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A Banned Hungarian Poster for SHAME
yeeeaahh… i’m just gonna go ahead and say that this may have crossed a line or two. not lines that go anywhere by me, for the record but… ya know. putting this next to the ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED stand-in might cause some trouble.
but yes, i’d tend to agree that by the time you’re ejaculating fully formed words that articulate your precise brand of inner pain… it’s probably time to seek help.
(via salesonfilm)
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2011: A VIDEO COUNTDOWN
there are gonna be lots of “best of” lists floating around during the next few weeks — this one is mine.
please enjoy. and please watch it LOUD (and in 480p… bummer that a lot of these clips were only available in standard-def).
p.s. some of these films i included on the countdown have yet to receive a domestic release here in the U.S, but i’d rather help get people excited for something now than chide them for not seeing it a year from now. also — as with a certain film towards the very top of my list — some stories simply can’t afford to wait for us to catch up.
p.p.s. CERTIFIED COPY was ineligible, as it topped my list last year. a good thing, too, as otherwise i would never have been able to settle on a #1.
p.p.p.s. yes, there is no “22” and there are 2 “19s.” accept the mystery.
SHAME RED-BAND NSFW TRAILER.
remember when i posted that Shame trailer last week and was all “this is totally gonna be the last post about Shame for a little while, you guys.” well… surprise! i was either kidding or flagrantly lying, you can decide which for yourself, but here’s another post about Shame! yes, it’s just another trailer, but in fairness it’s also another *beautifully cut* trailer (poor choice of words?), and it’s a rare red-bander, meaning that there are nipples and other insidious hints that sex is a thing that happens in the world.
but for reals this time, this is my last post about Shame… trailers.
- here’s my mini-review / reaction from October.
- here’s that amazing SFW trailer i posted a little while ago.
SHAME will finally enjoy a limited theatrical release this friday.
(h/t Movieline)
Amazing New SHAME Trailer is Amazing
i’ve already posted plenty (too much?) about Steve McQueen’s latest (here’s my mini-review / instant reaction to the film), but this trailer is waaaayyyy too savvy to deny. this clip is tonally spot-on, using Carey Mulligan’s severely slow rendition of “New York, New York” to brilliant effect.
also, that “NC-17” graphic up front makes me sorta nostalgic, as ridiculous as the rating is.
SHAME is finally slated to enjoy a limited theatrical release on December 3rd.
I See What You Did There, Film Comment.
(apologies for the eye-strain, click to enlarge)
Film Comment’s Laura Kern finds a clever way to cut her workload in half, doubling her vitriol for 2 new films in the process.
for what it’s worth, your humble host doesn’t think that either of these films deserve such scorn, but… ya know… i see what you did there.
p.s. folks, no one’s getting fired for this. this isn’t something that snuck by some of the sharpest editors in contemporary film criticism. it’s merely Kern’s effective (if reductive) means of playing these 2 films against one another in order to illustrate how they mutally expose their shared banalities… it’s not a point with which i agree, but it is a point well made.
Watch a New Clip From SHAME (dir. Steve McQueen) 2011
(sorry about the ad)
so apparently lots of folks are jazzed for SHAME. that might have something to do with the fact that it’s magnificent, or it might have something to do with the fact that penis penis penis. whatever it takes.
anyway, i’m not usually much for promo campaigns teasing audiences with complete scenes… kinda guts the immediacy of the eventual experience, but this is a lovely little one-shot sequence that does a good job of conveying the film’s palette and its ferocious undercurrents… how Michael Fassbender renders Brandon’s sex addiction so tortured and feral and seductive, all at once.
SHAME opens on december 2nd with an NC-17 rating (oooooo)
Trailer: SHAME (dir. Steve McQueen) 2011
and finally Steve McQueen’s new film has a trailer! and it’s a good one. lots of running and thrusting and adjectives… the three crown jewels of any memorable trailer, really. this clip really does an effective job of capturing the film’s vibe and tortured energy, and on December 2nd i’d strongly encourage you to see what i mean.
Poster & Mini-Review: SHAME (dir. Steve McQueen) 2011
so Fox Searchlight is finally getting things in gear for Steve McQueen’s follow-up to HUNGER, announcing a 12/2 release date yesterday and then launching the campaign’s first poster this afternoon (give the folks a trailer, guys).
i had the pleasure of catching the film at its NYFF P&I screening this morning, and… well, the poster is certainly spot-on. SHAME tells the somewhat impenetrable story of an Irish ex-pat named Brandon (Michael Fassbender, obviously) forced to confront the residual damage of his raging sex addiction when his sister (Carey Mulligan, less obviously) drops by for an unsolicited stay. the image of rumpled sheets in the poster above is a vertical rotation of the film’s opening / title shot, a vacant shot that speaks to the consequences of his affliction, appropriately undercutting the value of the sex, itself. i’m assuming Fox Searchlight’s next poster will just feature a life-size photo of Fassbender’s penis… ya know, for bus stops, and stuff.
anyway, McQueen’s exceptional eye for compositions warps NYC against Brandon, forcing his inner and outer lives into a merciless war of attrition… McQueen runs with the city as a grid, his precise geometry isolating and exposing Brandon in equal measure. the filmmaking is remarkable, as is Fassbender’s wrenching lead performance, but McQueen thrives with the non-linear, his voracious aesthetics not jiving with the narrative’s more organic moments as perfectly as they did in the more boldly audacious HUNGER (and James Badge Dale’s performance as Brandon’s wired hound dog of a boss grates to the hilt). it’s a brilliant study of addiction, context, and the refuge of privacy in a public world, eventually embracing melodrama in a way that almost mocks the form.
but yeah… this one’s gonna be divisive, more so than ya might think. the legions of ladies who flock to the theater to indulge in some fassen-bulge (rhyming!) are gonna get what they came for (hey-o!) right off the bat (???), but the rest of the ride is going to prove mighty hard to take (…). DO NOT — I REPEAT: DO NOT — SEE THIS ON A DATE. or with your sister. …although it might be a good choice if you’re on a date with your sister.
First Official Footage from Steve Mcqueen’s SHAME
pardon my zeal, but now that Tree of Life is in the rear-view, SHAME is easily my most anticipated film of the film season to come. i’m of the mind that McQueen’s HUNGER is one of the most promising and assured directorial debuts of the last whatever amount of years, and the reviews for this thing have been as ecstatic as i could have hoped. there still isn’t so much as a trailer floating around, so this snippet is the best we’ve got at the moment, 44 seconds of Michael Fassbender’s nymphomaniac character in full predator mode. i’ve been curious as to how a visualist like McQueen is going to submit NYC (so pedestrian and cinematographically familiar) to his harsh purposes, but this clip gives a good idea.
SHAME still doesn’t have any US distribution (come on, IFC or Janus!) but yours truly will be seeing it at NYFF in early October. huzzah!
