HotRod sent me a link to a fantastic article about the journey of Spike Jonze and the upcoming release of Where The Wild Things Are. So far my favorite line in the article:
Catherine Keener, who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in “Being John Malkovich” and who plays a divorced mother in “Where the Wild Things Are,” told me that her 10-year-old son, Clyde, once asked her why Jonze didn’t live with his parents; apparently Clyde didn’t realize that Jonze was an adult.
Interesting:
He hadn’t set out to make a children’s movie, he said, so much as to accurately depict childhood.
Something to write on your office wall:
“I realized only then that it happens millimeter by millimeter,” he told me. “If you compromise what you’re trying to do just a little bit, you’ll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you’re suddenly really far away from where you’re trying to go.”
heh heh:
After about an hour, Malkovich asked Jonze if he was American. “I thought he was Czech,” Malkovich told me. “He had such a funny way of expressing himself. It sounded like he’d learned English as a second language.” Nevertheless, Malkovich said, Jonze was “funny and charming and strange, and he seemed to desperately want to do this film.”
Poignant:
To borrow a phrase that Sendak once used to describe his best-known creation, Max, Jonze inhabits a world in which one can “skip from fantasy to reality in the conviction that both exist.”
I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to breathe, much less engage with the outside world. Which is why seeing 90someodd seconds of – I know “genius” is thrown around a lot, how about “explosionary fantasticalness” – is like a creamy balm of cashmere and Red Bull applied directly to my hot, tired brain. (you kind of want to kick me in the teeth after that last sentence, but if you saw me now you’d know every word is accurate and true.)
Behold. The trailer for the new Coen Brothers film, “A Serious Man.” And yes, the film looks to be another exercise in amazing. But actually what has me waxing poetic is the trailer itself. Dare I say this is the best trailer I’ve ever seen? I dare.
The new Cinemin from WowWee connects to your iPod, iTouch, computer – whatever your digital device – and insto-presto – you’ve got instant cinema. Guerrilla movie theater. 2 hours battery life. $350 bucks.
I want it.
And by the way – how great is Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Brick, The Lookout, Mysterious Skin…I think he’s going to be in my Inappropriately Young Crush file.