Trailer for Michael Haneke's psychological thriller Funny Games, starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet and Devon Gearhart. A remake of Haneke's 1997 German-language film. There are a few stills at JoBlo. [imdb]

The Geek Heirarchy, a diagrammatic representation.

"The Humans are Dead", a Battlestar Galactica and Flight of the ( Read more... )

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1. Alfonso Cuaron in the Guardian arts blog:
"I have a huge appreciation of backgrounds. What I have a problem with is borders. The language of cinema is cinema itself: it doesn't matter whether it is filmed in Spanish or English or French or Japanese. The same goes for the people who make it. Yes, I'm a film-maker from Mexico. But I also belong to ( Read more... )

For my own reference.

( Historical Picturesque: Adapting Great Expectations and Sense and Sensibility. )

Jeffrey Wells has done a fascinating interview with Children of Men director, Alfonso Cuaron, who talks not just about the making of his film, and the research he did and its themes, but who rhapsodises about his favourite filmmakers, like Terrence Malick and Stanley Kubrick. In talking about the dangers of utopias, he also even brings up economist ( Read more... )