While it may be close to a decade since Bloodborne released, has the obsession among its loyalists dimmed? Hell, no! Bloodborne fans are called to get ready for a spin-off of the game. And as Bloodborne fans, missing this upcoming game would be a huge missed opportunity.
Nightmare Kart
Bloodborne has been released for PlayStation only, leaving a void among the PC users who have for years been demanding a PC version of the game. Although that may still be a distant dream, the upcoming fan-made spin-off could give PC players a fair taste of Bloodborne on their desktop.
What is Nightmare Kart?
Nightmare Kart was previously called Bloodborne Kart and was set to release by the end of January 2024. However, Sony’s intervention did not let it happen. Nonetheless, the creators made the necessary changes to the earlier version and are now all set to release the Steam title.
Nightmare Kart
Bloodborne has been released for PlayStation only, leaving a void among the PC users who have for years been demanding a PC version of the game. Although that may still be a distant dream, the upcoming fan-made spin-off could give PC players a fair taste of Bloodborne on their desktop.
What is Nightmare Kart?
Nightmare Kart was previously called Bloodborne Kart and was set to release by the end of January 2024. However, Sony’s intervention did not let it happen. Nonetheless, the creators made the necessary changes to the earlier version and are now all set to release the Steam title.
- 4/4/2024
- by Amarylisa Gonsalves
- FandomWire
AlleyCatz, an unassuming bowling alley in a fictional California town, isn’t compelling to passersby or potential customers from the outside. The venue run by Mozell (Sister Sister’s Jackée Harry) has a drab brick exterior, a monument to the sad architecture of suburban shopping centers. It doesn’t offer much when you walk inside either. The lanes need waxing, the bar requires tending and the equipment is in various stages of disrepair. Some people might take one look at AlleyCatz and run, but Walt (Shameik Moore), the silly protagonist of Yassir and Isaiah Lester’s boisterous directorial debut The Gutter, doesn’t have a choice. He needs a job.
The young man, who prefers to live life without a shirt, has been fired from more gigs than he can count. In a particularly amusing early sequence, Walt recounts his shoddy employment history to Mozell, whose face becomes increasingly disturbed with each revelation.
The young man, who prefers to live life without a shirt, has been fired from more gigs than he can count. In a particularly amusing early sequence, Walt recounts his shoddy employment history to Mozell, whose face becomes increasingly disturbed with each revelation.
- 3/17/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Never tell Hollywood it can’t do something. Over the years, the entertainment industry has gamely (and, often, unwisely) taken on projects that have been deemed unadaptable, often by their very own authors and creators. Such a film is bound for the big screen later this week, when Nikolaj Arcel’s already embattled “The Dark Tower” arrives, attempting to prove to audiences that adapting a sprawling Stephen King opus into a movie and television franchise after nearly a decade of starts and stops is, in fact, a good idea. It’s hardly the only example of such a gamble, and few similar attempts have managed to pay out, either financially or creatively.
Read More‘The Dark Tower’ Tested So Poorly That Sony Considered Replacing Director — Report
Sometimes “unadaptable” is just that, and perhaps even the best of books simply isn’t suited for a splashy filmed version. While it remains...
Read More‘The Dark Tower’ Tested So Poorly That Sony Considered Replacing Director — Report
Sometimes “unadaptable” is just that, and perhaps even the best of books simply isn’t suited for a splashy filmed version. While it remains...
- 8/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Out of the Dark, Travelogue of Horror, and The Hunted, a trailer for The Scribbler and The Pyramid, a look at The Walker Stalkers’s music video Talk Dead to Me, advanced screening details for L.A. Slasher, and much more:
Out of the Dark Release Details and Photos: “Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media today announced that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.
Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.
Out of the Dark Release Details and Photos: “Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media today announced that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.
Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.
- 8/31/2014
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The distributor has taken Us rights to Participant Media’s supernatural thriller starring Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman and has scheduled an early 2015 theatrical release. Bloom handles international sales.
Out Of The Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family embarking on a new life is forced to confront ancient legends and a family secret. Stephen Rea also stars.
Lluís Quílez shot the Spain-Colombia thriller in Colombia and directed from a screenplay by Alex Pastor, David Pastor and Javier Gullón.
Vertical will present the film in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. Out Of The Dark is produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower and Fast Producciones in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.
Belén Atienza, Cristian Conti, Enrique López Lavigne and Andrés Calderón produced and the executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Roy Azout and Nick Spicer.
Vertical brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films and Jeff Ivers for Participant...
Out Of The Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family embarking on a new life is forced to confront ancient legends and a family secret. Stephen Rea also stars.
Lluís Quílez shot the Spain-Colombia thriller in Colombia and directed from a screenplay by Alex Pastor, David Pastor and Javier Gullón.
Vertical will present the film in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. Out Of The Dark is produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower and Fast Producciones in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.
Belén Atienza, Cristian Conti, Enrique López Lavigne and Andrés Calderón produced and the executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Roy Azout and Nick Spicer.
Vertical brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films and Jeff Ivers for Participant...
- 8/25/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The supernatural thriller starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea has been tapped for an early 2015 theatrical release. No date has been set, but Vertical Entertainment, which acquired the U.S. rights to Out Of The Dark from Participant Media, is looking at February as a possible theatrical release month. Traditionally, supernatural thrillers and horror films do well at the beginning of the year. The deal was announced today.
Out Of The Dark, directed by first-timer Lluis Quilez, is a ghost story about a new family in South America who must confront ancient legends, ghosts and a “haunting family secret.” The picture will be presented by Vertical in association not only with Participant but also Image Nation, having been produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower, and Fast Producciones, in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.
Related: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Inhabit Haunted House Pic ‘Out Of The Dark’
The...
Out Of The Dark, directed by first-timer Lluis Quilez, is a ghost story about a new family in South America who must confront ancient legends, ghosts and a “haunting family secret.” The picture will be presented by Vertical in association not only with Participant but also Image Nation, having been produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower, and Fast Producciones, in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.
Related: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Inhabit Haunted House Pic ‘Out Of The Dark’
The...
- 8/25/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
It's been a long while since last we talked about the new horror flick starring Julia Stiles, Out of the Dark, but with the passage of time have come new stills and more. Read on for the details, and look for more on this one soon!
From the Press Release
Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media announce that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.
Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.
Out of the Dark will be presented by Vertical in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. It is a production of Apaches Entertainment,...
From the Press Release
Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media announce that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.
Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.
Out of the Dark will be presented by Vertical in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. It is a production of Apaches Entertainment,...
- 8/25/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Participant Media's supernatural thriller “Out of the Dark,” which stars Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea, the companies announced Monday. Vertical is planning an early 2015 theatrical release for the film, which is a ghost story set in South America. Story follows a young family whose promising new life becomes terrifying when they're forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts and a haunting family secret. Also read: Julia Stiles’ YouTube Series ‘Blue’ Coming to Hulu in TV-Length Episodes “Out of the Dark” will be presented by Vertical in association with Participant Media and Image Nation.
- 8/25/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Composer Max Richter on Zadie Smith, the Edinburgh festival and why he has a soft spot for James Joyce's Ulysses
Composer Max Richter was born in Germany, and moved to the UK as a child. As a founding member of the contemporary classical group Piano Circus, he commissioned and performed music by composers including Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe. On the solo albums that followed, he collaborated with the likes of actress Tilda Swinton, musician Robert Wyatt and DJ/ producer Roni Size. In 2008, the Royal Ballet commissioned him to compose the music for Infra, choreographed by Wayne McGregor, with whom he later worked on the chamber opera, Sum (2012). Richter's work has featured in films such as Shutter Island (2010), and he penned the original soundtrack to Waltz with Bashir (2008). He has also provided music for several art installations, including rAndom International's Rain Room at the Barbican. In 2012, Richter...
Composer Max Richter was born in Germany, and moved to the UK as a child. As a founding member of the contemporary classical group Piano Circus, he commissioned and performed music by composers including Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe. On the solo albums that followed, he collaborated with the likes of actress Tilda Swinton, musician Robert Wyatt and DJ/ producer Roni Size. In 2008, the Royal Ballet commissioned him to compose the music for Infra, choreographed by Wayne McGregor, with whom he later worked on the chamber opera, Sum (2012). Richter's work has featured in films such as Shutter Island (2010), and he penned the original soundtrack to Waltz with Bashir (2008). He has also provided music for several art installations, including rAndom International's Rain Room at the Barbican. In 2012, Richter...
- 1/26/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
Sundance Channel has assembled the international cast of its eight-part miniseries The Honourable Woman starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and directed by Hugo Blick. Joining Gyllenhaal is Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line) as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle — a top M16 spy on the verge of retirement, digging deep into the family of Nessa Stein (Gyllenhaal). His bitter ex-wife Anjelica is played by Lindsay Duncan (The Hollow Crown). Janet McTeer (Damages) plays the Head of MI6 Julia Walsh, who has a personal hold over Hayden-Hoyle (Rea). Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch) will play Nessa Stein’s brother Ephra Stein — seemingly over-shadowed by his sister within the Stein family business. He is joined by Katherine Parkinson (Sherlock) as his highly strung pregnant wife Rachel Stein. British theatre and television actress Eve Best (Nurse Jackie) is Monica Chatwin, a key MI6 agent from the Washington Bureau – spoiling for a fight with her UK counterparts. Belgian actress Lubna Azbal (Incendies,...
- 7/29/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Mel Brooks: Comedy As The Currency Of Friendship
By Eddy Friedfeld
(Photo copyright Steven R. Stack)
Mel Brooks is profiled in a superb American Masters documentary entitled Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, which premieres nationally on PBS stations on May 20th. One of 14 Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners, he has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer, and shows few signs of slowing down. With new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Rob Reiner, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man, Carl Reiner. A DVD with bonus material will be available Tuesday, May 21 from Shout Factory.
"When they called me to say I had been chosen as the next 'American Master,' I thought they said I was chosen to be the next Dutch Master. So I figured what the hell,...
By Eddy Friedfeld
(Photo copyright Steven R. Stack)
Mel Brooks is profiled in a superb American Masters documentary entitled Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, which premieres nationally on PBS stations on May 20th. One of 14 Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners, he has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer, and shows few signs of slowing down. With new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Rob Reiner, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man, Carl Reiner. A DVD with bonus material will be available Tuesday, May 21 from Shout Factory.
"When they called me to say I had been chosen as the next 'American Master,' I thought they said I was chosen to be the next Dutch Master. So I figured what the hell,...
- 5/17/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Irish film, television and stage actor Milo O’Shea, known for his roles in the cult classic Barbarella, Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo And Juliet, and Ulysses, has died. He passed away Tuesday in New York after a short illness, according to the Telegraph. He was 86. O’Shea had a wide range of roles throughout his career, which included guest stints on several U.S. television series including Cheers, Frasier, The Golden Girls, St Elsewhere and The West Wing. His early years were spent on the stage, first in his hometown of Dublin then in the UK where he appeared in Glory Be! at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. His first starring film role was as protagonist Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The next year he appeared as mad scientist Dr. Durand Durand in the cult classic Barbarella with Jane Fonda and as Friar Laurence...
- 4/3/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
From James Bond's boiled eggs to Queequeg's beefsteak, the first bite of the day is one of literature's less celebrated themes
In fiction, breakfast is far from omnipresent. We generally assume that it must be happening but, like a character going to the loo or scratching their knee, off-camera. When the American poet Anne Sexton declared that breakfast is "the sexiest meal of the day", she may as well have been saying "it's another of those things we don't talk about".
When we do witness breakfast, it is usually because the author is trying to tell us something about the person eating it. Breakfast is the most habitual meal of the day, a routine so key to inner wellbeing that Hunter S Thompson called it a "psychic anchor", drawing, uncharacteristically, on an image of weighty predictability. If somebody is having toast with marmalade this morning (or, in the case of Thompson,...
In fiction, breakfast is far from omnipresent. We generally assume that it must be happening but, like a character going to the loo or scratching their knee, off-camera. When the American poet Anne Sexton declared that breakfast is "the sexiest meal of the day", she may as well have been saying "it's another of those things we don't talk about".
When we do witness breakfast, it is usually because the author is trying to tell us something about the person eating it. Breakfast is the most habitual meal of the day, a routine so key to inner wellbeing that Hunter S Thompson called it a "psychic anchor", drawing, uncharacteristically, on an image of weighty predictability. If somebody is having toast with marmalade this morning (or, in the case of Thompson,...
- 2/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
By Rachel Bennett
Television Editor & Columnist
***
They say the third time’s the charm, and that appears to be the case for writer-director Rian Johnson.
Looper, Johnson’s third and most ambitious feature , opened on Sept. 28 and quickly became one of the year’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful releases. The story of a man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) assigned to kill the 30-years-older version of himself (Bruce Willis) after time-travel is discovered, it’s a rare blockbuster that’s both creative and smart. It has thus earned Johnson comparisons to fellow filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Darren Aronofsky.
Oh, and Looper is also immensely profitable: made on a mid-range budget of just $30 million, it grossed $66 million at the U.S. box-office and another $97 million abroad. How many other 2012 films can compete with those profit-margins?
Looper marks the second large collaboration between Johnson and star Gordon-Levitt, who worked together on Johnson’s first feature,...
Television Editor & Columnist
***
They say the third time’s the charm, and that appears to be the case for writer-director Rian Johnson.
Looper, Johnson’s third and most ambitious feature , opened on Sept. 28 and quickly became one of the year’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful releases. The story of a man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) assigned to kill the 30-years-older version of himself (Bruce Willis) after time-travel is discovered, it’s a rare blockbuster that’s both creative and smart. It has thus earned Johnson comparisons to fellow filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Darren Aronofsky.
Oh, and Looper is also immensely profitable: made on a mid-range budget of just $30 million, it grossed $66 million at the U.S. box-office and another $97 million abroad. How many other 2012 films can compete with those profit-margins?
Looper marks the second large collaboration between Johnson and star Gordon-Levitt, who worked together on Johnson’s first feature,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Rachel Bennett
- Scott Feinberg
The Hammer Museum gets all literary June 16 with its third annual celebration of James Joyce's classic novel "Ulysses." A cast of seasoned actors, including Bairbre Dowling, James Gallo, Kevin Kearns, and Colin Simon, re-enacts the "Aeolus" chapter of the massive tome, in which Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus almost encounter each other in the offices of a Dublin newspaper. Whether or not you're brave enough to join in and read aloud, you can still enjoy live Irish music by the Sweet Set and, perhaps best of all, a Guinness happy hour. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. 4 p.m. Free. www.hammer.ucla.edu.
- 6/14/2012
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
Vicki Sher: Yes/No frosh&portmann Through April 15, 2012
Vicki Sher has been using a reduced visual vocabulary in her drawings for many years, combining simple line and color drawings with text to create oblique narratives. In her recent exhibition, Yes/No, she elaborates on this strategy, weaving a story, both personal and symbolic, of her Grandmother Pearl's post-stroke search for a descriptive language, based on her diminished capacity for speech. Sher integrates Pearl's story with one of the great modernist tropes in both painting and literature: the ability to describe and illustrate complex thinking through limited means.
The history of this type of art making is long: Malevich's "Black Square" (1915), James Joyce's Molly Bloom ("yesyesyes"), and, in music, Satie and Schoenberg. Gerhard Richter, no stranger to taking the personal out of painting, wrote, "The making of pictures consists of a large number of yes and no decisions and...
Vicki Sher has been using a reduced visual vocabulary in her drawings for many years, combining simple line and color drawings with text to create oblique narratives. In her recent exhibition, Yes/No, she elaborates on this strategy, weaving a story, both personal and symbolic, of her Grandmother Pearl's post-stroke search for a descriptive language, based on her diminished capacity for speech. Sher integrates Pearl's story with one of the great modernist tropes in both painting and literature: the ability to describe and illustrate complex thinking through limited means.
The history of this type of art making is long: Malevich's "Black Square" (1915), James Joyce's Molly Bloom ("yesyesyes"), and, in music, Satie and Schoenberg. Gerhard Richter, no stranger to taking the personal out of painting, wrote, "The making of pictures consists of a large number of yes and no decisions and...
- 3/15/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection James Joyce in 1904
At 8 am, there will be top hats in Bryant park, as people in Edwardian dress gather to hear some of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” Downtown at Ulysses’ pub, there will be readings, complimentary drinks, and music. And from noon to 1 am, 85 performers will read from in 135 slots from Joyce’s novel at Symphony Space for Bloomsday on Broadway’s 30th anniversary.
And that’s just New York. People will be...
At 8 am, there will be top hats in Bryant park, as people in Edwardian dress gather to hear some of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” Downtown at Ulysses’ pub, there will be readings, complimentary drinks, and music. And from noon to 1 am, 85 performers will read from in 135 slots from Joyce’s novel at Symphony Space for Bloomsday on Broadway’s 30th anniversary.
And that’s just New York. People will be...
- 6/16/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The greatest dog book is now the greatest dog film
There are many methods for turning your life into a piece of performance art, and one of them is to get a dog. A dog is a wild experiment. Or so you can argue by observing the example of Jr Ackerley, who was a friend of Forster and Woolf, editor of the Listener, determined prowler for boys and the owner, for 15 of her 16½ years, of a German shepherd called Queenie, whom he described, under a transformed name, in his memoir My Dog Tulip – first published in 1965, two years before he died aged 71 – which has now been made into a gorgeous animated film by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger.
This book is the greatest of dog books, and now this film is the greatest of dog films – to invent two unnecessary genres – but before the unprepared reader imagines an account of cuteness,...
There are many methods for turning your life into a piece of performance art, and one of them is to get a dog. A dog is a wild experiment. Or so you can argue by observing the example of Jr Ackerley, who was a friend of Forster and Woolf, editor of the Listener, determined prowler for boys and the owner, for 15 of her 16½ years, of a German shepherd called Queenie, whom he described, under a transformed name, in his memoir My Dog Tulip – first published in 1965, two years before he died aged 71 – which has now been made into a gorgeous animated film by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger.
This book is the greatest of dog books, and now this film is the greatest of dog films – to invent two unnecessary genres – but before the unprepared reader imagines an account of cuteness,...
- 4/30/2011
- by Adam Thirlwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Maverick director best known for his film of Ulysses – widely seen as a noble failure
There must be something quixotic about a director who sets out to make a film of James Joyce's Ulysses. A passionate Joycean, Joseph Strick, who has died aged 86, was undeterred by the challenge and the obstacles: "Even before I made it, people were saying it was unfilmable. I think the truth is, some people just find the book unreadable."
The iconoclastic Strick first envisaged an 18-hour version, faithful to every word, but unsurprisingly he could not get anyone to finance it. When the final two-hour version, shot in Dublin, was completed in 1967, it fell foul of censorship – just like the novel. The British Board of Film Censors requested 29 cuts to remove sexual references from Molly Bloom's final, expletive-laden soliloquy. Strick obliged by replacing all of the offending footage with a blank screen and a high-pitched shrieking sound.
There must be something quixotic about a director who sets out to make a film of James Joyce's Ulysses. A passionate Joycean, Joseph Strick, who has died aged 86, was undeterred by the challenge and the obstacles: "Even before I made it, people were saying it was unfilmable. I think the truth is, some people just find the book unreadable."
The iconoclastic Strick first envisaged an 18-hour version, faithful to every word, but unsurprisingly he could not get anyone to finance it. When the final two-hour version, shot in Dublin, was completed in 1967, it fell foul of censorship – just like the novel. The British Board of Film Censors requested 29 cuts to remove sexual references from Molly Bloom's final, expletive-laden soliloquy. Strick obliged by replacing all of the offending footage with a blank screen and a high-pitched shrieking sound.
- 6/17/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Today, in various places around the world, men are dressing in bowler hats and suspenders, and women are wearing Edwardian-era dresses. The more sedate of them will drink tea at public readings; the more boisterous will eat kidneys and go on pub crawls, drinking Bass Ale. Why? Because today is Bloomsday!
Held to commemorate June 16th, 1904, the day on which the fictional events of James Joyce's novel Ulysses take place, Bloomsday is a celebration of Leopold Bloom and his wanderings and...
Held to commemorate June 16th, 1904, the day on which the fictional events of James Joyce's novel Ulysses take place, Bloomsday is a celebration of Leopold Bloom and his wanderings and...
- 6/17/2010
- by Brendan Blom
- CultureMagazine.ca
Every June 16, the entire country (world?) stops what they are doing to celebrate Bloomsday, the preeminent secular holiday honoring James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. For on this day in 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, the protagonists of Joyce’s odyssey, wandered around Dublin for enough pages to cement their rightful place in the canon. One hundred and six years later, we celebrate this most prolix accomplishment the only way we know how: with abbreviated, efficient gaiety. Join us, as we recall the story of Ulysses in a series of 18 tweets, each one a modern abridgement of each of the novel’s 18 chapters.
- 6/16/2010
- Vanity Fair
Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve finished a book, set it down, and said to yourself: man, I’d love to see a movie version of that — if it wasn’t totally impossible. Some novels are just unfilmable — too complex, too unstructured, too far inside the heads of its characters, too suited to the written word. But if you’re a movie lover, there’s always that part of you that wants to see one anyway.
So our latest poll posed a question: of a handful of the most famously “unfilmable” novels, which one would you really want to see made anyway? Below are the results — including explanations on why they’re deemed unfilmable, and what steps — if any — people have taken over the years to try to film them.
1. Ender’s Game – 56 Votes
What it’s about:
In the future, humanity has hesitantly banded together...
So our latest poll posed a question: of a handful of the most famously “unfilmable” novels, which one would you really want to see made anyway? Below are the results — including explanations on why they’re deemed unfilmable, and what steps — if any — people have taken over the years to try to film them.
1. Ender’s Game – 56 Votes
What it’s about:
In the future, humanity has hesitantly banded together...
- 6/11/2010
- by Michael Dance
- Movie Cultists
Vincenzo Natali thinks not – and the director who gave us the cult sci-fi brainteaser Cube is determined to prove it
"If it can be imagined, it can be filmed," is a quote often attributed to Stanley Kubrick. In recent years, film-makers have proved him both right and wrong. Last year, I felt Zack Snyder made a more than decent bash of bringing the dense and multi-stranded Watchmen to the big screen, while in the past decade we've even seen The Lord of the Rings, once considered too long and flowery for Hollywood, turned into a blockbuster trilogy by Peter Jackson. On the other hand, critical reaction to Tom Tykwer's 2006 adaptation of the decidedly unfilmic Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was pretty mixed, and neither Joseph Strick's 1967 attempt, nor Sean Walsh's Bloom in 2004 really got under the skin of James Joyce's Ulysses, surely the ultimate unfilmable novel.
"If it can be imagined, it can be filmed," is a quote often attributed to Stanley Kubrick. In recent years, film-makers have proved him both right and wrong. Last year, I felt Zack Snyder made a more than decent bash of bringing the dense and multi-stranded Watchmen to the big screen, while in the past decade we've even seen The Lord of the Rings, once considered too long and flowery for Hollywood, turned into a blockbuster trilogy by Peter Jackson. On the other hand, critical reaction to Tom Tykwer's 2006 adaptation of the decidedly unfilmic Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was pretty mixed, and neither Joseph Strick's 1967 attempt, nor Sean Walsh's Bloom in 2004 really got under the skin of James Joyce's Ulysses, surely the ultimate unfilmable novel.
- 5/14/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Colin Firth is mesmerising as a bereaved gay man with a death wish in fashion designer Tom Ford's superb debut
Christopher Isherwood was one of the great prose writers of the 20th century, a man of complexity, honesty and wit, and the fashion designer Tom Ford, making his carefully stylised directorial debut, has done an altogether admirable job of bringing to the screen what many regard as his best novel.
Born in 1904, Isherwood grew up with the cinema, was fascinated by the relationship between literature and the new medium, and his most famous line occurs his most celebrated book, Goodbye to Berlin: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Over the years he worked frequently on movies (his masterly novella, Prater Violet, was based on his experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend), and when he and Wh Auden left Britain just...
Christopher Isherwood was one of the great prose writers of the 20th century, a man of complexity, honesty and wit, and the fashion designer Tom Ford, making his carefully stylised directorial debut, has done an altogether admirable job of bringing to the screen what many regard as his best novel.
Born in 1904, Isherwood grew up with the cinema, was fascinated by the relationship between literature and the new medium, and his most famous line occurs his most celebrated book, Goodbye to Berlin: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Over the years he worked frequently on movies (his masterly novella, Prater Violet, was based on his experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend), and when he and Wh Auden left Britain just...
- 2/15/2010
- by Philip French, Colin Firth
- The Guardian - Film News
Let me open by saying, outright, that Rian Johnson's debut film-noir/high school crossover, Brick, absolutely floored me. I saw, in that film, a true homage built on and aimed at, a love for a genre that was somehow beyond affection. A great movie and a story that portrayed a specialised and well crafted knack for dialogue and plot that even Tarantino couldn't muster. It had a small powerful heart. There was no pretension or slyness that tied itself to the film (yes there was a style and a theme which enhanced it for effect...) but it seamed to have a pulse and a life of its own without immediately prodding you, self consciously, to do nothing but remember other films. Despite the numerous allusions to Dasheil Hammet's writing and film noir as a whole it stood up on its own two legs. It lived inside an overly revisited...
- 10/6/2009
- by Neil Innes
- t5m.com
Fair warning: I begin with a parable, continue with vast generalizations, finally get around to an argument with Entertainment Weekly, and move on to Greek gods, "I Love Lucy" and a house on fire.
The parable, The lodestars of John Doe's life are his wife, his children, his boss, his mistress, and his pastor. There are more, but these will do. He expects his wife to be grateful for his loyalty. His children to accept him as a mentor. His boss to value him as a worker. His mistress to praise him as a sex machine. His pastor to note his devotion. These are the roles he has assigned them, and for the most part they play them.
In their own lives, his wife feels he has been over-rewarded for his loyalty, since she has done all the heavy lifting. His children don't understand why there are so many stupid rules.
The parable, The lodestars of John Doe's life are his wife, his children, his boss, his mistress, and his pastor. There are more, but these will do. He expects his wife to be grateful for his loyalty. His children to accept him as a mentor. His boss to value him as a worker. His mistress to praise him as a sex machine. His pastor to note his devotion. These are the roles he has assigned them, and for the most part they play them.
In their own lives, his wife feels he has been over-rewarded for his loyalty, since she has done all the heavy lifting. His children don't understand why there are so many stupid rules.
- 11/12/2008
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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