TwentyFourBit: Spike Jonze, Arcade Fire Team Up for Short Film
LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY TIME I WANT TO BE IN TEXAS. SPIKE JONZE, CASTING IN AUSTIN. AUSTIN!!!!!! WORKING WITH FOUR CASTED KIDS IN THEIR LATE TEENS. CREATING THE PLOT WITH THEM. SPIKE JONZE!!
It’s been an odd week for Arcade Fire stalkers (like us): Win Butler and friends had kept details surrounding the promotion for their forthcoming album under wraps until /Film posted an exclusive report yesterday, claiming that Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze is casting…
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TwentyFourBit: Phoenix and Sofia Coppola to Make "Love Like a Sunset" Film
A certain sentence from an interview with Phoenix published in the New York Times last week has gotten music and film sites buzzing the past couple days: “Among the band’s next projects,” the Times’ Melena Ryzik wrote, “is a movie directed by Sofia Coppola, Mr. Mars’s girlfriend, based…
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On Marie Antoinette:
I recently watched Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006) for about the ninth time and still cannot fathom why so many people did not like the film. I suppose there’s always the reasoning that Marie Antoinette’s execution was not portrayed fully - it was simply implied with the final shot of her ruined bedroom. There is also the opinion that the film took ample time getting through small stretches of the plot line and had little dialogue, which mainstream audiences usually resent. Some call the film’s execution “aimless.” A reviewer on Rotten Tomatoes (on which the film received a 54%, by the way) described it as “history as a guilt free pleasure” and another said it was an insult to the French.
I will admit that the film is shallow. There is little character development and the Queen’s biography was interpreted with little depth. I see Marie Antoinette as not an actual historical biopic but a visual masterpiece. Even if the film is little more than “eye candy,” it is gorgeous and depicts certain emotions with skill. I think the film has an aura of reckless youth and shallow pleasure - two themes that would fit the filmmaking style pretty well, in my opinion. It may be stylized, but it is beautiful.
Also, the soundtrack is perfect. It has the acceptable amount of classical music, including some contemporary flair. For example, Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th is very impressive and a huge contrast to their usual work. The track fit in perfectly with the period pieces vital to this film’s soundtrack. An interesting blend of post-punk fit in for the other half of the soundtrack, which actually meshed pretty well into the film and set the appropriate semblance for many of the film’s vital scenes.
This shoot of Charles James Gowns by Cecil Beaton for Vogue 1948 reminds me of a slightly updated and less saturated Marie Antoinette. It has the same cold, distant, beautiful look that parts of the movie had. It really makes me want to do a similar shoot. If only I had those gorgeous dresses!
On another note, Marie Antoinette-esque pastels (especially skin tones) are coming back this season, apparently. I’d like to see a little bit more of that late 18th century style influencing the designer circuit one of these days as well.
