Nicolas Winding Refn is a veteran of the Cannes roller-coaster. Drive took the roof off the Palais des Festivals at its world premiere there in 2011, while two years later, his career-derailing Only God Forgives floundered in a swamp of boos. His latest is a sleekly stylised psycho-horror about cannibalistic models, with Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves: the prospect of a glorious comeback or another fiasco immediately made it one of 2016’s hottest tickets. TrendEnge can’t wait to see the movie.
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Albina and the Dog-Men – Alejandro Jodorowsky at His Best
Like all Chileans, Crabby spoke in a singsong way, her voice vibrating in her nose. She laughed at everything, even celebrity deaths, and made cruel jokes. She drank red wine until she collapsed in snores, only to wake up barefoot because someone had stolen her shoes. She ate empanadas and sea urchin tongues in green sauce seasoned with fresh, extra-hot chili. Whenever the cops beat a “political agitator” to death, she turned a blind eye, pretending not to notice. Actually she wasn’t Chilean but Lithuanian.
This is the first paragraph of Albina and the Dog-Men, the new book by 87 year old chilean author and movie director Alejandro Jodorowsky. TrendEngel hasn’t read an intro like this in a while – captivating and addictive in the blink of an eye. Just amazing. The ultimate piece of Jodorowsky arcana, a mind-bending adventure story on par with his wildest cinematic visions.… A surrealist novel par excellence, Albina and the Dog-Men is a dream, a prophecy, a hallucination, and a transfiguration such as only Jodorowsky could induce. And for what it’s worth: Marina Abramovich loves the book as well…
Tulip Fever – Alicia Vikander Stuns again – Thanks to Tom Stoppard
Set in 17th century Amsterdam, “Tulip Fever” follows a married woman (Alicia Vikander) who begins a passionate affair with an artist (Dane DeHaan) hired to paint her portrait. The lovers gamble on the booming market for tulip bulbs as a way to raise money to run away together. With a screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love) and with a cast that includes Christoph Walz and Dame Judi Dench this is one of the movies to look forward to this summer. The Dutch Tulip craze revisited – it was about time. The film was supposed to released earlier in the year but Harvey Weinstein himself demanded a rework of the final cut. Normally not a good sign but our spies tell TrendEngel that in this case it works in the movies favor.
Twin Peaks – The Full Cast List Revealed
The entire cast of the Twin Peaks revival has been revealed, with the announcement that new stars such as Monica Bellucci, Laura Dern and Jim Belushi are to join key original cast members.
While the return of Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick and Sherilyn Fenn had already been announced, a full list of all 217 cast members, published by the US cable channel Showtime, indicates that he will be rejoined by David Duchovny, Alicia Witt, David Patrick Kelly – who all had minor roles in the original series – and Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in the big screen version, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me .
The series, set 25 years after the story last ended, will apparently not include original cast members Lara Flynn Boyle (who played Donna Hayward) and Piper Laurie (who played Catherine Martell) when it airs next year.
New characters will be played by Naomi Watts, Tom Sizemore, Jessica Szohr, Amanda Seyfried, Matthew Lillard, Balthazar Getty, Hailey Gates, Michael Cera, Tim Roth , Ernie Hudson, Ashley Judd and David Koechner as well as the musicians Eddie Vedder, Sharon Van Etten and Trent Reznor.
Fans had already been excited by the announcement that David Lynch, who co-wrote the original, would return to the director’s chair he vacated after overseeing the critically acclaimed first season. And one more thing: Apparently it will be at least 2 new seasons of Twin Peaks. Can’t wait till 2017…
Everybody Wants Some!! – Richard Linklater Shows Us The 80’s
He might be one of the greatest directors of all time: Richard Linklater. Now he is back. Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull-session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab-bag of ideas and loose ends held together by the director’s generous sensibility. Or maybe the new film is the missing link between the two, turning these apparently disparate works into a continuum, a journey between checking out, attaining self-knowledge, and achieving transcendence. That might seem like a lot of weight to put on a movie that is, at least on its surface, about a bunch of college baseball players trying to get laid. But Linklater’s great talent is to remain light on his feet while drifting into the metaphysical — to balance the earthly with the profound, and to find the people somewhere in between.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU_T5qPpbE&nohtml5=False
Family Fang – A Weird And Wonderful Family
We need more movies about dysfunctional families like we need more movies about the tortured inner lives of artists, which is all the more reason to be unexpectedly grateful for “The Family Fang,” a sharply drawn portrait of a dysfunctional, tortured artistic family that speaks affectingly to the troubled legacy that all parents inevitably bequeath to their children. Following his raucous and foul-mouthed directorial debut, “Bad Words,” Jason Bateman shows marked progress and deepening maturity as a filmmaker with this cleverly structured but never arch or mechanical adaptation of Kevin Wilson’s 2011 comic novel, with Bateman and Nicole Kidman nicely inhabiting one of the more tender and persuasive brother-sister relationships in recent movie memory. With its rich vein of melancholy and intricate but entirely accessible narrative layers this is a triumph.
City of Gold – A Delicious Documentary
The first food critic to be award a Pulitzer Prize, Jonathan Gold is esteemed for his perception as a cultural observer as well as a culinary expert. Laura Gabbert’s “City of Gold” neatly echoes that appeal by amplifying its native Los Angeleno subject’s love of both gastronomic diversity and his wildly diverse hometown itself. You needn’t be previously knowledgable about either to be charmed by this ebullient documentary.
Gold is a “failed cellist,” a former L.A. Weekly proofreader and a music writer/editor who first seriously investigated his love of food with an epic quest to sample every eatery along 15-mile Pico Boulevard from downtown to Santa Monica. That alerted him to the intricacies of the sprawling megalopolis’ populations, where immigrant pockets can create a miniature “Tehrangeles” or a locus for specialties from a particular Mexican region.
Jonathan Gold is a genius and one of the best writers of modern america. This is a documentary no one should miss.
Anomalisia – Charlie Kaufmann Is the Puppet Master
Anomalisa marks another brilliant and utterly distinctive highlight in Charlie Kaufman’s filmography, and a thought-provoking treat for fans of introspective cinema. It is hard to imagine that 2016 will bring us a better film than Anomalisa. This is a breakthrough movie in any way imaginative. Hard to justify the fact that Anomalisa was overlooked at the Oscar‘s but hey – I guess the Academy isn’t known for awarding the highest honor to the outsiders…
Watch the trailer of the story of a business man in an american city experiencing a wild wild night….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT6QJaS2a-U
Horace And Pete – Louis C.K. and Steve Buscemi Surprise Everyone
No one saw this coming – no one. Suddenly there is a new web series with some of the best actors in the world and everybody is surprised.
Sometimes you don’t want to go where everybody knows your name. Sometimes it becomes oppressive — the history, the choking familiarity, the endlessly repeated fights. Sometimes you want to go just about anywhere else. But what choice do you have?
This is the theme of “Horace and Pete,” the mournful and — judging from the first episode — unshakable new series that the comedian Louis C.K. dropped without warning, Beyoncé-style, on his website Saturday morning. Written, directed by and starring Louis C.K. (with several famous friends), it may best be described as a “Cheers” spec script by Eugene O’Neill: a snapshot of a family — and a country — suffering a hangover decades in the making.
If that happy description is enough to make you want to pay the $5 download fee, you may want to stop reading now. Part of the power of the premiere episode comes from its unfolding without quite knowing what it is.
If you want to know more: Do not expect a laugh riot, though there are some rueful chuckles. Horace (Louis C.K.), the 50-something operator of a 100-year-old dive bar in Brooklyn, has the bedraggled look of a man who does not see many good days — and this one is going to be worse than most.
His business partner, Pete (Steve Buscemi), is acting erratically, having gone off his meds because of insurance troubles. Horace’s grown daughter, Alice (Aidy Bryant), resents him. And his sister, Sylvia (Edie Falco), comes with a lawyer to contest the ownership of the foundering bar, the implications of which end up spilling family resentments like cheap booze from a smashed bottle.
Louis C.K explains exactly what it’s all about – here
Allegedly – Podcast done differently
How to do the interview format differently — the holy grail of the modern talk show — is tackled uniquely by comedian Theo Von and filmmaker/journalist Matthew Cole Weiss on their Allegedly podcast. It turns the chat show into more of a game show.
Two totally opposite friends — comedian Theo Von and filmmaker/journalist Matthew Cole Weiss — compete to see who has better “alleged” tales of celebrities, hilarity, trauma, dating, success and failure from their years living in Hollywood. Points will be given, winners will be chosen and careers will be altered forever…allegedly.
With B-list celebrities in the studio it’s hard to see the appeal – but believe me – this is a lot of fun -dumb fund – but still fun. Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvA6xWKVlKQ