oooh. yes, please.

Labels: and... go., criterion collection, movies

STAR WARS UNCUT

a crowdsourced version of star wars: a new hope
choose your 15 second scene(s), recreate your own way, and once they have the whole film covered... they'll piece them together.

143 scenes left.
manskes jump on this.

Labels: manske fan boys, movies, star wars uncut

slate imagines what watchmen would have been like in the hands of some other notable directors. (woody, indeed.)

via death + taxes

Labels: movies, satire, watchmen

hip hipster hooray.
now if only you could order a guinness milkshake mid-movie,
then they'd really have something.

cassandra cinema
136 metropolitan
3 screens
spring-ish 2009

Labels: cassandra cinema, MOOOOVIES, movies, williamsburg

A friend of mine from college made this movie with his brother. It follows 6 horses and their human entourages as they try to make it to the Kentucky Derby. Amazingly, one of the horses was Barbaro. It's a great sports story, even if you don't follow racing or loiter at the OTB.

It's getting some great reviews and I highly recommend it.
In NYC it's playing at cinema village (12th St/University)

:: watch the trailer ::

Labels: docs, friends of LDT, kentucky derby, movies, the first saturday in may

take your time: olafur eliasson
opens april 20 @ MoMA

i know it's a ways away but i'm pretty excited. almost sparked a side trip to SF when i thought it was only showing there. actually, just about everything coming up at moma looks great. especially the doc series (schiller shoutout!). definitely time to renew my card.


*
the last michel gondry installation at deitch was one of my favorite new york double features.

now, be kind rewind.
feb 16 - march 22
@ deitch projects


*
and man, if you haven't seen
the diving bell and the butterfly...


go, hurry.

Labels: art, deitch, geniusness, julian schnabel, michel gondry, moma, movies, new york, olafur eliasson, the diving bell and the butterfly

until my rooftop screenings start or we can get to one of these...

let's do this!!!

$75 for up to 6 people
starting with 60s classics and working their way up to 90's. schindler's list! sweet! sounds like a blast. um, and i could probably skip midnight express. but anything else, name it.

via gothamist

Labels: drive in, movies, nyc

i know the reviews are pretty bad, it's been described as hair with better music, and some of you may or may not have laughed during the trailer... but any world julie taymor creates, i'd like to see.

e.g.


it's bound to be beautiful to look at, if nothing else.

they filmed some scenes in my neighborhood. i remember walking over to clinton st. a couple years ago wondering, why does it look like a bad acid trip around here... now i know.

oh and a related piece of news for nate. (although i imagine you already heard. and found exclusive pictures of the costume drawings. and wrote an opinion piece for superhero hype. and may in fact, already be camped out on 42nd street for tickets.)

Labels: across the universe, beatles, julie taymor, movies

Youth in Revolt, easily my favorite book of all time, is finally picking up some steam to be turned into a movie. Michael Cera (Superbad, Arrested Development) just signed on for the movie and very reliable sources have told me that Spike Jonze has had several meetings to direct. I'm so psyched on this you guys have no idea. This will be a hilarious movie if done with the right people.

Labels: michael cera, movies, spike jonze, youth in revolt

watch the whole thing.

Labels: aqua teen hunger force, humor, movies, videos

Gondry Geniusness

Labels: be kind rewind, jack black, michel gondry, mos def, movies

Anyone up for some Ayn Rand?

Free showing, tomorrow night at sundown.
At "The Elevated Acre" 55 Water Street, near the Seaport.

More info: River to River Festival

Labels: ayn rand, free, movies, nyc, river to river

how long until this movie comes out?

Labels: doom, humor, movies

Brand Upon the Brain!
In which the shocking truth is finally revealed about young Guy Maddin and his hellish childhood on a remote island, under the hyper-watchful eye of a crazed mother hellbent on restoring her youth and a diabolically distant scientist-father, proprietors of a mom-and-pop orphanage they surreptitiously operate within the dank confines of the family lighthouse. Watch! as the sex instinct grabs hold of young Maddin and his sister! Thrill! as the Mysteries of the Light House are divined by teen detectives! Reel! at the headstrong invention and heart-stopping rhythms of the elder Maddin¹s heroic silent moviemaking!!

With a LIVE Narrator! A Castrato!! Several Foley Artists!!! And an Orchestra!!!!

An Earth-shaking Live Spectacle, Coming to Select Theaters!

Satisfaction Guaranteed!


may 9-15
7:30, 9pm showings
@ village east cinemas ("beautifully restored" aka no longer smells like pee)

full list of special guest narrators
- maybe may 12 with lou reed?


oddly via brooklyn vegan

Labels: guy maddin, movies, nyc

alright midnight cowboys,
i've been (im)patiently waiting to post this ever since nate and i saw the poster at sunshine last month:


disco dolls in: HOT SKIN
the midnight movie @ sunshine
april 20 / 21

3D glasses included. bring your own salty nuts.
you'll be blown away?
um, glued to your seat?
did somebody say grindhouse?
ok fine, the best joke is already in the poster.

for more hard facts, read between the imdb plot keywords: 3 dimensional / hardcore / sex

Labels: 3D, hot skin, movies, porn, sunshine theater

- a woman at the MoMA store

get your panties out of a bunch lady,
i was just looking for this:

...an exuberant romp through the popular field of dreams known as cinema with Slavoj Zizek, the irrepressible Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher. Zizek not only presents clips from films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and the Marx Brothers, to name a few, but makes his points by inserting himself into some of the films. Originally a three-part Channel 4/More 4 documentary, Fiennes's exhilarating exegesis on the constant interplay between the unconscious mind and the movies is about "the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire—it tells you how to desire" (Zizek).


sophie fiennes's the pervert's guide to cinema
@ MoMA
april 18–23, 2007
screening info here

what can i say, i like my philosophy in popcorn size bites.
(preferably with some peanut M&Ms.)

Labels: exuberant romp, movies, pervert's guide to cinema, philosophy, slavoj zizek

http://www.myspace.com/onewhosaves

Labels: movies, polish brothers, superheroes

I'm proud to say I've held myself back by only posting 2 posts about Spider-Man 3, swinging into theaters May 4. And this one is New York and music related.

First, watch the new, amazing trailer. (click on "trailers and trivia").

Also, even though New York City is featured in tons of films, it rarely takes part in promoting them, especially big Hollywood ones. But NYC has agreed to take part in Spider-Man Week (hold laughter, please). I mean, c'mon, like some LDTers aren't Scavenger Hunt junkies? *coughJACQUIEANDREWcough* From USA Today:

The city's American Museum of Natural History is installing a spider exhibit shortly before the film opens. New York's Botanical Garden will host workshops on baby spider plants. The Children's Museum of Manhattan will honor the villain Green Goblin with a display of the original Goblin outfit and a mask-making workshop. The Central Park Zoo will host a Spider-Man scavenger hunt and a "Bugmania" show.

And lastly, a superhero movie junkie I might be, I rarely buy into the whole movie Soundtrack bit. But with a lineup including Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Flaming Lips (with a hilariously named track, "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How To Be In Love"), Jason Schwartzman (featuring Kirsten Dunst) (wtf?), Wolfmother, The Oohlas, and more, I might at least check the Spidey 3 Soundtrack out.

I'll see you at the theaters, or the IMAX, on May 4.

EDIT: The official Spider-Man Week website is - wait for it - in full swing.

Labels: movies, music, nyc, spiderman, superheroes

ok - who wants go see a newly restored print of oscar nominated docu-drama:
on the bowery (1957)


and then, you know, hit the grand opening of whole foods.

photo cred: broadcast blog


= on the bowery plays at anthology film archives this week. read more here.
(gotta love a film where the only plot keyword is: alcohol.)

= whole foods on the bowery opens march 29, 8am. sans alcohol, for now. read more about the opening/controversy here.
(o.m.g. - it's a fromagerie!)

Labels: food, movies, nyc, on the bowery

daft punk made a movie

apparently it ran at cannes. it's silent. 74 minutes long. and and follows the history of two robots... on their quest to become human. possible release date april 28.

AND

daft punk will be playing my house. my house.
er, keyspan park
august 9-10

with the rapture (!)
and (complicated capitalists) SebastiAn and KavinSky


helmets off to pitchfork for the news

Labels: daft punk, movies, music, rapture