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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - Small Summer Movies
Filed under: Columns », 400 Screens, 400 Blows », Summer Movies »
Iron Man opens this week, and thus the summer movie season has officially arrived. I love a good summer movie as much a the next guy, but this morning I found myself looking back at some of the little films that cropped up during the summer; some of them managed to get a "summer" feel on a much lower budget and without all the advertisement and hype. My absolute favorite summer art house movie has to be Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1999). I saw it three times that summer, and each time I clutched my seat, my heart pounding. I was amazed at how brilliantly Tywker had mapped out his three possible storylines and how lovely the small, quiet interludes were. I loved Franka Potente, and I loved his throbbing score, which practically entered into your bloodstream and pumped up your adrenaline by hand. Every color, movement and cut was designed for maximum effect (I've always been puzzled how Tykwer's movies since have seemed so long and sluggish.)
Also that same summer, John Sayles delivered his baffling adventure/suspense film Limbo, which had several people trapped on an island awaiting rescue and stalked by bad guys. The ending had everybody in an uproar and caused the film to die a quick death. The summer before that one, Darren Aronofsky's debut feature Pi gave me a good dose of sci-fi thrills, as well as a few head-scratching puzzles (which were actually real). 2000 was a particularly bad summer, but John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented provided a mischievous little oasis in the middle of it all. In that film, renegade filmmakers kidnap a Hollywood starlet and force her to be in their indie production; each team member has a tattoo of a maverick filmmaker's name. (I've often wondered which filmmaker's name I would pick for a tattoo? Maybe David Cronenberg...)
Sundance Review: Art School Confidential
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Sundance », Sony Classics », Cinematical Indie »
Talk about getting mileage out of a metaphor. On our Sundance video podcast, James Rocchi cracked that last year's Sundance hit Saw reminded him of David Fincher's Seven ... as performed by the Max Fischer Players, the grade school company spearheaded by the protagonist of Rushmore. I tried to come up with my own analogy to bring to the table, in discussing Art School Confidential, Terry Zwigoffs latest collaboration with Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, but James' framework just seemed so very apt. So, in 25 words or less: Art School Confidential is exactly what would happen if the Max Fischer Players tackled Heathers. In other words, it's a stilted satire of teenage passion and apathy, sex and death and crime. And like a classic Max Fischer production (if such a thing exists), it's so concerned with aping style that it never bothers to consider its characters as people.
Art School Confidential Launches Website
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Site Announcements », Casting », Fandom », Scripts », Comic/Superhero/Geek »
Following in the success of their previous joint effort, the Academy Award nominated Ghost World, the creative team of director Terry Zwigoff and comics creator Daniel Clowes have reunited to bring us Art School Confidential, a movie based on the comic story of the
same name. The flick sounds great so far, and you can now check out the official word at their newly launched website. ASC tells the story of a
talented young artist who hopes to become the next big thing, but is disappointed when he arrives at a high profile art
school only to find it populated by sensationalists and hacks. His talent is ignored and derided by the modern
pseudo-artist scene.
I think Clowes' work is fantastic, and I was pleased with Zwigoff's film adaptation of Ghost World, so I'm certainly looking forward to ASC. And having Steve Buscemi in your cast list never hurts, as far as I am concerned. Also – is it just me, or is Ethan Suplee looking noticably trimmer in his post Titans years?
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