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Film Friday: Werner Herzog Goes Nuts Twice (and Other Observations About Crazed Filmmakers)
A new movie called Bronson by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is traveling around the country, three screens per week. It’s about a man (true story) who’s so incorrigible that British authorities had to lock him up in a jail (or rather, a gaol) for 30-odd years. He’s the kind of chap who hauls off and belts people just for being within arms’ reach: school teachers, police officers, you name it. Bald, mustachioed, and hard-knuckled like a carnival strongman, he has no place in a civil society, even though his crimes don’t seem to warrant three decades in solitary confinement, either.... read more
Found in: Movies, Features, ColumnsSitges Film Festival 2009: Amer, The Loved Ones, Doghouse, More
What you do in Sitges, Spain, during the annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic, is pretty much this: Wake up at 7:30 a.m. Eat breakfast. Hit first movie at 8:30 a.m. Continue throughout day. Break for late-afternoon nap, snack, interview or hang in the lobby bar of the Hotel Melia. Go see more movies. Go to dinner. Go drinking. See a movie (maybe). Go to the late-night party that usually begins after 1 a.m. Get back to room about 4:30 a.m. (with luck). Wake up at 7:30 a.m. And repeat. For seven or eight days straight. If your eyeballs haven’t... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalWerner Herzog's Bizarro Nic Cage Flick Railroaded on Theatrical Release
Although it played Toronto with some top critics championing it, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans has been scheduled for a split-second theatrical run on Nov. 20 followed by a DVD release on Feb. 23.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNew Order/Blur Supergroup Bad Lieutenant Sets Album Release Date
Bad Lieutenant, the musical project formed by members of New Order and Blur, has set a release date for its debut album, Never Cry Another Tear.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNew Order and Blur Members Form Bad Lieutenant
For those who mourned the final break up of New Order in 2007 and still cling nostalgically to Joy Division's final album Closer, a new source of solace can now be turned to. A collaboration among the members of the two bands, along with Blur's Alex James, has spawned a project called Bad Lieutenant.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDavid Lynch and Werner Herzog's My Son gets a cast
That David Lynch and Werner Herzog collaboration we reported on roughly nine months ago, the digitally-shot, guerilla-style film called My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, seems to have a full cast now. You know what this means: it’s actually getting closer to reality. Cinephiles, is this blowing your mind?... read more
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