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Links for the Day (March 26, 2009)
The House Next Door —
1. Warner Bros. is starting up a potentially revolutionary program where, eventually, every program in their library will be available on a custom-burned DVD. Hitfix's Drew McWeeny exults. (h/t: Ryan Kelly) ["So how does Warner Bros. ever expect to get those other 5000 titles into the hands of collectors who would want them? The reason many of them aren't available is because the studio isn't sure there's enough demand to justify the expense of mastering and pressing and marketing each and every one of those movies. But what if they only had to make a DVD when someone ordered it? What if they could press ...
Hope, Fear, Adventure
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Hope, Fear, Adventure Yesterday I explained very carefully what my objections are to kids and kid movies, particularly ones that celebrate the realm of childhood as something faux-sacred and wondrous where wild things run free. As I put it at the end of the piece, "The wake-up call of the Great Recession means that the age of the 'infantilization of movies' -- a term coined by Pauline Kael , as I recall, in an attempt to describe the influence that Spielberg and Lucas began to exert in the mid '70s -- is coming to a blessed and merciful end ." I should acknowledge that HE reader "Cde." pointed out the following: "I don't want to spoil the ending, but I'll ...
'Wild Things' makes my heart sing
Come Back Shane! —
The blogosphere sort of went nuts yesterday over the new Where the Wild Things Are trailer. I did too - one look at the trailer and I cried. It all makes me wonder exactly how poor Spike Jonze could be broke. Sigh. Here's the trailer with my childhood memories in tact: ...
Where the Wild Things were.
FilmChat —
The blogosphere went gaga for Where the Wild Things Are last week, after the following trailer was released for the upcoming film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze from a script he co-wrote with Dave Eggers: Click here if the video file above doesn't play properly. There were a few voices of dissent, though. Noah Millman, for example, responding to Peter Suderman's claim that the trailer is "a perfectly sold hipster nostalgia piece", articulated several "red flags" that, in his view, indicated the film was not paying proper respect to Maurice Sendak's ...
Hollywood Clipjoint: New Movie News April 8, 2009
Scene-Stealers —
Man, I hate watching trailers. There’s so much to glean from them in terms of plot and style that I almost just prefer to stay away from them. Every now and then, however, I am drawn to a trailer that I cannot turn away from. “Where the Wild Things Are,” directed by Spike Jonze, is such a trailer.
The CGI-infected special effects world makes everything look the same after a while, and the tactile “wild things” in this movie (despite the fact that their faces have CGI elements) will go a long way towards making us feel that Max is actually interacting with something. Cinematical has ...
2 Minutes To Stardom
itsamadmadblog2 —
Imagine this scenario. You're part of an indie rock group that's been playing the fringes of the big-time for several years now. An appearance at SXSW once. A late night Coachella venue. You have some hometown notoriety. You've produced a few records on a local label and are subject to a growing (but cultish) following. Then, a movie studio uses your song in a trailer for one of their upcoming movies and, suddenly, the rivers are parted and you're the 'next big thing'. ...
a moment of not horror
Final Girl —
I've really been looking forward to Where the Wild Things Are (maybe not nearly as much as Mr. New Plaid Pants), although the book wasn't a massive integral part of my childhood. I don't know why, it just...wasn't. Maybe I was too old when I discovered it, or maybe it simply didn't resonate with me; whatever the case, I certainly have always had an appreciation of it, particularly Maurice Sendak's wonderful art. Because of my disassociation from it, I don't have that "You're raping my childhood!" feeling that perhaps some of you have regarding Spike Jonze's efforts, or, alternately, "I can't wait to see my most favoritest book ever come to ...
