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Jonathan Demme Turns Dave Eggers Hurricane Katrina Story Into Animated Film
Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs) acquired the rights to the book Zeitoun, which he plans to make into an animated film.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe Wild Things On My Pumpkin
I’m not a particularly good visual artist—my paintings are fairly primitive, and Paste certainly doesn’t miss my design skills. But when October rolls around, it’s pumpkin-carving time, and the endless supply of stencils online make the job a lot easier. Last year it was the Obama pumpkin:... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravityA Few More Thoughts about Where The Wild Things Are
After work on Friday, I took my kids to Where the Wild Things Are. I’d read effusive reviews, like the one from New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who wrote, “Jonze has made a work of art that stands up to its source and, in some instances, surpasses it.” I’d read pans like the one from Paste‘s Andy Beta, who wrote, “we find ourselves burdened with mopey, emotionally needy, and temper tantrum-prone creatures, both human and monstrous.” It’s interesting that of the 36 reviews on Metacritic today, a dozen are 50 or below and a dozen are 88 and above.... read more
Found in: Blogs, High GravityWhere the Wild Things Are Roundup
A review, two columns, an exclusive and hilarious behind-the-scenes documentary, a cover story and an interview with Karen O... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesWatch a Behind the Scenes Documentary From Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze on a skateboard, a cute kid barking, on-set drama and more... read more
Found in: Featured VideosFilm Friday: Drag Me to Where the Wild Things Are
The long anticipated Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend, and Sam Raimi’s latest film Drag Me to Hell is newly out on DVD and Blu-Ray. I could be wrong, but I suspect the audiences for these two films overlap more than you might expect.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesWhere the Wild Things Are Review
Release Date: Oct. 16 Director: Spike Jonze Writers: Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers Cinematography: Lance Acord Starring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini Studio/run time: Warner Bros./100 min. A classic paean to childhood imagination fails to turn into an imaginative film... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsCouples Retreat Brings in the Cash for Struggling Universal
Universal Pictures' big-budget, well-cast, mundanely written and executed Couples Retreat dominated the weekend's box office with opening revenues of $35.3 million. (Zombieland, which opened the week before, came in well in second place with a weekend gross of $15 million.)... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWin Free Tickets to Where the Wild Things Are
The buzz for Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are has gone beyond deafening. For months, trailers and teaser trailers and interviews were released in drips and drabs, fed to the cinematically-enlightened public hungry for clues on the film based off the Maurice Sendak classic.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsAn Interview With Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Read Paste's full issue 56 cover story on Where the Wild Things Are here.--Paste: What’s the magic in the story Where The Wild Things Are? Why do you think children and their parents open this book again and again to read about Max and the wild things?O: I think Maurice struck on some winning formula. So much of the magic is in his voice as an illustrator and writer. The book is brimming with both darker and lighter sides of imagination—there is something bittersweet about the story, and maybe there is some hidden depth in that bittersweetness that kids connect... read more
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The 50 Best Movies of the Decade…
The 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade
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James Yuill - This Sweet Love (Earth…
Orenda Fink - That Certain-Something Spring
Colin Hay - Down Under
Susan Enan - Paste Reviews: Plainsong
Pete Yorn - Last Summer
