Maniac directed by Franck Khalfoun

Elijah Wood does make for a good serial killer, he kind of has a creepy look to him. It’s in the crazy eyes. The film is a remake of a 1980’s film, and it was directed by Franck Khalfoun. An intense uncensored teaser trailer has been released for it, and it contains some nudity and violence. 

The story follows “a serial killer who works at a shop that sells antique mannequins. He finds and stalks victims on the internet, while suffering from hallucinations that take him back to the past, where he suffered abuse at the hands of his own mother. In his twisted mind, he gets some degree of revenge against his mother with each murder he commits.”

Godard got it exactly backwards. Cinema is not truth 24 times a second, it is lies 24 times a second. Actors are pretending to be people they’re not, in situations and settings which are completely illusory. Day for night, dry for wet, Vancouver for New York, potato shavings for snow. The building is a thin-walled set, the sunlight is a Xenon, and the traffic noise is supplied by the sound designers. It’s all illusion, but the prize goes to those who make the fantasy the most real, the most visceral, the most involving. This sensation of truthfulness is vastly enhanced by the stereoscopic illusion.
~ James Cameron in 2008 (via directingfilm)

102 notes

Box Office: 'Avengers' Scores $80.5 Million, Second Biggest Friday Opening of All Time | THR

popculturebrain:

The tentpole now has a shot at debuting to $170 million, the biggest opening of all time in North America.

Whoa. But the real question is, will The Dark Knight Rises beat it?

59 notes

totalfilm: Before They Were Superheroes

totalfilm:

Before They Were Superheroes

335 notes

assemblage2011: Jack Pierson FAME, 2005 Plastic, metal, wood and neon 160 x 45 x 4 inches

assemblage2011:

Jack Pierson
FAME, 2005
Plastic, metal, wood and neon
160 x 45 x 4 inches

5,785 notes

nevver: Make it Count

nevver:

Make it Count

1,056 notes

17272dorsetave: The Films Of Billy Wilder: A Retrospective While we list only his directorial work below, Wilder considered himself a writer first and foremost and attained quite some pre-directorial success with screenplays co-written with Charles Brackett, especially those directed by fellow immigrant and mentor Ernst Lubitsch (to his dying day, Wilder’s office was graced by a plaque reading “How would Lubitsch do it?”). And several pictures after his eventual split with Brackett came the second important, multi-picture writing partnership of Wilder’s career, with I.A.L. Diamond. But while Wilder always wrote in collaboration, the throughline is definitely his own. Perhaps to compensate for his initially faltering English, he developed an ear for the American vernacular that was simply unparalleled, and, boy, did he have a way with a joke. His detractors (we guess they exist, though we try to avoid them at parties) have accused his dialogue style of being too constructed, too unnaturalistic. They say, perhaps imitating Jack Lemmon imitating Tony Curtis imitating Cary Grant “Nobody talks like that” and perhaps they’re right — really, nobody did. Except maybe, judging from the plethora of witty, insightful, delightful late-career interviews he gave, Wilder himself. Continue reading…

17272dorsetave:

The Films Of Billy Wilder: A Retrospective

While we list only his directorial work below, Wilder considered himself a writer first and foremost and attained quite some pre-directorial success with screenplays co-written with Charles Brackett, especially those directed by fellow immigrant and mentor Ernst Lubitsch (to his dying day, Wilder’s office was graced by a plaque reading “How would Lubitsch do it?”). And several pictures after his eventual split with Brackett came the second important, multi-picture writing partnership of Wilder’s career, with I.A.L. Diamond.

But while Wilder always wrote in collaboration, the throughline is definitely his own. Perhaps to compensate for his initially faltering English, he developed an ear for the American vernacular that was simply unparalleled, and, boy, did he have a way with a joke. His detractors (we guess they exist, though we try to avoid them at parties) have accused his dialogue style of being too constructed, too unnaturalistic. They say, perhaps imitating Jack Lemmon imitating Tony Curtis imitating Cary Grant “Nobody talks like that” and perhaps they’re right — really, nobody did. Except maybe, judging from the plethora of witty, insightful, delightful late-career interviews he gave, Wilder himself.

Continue reading…

98 notes

2012 Oscar Winners

totalfilm: 50 Most Cringeworthy Movie Performances

totalfilm:

50 Most Cringeworthy Movie Performances

210 notes

popculturebrain:

Vandaveon and Mike Review Key and Peele Episode 1

Great web bonus. 

8 notes