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The major talking point about the Coen Brothers' acclaimed new film A Serious Man seems to be that it has "no stars," or is comprised of a cast of mostly unknowns. The leader of this unknown ensemble is Michael Stuhlbarg, who plays Larry Gopnik, a tenure-track professor and Jewish father living in 1967 Minnesota, whose life begins to unravel. "[Stuhlbarg's] Gopnik might be the most out-and-out normal person ever to be put at the center of a Coen brothers film," writes the LA Times' Kenneth Turan. Jeffrey Anderson had a semi-serious chat with the Tony-nominated actor for GreenCine. Read article >>. |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New:Anvil!, Not Quite Hollywood, and more.
- What We're Watching: Away We Go, The Window, Clackamas.
- Explore: Fantastic Fest, Harmony Korine podcast.
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Sacha Gervasi 's documentary about the titular band's decades-long struggles for fame and fortune, and the tumultuous friendship at the center, is "hilarious, touching, profound and inspiring," wrote Shawn Levy. "[It's] about art and dreams and self-belief and the goggle-eyed hope that you can will a miracle into reality through sheer effort and desire." GreenCine's Jeremy Hatch calls the doc "unpredictably moving and wonderful." |
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The wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor action. "A vividly illustrated catalogue of astonishing smut," wrote Noel Murray in AV Club, "offers plenty of evidence about what made these movies special, from the bad puns and nudity to the buckets of gore." |
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The brilliant writer, self-promoter and publisher Dave Eggers makes the inevitable leap to screenwriting with Away We Go, co-written with his wife, novelist Vendela Vida. Perhaps not surprisingly, the film is very funny when broken into individual scenes, but it takes too many easy potshots at low targets and thereby fails to come together as an emotional whole. Burt ( The Office's John Krasinski) and Verona ( Maya Rudolph, SNL, Idiocracy) are a happy thirtysomething couple, living a simple life... read review >> |
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Famed, multiple-Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton made his second live-action film, Guns on the Clackamas, during the early-90's boom of mock documentaries -- which included such notable features as Bob Roberts, Fear of a Black Hat and Forgotten Silver. The latter, Peter Jackson's faux-doc about a long-lost New Zealand filmmaker, is a good, and superior, reference point for Plympton's movie which focuses on Holton P. Jeffers Jr., a famed Western director making a cursed movie, the titular "Guns on the Clackamas.".. read review >> |
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On GreenCine Daily, Steve Dollar reports back from Austin: "Most film festivals are just film festivals. Fantastic Fest is a different beast. The premier American outpost on the global "fantastic cinema" circuit of festivals—devoted to all things action, horror, sci-fi and cult." More >>
Harmony Korine has been slapped with the provocateur label for directing such oddball, subversive films as Gummo, julien donkey-boy, and last year's Mister Lonely. Korine's latest is the as-yet-undistributed curio Trash Humpers, which screened at the 2009 New York Film Festival. Aaron Hillis chatted with Korine for a new podcast. More >> |
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