Chileans needn’t witness director Pablo Larraín standing on the stage of the Kodak Theater with an Oscar in his hands to know that No, the first movie in the country’s history to be nominated as Best Foreign Language Film, has already achieved something momentous. Taking an Oscar home is possible, Read More
Watching the trailer to Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master actually led me to the discovery of Spike Jonze’ next feature, simply titled Her – I’d Googled Joaquin Phoenix out of curiosity because his work with Anderson looked like it might be his most strange and experimental yet – which is Read More
Michel Gondry’s screenwriting debut couldn’t be more off-beat even if it was tied to Charlie Kaufman. The Science of Sleep gives viewers a passageway into the Frenchman’s extraordinary imagination, travelling far beyond reality to reproduce something verging on the masterful. Apparently, the film stemmed from a bed-time story invented by a then ten-year old Sam Mounier (Respiro, Messages From the Sea) before Gondry picked up a pencil and started scrawling down the soon-to-be script. The plot remains minimal but only because it has to be.
It seems like Roman Coppola is coming out with something extremely quirky and bizarre. Not a huge shock, as both Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom that he co-wrote with Wes Anderson are far from normal – though so far we have been blaming Wes for all the eccentricity and the Read More
Adam Spiegal aka Spike Jonze got his nickname from the owner of Bethesda community store, where he hung out in his later high school days. The name was given in reference to Spike Jones (25th Hour, Boyz in the Hood). This was before his directing and his cinema days, at Read More
Though still a year ahead of us since the release date is expected to be early 2013, it’s never too early to start a buzz on the upcoming Charlie Kaufman film. Frank or Francis is the writer’s second directorial effort, after the insane Synecdoche, New York, which, even being one of the Read More
Today, many of cinema’s best writers are politely squeezed out of position while the industry’s actors, directors and producers are placed at the forefront of film advertising and distribution. The writer provides his story, leaving it up to the bigger men to turn it into whatever they are capable of. Read More
There’s a certain optimum result that always occurs by chance at some point down the line, when everything is there to make it happen. Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited springs to mind, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony or even the beginning of life on Earth. Something similar happened when screenwriter Charlie Kaufman Read More
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