Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 23.09.2012 – 24.09.2012

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 19.09.2012 – 22.09.2012

  • Tom Hardy in Lawless: Return of the Knitwear Anti-Hero – For Lawless costume designer Margot Wilson, here talking exclusively to Clothes on Film, there was also a practical side to her decision. “Forrest was the most challenging” she explains. “Tom Hardy was bulking up (for The Dark Knight Rises) which was quite incongruous for our prohibition film. When I first saw Tom very briefly at a script reading he was bigger than I had imagined. So my task was to make him fit into our world and make him visually work with his brothers”. Setting Forrest apart from his brothers, Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia Labouf), provides subtle differentiation of character, often difficult to achieve in outwardly similar rural clothing. Wilson continues, “I asked director John Hillcoat how he was going to direct Tom. John said he was going to keep him very still. This was an opportunity to use one of my favourite garments. It held all the essence of Forrest for me”.
  • ComPSYlation – YouTube –
  • A Conversation With Dave Kehr about Paul W.S. Anderson –

Arvostelu: Medusan perintö maistuu kylmiltä tähteiltä

Yhdysvalloissa näyttää sikiävän salaisia superagenttiohjelmia nopeammin kuin Suomen syksyssä suppilovahveroita. Hankalaksi äityneestä Jason Bournesta ei ole vielä edes päästy eroon, kun esiin popsahtavat operaatio Outcome ja Aaron Cross. Vastakkain ovat jälleen kerran kasvoton salaliitto ja yli-inhimillinen ammattitappaja.

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 15.09.2012 – 18.09.2012

  • John Rhys-Davies = massive nerd! – You know, you don’t really forget those moments of insanity where it’s like, “Well, John, with this week’s episode, we really have checked it out with the astronomer.” Hmmm. You have three pulsars entering the solar system. “Yes, well, the astronomer says they can come in clusters.” Cut to the astronomer or astrophysicist thinking of a cluster in terms of hundreds of light years. [Laughs.] You do realize, guys, what a pulsar is? “Yes, they spin a lot, and they give off radiation when they do it, and every 24 hours the earth is going to be bathed in this radiation.” Well, you do realize that they spin a little bit faster than that? I think the slowest ones might spin in about four seconds. The other ones spin even faster than that. Milliseconds. What you’ve got is something four times the density of the sun, condensed into something like 20 miles in diameter. Now, does this not suggest to you that it brings another problem? I mean, do you understand how gravity works? And what do you think will happen to the plants? Add to that that it’s not just the one. There are three! Wow. I think that death from 24-hour radiation is the least of our problems! [Laughs.] Oh, it was just insanity.
  • Contact With The Real: On ’Cosmopolis’ (Los Angeles Review of Books) – Cronenberg has been scrupulously faithful to the thrust of the novel’s ideas. He has cut a scene or two, put dialogue into a character’s mouth that comes from Packer’s internal monologue, and here and there underlined a concept with less than DeLilloan subtlety, but that’s screenwriting for you, and I can’t help but think that DeLillo must be happy with his director-scenarist.
  • Peter Bogdanovich’s Howard Hawks cards – While I kept a card file on every movie I saw, 1952-1970, I also kept track of films I watched by directors I was most interested in at that time, fifty-five of those, from Aldrich, Robert, to Wilder, Billy. I had separate cards for these, listing their pictures in the order in which I saw them (see actual cards below).