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Will be keeping an eye out for this one. Looks magnificent.
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I have a feeling that this film will fit into that rare category of films I’m utterly fascinated by — from the backstory, to the script and plot and the cinematography and everything in-between.
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The poster for Escape From Tomorrow, the Disney World guerilla-shot film, really does look as surreal as the film sounds.
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Escape From Tomorrow, a film secretly filmed at Disney World, sounds like the most interesting and controversial film coming out of Sundance right now. I recommend reading Indiewire’s review (A-), Hitfix’s review (B+), this LA Times article, this New York Times blog post, this blog post on Fandor and 5 questions with Randy Moore, the guy behind the film. It’s up there with Spring Breakers on my list of must-see films.
To attempt to describe the plot of “Escape” is to go down a rabbit hole as disorienting as any amusement park ride. Basically, the film is about a down-on-his luck fortysomething father (Roy Abramsohn) on the last day of a Disney World vacation with his henpecking wife and their two angelic children. As he takes his children to various attractions, the father is haunted by disturbing imagery; he is also, in the meantime (and with his children in tow), tailing two young flirtatious French girls around the park. Airy musical compositions you might find in classic Hollywood films play over many of these scenes, giving a light shading to the darker moments. -
This trailer for the Polish Sundance entry, Lasting, shows off some of its stunning cinematography.
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It feels awesome to finally see the trailer, the film looks like a winner.
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Mia Wasikowska looks like ideal casting in this trailer for Stoker. The fact that it’s the director of Oldboy doesn’t hurt one bit either.
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Still from The Invisible (2007) based on the 2002 Swedish film Den Osynlige, which was further based on the 2000 novel of same name. I only learned this at the very end, though. The film was not what I thought it was — it ended up becoming a better version of The Lovely Bones, at least in the cinema department, as for the novels I have no idea. But in the end the film was constantly surprising and engaging and lead up to a worthy conclusion.
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Somehow everything seems much cooler in Japanese.
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Still from Les Amitiés Particulières (or This Special Friendship), a brave French film from 1964. I recently learned that Moto Hagio, who wrote The Heart of Thomas (which I’m currently reading and loving) based the manga on that film.
Part of the, uhm, allure, I guess, about the film is that the author Roger Peyrefitte was involved in the following:
On the set of the film, Peyrefitte met the 12-year-old aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d’Argens de Villèle who had been cast as a choir boy and was a big fan of the book. Not only did Peyrefitte sign Alain-Philippe’s copy of the book but the two also fell in love, pursuing a stormy relationship that Peyrefitte chronicled in some of his later novels such as Notre Amour (1967) and L’Enfant de cœur (1978).He was 57 at the time. To make matters even stranger he would later adopt Alain-Philippe.Then:Alain-Philippe Malagnac was later married to the French entertainer Amanda Lear and died in a house fire in 2000 at the age of forty-nine, shortly after Peyrefitte’s death. It is unknown whether this was a suicide, even though Peyrefitte in his novels describes a “suicide pact” between the two, i.e. their intention to commit suicide if the other one dies.Equally sad and beautiful, if true, in a meta kind of way.
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