Wow.
How gorgeous is this? In the middle of a 60+ hour work week, I watched the trailer 3 times, with co-workers, dimming the lights, waiting for the 1080p to download, and standing enthralled.
I took the time during lunch to scroll through, find 20 amazing stills in it, copy/paster to Photoshop and save’em out as JPEGs so I can have them rotate out as desktops every few minutes.
It is THAT good.
Plus, it looks like a good story, unlike some technically proficient, but plastic spastic blockbusters opening today. Which imagery do you think will stay with you, haunt your idle reveries, more?
Wow, looks Hyper-Real. Look at the Escher shot!
And you can’t go wrong with the music from Barry Lyndon…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/09 at 08:48 PM
I had the pleasure of seeing this film a couple of weeks ago. Simply jaw dropping. Worth the hype!
Posted by bob gundu on 05/09 at 10:02 PM
Beethoven. 7th Symphony. 2nd Movement.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/09 at 11:19 PM
That does look amazing. Of course The Cell looked amazing but was way less than. Let’s hope this one has some story to support the visuals. IMDB dates it to 2006… hmmmm…..
Posted by Scott Simmons on 05/10 at 07:27 AM
The music from BL is Handel sarabande. This was used in Irreversable (and Mr Holland"s Opus)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/11 at 06:29 AM
The NYT has a story on this movie
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/movies/11kehr.html
along with a slide show.
Posted by Steven Bradford on 05/11 at 10:11 AM
It reminds me a bit of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, but with Tarsim’s signature amazing visuals added into the mix.
Years back I used to PA for Tarsem on his commercials at radical media. He is an amazing visualist. His European Commercials and MTV spots are stunning.
Posted by Jonah Lee Walker on 05/11 at 01:37 PM
Too bad the movie’s apparently a boring self-indulgent mess, per the reviews in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Variety and Hollywood Reporter. Sorry, but stunning visuals just aren’t enough to make up for asinine storytelling.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/11 at 04:30 PM
Looks good, sounds boring and predictable.
Hopefully my first impression is wrong.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/14 at 06:33 PM
Guys. Admist all the scrappy hollywood movies I’ve seen over the years, this movie was refreshing. The young girl steals the movie. This film was not in the least boring.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/14 at 07:20 PM
Princess Bride meets The English Patient?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/26 at 06:05 AM
looks like the village people meet the whirling dervishes!
how many muscled, scantily clad men do we have to see on screen?
has “300” created a monster?
Hey, why do they call it “300” ??
because on a scale of one to ten, thats how gay it is!
bha ha ha ha
actually i will go see it…
Posted by billS on 07/22 at 06:14 PM
hey,
i liked “the Cell”
especially how he stole from damien hurst, matthew barney, etc
but i gotta ask,
what is insane about him using his own money to make it?
see quote fro NYT
“Mr. Jonze added: “Had a studio done what he did, it would have been an $80 million movie. But he’s so experienced at it and knows people in all these countries and knows how to shoot with a tiny crew. That’s how he got away with it. But still, he spent his own money, which is insane.”
Posted by billS on 07/22 at 06:24 PM
The Fall
Tarsem Singh’s mad labor of love only gets better on subsequent viewings. The backstory is crazy—it was shot in more than a dozen countries, piggybacking on Tarsem’s commercial shoots, and made with a star (Lee Pace) who spent weeks living life as a paraplegic to provide verisimilitude for his 6-year-old co-star Catinca Untaru, a Romanian girl who barely spoke English and thought she was shooting a documentary, or conversing with Pace in private, away from the well-hidden cameras. The film itself is an equally crazy blend of high-toned, gorgeously rendered fairy tale and vivid melodrama about a hospitalized stuntman befriending a child in order to force her help with his suicide. On first viewing, it comes across as a gloriously ambitious mess of craft, contrivance, and unashamed pretension, but it’s worth watching over and over, not just for the preposterously beautiful cinematography and settings, but for the way Pace and Untaru’s performances gradually reveal themselves as sweet, tender, and admirably real.
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_year_in_film_2008
Posted by billS on 12/22 at 02:03 PM
