Spike Jonze has released his 28-minute short film Scenes From the Suburbs, we had a trailer for this one back in March. The music video for ‘The Suburbs’ is included below because it’s great much like the song and album it came from. The short film can be watched here.
The short is a collaboration with Arcade Fire obviously and stars some unknowns. Bandleader Win Butler wrote the film with his brother William Butler, which follows a group of suburban kids during a dystopian summer where “military control of their town makes the lazy days more aimless than ever.”
Scenes From the Suburbs is a 28-minute short created together by Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze. Bandleader Win Butler wrote the film with his brother William Butler, the short stars unknowns and was given this synopsis in the Berlin festival program:
“I wish I could remember every little moment. But I can’t. Why do I only remember the moments that I do. I wonder what happens to the others.” A group of suburban youths. Back then, in the summer, so long ago. They couldn’t leave town because outside the country was at war and the military controlled life and all gateways. The teenagers wander aimlessly about town. Winter is a long way off. And love and longing and friendship still mean – everything.
The music video is posted below the trailer, both worth a watch. Scenes From the Suburbs will play this week at SXSW with a DVD release in May. Leaves a lot to interpretation because I still have no idea what’s going on, but I always like that. JUMP for the trailer and music video: (more…)
Back in April news surfaced that Spike Jonze(Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. It was supposedly a short film that tells a story which involves “friends growing apart” and that it was collaboration effort with the band Arcade Fire who gave their sound to Spike for the Where The Wilds Things Are trailer [here]. Arcade Fire you should note is probably one – if not the best band in the world right now and I’ve said that a few times on this site, I’m sticking by it.
Now we have new information about the upcoming short film production — it is a b-movie science fiction story. Here’s a video for the band’s song The Suburbs, directed by Jonze. I won’t give anything away, but watch it from start to finish and you’ll find yourself hooked. This could be the start or excerpt from the film perhaps? If the actual short film is still to come is now the question, it might be nice to have a music video trilogy story of some kind. Watch the video below. (more…)
To fully understand the depth of Where The Wild Things Are, it’s important to know the history behind it. Over the last few years I found myself angered to hear what was happening with the movie and thought I would share that with you now before the review. Spike Jonze stepped up with a vision, something different – and people and the studios decide to take turns pissing on it, development hell is another way to sum things up. Where the Wild Things Are started its development life in the early 1980s, originally to be an animated feature by Disney that would have blended traditionally animated characters with computer-generated settings. You can see cut of that here.
The new movie trailer for Where the Wild Things Are is now online, embedded after the break so you can jump down and find out for yourself. Chills is all I can say, easily my most anticipated movie for the year. Spike Jonze is one of the most talented and inventive directors working today, he will do us proud. FYI: The reason that Wild Thing sounds like Tony Soprano…it’s Tony Soprano.
Easily one of the best presentations at this year’s Comic-Con was Where The Wild Things Are. I can’t really express how much I am pumped for this film anymore, or I’ll sound like an asshole (more so). A new featurette about the movie, which features an interview with original author Maurice Sendak, traces some of the book’s story and how he’s been closely working with Spike Jonze to bring it to life. Sendak clearly has as much of a boner as most people do for this movie, check it out below. Also: Trailer (more…)
Where the Wild Things Are is an upcoming film by Spike Jonze based on the Maurice Sendak children’s book of the same name. The film will combine live action, suitmation, animatronics and CGI. Its release is currently scheduled for October 16, 2009. The seven creatures will be actors in up to nine-foot-tall suits made of foam, although it is expected that their faces will be computer-generated. This is just the way Spike wanted it and is how he is going to get it. Great. This movie has been in the works since before 2000 and a teaser of the film was attached to the 2000 film The Grinch but disagreements between Universal and Jonze led him to take the film to Warner Bros. Watch the trailer – Arcade Fire provides the music (song title: Wake Up).
Where the Wild Things Are is an upcoming film by Spike Jonze baed on the Maurice Sendak children’s book of the same name. The trailer will be here on the 27th says CHUD.
The film will combine live action, suitmation, animatronics and CGI. Its release is currently scheduled for October 16, 2009. The seven creatures will be actors in up to nine-foot-tall suits made of foam, although it is expected that their faces will be computer-generated. This is just the way Spike wanted it and is how he is going to get it. Great.
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