Joaquin Phoenix’s most frequent collaborations have come with director James Gray (The Immigrant, Two Lovers, The Yards, We Own The Night) and Inherent Vice marks his second cinematic experience with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (their first was the 2012 drama The Master).
During the interviews for Inherent Vice, Joaquin Phoenix talked about why he loves collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson:
“He’s really inclusive and warm and thoughtful – He’s one of those people that makes you feel you’re important and you have value – even if you don’t. He deserves all the credit.”
Phoenix also added that Anderson’s approach to a scene isn’t based on rigid story structure, but instead the auteur enjoys exploring the creative avenues that each moment of film provides. Click on the media bar below to hear Phoenix’s full answer:
Co-starring Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, and Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice opens in limited release December 12 and nationwide January 9, 2015.
Inherent Vice – (Warner Bros. Pictures, CR: Wilson Webb)
Anna Kendrick’s musical talents are on full display with Pitch Perfect and the upcoming Into the Woods, and with director Richard LaGravenese’s “The Last Five Years,”she’s singing a few notes about love and marriage.
Based on the Jason Robert Brown musical, The Last Five Years centers on the up and down romance between a Jewish novelist (Jeremy Jordan) and a struggling actress (Anna Kendrick). Shot in just 21 days in New York City, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, the film is told almost entirely through song.
LaGravenese, who sees The Last Five Years as this generation’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, previously directed Beautiful Creatures, P.S. I Love You and Freedom Writers. He’s also a credited screenwriter for the upcoming WWII feature Unbroken and penned the HBO movie Behind the Candelabra.
The Last Five Years hits theaters and VOD on February 13.
Jack White, in collaboration with technology company Jaunt, is dipping his fingers into the app world with Jack White: Third-D.
The mobile application enables users with a Google Cardboard viewer and a 5″ or 6″ Android phone to view White and his band in a eye-catching visual manner. Thanks to Jaunt’s stereoscopic 3D cameras and 3D sound-field microphones (the music is mixed in Dolby Atmos), app users will hopefully be part of an immersive experience as they watch White perform such tracks as “Freedom at 21” and “Ball and Biscuit” at Fenway Park and “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.”
Third Man Records is also giving away a special editioin Third Man Google Cardboard headsets for the first 75 Android users that buy White’s “Lazaretto” Ultra LP at the Nashville store on Wednesday, December 10. An in-store demonstration of the new app will also take place.
In other White news, Lazaretto received three Grammy award nominations (Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance).
Starting January, White hits the road with a stop at the Austin Music Hall. Here are the updated dates for his 2015 tour:
January 24 – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
January 25 – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
January 27 – Starkville, MS – Humphrey Coliseum at Mississippi State University
January 28 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
January 30 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
March 12-14 – Bogota, Colombia – Festival Estereo Picnic
March 14-15 – Santiago, Chile – Lollapalooza Chile
March 21-22 – Buenos Aires, Argentine – Lollapalooza Argentina
March 28-29 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Lollapalooza Brazil
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike deliver some of their best work in David Fincher’s crime thriller Gone Girl, and the hit film comes out on Blu-ray and DVD January 13 via Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Gone Girl Blu-ray Cover – Twentieth Century Fox HOme Entertainment
Based on the bestseller by Gillian Flynn, the serpentine plot centers on an unsuccessful bar owner named Nick (Ben Affleck) who is accused of killing Amy (Rosamund Pike), his highly intellectual and emotionally distant wife. With the police (led by Kim Dickensand Patrick Fugit) hot on his trail and enveloped within a huge media circus, Nick hires a prominent defense attorney (Tyler Perry) to clear his name. But with Amy’s body nowhere to be found and the residents of his sleepy town slowly losing faith, Nick Dunne’s prospects appear extremely dim.
Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in ‘Gone Girl’ – Twentieth Century Fox (CR: Merrick Morton)
Gone Girl comes with a new “Amazing Amy” story titled “Tattle Tale,” and the 36-page children’s book is only available with the purchase of the Blu-ray edition.
Along with “Tattle Tale,” the Blu-ray also comes with audio commentary from director David Fincher.
The American Film Institute (AFI) have announced their selections for AFI Awards 2014. The list includes 11 movies and 10 TV programs that were “deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image.
“We celebrate these films and television programs as more than just milestones in a year of excellence.” said Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO. “They are a part of our American cultural heritage – collectively, a new chapter in the story of the art form and of our nation.”
This year’s jury board (one for each category) included producer/writers Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and Marshall Herskovitz (thirtysomething, Once and Again), director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Talk To Me), actress Phylicia Rashad (Cosby Show), film critic Leonard Maltin, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)l
The honorees will attend the annual AFI Awards private luncheon January 9, 2015 in Los Angeles, Ca.
Tonight is the first holiday themed episode of The Fosters, and if you’ve been a fan of the show, you probably realize things don’t go as planned in the Foster household (its unpredictability, coupled with the ability to successfully pull on our heartstrings, is one of the show’s strongest facets).
So don’t expect a ho-hum season’s greetings on tonight’s episode, which is titled “Christmas Past.” The installment, which marks Jude (Hayden Byerly) and Callie’s (Maia Mitchell) first ever Christmas with the Fosters, also features a spirited guest appearance from Annie Potts as Grandma Sharon.
Although Stef (Teri Polo) has her own issues with her mom (Potts) over a plot detail I’m not going to give away, she isn’t the only Foster who’s having the Christmas blues. Lena’s (Sherri Saum) own past troubles with her sibling have an indirect effect on Jude (Hayden Byerly).
“Lena actually has a half brother that she doesn’t talk about because they had a falling out years ago but this Christmas episode is an opportunity for Lena to perhaps start mending some fences with that,” said Saum. “It’s what Christmas is good for – (it’s) kind of bringing families together.”
Teri Polo, Jake T. Austin in “The Fosters” (ABC Family/Eric McCandless)
Will the Fosters have a loving holiday dinner, and will Stef mend fences with her free spirited mom? And even though the episode centers on a “Christmas past,” part of the installment also focuses on what happened right after Callie (Mitchell) and Brandon (David Lambert) kissed.
The Fosters Christmas episode airs tonight on ABC Family at 8 pm et/pt.
DAVID LAMBERT, MAIA MITCHELL (ABC FAMILY/Rony Rivetti)
***Even though Maia Mitchell and Bailee Madison (aka Callie’s trouble making sister Sophia) really do look like sisters, Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale threw her DNA hat into the ring. Check out the photo below:
Indie video game developer DrinkBox Studios will release its PlayStation Vita game Severed in Spring of 2015.
This first person action-adventure will have players follow the journey of a one-armed heroine who wields a “living sword” and fights “six-armed swordmasters and beasts made of crows.” The non-linear narrative will have gamers attempting to piece parts of the heroine’s past as well as construct her future and, considering the images that’s been released, Severed should be a completely surreal journey.
“DrinkBox has a strong relationship working with Sony and we felt Severed’s combat and exploration mechanics were a perfect match for the Vita,” said Graham Smith, Co-Founder of DrinkBox Studios. “We hope Vita gamers will fall in love exploring Severed’s uncanny world through our gameplay just like they have with our previous games.”
Previous DrinkBox titles include Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Guacamelee!, and Tales from Space: About a Blob.
Boyhood, director Richard Linklater’s magnum opus of a young child’s (Ellar Coltrane) subtle journey of self-discovery, was named Best Picture of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
“Originality was honored in this year’s awards from LAFCA, with several prizes going to Richard Linklater’s twelve years in the making Boyhood, and other important awards for the imaginative Grand Budapest Hotel, the groundbreaking cinematography of Birdman, and the tour de force performance by Tom Hardy in Locke,” said LAFCA president Stephen Farber. “Our group again honored a range of films from around the world and an impressive array of emerging and veteran talents.”
The 40th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards takes place Saturday, January 10 at the Intercontinental, Los Angeles.
Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood (IFC Films, Matt Lankes)
Below is a list of the winners:
Picture: Boyhood (Runner-up: Grand Budapest Hotel)
Director: Richard Linklater, “Boyhood” (Runner-up: “The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson)
Actor: Tom Hardy, “Locke” (Runner-up: Michael Keaton, “Birdman”)
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson (Runner-up: Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo)
Animation: The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Runner-up: The Lego Movie)
Foreign Language Film: Ida (Runner-up: Winter Sleep)
Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: Citizenfour (Runner-up: Life Itself)
New Generation: Ava DuVernay, “Selma”
Film Editing: Sandra Adair, “Boyhood” (Runner-up: Barney Pilling, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”)
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman” (Runner-up: Dick Pope, “Mr. Turner”)
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Runner-up: Ondrej Nekvasil, “Snowpiercer”)
Score: (tie) Jonny Greenwood, “Inherent Vice” and Mica Levi, “Under The Skin”
Douglas E. Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video: Walter Reuben, “The David Whiting Story”
I really enjoyed Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, director Tommy Wirkola’s sequel to his zombie-filled adventure. Wirkola recently went the bigtime Hollywood studio route with Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters but withDead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead he was able to return to a familiar (yet extremely diverting) environment.
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
We’re giving away Two (2) Blu-rays of Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, and if you’re a fan of the horror/comedy genre, this film has a lot to offer. Along with the return of the tragic and put-upon protagonist Martin (Vegar Hoel), Dead Snow 2 also features the inclusion of three over enthusiastic (and novice) zombie killers (Martin Starr, Ingrid Haas, Jocelyn DeBoer).
On a pure entertainment level, Dead Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead was one of my favorite films this year, and here’s how to enter the giveaway (There will be Two winners for the Contest):
In the Comments section below – name your favorite Zombie film (or TV series) and briefly explain why you love it.
Once you “Like” the Facebook page and Comment, send over your Email info to editor@deepestdream.com – If you’re one of the Two winners of the Giveaway, I will email you back and ask for your address & send the Blu-ray.
The GIVEAWAY ends Sunday, December 28 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time. Winners will be announced on the Deepest Dream Facebook Page.
Just don’t stay in the bathroom waiting for the undead to knock on your door – please enter our Giveaway and get zombie-fied for the holidays!!
Capcom has announced thatStreet Fighter V will be released exclusively for the PlayStation 4 and PC. Under Capcom’s collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., the new game will feature cross platform play that will give fans a centralized player base for the very first time. More details on the feature will be announced shortly.
“Partnering with Capcom to deliver one of the most popular video game franchises of all time as a console exclusive to our PlayStation family is a huge undertaking and an honor we take incredibly seriously,” said Adam Boyes, VP of Publisher & Developer Relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America. “We can’t wait to show Street Fighter and PlayStation fans what we have in store for them.”
Fans of the Street Fighter franchise can catch the first gameplay demo at the Capcom Cup grand finals tournament which takes place December 13 in San Francisco, CA. Gamers can catch the live broadcast at twitch.tv/capcomfighters to catch the tournament action.
Street Fighter V – Capcom
Street Fighter V – CapcomStreet Fighter V – Capcom
