How can they POSSIBLY have made such a crap, 80s-style, corporate/industrial film for this totally fucking amazing technology? It’s so bad – I don’t think this Claytronics technology is for real.
Seriously. Who did this? They should have their nose rubbed in it like a bad dog.
….the Twins….the Twins!
It’s a salad of Tim Burton and Jean-Pierre Jeunet with a touch of Edward Gorey dressing.
I’ve been traveling and working so much lately, I didn’t have time to gift wrap this. But I thought you could use a little piece of perfect to get you through the end run of the year. This movie clip is clearly one of my favorites, with pitch-perfect art direction, outstanding casting, and sick-sick dark humor. I love it.
It’s a story from Woody Allen’s dark, self-reflective comedy, “Deconstructing Harry.” Underrated in my book.
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.”
Link to the New York Times Magazine article
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.