upcoming cinema
Sep. 4th, 2006 03:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksFinally, finally, finally there is a US release date for Terry Gilliam's Tideland-- first weekend in October.
It has been a very long wait for a real Terry Gilliam movie (The Brothers Grimm does not count as a real Terry Gilliam movie, as the studio didn't let him write it). I've winced as I heard of the implosion of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and the inability to find funds for Good Omens. Gilliam has put on celluloid some of the most original and bizarre images ever produced, some of the raw stuff of dreams, and the way he is quite often kept from working is genuinely horrible.
But he's made a new movie, with his salary from the one they wouldn't let him write, and it's been doing very well on the festival circuit.
Which it has been playing for over a year, with no actual theatrical distribution.
All I can say is, I'm sure it's a limited release but I hope it's a limited release that includes Boston, because I am getting really sick of waiting.
As to what it's about? Well, the official website won't load on my computer, choosing only to display a slightly disturbing picture of an acorn and the sentence 'the squirrels make it seem less lonely', and the reviewers have tended to limit themselves to 'I loved it', 'I hated it', or 'It ate my grandmother'. So I don't actually know.
Yay release date!
A couple other things of interest have release dates, too: Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, a film which is billed as being about, among other things, death, spaceships and the Fountain of Youth and which certainly sounds as though it has ambitions of being a Real Science Fiction Movie, will be out in late November; Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, a movie which had me at hello (and at the screenshot of the title character) will be out in early January next year. No notion as to whether either of these will be any good, but at least the attempts of the cinema to produce the genuine fantastic continue unabated.
But it's really the Gilliam that makes me jump up and down in delight.
It has been a very long wait for a real Terry Gilliam movie (The Brothers Grimm does not count as a real Terry Gilliam movie, as the studio didn't let him write it). I've winced as I heard of the implosion of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and the inability to find funds for Good Omens. Gilliam has put on celluloid some of the most original and bizarre images ever produced, some of the raw stuff of dreams, and the way he is quite often kept from working is genuinely horrible.
But he's made a new movie, with his salary from the one they wouldn't let him write, and it's been doing very well on the festival circuit.
Which it has been playing for over a year, with no actual theatrical distribution.
All I can say is, I'm sure it's a limited release but I hope it's a limited release that includes Boston, because I am getting really sick of waiting.
As to what it's about? Well, the official website won't load on my computer, choosing only to display a slightly disturbing picture of an acorn and the sentence 'the squirrels make it seem less lonely', and the reviewers have tended to limit themselves to 'I loved it', 'I hated it', or 'It ate my grandmother'. So I don't actually know.
Yay release date!
A couple other things of interest have release dates, too: Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, a film which is billed as being about, among other things, death, spaceships and the Fountain of Youth and which certainly sounds as though it has ambitions of being a Real Science Fiction Movie, will be out in late November; Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, a movie which had me at hello (and at the screenshot of the title character) will be out in early January next year. No notion as to whether either of these will be any good, but at least the attempts of the cinema to produce the genuine fantastic continue unabated.
But it's really the Gilliam that makes me jump up and down in delight.
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Date: 2006-09-04 08:19 am (UTC)http://youtube.com/watch?v=XXrN1375uN4
and after seeing that, I feel safe in saying that whatever else it is, Tideland is no Brothers Grimm. Wow.
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Date: 2006-09-04 08:53 am (UTC)And fabulous, fabulous icon to go with it.
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Date: 2006-09-04 03:23 pm (UTC)---L.
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