Where the Wild things Aught to be.

The clever folks over at We Love You So have been running a competition asking clever photoshop whizzards to sent in images of where the wild things aught to be. It's like the loveliness from the book/film is seeping out into the world in tiny pieces. I'd like to imagine it's sort of real, being as the wild things are imagination embodied, it's plausible to me that they're everywhere already.


s'what i like to think anyway.

Creation finally picks up a US distributor.

After receiving a largely warm reception at the Toronto Film Festival it was rather disappointing that the Darwin biopic failed to garner much interest from US distributors. It could have been that the religious right aren't really that keen on the whole 'evolution' thing... so a level or reticence was, perhaps, understandable. nobody wants to inflame that bunch of crazies. That said, it might have had more to do with Jen Con's permanently slapped face.

Indie film floggers Newmarket are the lucky puppies who've picked up the rights, and it should hit cinemas around christmas.

*coughoscarbaitingcough*

'Wuthering Heights', again.

I love this book with all my heart. I'm not sure actually just why I love it so much. I suppose Emily Bronte's only novel's status as a 'classic' exempts me from having to justify my ardour. 

The prospect of another adaptation may strike some as rather unnecessary, there is, after all, about twenty renditions in existence already. Numerous box office assaults, from the Lawrence Oliver's 1939 version, to Peter Kosminskey's 1992 version, have been made, as well as many televisual delights ranging from the traditional, to the 'moderne' (I'm looking at you MTV). 

One may well ask what this new venture has to offer, well what? Well i shall tell you. 

Ed Westwick. 

That's what. And Gemma Arteton, and the producers behind Becoming Jane and Charlotte Grey (Douglas Rae and Robert Bernstein). Both of which I think are pretty amazing.

plus, 

Ed Westwick.

Boom.

Raindance is coming up,

And it's looking good. Much as I love the BFI London Film Festival, and shall be endeavouring to attend as much as possible, Raindance has a special place in my heart as the first film festival I ever attended. I worked there as a volunteer in 2004 (I think...) and it was an awesome experience, I got to hang out around loads of cool people, see loads of great films for free, and learn a ton about the film/festival industry. 

Raindance was set up in 1992 to support British independent film making, and since then they've been running courses, offering advice and support, and showcasing the best work around in the annual film festival. 

This year's lineup looks awesome, I wand to see, in no particular order: 

'Colin' a horror movie shot on 45 pounds, 

'Exam' a movie about the worst job interview you can imagine, 

'Hotaru' a Japanese movie about a love affair between a stripper and a potter (oh Barney where are you to guide me through this film?), 

'I think We're Alone Now' looks like a pretty disturbing documentary about two stalkers of the 1980s teen sensation Tiffany, 

'Philosopher Kings' is about the things seen and heard by the janitors of Ivy League.

'A Necessary Death' has garnered a LOT of attention. About a documentary film maker who puts out an advert for a person who wants to commit suicide, then documents the lead up and event.

'The Girlfriend Experience' closes the festival, so I probably won't be able to get a ticket, i'll still find a way to see it though...

Go see.

3. Teen Fare, Kinda My Thing.

I like teen movies, in fact, I love them with every fibre of my tiny beating heart. I love John Hughes, and I love Bill and Ted, I love Clueless, and Save the Last Dance, and Mean Girls, and Step Up, and everything in between. no shame. just love. I wrote my dissertation on teen movies so I can claim some academic legitimacy if I want to, but i don't really want to. I'd rather just revel in the awesome sunny american gorgeousness and the hugely inflated issues, and the frocks and the drama and the dance sequences, and the vampires, and the undying love and the bad parents and the cars at sixteen, and the annoying younger siblings, and the kooky best friends, and the zeitgiesty soundtrack. So here's a few coming up that I'm pretty excited about.


Twilight: New Moon is clearly going to be the greatest film this year. And I honestly think that the franchise is of serious artistic and cultural merit. I blame most of the films faults on the shoddy dialogue skills of Stephany Meyers, not the narrative and characterisation that she crafted. Twilight taps into so many female fantasies, of being perceived as extraordinary despite our ordinariness, as being totally central to someone's life (or un-life.. whatever), so much so that they exist only to for us, without expecting to be cleaned, bathed, ego massaged or fed. Or just that somebody finds us SO desirable that he can't bear to be away from use even though he might kill us by being around. sigh. Also, Edward Cullen is just SO HOT (no, not Robert Pattinson, just the character).


I have an article I'll get round to writing one day, a comparison between Let the Right One In and Twilight. They're pretty much the same film.







Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a suit's idea of making money off the back of the afore mentioned Cullen boy. It looks shit though. and John C Reilly will not be enough to save it (for shame John, although your knowing brows do lend an air of irony that might buoy the film for a few moments). A Carnival of freaks, midgets, and Vampires who don't actually kill people. It's like Todd Browning Meets The Fast Show.


But, like Whip It, I'll still watch it.







Fame was awesome first time round. Not precisely a teen movie per se but i'm pretty sure more teenagers watched it than any other demographic. The new one looks awesome, all the pieces are in place, dancing, legwarmers, angst. Not a whole lot to analyse, I just wonder if they'll include the social commentary of the original.

Bless me interwebs for I have sinned.

I's been two months since my last cinematic experience.


I saw Year One.*


I hate myself.


My only excuse is the extreme poverty that I have found myself in of late. And I do hope to remedy this situation fast. Thus, my first (proper) post will be devoted to trailers of things that I Shall be seeing in the coming weeks and months. I present them to you in several parts.

1. Films that were books that I love (A surprisingly large category)
2. Hip/Indie/Difficult. For better or for worse.
3. Teen fare. Kinda my thing. No bones made.

*Not as  horrible as you might think. There is always something to be gained from the presence of Jack Black's face, and Michael Cera's limbs. I'll admit I chuckled a few cheap chuckles, but the fact that I can't even really remember what happened tells me all I need to know about my true feelings on the film.

This is my new thing.

As film is really where I put my heart to bed each night, here will be where said devotion is reflected. I fear if i do not flex my cinematic fibers every now and again I may lose the use of them for good.

Thus, I shall write here of fillum related things, reviews and trailers, gossip and news. And the odd overblown academic treatise. If you're lucky I'll start posting my essays from my book learnin' days.

Introductions are best kept brief