...]
The trailer for Robert Connelly’s highly anticipated political thrilled Balibo, set to open the curtains of the Melbourne International Film Festival later this month, hit the net on Monday (watch it below). The latest from the director of The Bank and Three Dollars is yet another high-cred 2009 Aussie feature in a year that has [...]
As its title suggests The Fox & the Child is a slight, quaint and syrupy sweet all-ages yarn about the relationship between a young ‘un and a wild fox. It’s Luc Jacquet’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 2005 surprise smash hit March of the Penguins, and like its predecessor this warmly shot and convincingly staged film [...]
In 2003 Aussie writing/directing/editing tag team Michael and Peter Spierig – aka The Spierig Brothers – unleashed one hell of a feature debut with Undead, a terrifically screwy Australian zombie movie about a fishing village overcome by grisly, slobbery, flesh-chewing post-life citizens. The film has one particularly memorable and entirely zingerific lines of dialogue: a [...]
Richard Kelly shot to cult film notoriety as the acclaimed first-time director of the creepy 2001 indie hit Donnie Darko. Luckily for him his reputation in the cinema-going public (less so the studios) remained intact despite a disastrous follow-up feature, Southland Tales, an ambitious but deeply flawed futuristic wannabe epic starring Dwayne Johnson (aka The [...]
The end of the world is getting so, well, old, especially if your name is Roland Emmerich. Emmerich is the brain-mulching, explosion-addicted, eyeball-crunching Bay-esque bigshot director who has built a profitable career on destroying mankind’s landmarks. In The Day After Tomorrow it was the Hollywood sign. In Independence Day, the White House. In Godzilla, the [...]
Last weekend the teaser trailer for Michael Moore’s as yet untitled documentary about the global financial crisis debuted in cinemas in the U.S. There’s nothing particularly memorable about it, expect perhaps the trailer (watch it below) is unusually lacklustre – consisting only of a direct to camera spiel in which Moore implores the audience (sarcastically [...]
There are groan-inducing trailers and then there are trailers as vomit-in-your-lap toxic as the trailer (watch it below) for Eric Bana’s upcoming romantic drama The Time Traveller’s Wife, which, based on a novel by Audrey Niffenegger, follows Clare (Rachel McAdams) and her life-long romance with Henry (Bana). Henry drifts uncontrollably through time (cue unintended laughter) [...]
The first official trailer for Marty Scorsese’s latest, Shutter Island, was unveiled online today and it’s a good ‘un. Tantalisingly creepy, the trailer (watch it below) shows off gorgeously shot snippets of Scorsese’s detour into the stranded-in-a-scary-location genre ala The Shining and 1408. The film is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane (Gone, Baby [...]
Last month Adam Elliot’s feature film debut Mary and Max became the first Australian-made stopmotion feature to be theatrically released in the country. But the first completed Australian stopmotion feature was director Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99, an Australian/Israeli co-production that was shot in Sydney in 2007 and transferred to Tel Aviv in Israel for post in [...]
The first trailer for the intriguingly premised Peter Jackson-produced blockbuster-to-be District 9 is now online (watch it below) and well worth a look. Here’s the pitch: desperate extraterrestrials live on earth in segregated slums in South Africa where they are treated like illegal immigrants. Why the aliens are seeking asylum on Earth is obviously a [...]
The trailer for Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist has just hit the net and eewww, it looks creepy. In one scene Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg appear to be having sex at the foot of a massive tree, its roots entangled in a heap of naked bodies (perhaps this post would have been better [...]
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In Search of Beethoven
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Phil Grabsky - director of In Search of Beethoven
Jonathan auf der Heide - director of Van Diemen's Land
Ana Kokkinos - director of Blessed
Jeremy Saunders - key art designer
Robert Connolly - writer/director of Balibo
Les Chantery - star of Cedar Boys
Bert Deling - director of Pure Shit
Warwick Thornton - writer/director of Samson & Delilah
Sergei Dvortsevoy - writer/director of Tulpan
Adam Elliot - writer/director of Mary and Max
Mark Forstmann - writer/director of Monkey Puzzle
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