Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #25. Spike Jonze’s Her

Published on January 14, 2013

Her

Director/Writer: Spike Jonze
Producer(s): Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison, Vincent Landay
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha Morton, Sam Jaeger, Portia Doubleday

Far from inactive, Spike Jonze has done tons of work since Where the Wild Things Are. Curiously, it won’t be the first time Jonze experiments with love and bots – his brilliant short, I’m Here had bot romance in a very human world. Hoyte Van Hoytema (most recently Mikael Marcimain’s Call Girl) is the dp and the pairing he nabbed from The Master along with Olivia Wilde and Rooney Mara adds layers to this year’s Lars and the Real Girl type comedy.

Gist: In the not so distant future, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every needs. To Theodore’s surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

Release Date: This will attract the big hitters: Fox, Weinsteins, Focus and perhaps they’ll square off at the Cannes Film Festival – Main Competition.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).