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5 days ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez |Eric Henderson
In a 1999 interview with LA Weekly, Armond White said, “Spike [Lee] has become a first-rate marketer—he knows what a young audience wants, and he supplies it. Spike picks hot topics—basketball, interracial dating—but that doesn’t mean you break ground. Barbara Walters picks hot topics every day.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
The release date of Grand Theft Auto VI has been pushed more times than we can count. The reasons all make sense, but they couldn’t be any more startlingly clear than when they’re staring at you right in the face.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
Earlier this month, it was announced that Japan Society and Metrograph had partnered on a 30-film retrospective of Japanese master Naruse Mikio, the first major survey of his work to screen in New York in 20 years.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
When the Cannes lineup was announced last month, one of the more noticeable omissions was Spike Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a “reinterpretation” of Kurosawa Akira’s 1963 masterpiece High and Low. Then, one hour later, Lee took to his Instagram to confirm that that the film would indeed premiere at the festival, in the out of competition sidebar, and alongside the final Mission: Impossible film.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
The marketing folk over at Sony are cheeky monkeys. When I saw the email this morning announcing the new trailer for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, I was greeted by the desiccated face of the man who, in the film’s first trailer, was mistakingly reported to be that of Cillian Murphy. Did Jim from 28 Days Later become infected by the Rage virus?
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Jordan Cronk |Ed Gonzalez
Allan Dwan was one of Hollywood’s most prolific directors, working from the silent era through the golden age of the studio system. The Toronto-born filmmaker made somewhere north of 400 films—many of them woefully obscure, unavailable, or lost—during his career, and in a variety of genres and registers.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
Winner of the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers, The Life of Chuck now has an official trailer.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Matt Noller |Ed Gonzalez
During the troubled production of Ashes of Time, which was supposed to be his third film, Wong Kar-wai took some time off and did what anyone in his position would do: made another movie. And he did it with a fast-paced, highly improvisatory shooting schedule, writing pages of the script during the day and shooting them at night. The result, Chungking Express, is among Wong’s most exciting films and is an early precursor to the expressive odes to romantic longing that have come to define his work.
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1 month ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
The guessing game around which films could make the lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13—24, came to an end this morning at a press conference in Paris by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch.
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2 months ago | 
slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez
We’re very excited by the prospect of seeing a big-screen adaptation of Death Stranding, even if the bulk of its runtime consists of Norman Reedus trekking across Icelandic-looking landscapes while carrying weird shit inside his arsenal of carriers. And today, we find ourselves especially excited by the news that Michael Sarnorski, director of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, has been tapped to direct the film for A24 and Kojima Productions.
