All week, we’ve been chatting with the Criterion Collection‘s Susan Arosteguy about Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire‘, the director’s cinematic return to his hometown, Berlin. At once heartbreaking and beautiful, Wenders’ portrait of Berlin captures a turbulent time in the nation’s history. It would take a time machine to get back to the Berlin depicted in the film — a ... Read More »
Last week we chatted with Criterion Collection producer Susan Arosteguy about the new Criterion edition of Wim Wenders’ homage to Berlin, ‘Wings of Desire’, which comes out November 3. We had so much to talk about — after all, Arosteguy has been with Criterion since the laserdisc days, working with directors like Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater and even the ... Read More »
On November 3, the Criterion Collection releases the newest edition of Wim Wenders’ 1987 masterpiece, ‘Wings of Desire‘. Set in post-War, pre-unification Berlin, the film is tells the story of a pair of angels — played by Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander — cursed with watching over humanity, but never experiencing it. Until, that is, one falls in love with ... Read More »
It’s no secret that we’re eagerly awaiting the October 16 premiere of Spike Jonze’s interpretation of ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘. And clearly, we’re not alone. The folks at New York’s Museum of Modern Art are celebrating the film with an exhibition, “Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years,” the director’s first-ever retrospective, part of the Filmmaker in Focus series, which ... Read More »
Yesterday we had a good laugh at the expense of the cast of ‘2012.’ But a look at the film’s official trailer got us thinking … is no landmark safe from Hollywood effects people? Can you spot the ones that get destroyed in ‘2012’? Let’s find them…after the jump. Read More »
What happens when your film’s version of going on location is standing front of a green screen? Sure it can look good on the theaters, but in reality there’s not much there. While we’re sure Roland Emmerich’s upcoming ‘2012‘ is going to be a hit — after all, it’s got plenty of floods and explosions and doomsday paranoia — you ... Read More »
With the chill of fall in the air, our minds keep going back to school days. And the smell of new books mixed withvision of ivy, blazers and preppy sweaters dance in our heads. Surely, no film captures the heady days of high school discovery better than that all-America coming-of-age classic, ‘Dead Poets Society.’ Set in 1959, the film features ... Read More »
A while back, we went back in time — to the New York City of Travis Bickle, the deranged veteran in ‘Taxi Driver’. We we’re saddened (but not surprised) to see how little of Bickle’s New York still existed, so we certainly were excited to see the latest post over at Scouting New York, one of our favorite film blogs. ... Read More »
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