SOFTlab’s 1 minute film “Shizuku” will be shown at the 1st annual Le:60 film festival in Boston.

A very interesting article on J Todd Anderson, the guy who storyboards each and everyone of The Cohen Brother’s movies.

Read it here.

via [ben fry's website]

Remake of the Lightcycle scene from TRON (soundtrack taken from the film by Steven Lisberger)

Not exactly Joseph Kosinki’s future remake of Tron but it gets pretty darn close. Outstanding.

View a higher quality clip here.

Via [Wired]

Be there, and be square. We got to the gallery at 6:10 pm. The line was just oh-my-god-there’s-no-way long. So, I’ll just go check the stuff out some other day..

Read more here.

For those of you out there who want to learn a bit more about the Atom, here is an excellent 1950′s documentary by John Sutherland Productions. Remember kids: ‘Trust us with the control of technology, and we’ll give you progress without end’. General Electric that is.

Direct link to the Prelinger Archives here.

The French movie Persepolis, created and co-directed by the Iranian Marjane Satrape, based on Satrape’s graphic novel of the same name is absolutely fantastic. The story follows the childhood and teenage years of an Iranian girl (Marjane) from the times of the Shah’s regime in Iran and on to the 80′s, when she’s sent abroad. The animation is stunning in its simplicity and with a richness and care to detail that is outstanding. Her passion for western music makes for some hilarious and beautiful moments -headbanging to Iron Maiden and dealings with bootleg sellers. Her amazing grandmother and her talk-back to authority (God included) put it over the top.

Go see it.

OK everyone – you be the judge:
Below is a still extracted from the most recent Cloverfield trailer – the part where the Brooklyn Bridge gets destroyed.
There seems to be buzz on a particular website (I will not reveal my sources, sorry) about the potential identification of “robot-esque” features located in this photograph. They are a little hard to make out, but I am pretty convinced that this may be our robotic friend mentioned in the previous post.
If so, this may be the first of a new way of marketing major “superhero”/ monster movies – first you attract those who are seduced by the mystery of the unknown, then once the word is out you launch a whole marketing campaign geared toward kids and the fans of that particular character. Then all of the merchandising follows.
So is it true? Does Cloverfield = Voltron? We shall all find out in due time.

I just got back from seeing BladeRunner: The Final Cut with my good friend Gabriel and it was absolutely amazing. This is one of those movies that I had only had the chance to see on lousy little screens. Seeing it in the theater is truly something else, and this version is so much smoother than the original (even than the directors cut); with beautiful, longer shots. The soundtrack and audio effects by Vangelis are outstanding and the overall ‘cleanup’ of the movie is pristine: you can’t notice at all where things were fixed or enhanced, maintaining the feel and flow of the original film.
Now I can imagine what it might have been like in the theater when the movie came out for the first time.

It’s currently playing in L.A. and New York only. Lucky us…

I just got back from watching David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and I have to say it is fantastic. Viggo Mortensen manages to get across, with a minimalism that borders in pantomime, waves of fear. I can’t remember either a movie were I giggled incessantly for minutes at a time, Easter Promises has some absurdly casual and funny snippets.

I had read a few reviews before heading over to the theater where some of the main critiques referred to the violence and I have to admit it gets explicit sometimes, but it is so localized that it almost seems necessary. Just go check it out.

A few weeks before this was made public, he had already nailed the remake of Logan’s Run…

You can only expect highly stylized, glossy, slick and visually stunning movies. We’ll see about the stories.

His work has always been truly impressive, so check it out in his site.