WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)' at line 1]
SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) LEFT JOIN wp_categories ON (wp_post2cat.category_id = wp_categories.cat_ID) WHERE 1=1 AND category_id IN (14) AND (post_type = 'post' AND (post_status = 'publish')) AND ID NOT IN (165,157,166,172,174,190,204,202,212,214) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)
“David Fincher and Spike Jonze Present:”
I know nothing about this movie and can find very little. From what I gathered (briefly), it’s a film from 2006 that’s being promoted/re-released with the help of Fincher and Jonze. I have a sneaky feeling that all the dialog is dubbed in, but I can’t say for sure. Anyway: awesome.
If you haven’t seen the trailer for superdirector Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind yet, I won’t spoil it for you. Click here and enjoy the amazingness.
…
Okay, now it’s time for spoiling. The movie revolves around Jack Black and Mos Def, who, after accidentally erasing a whole store full of video tapes, opt to poorly re-film each movie from memory. It’s in perfect keeping with Michel’s penchant for handmade special effects and lo-fi creativity, and it looks like it may be one of the best movies of the year.
In a meta-move worthy of the director of Eternal Sunshine, Michel has now released a second trailer, which, um, you should watch.
(By the way, the official site is just as ridiculously weird).
Planet Fitness
There is a gym in Seven Corners. It is behind some kind of “supercheap warehouse” establishment. It is almost always under-attended, and yet, only costs 10 dollars a month. That is all.
Carcassonne
The game of building French. Countryside. Or something.
Carcassonne is a brilliantly simple and clever board game that takes five minutes to learn and an hour to play (and lose at). Check it out.
David Attenborough Documentaries
Seriously, these things are great. Mele and I rented Life In The Undergrowth and Life Of Birds, and couldn’t be more pleased.
Note: I did not see “There Will Be Blood” or “Juno” yet, so they are not on this list and also DO NOT SPOIL THEM FOR ME. Thanks.
No Country For Old Men
Best movie I saw this year, hands-down. No Country accomplished the rare task of burning nearly 50% of the dialogue directly into my mind on first viewing, as well as allowing me to vividly recall dozens of shots and scenes afterward. Everything in the Coen Brothers’ masterpiece is so tightly fitted and precise, and everything communicates exactly what it’s supposed to, in the shorted amount of time necessary. Javier Bardem deserves any award we can give him for his stunning Anton Chigurh, the survivalist killing machine that hunts Llewelyn (and anyone else he dislikes) across Texas. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Zodiac
David Fincher’s on-and-off streak continues with Zodiac. The sequence has been: Alien 3 (off), Seven (on), The Game (off), Fight Club (on), Panic Room (off), and finally Zodiac, a strange, beautiful movie that tells the story of the reporters and lawmen who hunted San Francisco’s most notorious serial killer. Instead of becoming a crime movie, Zodiac slowly evolves into a slow-burning character study about the three people torn apart by their obsession with the killings, and uses Fincher’s precise directorial work and clever visuals throughout.
Hot Fuzz
So many funny movies this year, but Hot Fuzz was my favorite by far. Structured almost like a mystery film, Hot Fuzz managed a complex plot filled with great running jokes, great characters, and sharp pacing for such a blend of genres. If the dumb action/comedy marketing turned you off this film, I urge you, reconsider.
Foreign Office’s reel of advertising in Children of Men.
If you haven’t seen it, you might want to skip this reel until you do; but it’s a great example of how a movie can be given an urgent sense of place and time simple through the adwork and the signs in the background. Foreign Office put together one of Children of Men’s most compelling aspects by answering questions about what advertising and interface would be like in a world without hope.
—–
Speak Up’s “Idiocratic Design” (not safe for work)
Again, if you haven’t seen Idiocracy yet, you might want to skip this. While Idiocracy’s plotline and characters left something to be desired, the meat of its hilarity was in the graphic design…a huge amount of hideously-redesigned logos, dumbed-down brands, and typography miscarriages. Despite the great jabs at current brands and styles, Idiocracy’s finest moment was probably the 2-second shot of the St. God’s Memorial Hospital sign.
Recent Comments