• Bookmarks for May 10-14

    • The Man Gets Around at 102
      “Ridley Scott, the 72-year-old director of “Robin Hood,” was prevented by his recent knee surgery from making it to the Cannes Film Festival’s festival’s opening night bash Wednesday after the red carpet premiere, but 102-year-old Portuguese director Manoel De Oliveira turned up, circulating among the black-tie first-nighters after just having had an audience with Pope Benedict at the Vatican earlier in the day. ”
    • Minority Report UI designer John Underkoffler talks about the future
      User Interface designer and all around tech god John Underkoffler discusses his work with the UI in Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” and how his work on the film fed back into developing a technology that works as well as his experience working with Ang Lee on “Hulk.”
    • Q’orianka Kilcher has rare maturity for a young actress
      “Five years ago, at age 14, Q’orianka Kilcher gave what is regarded as one of the great debut performances ever, playing Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s “The New World,” a film that popped up on more than a few best-of-the-decade lists. So how do you follow that? “
    • Monte Hellman at Cannes
      “If Robert Altman hadn’t had ‘MASH,’ he never would have been able to make all those other movies,” said the journalist and screenwriter Steven Gaydos. “And Monte never had a ‘MASH.’ ”
    • Bunny Dojo – Designs for Replacement DVD Jackets
      Tired of those lame floating heads on your DVD, HD-DVD or BLU-RAY purchases? Bunny Dojo can set you up with some quality replacements to make your collect just a little classier.
    • The Auteurs is now MUBI
      I think they are idiots to give up a classy name like The Auteurs for a Web 2.0 generic name like MUBI, but they are aiming to offer high quality VOD of art films and what not, so I guess I am glad they simply did not cease to exist and only suffered a moniker change.
    • Harmony Korine on his allegorical, sex-with-garbage horror flick
      “When Korine tells stories like this in interviews — presenting the streets of Nashville as a place where elephants float and teenage wastoids drop dead, positioning himself as a kind of frontline reporter on surrealism in action — it’s tempting to call it bullshit. Promoting his last film, the relatively high-budget elegy to celebrity worship Mr. Lonely, Korine claimed he spent part of an eight-year hiatus from directing living with the Malingerers, a South American cult searching for a golden fish”

     

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9 Comments


  1. Andrew James says:

    I like some of those DVD jackets. They are enough of an improvement to warrant a download or two, but not super artsy or minimal and actually look sort of like they could be studio releases.

    A couple of them I actually prefer the one I have already (Se7en, Rescue Dawn, 28 Days Later, Sin City). On the other hand, there are also a couple there that I would grab to replace the crap I have (Frantic, 3:10 to Yuma).

    Heh. The Reindeer Games one actually looks like Criterion released a version.

  2. Kurt Halfyard says:

    The Aeon Flux one (how I discovered the site while looking for images for the Brave New Worldview post), is CRITERION level awesome.

  3. Marina says:

    I love Manoel; the first reviews for his new film have started to appear and they’re all quite positive. Looking forward to it.

  4. Jandy Stone says:

    Wait, The Auteurs gave up a great, simple, and meaningful name like “The Auteurs” for dumb-sounding, generic, meaningless name like MUBI? I think this may offend me more than Sci-Fi changing their name to Syfy.

  5. rot says:

    so then WE can be the New Auteurs?

  6. Kurt Halfyard says:

    Well, if I am not mistaking, Andrew stole CINECAST from Filmspotting after they were concerned about issues that some satelite/media company owned the name (we simply don’t care). So yea, Go us. The New Auteurs!

  7. Marina Antunes says:

    The New Auteurs

    That should be our new tagline

  8. ABdozen says:

    I enjoy actual website of Auteurs but I think the forums are pretty gross. I thought it was going to be more discussion about all kinds of cinema, but too me it came of as a bunch of kids that consider themselves “cinephiles” making a bunch of useless lists full of Tarkovsky. But maybe thats just me…

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