This weekend (its started already) is the inaugural San Diego Surf Film Festival, and with a great line-up of shorts, full-lenghts, documentaries, and experimental work, we wish we could check out Through the Whiskey Barrel: A Film About Surfing In Scotland (it shows on Saturday, May 12, we have time). Trailer after the jump . . . Read More 
Universal Pictures, the studio behind the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman, announced a call for artists to submit work inspired by the film. The artwork submitted for the exhibition can be in any medium, and the winner will have his or her piece displayed in a pop-up gallery alongside the work of a prominent LA artist, as well as pieces by three-time Oscar-winner Colleen Atwood (costume designer on the film). Entrants must be 18 years of age, and the work submitted must not include any recognizable likenesses of the film’s stars. Read More 
Look down the list of "summer blockbusters" each year, and you see a lot of studios just dialing in hundreds of millions of $$s praying that something sticks. Most of the time, we get some Green Lantern nonsense, but occasionally we get something that appears to have a good thing going for it. We are going to assume that Christopher Nolan's final chapter of his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, will be entertaining enough and worth some popcorn and a jumbo soda pop, based off the official trailer... Read More 
Currently on view at the Whitney until February 12th are three films that Roy Lichtenstein produced during two-week residency at the Hollywood Universal Studios special effects lab back in February of 1969. Read More 
This intimate and personal documentary reveals the man behind the icon that is Ai Weiwei. The immensely influential Chinese artist is described as the "a god of love", "the Beijing Andy Warhol" and as "a brand for liberal thinking and individualism" and Alison Klayman investigates the person that lies underneath these grand titles. Read More 
CR Stecyk III, one of our founders and a legendary photographer, writer, and historian of all things art and culture, just finished a new film, FIN, set to be premiered at Hurley's H Space in Orange County on February 8, 2012. The premiere for Stecyk's film is also in conjunction with the release of a series of new tees that Stecyk created with Hurley. Trailer after the jump . . . Read More 
Don't pretend you are not excited just a tad. Wes Anderson is one of the leading Hollywood directors when it comes to proper art direction and set design, and his newest film, Moonrise Kingdom, is due in theatres May 2012. And yes, there seems to be a Bruce Willis x Ed Norton moment. Read More 
We went to see a special presentation of Francis Ford Coppola's newest feature film, TWIXT, recently in Napa County, California. Coppola, director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, wrote, produced, financed, and directed the film with a small team in Northern California, and now the art department for the film will be rebuilding sets from TWIXT at San Francisco's FIFTY24SF Gallery in the exhibition, Twixt sc. 83. Read More 
In exactly 2:42, innovative filmmaker Michel Gondry makes up for The Green Hornet. Mr. Gondry, featured in our January 2011 issue, recreates the infamous Robert De NIro starring film, Taxi Driver, in Gondry's signature, playful style. He's back. Read More 
There was mixed reviews of the movie Drive in our office (lots of people loved it, others were a bit down on it), but we really enjoyed seeing this animated tribute to the Ryan Gosling-starring feature film by the duo of Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku. As we get to the close of 2011, nice to look back on some of the films that got people talking. Read More |
