Some pretty good titles this week in the build up to Christmas when Now TV will suddenly dominate the week with all the new content they got coming.
The titles of note this week are as follows:
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Take an unfilmable book, add the sibling directors of The Matrix and Speed Racer and the underrated director of Run Lola Run and Perfume, sit back and watch the beautiful, flawed and transcendent results. David Mitchell’s spiritual, revolutionary and vast book practically begs to be filmed due to the concepts and visuals that it asks you to conjure in your mind but it also has a tricky reincarnation subtext with characters appearing again and again in slightly different guises each time. The Wachowski’s and Tom Tykwer decided to use the same actors with heavy prosthetics or different skin tone or even a different sex in each different period over 300 years.
The titles of note this week are as follows:
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Take an unfilmable book, add the sibling directors of The Matrix and Speed Racer and the underrated director of Run Lola Run and Perfume, sit back and watch the beautiful, flawed and transcendent results. David Mitchell’s spiritual, revolutionary and vast book practically begs to be filmed due to the concepts and visuals that it asks you to conjure in your mind but it also has a tricky reincarnation subtext with characters appearing again and again in slightly different guises each time. The Wachowski’s and Tom Tykwer decided to use the same actors with heavy prosthetics or different skin tone or even a different sex in each different period over 300 years.
- 12/16/2013
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tucked away at the other end of the Croisette is the Cannes sidebar section called the Critic's Week. At most, the selection committee picks ten features in total from first and second time filmmakers, so one could argue that the films selected for this competition are pretty damn special. It took Detroit native David Robert Mitchell about eight years to fully realize his creation, and if we base ourselves on the reception The Myth of the American Sleepover received at SXSW (where it claimed the Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble) then the future looks rosy for both the filmmaker and the coming-of-age dramedy. For the time being, the film will travel the film festival circuit (it just won a prize in Munich) and we should expect a theatrical release at some time in 2011 from a specialized distributor. After completing the film program at Florida State University plus a short...
- 7/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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