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Tokyo! (in Japanese with English subtitles) consists of three surreal short films: Michel Gondry’s Interior Design, Leos Carax’s Merde and Bong Joon-Ho’s Shaking Tokyo. We were supposed to interview Gondry about the project last week, but when news leaked of his involvement with The Green Hornet, his publicist went to DEFCON 1 and, besides demanding that no "Green Hornet" questions be asked, insisted that any interview also include Joon-Ho. So that's how the sausage doesn't get made, readers. Anyway, the Observer's Andrew Sarris reflects a generally favorable critical consensus: "All three pieces contain surreal elements that convey the endless tumult and impermanence of a metropolis that, unlike the other great cities of the world, is constantly changing in the steady swirl of humanity and neon... The cumulative strangeness of Tokyo! is consistent with the previous eccentricities of the three directors, and is well worth the time of any moviegoer looking for something different in their movie diet."
Click on the stills above for more details and reviews of this week's releases and repertory selections, which also include Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, 12, Everlasting Moments, Tokyo!, Frontier of Dawn, Explicit Ills, Phoebe in Wonderland, Leave Her to Heaven, Teeth, and eXistenZ.
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Go see Leave Her to Heaven—it's a restored print and Gene Tierney is amazing in it.
I'm seeing two Rendez-Vous films this weekend: Girl from Monaco and The Joy of Singing.
Watchmen will be a huge let down if you've read the graphic novel.
what? the movie was exactly like the comic.
Whoa, Jackie Earle Haley is in Watchmen? I may just go, then. He was great in Breaking Away, but then that whole movie was great. Sort of makes sense, I guess. Rorschach is supposed to go nuts after being taunted about his size, just like Moocher did in the earlier movie. "Don't forget to punch the clock, shorty." Crash.