Articles tagged "spike jonze"

Music Review

Karen O and the Kids: Where The Wild Things Are

by Zach Schonfeld

[6.Nov.09] :. Karen O’s lively soundtrack sounds best where the wild things aren’t: in the most straightforward bits of childlike indie-pop.

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Mixed Media

We Were Once a Fairytale dir. Spike Jonze (short film)

by Tyler Gould

[20.Oct.09] :. Kanye West jumped the shark in a lot of people’s minds when he shanghaied Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech to lavish praise on Beyonce, but maybe his boorishness is an affliction,...

Mixed Media

 

News

How ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ ambled from page to screen

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[13.Oct.09] :. CHICAGO — The promotional materials for Spike Jonze’s long-gestating new film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” kick off with this quote from...

PopWire

 

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 3: The Sixth Sense to Fight Club (August - October 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Mar.09] :. Films that have left a lasting impression on their creators (M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mendes, David Fincher) make up the majority of Part Three of our Films of 1999 overview.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 

Film DVD Review

Vice Guide to Travel (2006)

by Noah Davis

[14.Nov.06] :. There are some fucked up parts of the world, but don't despair; it's also full of good people, even if you have to travel to Pakistan to find them.

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Beck: The Information

by Zeth Lundy

[4.Oct.06] :. Beck's ninth studio album, his third with producer Nigel Godrich, is his most infectious and adventurous mess of irrelevance since Midnite Vultures.

 

Adaptation (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.03] :. Careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation.

 

Adaptation (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Dec.02] :. Careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation.

 

Jackass

by Tobias Peterson

The eye-popping, gag-inducing, jaw-dropping comedic assaults of 'Jackass' are funny because they take such exaggerated steps over the boundaries of acceptable behavior.

 

Three Kings (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Puke green bile, dark blood, convulsing pink. tissue. A close-up shot following a bullet's path into and through internal organs is a frankly terrible image. In most war movies, bullets do tend to fly. But you only see their external effects: blood spurts, faces contort, handheld cameras zig and zag, explosions-effects create aestheticized, often slo-mo, chaos. In David O. Russell's Three Kings, however, you see the insides: the bullet rushes forward, stops, lodging in mangled, throbbing flesh while fluids accumulate. It's visceral and immediate. It's surreal and nasty.

 

Being John Malkovich (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The new movie Being John Malkovich is about celebrity culture, as it inspires, frustrates and pummels you into such desire. It offers its protagonists and you the chance to imagine being a celebrity, with one small hitch: the only celebrity you can be is John Malkovich.