Salon.com > Movies http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 02:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: I was a teenage anarchist! http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/pick_of_the_week_i_was_a_teenage_anarchist/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/pick_of_the_week_i_was_a_teenage_anarchist/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 23:30:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13288181 “Something in the Air” tells the story of a French teenager caught up in the half-crazy early-‘70s climate of political radicalism and artistic experimentation, an era that can seem so far from our own as to be a science-fiction alternate reality. It’s a terrific film, wonderfully atmospheric and alive, but also a curiously appropriate one to encounter right now, as we deal with the aftermath of a cruel and pointless crime apparently committed in the name of some abstract revolutionary ideal. Writer-director Olivier Assayas (of “Summer Hours” and the terrific terrorist miniseries “Carlos”), one of the leading figures in French cinema, has described this movie as generally autobiographical. While Assayas’ young protagonist and his anarchist pals never come to the point of blowing up civilians, they get pretty close, and indeed avoid committing murder mostly through luck. Is this a true story? I obviously have no idea, but it’s a convincing and disturbing one.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/pick_of_the_week_i_was_a_teenage_anarchist/feed/ 6 Steven Spielberg to direct “American Sniper” film adaptation http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/steven_spielberg_to_direct_american_sniper_film_adaptation/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/steven_spielberg_to_direct_american_sniper_film_adaptation/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 19:38:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13288017 The "American Sniper" project is moving forward, adding legendary director Steven Spielberg to its credits, reports THR. Spielberg will also co-produce the film, along with Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan and actor Bradley Cooper.

Cooper bought the rights to the film adaptation of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's book in May 2012, but fast-tracked the project after Kyle's death in early 2013. Kyle was shot dead by veteran Eddie Routh, thought to have been struggling with PTSD.

Cooper will star as Chris Kyle, and intends to use the role to illuminate high-profile issues, telling NPR's Terry Gross that Kyle's story "needs to be told and it’s also relevant on two fronts. One, gun control, and two, the need to address this — the many soldiers that are coming back with post-traumatic stress disorder.”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/steven_spielberg_to_direct_american_sniper_film_adaptation/feed/ 0 “Iron Man 3″ box office hit in China http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_box_office_hit_in_china/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_box_office_hit_in_china/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 18:15:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287868 Despite the minor controversy sparked by product placement in its made-for-China scenes, "Iron Man 3" garnered almost $21 million in the Chinese box office, topping the one-day sales record set by “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” in 2011.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Online reactions to the film have been largely positive, but bloggers appear united in their consternation of the deliberate product placement that sees new a character named Dr Wu (played by mainland Chinese actor Wang Xueqi) consume a [milk] carton of Gu Li Duo.

Not that audiences outside mainland China will get a glimpse of this, though: this scene is part of the film’s China release, a version which is four minutes longer than the normal cut seen everywhere else in the world.

"Transformers 4" is the next Hollywood studios film expected to follow the similar model of dual version releases.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_box_office_hit_in_china/feed/ 0 “Iron Man 3″: A playboy grows up http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_a_playboy_grows_up/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_a_playboy_grows_up/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287839 As far as bored and cynical, playing-out-the-string comic-book action sequels go – hey, “Iron Man 3” is a pretty good one! The third and purportedly last of Robert Downey Jr.’s adventures as the armor-clad but increasingly vulnerable Tony Stark features one of Downey’s most nuanced performances, arguably a lot better than the movie around him, and keeps him separated from the physical and emotional protection of the Iron Man suit for extended periods. There are several good supporting performances, not even including Gwyneth Paltrow’s abdominal muscles, which is really all I can remember about Pepper Potts: Guy Pearce, as a nerd genius spurned by Tony Stark years earlier who comes back for revenge; Ben Kingsley, most delicious of all, as a shadowy techno-Osama known as the Mandarin.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/iron_man_3_a_playboy_grows_up/feed/ 4 John Oliver to guest-host “Daily Show” starting June 10 http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286815 Jon Stewart will go on an eight-week hiatus (previously reported as 12) from hosting "The Daily Show" beginning Monday, June 10, Comedy Central has announced.

Stewart is taking a break from hosting the show to direct his first film, “Rosewater,” an adaptation of BBC journalist Maziar Bahari’s harrowing memoir of imprisonment in Iran, for which Stewart also wrote the screenplay. Stewart is slated to return on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

John Oliver, who has been a "Daily Show" correspondent for the past seven years, will guest-host in Stewart's place. "Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about ‘The Daily Show,’ just without the thing that you love the most about it,” said Oliver in a press release. Guests for Oliver’s first week include Seth Rogen, Armando Iannucci, Fareed Zakaria and a musical performance by Mavis Staples.

Although die-hard "Daily Show" fans will miss Stewart's comedic genius this summer, the show is still in good hands. Below are some of John Oliver's most memorable segments:

"Even Better Than the Real Thing"

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/feed/ 3 “Post Tenebras Lux”: A perverse, dreamlike masterpiece http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/post_tenebras_lux_a_perverse_dreamlike_masterpiece/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/post_tenebras_lux_a_perverse_dreamlike_masterpiece/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286687 A mesmerizing combination of opaque art-house cinema, personal reflection and class-based rural thriller, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas’ “Post Tenebras Lux” casts a strange and powerful spell. While this is certainly a challenging film on many levels, and one rooted in observation of the natural world, it isn’t one of those drifty contemplative Terrence Malick spectacles where nothing much happens. It’s just that many of the events are puzzling and disconnected, and you have to work out for yourself the allusive or subterranean relationship between them. There’s a neon-red animated demon who invades a family’s home at night, a shooting, a hilarious and heartbreaking rural A.A. meeting, a visit to a perverted sex club and a guilt-ridden killer who commits suicide in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. It’s as if we were sometimes in the world of David Lynch, sometimes in the world of Stanley Kubrick and a whole lot of the time in the world of Andrei Tarkovsky, with the complicated social tragedy of Mexico ladled on top.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/post_tenebras_lux_a_perverse_dreamlike_masterpiece/feed/ 6 “Love Is All You Need”: Pierce Brosnan’s lovely, lightweight rom-com http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/love_is_all_you_need_pierce_brosnans_lovely_lightweight_romcom/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/love_is_all_you_need_pierce_brosnans_lovely_lightweight_romcom/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285820 Danish director Susanne Bier has spent her career stuck in the mushy European middle, halfway between Ingmar Bergman and Hollywood. She has a tremendous gift for character and storytelling, coupled with a penchant for preachy, melodramatic message delivery in the Paul Haggis vein, especially as her films have attracted a global audience. She won the foreign-language Oscar for the Euro-guilt odyssey “In a Better World” in 2010 – a picture that was conspicuously trying to be meaningful – and has made one semi-unsuccessful American venture, the 2007 “Things We Lost in the Fire,” with Halle Berry and Benicio del Toro.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/love_is_all_you_need_pierce_brosnans_lovely_lightweight_romcom/feed/ 4 Steven Soderbergh is writing a novella on Twitter http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/steven_soderbergh_is_writing_a_novella_on_twitter/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/steven_soderbergh_is_writing_a_novella_on_twitter/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13284953 It's an exciting day on Twitter. Donald Trump is fighting with Danny Zuker, Mel Brooks just joined for Twitter's ComedyFest and "Magic Mike" director Steven Soderbergh is tweeting a novella:

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The first chapter begins in "Amsterdam."

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It's a crime mystery told in the second-person:

There are pictures:

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Read chapters one through seven here.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/steven_soderbergh_is_writing_a_novella_on_twitter/feed/ 5 Terrence Malick, divine director http://www.salon.com/2013/04/28/keeping_the_faith_with_malicks_to_the_wonder_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/28/keeping_the_faith_with_malicks_to_the_wonder_partner/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13283286 Religion Dispatches“Show, don’t tell,” is common advice to screenwriters and fiction writers. In contrast to primarily non-fictioners like yours truly, those who compose films and novels and stories are rightly encouraged to avoid didacticism, to let the story speak for itself, never to make the meanings and morals too obvious.

Terrence Malick’s typically beautiful new film, To the Wonder, does exactly that, yet its depiction of the divine love/human love parallel is so elliptical as to flirt with inscrutability.

To be sure, Malick’s screenplay does telegraph the main theme of the work explicitly, usually in voiceovers (there are a lot of voiceovers) by a doubt-ridden priest played by Javier Bardem. Bardem’s priest wonders why we fall in and out of love with God, as we watch a couple played by Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko fall in and out of love with each other. If the parallelism were not clear enough, Bardem’s priest—played with brilliant understatement by an actor who often goes for the jugular—tells us how human love can serve as a gateway to divine love. Which (metaphysical spoiler alert) is roughly the final resolution of the film.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/28/keeping_the_faith_with_malicks_to_the_wonder_partner/feed/ 9 Must do’s: What we like this week http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/must_dos_what_we_like_this_week_8/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/must_dos_what_we_like_this_week_8/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13283273 BOOKS

Laura Miller, who generally does not have “patience for the touchstones of foodie literature,” was pleasantly surprised by Michael Pollan’s “Cooked,” written from the perspective of a journalist and gardener rather than a celebrity chef:

His effort to deepen his understanding of the process of turning food into meals is the subject of his latest book, “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” I wish I could say “Cooked” is entirely free of moments of flabby philosophizing (“Isn’t it always precisely when we are most at risk of floating away on the sea of our own inventions and conceits that we seem to row our way back to the firm shore that is nature?”), but they are rare. Admittedly, the book’s thematic structure is also a shade precious. It’s divided into four sections according to what the ancients perceived to be the four elements — fire, water, air and earth — each attributed to a different cooking method — grilling, braising and other forms of cooking in liquids, baking and fermentation. As ever, Pollan makes each of these themes the occasion for real thought as well as some energetic reporting.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/must_dos_what_we_like_this_week_8/feed/ 1 Pick of the week: Michael Bay’s self-mocking crime farce http://www.salon.com/2013/04/26/pick_of_the_week_michael_bays_self_mocking_crime_farce/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/26/pick_of_the_week_michael_bays_self_mocking_crime_farce/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13282238 With his pumped-up and violent crime farce “Pain & Gain” – a thoroughly reprehensible and frequently hilarious satire that depicts American life as a circus of stupidity, artificiality and self-regard -- Michael Bay sends a clear message to those of us who’ve been making fun of him: He’s been in on the joke the whole time. I can think of a variety of responses to this, but they all basically boil down to “Yeah, so what else is new?”

There has always been a powerful current of self-mockery, or at least self-awareness, in Bay’s ludicrous “Transformers” movies, which embraced bigness, loudness, dumbness, visual incoherence and cartoonish female pulchritude (see: Fox, Megan, entire career of) as central formal elements and stylistic first principles. I wasn’t the only critic to observe that Bay’s enormous 2011 hit, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” had elements of avant-garde surrealism and elements of high camp, and could be described as a “performance-art act of juvenile Id-fulfillment.”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/26/pick_of_the_week_michael_bays_self_mocking_crime_farce/feed/ 27 “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”: Is the Princeton grad a jihadi? http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/the_reluctant_fundamentalist_is_the_princeton_grad_a_jihadi/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/the_reluctant_fundamentalist_is_the_princeton_grad_a_jihadi/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:50:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13281194 People who show up for “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” expecting an exotic and morally murky thriller about terrorism, somewhat in the “Homeland” and “Zero Dark Thirty” vein, will get it – at least for a while. No doubt it would be good for business if I told you that Mira Nair’s film, adapted from a novel by Mohsin Hamid, was about an American-educated young man who turns to violent radicalism. But this story only seems to be about that, and not for long. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” begins with a classic opening sequence of misdirection and disorientation, in which we see an American academic kidnapped off the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, while a handsome young Pakistani receives text messages and photos that seem to link him to the crime. All this bewildering night action is set to a hypnotic traditional Pakistani folk tune, performed live in the street around a bonfire.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/the_reluctant_fundamentalist_is_the_princeton_grad_a_jihadi/feed/ 4 “Wild Things” director planning sequel based on Amanda Knox case http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/wild_things_director_planning_sequel_based_on_amanda_knox_case/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/wild_things_director_planning_sequel_based_on_amanda_knox_case/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280816 The 1998 erotic noir movie "Wild Things" is getting (another) sequel. Film director John McNaughton, whose only feature release since has been "Speaking of Sex" in 2001, told Hollywood.com that he and screenwriter Stephen Peters are hashing out a script that would follow up straight-to-DVD releases "Wild Things 2" and "Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough" with a fourth "Wild Things" movie.

From Hollywood.com:

"It's not one of the sequels, but about their children," he says. OK, that sounds odd, but just wait. It gets real crazy. "Do you know the Amanda Knox case? It's something like that. Something that's like the child of Suzie Toller [Campbell's character], she claimed that Matt Dillon's [character] had raped her a long time ago and maybe there is a child and maybe Bill Murray's character had a child and they're exchange students and things get out of hand. We're calling it Wild Child Things."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/wild_things_director_planning_sequel_based_on_amanda_knox_case/feed/ 4 “At Any Price”: Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid’s Corn Belt thriller http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/at_any_price_zac_efron_and_dennis_quaids_corn_belt_thriller/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/24/at_any_price_zac_efron_and_dennis_quaids_corn_belt_thriller/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280336 Movies about so-called ordinary people in the American heartland, even when they’re pretty good, tend to be driven by a reflexive and almost guilty sentimentality. Even the hardened, cynical coastal types who make films don’t want to challenge the national myth that life in rural America possesses a realness absent in more metropolitan surroundings. There’s some genuine history behind that myth, in the sense that over the course of the 20th century the nation’s population and economy permanently shifted away from the agrarian republic imagined by the founders, but a great many of us have rural roots in the not-too-distant past. One of my grandfathers was an Irish immigrant, but the other was born in a prairie town I’ve never even visited, to a father who sold Case tractors.

One of the best things about Ramin Bahrani’s bracing farmland thriller “At Any Price” is its refusal to condescend to the Iowa farm family at its center by depicting them as nobler, more innocent and less sophisticated than other people. Many people who see this movie will be understandably focused on Zac Efron’s intense performance as Dean Whipple, the family’s handsome but embittered youngest son who yearns to be a stock-car driver. But for me the breakthrough in “At Any Price” comes from 59-year-old Dennis Quaid, cementing his character-actor renaissance with what may be the nastiest role of his career.

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Thanks to its broad international appeal, "The Bible" has become the fastest-selling DVD miniseries of all time. Of its unprecedented success, Burnett said: "It's clearly a calling; clearly, we felt it was something we had to do, and too many things happened to explain it any other way. It's a juggernaut, and it's not going to slow down."

Although the film is not yet connected to a distributor, Burnett is aiming for a fall release.

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Laura Miller recommends the memoir of Alexandra Aldrich, a descendent of the prominent Astor family, which provides a glimpse into a less privileged, less happy childhood than one would expect:

In premise alone, “The Astor Orphan” sounds like some delicious children’s novel, the kind of thing you’d gobble a dozen times over by the age of 8. In reality it’s a mournful, curious tale of an anxious child’s longing for security. Aldrich, who kept a diary from an early age, apparently sticks closely to it; her book has a halting, episodic rhythm. It lacks the fluency of truly accomplished storytelling, but the story it tells is so extraordinary, and Aldrich’s tone is so baldly honest, that the reader’s attention will not flag.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/20/must_dos_what_we_like_this_week_7/feed/ 3 Pick of the week: “Oblivion,” Tom Cruise’s gorgeous sci-fi allegory http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/pick_of_the_week_oblivion_tom_cruises_gorgeous_sci_fi_allegory/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/pick_of_the_week_oblivion_tom_cruises_gorgeous_sci_fi_allegory/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13275381 Science fiction is always more about the present, and even the past, than it is about the future, which by definition we don’t know anything about. That’s certainly true of “Oblivion,” the sly, surprising and visually magnificent Tom Cruise vehicle that has forced me – and many other people, I suspect – to revise my first opinion of director Joseph Kosinski. In fact, on some bizarre level “Oblivion” feels like a more grown-up and vastly improved version of Kosinski’s murky and ludicrous “TRON: Legacy,” a movie I compared to sticking your head into a barrel of ink full of fluorescent glow-sticks.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/pick_of_the_week_oblivion_tom_cruises_gorgeous_sci_fi_allegory/feed/ 20 Universal Pictures announces “Weird Science” remake http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/universal_pictures_announces_weird_science_remake/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/universal_pictures_announces_weird_science_remake/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13275618 Just days after the announcement that the "Point Break" remake is moving forward, 90s kids nostalgia strikes again, with the announcement of a "Weird Science" remake. Universal Pictures is bringing back Joel Silver, the original producer of the 1985 cult comedy, along with "21 Jump Street" writer Michael Bacall.

Deadline reports:

This film will attempt to carve out its own identity by being redrawn as an edgier R-rated comedy in line with 21 Jump Street and The Hangover. The original starred Michael Anthony Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as brainy nerds who attempt to create the perfect woman to fulfill their heavy-breathing adolescent fantasies, only to find she is something more than a sex object. The original also starred Bill Paxton and Robert Downey Jr, with Kelly LeBrock playing the bombshell creation. It was later turned into a TV series for USA Network

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From EW:

Confirming a strategy of aggressive franchise expansion, Disney announced today at CinemaCon that they are planning to release a new Star Wars movie every year, starting with the J.J. Abrams-powered Episode VII in summer 2015. The plan is to release a standalone spinoff the following year — probably one of the projects focusing on Boba Fett or Young Han Solo — and alternate between numerals and spinoffs from there.

Assuming the films are successful, this means the total number of Star Wars films will nearly double by summer 2019. Presumably, Disney is hoping that each of the spinoffs will form their own franchises, much like X-Men and The Avengers.

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