September 14 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 11:54 am
Ricky Gervais has signed on to star and co-direct his first major film project, called This Side of the Truth. It’s set in a contemporary world where no one has ever lied, and Gervais plays a performer who tells the first lie…
One Night Only: It’s all true — Led Zeppelin is reforming, but only for one evening. The band will play a show at London’s 22,000-capacity O2 arena on Nov. 26 as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records’ founder, the late Ahmet Ertegun…
Wax that Moustache, Al: NZ-born director Andrew Niccol (writer-director of Gattaca and Lord of War, writer of The Truman Show) will direct Cillian Murphy and Al Pacino in Dali & I: The Surreal Story. The movie spans the 1960s to 1980s, following Salvador Dali (Al Pacino) when most of his great work was behind him and he became more flamboyant. Murphy plays young art dealer Stan Lauryssen, shooting begins early 2008…
Dunno what you guys think, but Disney’s Tron was crap, wasn’t it? So why is it getting a sequel? (I suspect it has something to do with developing a spin-off video game)…
File under “real cute”: Second generation indie kids, in the back seat singing Pavement’s “Stereo”…
“Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face”: Top 20 movie hit men…
DOCNZ 2007: This year’s NZ Documentary Film Festival features No Nukes is Good Nukes!, about the grassroots nuclear free movement in New Zealand, and The Nuclear Comeback, about the nuclear industry being the saviour of global warming. Another local, Bidding for Camilla, follows an obsessed fan of former bFM host Camilla Martin as he tries to win the Auckland City Mission charity auction with Martin as the prize. The films will be screening at Academy Cinemas and SkyCity Queen St, Auckland from Sep 27—Oct 10 and Dunedin Oct 11—21, Christchurch Oct 25—Nov 4, Wellington Nov 8—21. Browse this year’s programme here…
Video: Chemical Brothers’ new song “The Salmon Dance”… read about how it was put together at Creative Review..