#May2014
‘MOOD INDIGO’ US Release Trailer: Finally the surrealism comes stateside
I feel like I’ve been talking about this movie fucking forever. Plugging it before I was engaged, before I lived in my current apartment, before I got my teaching job. Jesus Christ. Well, I’m fucking glad! Enough about me. Let’s hold hands and delve into the surreal beauty together. Pants optional.
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‘MOOD INDIGO’ TRAILER: ‘Cause Michel Gondry is f**king gorgeous.
Kudos to Eddie Ball-o-Frozen-Rock for bringing this trailer to my attention. I prostrate my prostate at your feet, Gondry! This hurr be the trailer for Gondry’s Mood Indigo, and man is it lovely. Totally in French, totally surreal, totally exciting me.
‘THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE’ and other Philip K. Dick works getting adapted. Yus ++
There are more Philip K. Dick adaptations coming! Oh golly. If they can pull off a The Man in The High Castle flick with great justice, you’re going to feel my fluids flowing from wherever you are. Having only read it for the first time last year, the sumbitch is still fresh in my head. Still getting my pistons pumping, if you will.
Michel Gondry’s ‘THE WE AND THE I’ TRAILER: No Idea, But I Like It
Michel Gondry is awesome. I haven’t seen The Green Hornet, but he’s still awesome. The dude plays with the form of film in ways equally energetic, youthful, and inventive, and I can get behind that. Here is the trailer for his next flick The We and The I, which will be dropping at Cannes. What exactly is the movie about? I’m not certain. I do know I want to see it.
The Green Hornet Is the First Great Action Flick of 2011
(This review first appeared at the Mishka Bloglin, where I write under the moniker Oh Mars. For some reason.)
No one was sure what to expect when, years ago, Seth Rogen and Pineapple Express scribe Evan Goldberg wrote a script for a Green Hornet movie. It would be an action/comedy, that was the only guarantee. Then when Michel Gondry was set to direct, the blogosphere became collectively baffled. He’s a super creative, visionary director with a love of playful special effects. That’s unarguable. He delivered one of the best sci-fi movies of the decade with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. On the other hand, The Science of Sleep was way too cutesy for my taste and Be Kind Rewind sucked big time. So how did this petite Frenchman tackle a $120 million action comedy? Very, very well.
The vigilante superhero first appeared on radio serializations during the Depression and then as a short-lived TV show that ran from ’66 to ’67, featuring Bruce Lee as Kato. Since then the character has existed in a pulp niche outside of popular culture for decades – besides two comic book runs – Gondry, Rogan, and Goldberg could had creative freedom because the fanbase was relatively small. The final product is a fast-paced, hilarious, and surprisingly violent two hour movie. It definitely has its flaws but they’re seriously outweighed by everything the film does right.
