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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009: Watching the Watchers ("Shirin," Kiarostami, Iran)
23Jun09
Abbas Kiarostami's new experimental film stars Juliette Binoche among a cast of women who are audience members of a movie that Kiarostami never shows us, instead focusing on the women's faces.
Now in theaters: "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (Scott, USA)
22Jun09
What do we do with Tony Scott’s new film, another movie version of John Godey’s book, and an old-school picture of conventional urban crime in an era where such a thing is only understandable as terrorism?
Province of the Wretched, Part I: Lockdown
22Jun09
Linked by their concerns with sexuality, if not by the near simultaneous release of their films on DVD, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to that needling New Wave that began slightly after the more famous French version.
pages from a cold island: (NO) FEAR OF FLYING
17Jun09
A collection of the dramatic critical and official reactions to Lars von Trier's new film, _Antichrist_, which premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival to much controversy.
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Daniel Kasman
on Thu 13 Nov at 05:27 PM
Homage or complete and total rip-off?
And what are Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind up to nowadays anyway?
Adrian Curry
on Thu 13 Nov at 05:34 PM
I was thinking total rip-off until the 2012 flood mirrored the Shining’s cascading blood…
Daniel Kasman
on Thu 13 Nov at 05:41 PM
Also relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHm6UywRTw
Maybe I don’t have a problem with this; contemporary trailers so lack inventiveness that blatant stealing from great trailers at least puts you one step closer to greatness…
NEH 家家
on Fri 14 Nov at 08:45 PM
This is an acceptable homage (is that an oxymoron?).
I wouldn’t call it a rip-off; I’m sure this footage is in the film & in post the director decided to use the music from The Shining’s teaser for their teaser.
I gotta say though, the funniest part is that instead of a website it says “Google Search: 2012” after saying ‘find out the truth’. What pessimistically presumptuous nonsense.
I’m going to laugh heartily once 2013 rolls around.
Daniel Kasman
on Fri 14 Nov at 09:11 PM
I didn’t even see that Nathan, good catch very bizarre. I’m thinking it may be a viral marketing thing, perhaps they’ve planted sites that relate to the film that would come up under those search conditions…