The film adaptation of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross turned 20 this month, and Jeff Roda at The Atlantic talks a little bit about the brilliant performances of Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino and how one of them is the devil and the other isn’t:
John le Carré on Both Sides of the Pond
I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy around this time last year, at the end of September. Not the Alec Guinness miniseries, which I have yet to watch, but the Tomas Alfredson film, the Gary Oldman one. I saw it in England. My aunt and uncle were driving my boyfriend and me back to their house in North London, from a day in Kent with my grandmother and my cousins who were several feet taller than when I last saw them. […]
Emily Brontë + Skins = One Beautiful Trailer
From Hollywood’s obsessive need to retell the same stories over and over comes a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold at the helm. Vulture premiered the new full promo here, though the film was released in 2011 overseas. This reboot has been in production since 2008, with an everchanging cast (it included Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Ed Westwick and Gemma Arterton at different points in time) that finally settled on Skins alum Kaya Scodelario as Cathy and newcomer James Howson as Heathcliff. […]
The Rerelease of the Eraserhead Soundtrack is Beyond Important
Please feast your eyes on the deluxe vinyl reissue of David Lynch’s Eraserhead soundtrack coming out on August 7, 2012 on the always great Sacred Bones label. The soundtrack will be released in a limited edition of 1500 and will feature a 16-page booklet, three 11-inch prints, a digital download, and a 7-inch single of Peter Ivers’ “In Heaven” with the previously unreleased “Pete’s Boogie”. This is officially the Jesus of all soundtrack rereleases. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Five Books That Should Be Adapted For Film
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written by Stephen Chbosky, successfully bridged the young adult to adult literature gap in a way that few have. The film version of the book is now being slated for release in September, well over a decade after the fact. The film is set to star Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman and Emma Watson, and is being produced by the team behind Juno. It is being adapted and directed by Chbosky.
The Cinematic Norman Mailer
You’d think that between running for mayor of New York, covering presidential campaigns, or committing acts that would tarnish his literary legacy for generations to come, Norman Mailer would probably not be someone with an abundant amount of free time on his hands. And yet: apparently the man also tried his hand at filmmaking in the late 1960s, and next month, the Criterion Collection’s Eclipse imprint will release a double-disc set of his films. Which, if nothing else, should serve […]
Chloë Sevigny’s Life in Pictures
Probably the least relevant in an ongoing series of short films and essays on the intersection between fashion and fetish, Dasha Zhukova’s contribution to the SHOWstudio project is mostly an excuse to apply old-timey silent film conventions to a short featuring actress Chloë Sevigny and writer Derek Blasberg. Where other auteurs (Daphne Guinness and Asia Argento have already contributed) made serious inquiries into the matter of fashion/fetish, Zhukova’s piece is a sepia-toned three minutes and forty seconds of Sevigny and a […]
Royal Tenenbaums Make a Prada Baby
Ten years after they went public with their romance, brother and sister (through adoption) Richie and Margot Tenenbaum had a child that they named Prada. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.