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Discuss: How Far Should This Mobile Movie Craze Go?
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Now that cell phones have fancy little screens that show funky little movies -- 'cept for mine, which just shows a cute cat and some text -- movies-on-phones is becoming all the more popular. People download flicks to watch on the go, and somehow decipher teeny tiny faces on a tiny little screen; it's the silly contrast to the obsession with big, super-awesome-high-definition TVs. Others, meanwhile, use cells to make mini movies, like Don McKellar's Phone Call from Imaginary Girlfriends.But now films are getting their release on the phone. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Sally Potter's Rage will premiere on cell phones through Babelgum on September 28, offering an "episode" a day for one week. Luckily, this film is a "series of interviews, as if shot by a schoolboy on his mobile phone over a seven-day period," where names like Steve Buscemi and Dianne Wiest talk about a New York fashion show -- so it's not exactly a strange way to release the film.
But it does open a can of worms: Can we expect future films to get released on our phones? Full features? I shudder at the thought -- at having to wait for installments of something that should be seen as a whole, at having to see what should be a piece of art on a tiny screen. We've already seen the world of cinema get terribly watered down, so could we possibly get a future where everyone watches movies on their handhelds? How far should this mobile movie craze go?
Jude Looks Like a Lady -- Image of the Day
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Berlin », Celebrities and Controversy », Fandom », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand », Images »
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I know, she looks like a cross between the woman who cut your hair when you were seven and that weird chick from Taxicab Confessions, but believe it or not -- that's Jude Law, the actor, in character for the new film Rage. According to director Sally Potter, Law took on the role of Minx -- "a "celebrity super-model" [who] took on a kind of hyper-beauty for this persona... a 'female' beauty which gradually unravels as the story unfolds." Potter adds, "Strangely, the more he became a 'she', coiffed and made-up - the more naked was his performance. There was great strength in his willingness to make himself vulnerable. It was an extraordinarily intense part of the shoot."
Rage was chosen to premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival (which is just about to start), so I'm sure we'll hear more about it real soon. Described as "a bitterly funny exposé of the inner lives of individuals working at a New York fashion house – as if shot by a schoolboy on his cellphone camera - over seven days in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation.," Rage also stars Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi, Eddie Izzard, John Leguizamo and Dianne Wiest. Check out more character photos from Rage in the gallery below.
[via Filmonic via SallyPotter.com]
New Releases: Yes
Joan Allen is getting older. It's not that her face - which, since Pleasantville, has been inseperable for me from the mental image of Reese Witherspoon-all-grown-up - has changed, so much that age is using the actress like a chalkboard. Joan Allen today looks like Joan Allen of ten years ago, with wrinkles scribbled on.
It's striking to see an actress in such an obviously advancing state of ... um ... maturity, take on back-to-back roles that deal with sexuality, as Allen has done with The Upside of Anger and, now, Sally Potter's Yes. Allen's presence as an erotic subject in Potter's film is a brave and powerful one; it's too bad the film neglects that presence for a linguistic gamble that, somewhat sadly, the actors don't really pull off.
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