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Remains of the Day: John Hughes 1950-2009
My Beta cassette recorder chewed up copies of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and especially Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the web salutes the leader of the Brat Pack.
Poster One Sheet Eyesore: Coco Before Chanel
Who is the person (on the right) featured on the poster for Sony Pictures Classics' Coco Before Chanel? If I were some passer-by on the street I wouldn't have a clue. While I'm no poster art expert, I think it's accurate to say they butchered Audrey Tautou' face when re-working the original still for the final artwork.
Searchlight Feels the Wrath of ‘Khan’
In Cannes last May, they made a big deal about the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards venturing into the Bollywood system. Now the tables are turned, and Bollywood are looking to import some of their films into the U.S. market.
TIFF Adds Latest from Pablo Stoll, Jan Hrebejk, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Harmony Korine to the Slate
Pablo Stoll's first solo effort in Hiroshima (see pic) since the suicide of co-filmmaker friend Juan Pablo Rebella (together the pair gave us Whisky and 25 Watts), Harmony Korine returns to eating spaghetti in the tub with Trash Humpers, we get a Thailand filmmaker collective in Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya Assarat, Kongdej Jaturanrasmee and Pen-ek Ratanaruang in Sawasdee Bangkok and favorite Czeck contemo filmmaker Jan Hrebejk explores sex and marriage with Eastern bloc humor in Shameless.
Tree of Life to make an ‘Apparition’ via Pohlad and Berney
After months of not knowing what to call their new distribution co., Bill Pohlad and Bob Berney's venture is simply called "Apparition", and as I had speculated beforehand, The Tree of Life (which Pohlad produced with River Road) will be a brimming new title in their library, which until now only includes Jane Campion's Bright Star.
