Canal+ Group and Warner Bros Discovery have announced the renewal of their exclusive premium pay TV agreement for Warner Bros Pictures films.
The multi-year agreement will allow Canal+ Group to continue offering to its subscribers exclusive access to Warner Bros Pictures films six months after their theatrical release in France.
This catalogue will include box office blockbuster Barbie – the biggest movie of the last 12 months with a global box office of nearly $1.5billion – and Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet, currently on a box office figure of just over $400million.
Other titles include The Flash, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, Blue Beetle, The Color Purple and The Nun II.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s catalogue includes franchises including Batman, Lethal Weapon, Ocean’s Eleven, Matrix and Mad Max.
This news comes the same weekend as reports that Warner Bros Discovery’s Nathaniel Brown is departing as its Corp Comms Chief. Deadline has learned this is an amicable departure,...
The multi-year agreement will allow Canal+ Group to continue offering to its subscribers exclusive access to Warner Bros Pictures films six months after their theatrical release in France.
This catalogue will include box office blockbuster Barbie – the biggest movie of the last 12 months with a global box office of nearly $1.5billion – and Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet, currently on a box office figure of just over $400million.
Other titles include The Flash, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, Blue Beetle, The Color Purple and The Nun II.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s catalogue includes franchises including Batman, Lethal Weapon, Ocean’s Eleven, Matrix and Mad Max.
This news comes the same weekend as reports that Warner Bros Discovery’s Nathaniel Brown is departing as its Corp Comms Chief. Deadline has learned this is an amicable departure,...
- 1/7/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Nathaniel Brown is departing Warner Bros Discovery as its Corp Comms Chief, Deadline has learned. It is an amicable departure, we hear. Brown will segue out of the post during the next month.
“I realize there is never a perfect or easy time to make such a transition, but the start of the new year feels as good as any,” said Brown in a note to employees (read it in full below). In the immediate future, Brown plans to take some down time before returning to the corp comms field.
In a note to employees, Wbd CEO David Zaslav praised Brown, saying, “I have been incredibly fortunate to have him by my side during one of the most pivotal and transformative periods for our industry.”
Brown was named to the post after the merger came together back in May 2022.
Brown led global communications and media relations and served as the conglom’s lead spokesperson.
“I realize there is never a perfect or easy time to make such a transition, but the start of the new year feels as good as any,” said Brown in a note to employees (read it in full below). In the immediate future, Brown plans to take some down time before returning to the corp comms field.
In a note to employees, Wbd CEO David Zaslav praised Brown, saying, “I have been incredibly fortunate to have him by my side during one of the most pivotal and transformative periods for our industry.”
Brown was named to the post after the merger came together back in May 2022.
Brown led global communications and media relations and served as the conglom’s lead spokesperson.
- 1/5/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery corporate communications chief Nathaniel Brown is exiting the company.
CEO David Zaslav announced the news in a memo to staff Friday. Variety has learned Brown decided to step down himself, following his tenure getting the company through its merger between the legacy Discovery and WarnerMedia, which closed in April 2022. A respected communications veteran, Brown also led the PR strategy for the launch of Max, the combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streamer, in May 2023.
“Nathaniel is hugely talented, one of the absolute best in the business and I have been incredibly fortunate to have him by my side during one of the most pivotal and transformative periods for our industry,” Zaslav wrote. “Since joining us in 2019 following an accomplished tenure at 21st Century Fox, he has been a tireless and formidable advocate for the company and for me. Among his many accomplishments, he played a critical role in...
CEO David Zaslav announced the news in a memo to staff Friday. Variety has learned Brown decided to step down himself, following his tenure getting the company through its merger between the legacy Discovery and WarnerMedia, which closed in April 2022. A respected communications veteran, Brown also led the PR strategy for the launch of Max, the combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streamer, in May 2023.
“Nathaniel is hugely talented, one of the absolute best in the business and I have been incredibly fortunate to have him by my side during one of the most pivotal and transformative periods for our industry,” Zaslav wrote. “Since joining us in 2019 following an accomplished tenure at 21st Century Fox, he has been a tireless and formidable advocate for the company and for me. Among his many accomplishments, he played a critical role in...
- 1/5/2024
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
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Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled its restructured communications team, led by Nathaniel Brown after he recently came on board as chief corporate communications officer.
Brown, who serves as the studio’s lead spokesperson and oversees all global communications and media relations, announced former Fox comms exec Megan Klein will be in charge of corporate communications.
And Laura Watson, who recently joined Warner Bros. Discovery from The Walt Disney Co., will oversee executive communications. Brown previously led corporate communications for Discovery, before it merged with WarnerMedia earlier this year.
As the communications teams at Warner Bros. and Discovery are combined, the studio also indicated Gregory Ho, Lauren McCabe, Janine Richardson, Caroline Rittenberry, Jennifer Toner, Rob Wheeler, Laura Young and Emily Zalenski will leave after a transition period.
Before joining Discovery in 2019, Brown was senior vp corporate affairs at 21st Century Fox and News Corp....
Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled its restructured communications team, led by Nathaniel Brown after he recently came on board as chief corporate communications officer.
Brown, who serves as the studio’s lead spokesperson and oversees all global communications and media relations, announced former Fox comms exec Megan Klein will be in charge of corporate communications.
And Laura Watson, who recently joined Warner Bros. Discovery from The Walt Disney Co., will oversee executive communications. Brown previously led corporate communications for Discovery, before it merged with WarnerMedia earlier this year.
As the communications teams at Warner Bros. and Discovery are combined, the studio also indicated Gregory Ho, Lauren McCabe, Janine Richardson, Caroline Rittenberry, Jennifer Toner, Rob Wheeler, Laura Young and Emily Zalenski will leave after a transition period.
Before joining Discovery in 2019, Brown was senior vp corporate affairs at 21st Century Fox and News Corp....
- 7/21/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three-plus months after emerging from a $43 billion merger, Warner Bros Discovery has finalized its communications executive roster.
Nathaniel Brown, who formerly headed communications for Discovery and was named chief corporate communications officer at Wbd in May, conveyed the news to employees in an internal memo. (Read it below.)
Megan Klein, who worked with Brown previously at 21st Century Fox and then held a senior role at Fox Corp., has been set as a key lieutenant reporting to Brown. She oversees West Coast communications, including areas like media relations; finance/investor relations; government affairs; diversity, equity and inclusion; corporate social responsibility; and legal.
Along with new titles and posts for eight U.S.-based execs and two in the international ranks, Brown’s memo disclosed that eight veterans of the pre-merger companies are preparing to exit Wbd after a transition period. The list of VPs or higher-ranked execs who are departing includes Gregory Ho,...
Nathaniel Brown, who formerly headed communications for Discovery and was named chief corporate communications officer at Wbd in May, conveyed the news to employees in an internal memo. (Read it below.)
Megan Klein, who worked with Brown previously at 21st Century Fox and then held a senior role at Fox Corp., has been set as a key lieutenant reporting to Brown. She oversees West Coast communications, including areas like media relations; finance/investor relations; government affairs; diversity, equity and inclusion; corporate social responsibility; and legal.
Along with new titles and posts for eight U.S.-based execs and two in the international ranks, Brown’s memo disclosed that eight veterans of the pre-merger companies are preparing to exit Wbd after a transition period. The list of VPs or higher-ranked execs who are departing includes Gregory Ho,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
As the dust on the Warner Bros. Discovery merger settles, the company has set its global corporate communications and media relations team.
The team members and their roles were announced in an internal email by chief corporate communications officer Nathaniel Brown.
“It’s been a very busy, productive few months since the launch of our new combined company. During this time, I’ve really enjoyed meeting and talking with many of you and remain grateful for your openness, insights and patience throughout this process,” Brown wrote to staffers. “Both legacy companies bring tremendous talent, and this is especially true when it comes to the Communications function, which makes me even more excited about the team we’re building together for the future. Unfortunately, it has also made for some really tough decisions as we streamline the organization and necessarily eliminate duplicative roles.”
Among the team are Megan Klein in the corporate communications role,...
The team members and their roles were announced in an internal email by chief corporate communications officer Nathaniel Brown.
“It’s been a very busy, productive few months since the launch of our new combined company. During this time, I’ve really enjoyed meeting and talking with many of you and remain grateful for your openness, insights and patience throughout this process,” Brown wrote to staffers. “Both legacy companies bring tremendous talent, and this is especially true when it comes to the Communications function, which makes me even more excited about the team we’re building together for the future. Unfortunately, it has also made for some really tough decisions as we streamline the organization and necessarily eliminate duplicative roles.”
Among the team are Megan Klein in the corporate communications role,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Director Nathaniel Brown and Expected End Entertainment are looking to fill 12 roles in “The Last Time,” a feature film shooting in the Atlanta, Georgia area. The story “pulls the mask off domestic violence through the story of a power couple whose seemingly perfect public life contradicts what goes on behind closed doors.” Sounds intriguing? Filming will take place Aug. 1–21, and several supporting and day player roles are now available. For more information, check out the full casting notice here, and be sure to scan the rest of our Atlanta audition listings! Want audition advice? Watch here:...
- 5/16/2016
- backstage.com
A medium-height, slightly nervous, shy-seeming, fast-talking man, Gaspar Noé doesn’t really announce himself as the formally audacious director behind some of this millennium’s most assaultive and, speaking broadly, extreme narrative films. Perhaps that (altogether friendly) personality more clearly befits his latest film, Love. What’s been referred to for the years of its development as a “3D porn movie,” but hews closer to Last Tango in Paris or The Mother and the Whore: a slow, sad, and only intermittently confrontational picture that mostly uses its format as a tool for rendering spaces and memories more immediate. The inevitably downbeat ending, communicated early, lends the sex an uncomfortable air — one where even 3D cum shots carry a certain sort of melancholy.
Despite his work’s general reliance on images over words, Noé is a very verbose artist, taking a question about one thing and providing an answer about two others.
Despite his work’s general reliance on images over words, Noé is a very verbose artist, taking a question about one thing and providing an answer about two others.
- 10/29/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes will in fact report to James and Lachlan Murdoch when the sons of Rupert Murdoch assume control of 21st Century Fox on July 1. The revelation comes after the Ailes-run Fox Business Network reported June 11 that Ailes would continue to report to Rupert even after Rupert handed official control of the company to his sons. "Roger will report to Lachlan and James but will continue his unique and long-standing relationship with Rupert,” 21st Century Fox spokesperson Nathaniel Brown said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. Rupert Murdoch
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- 6/16/2015
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For some, movies are occasionally too violent, vulgar or plain boring to sit through. Ryan recalls some memorable cinema walk-outs...
For better or worse, there’s nothing quite like watching a movie in the cinema. There’s the sense that you’re all sharing a new experience. The feeling of expectancy when a movie the whole audience has been looking forward to seeing unfolds on the screen. The enjoyment of laughing in unison at a golden comic moment.
On the flip side, there’s the uniquely unpleasant sensation of a person behind you kicking the back of your seat. Or the horrendous human being who can’t resist checking his phone for the duration of a movie, meaning you end up having to ignore an eerie blue glow emanating from the corner of your eye for about 120 minutes.
Memories like these, whether good or bad, are all part of the cinema-going experience,...
For better or worse, there’s nothing quite like watching a movie in the cinema. There’s the sense that you’re all sharing a new experience. The feeling of expectancy when a movie the whole audience has been looking forward to seeing unfolds on the screen. The enjoyment of laughing in unison at a golden comic moment.
On the flip side, there’s the uniquely unpleasant sensation of a person behind you kicking the back of your seat. Or the horrendous human being who can’t resist checking his phone for the duration of a movie, meaning you end up having to ignore an eerie blue glow emanating from the corner of your eye for about 120 minutes.
Memories like these, whether good or bad, are all part of the cinema-going experience,...
- 10/17/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The difficulty in counting down films so clearly influenced by Kubrick is that there are certain directors who are just tailor-made for it. So, you start to run into situations like this section of the list, where two directors have two films and two other directors had a film mentioned in the last section. But that’s the way it goes. Much of Kubrick’s style isn’t reflected in the work of, say, Todd Phillips. Or Todd Haynes, for that matter.
30. Inception (2010)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
What makes it Kubrickian? As directors go, few rival the sense of complete control over his films like Christopher Nolan, famous for his obsessive attention to detail, much like Kubrick. With Inception, Nolan dialed up the control, creating multiple worlds set within dream landscapes, painting incredibly stunning shots and moments. Focusing on Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team of dream surveyors, Inception is...
30. Inception (2010)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
What makes it Kubrickian? As directors go, few rival the sense of complete control over his films like Christopher Nolan, famous for his obsessive attention to detail, much like Kubrick. With Inception, Nolan dialed up the control, creating multiple worlds set within dream landscapes, painting incredibly stunning shots and moments. Focusing on Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team of dream surveyors, Inception is...
- 3/12/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
21st Century Fox has promoted both Dan Berger and Nathaniel Brown to Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. Both are moving up from VP, Corporate Comm and will continue to report to Julie Henderson, Evp and Chief Communications Officer. Brown, based in Fox’s New York headquarters, joined then-News Corp in 2012 from MTV where he served as Svp Corporate Communications. Before that he was Svp Corporate Comm at Xm Satellite Radio, where he oversaw the public relations campaign around the company’s merger with Sirius. Los Angeles-based Berger first joined Fox in 2006 and has held a variety of executive communications roles at both the business unit and corporate level. He has served as VP, Corporate Communications for 21st Century Fox (previously News Corp) since 2009, and previously was VP, Corporate Communications at the company’s Fox Interactive media division.
- 10/14/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Dan Berger and Nathaniel Brown have both been elevated to the title of senior vice president of corporate communications at 21st Century Fox, the company announced Monday. Brown and Berger previously held corpcomm vice president titles. They will continue to report to executive vice president and chief communications officer Julie Henderson, who made the announcement. Also read: 21st Century Fox Reports Q4 Revenue Gain “Dan and Nathaniel are both incredibly talented communications executives who have been instrumental in successfully communicating to media the rationale behind many of our most high profile and significant moves over the past year and beyond,...
- 10/14/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
(Reuters) - Hulu's board has approached potential buyers to gauge their interest in buying the online video service, three sources close to the company told Reuters, as owners News Corp (Nwsa.O) and Walt Disney (Dis.N) weigh what to do with their interests in the five-year-old company.
The board sounded out several possible buyers as part of an internal strategic review begun recently, but it has not received a formal offer, one of the sources said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. It was unclear how many parties Hulu had contacted.
Hulu spokeswoman Elisa Schreiber and News Corp's Nathaniel Brown declined to comment. Disney had no immediate comment.
News Corp and Disney are also considering other options, including buying each other out, one of the sources said on Monday on condition of anonymity.
Finding a buyer will be difficult because most of Hulu's...
The board sounded out several possible buyers as part of an internal strategic review begun recently, but it has not received a formal offer, one of the sources said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. It was unclear how many parties Hulu had contacted.
Hulu spokeswoman Elisa Schreiber and News Corp's Nathaniel Brown declined to comment. Disney had no immediate comment.
News Corp and Disney are also considering other options, including buying each other out, one of the sources said on Monday on condition of anonymity.
Finding a buyer will be difficult because most of Hulu's...
- 3/26/2013
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Nathaniel Brown will join News Corp. as its new vice president of corporate affairs and communications, the media company said Monday. Brown will be based in New York and replaces Jack Horner, who will join Warner Bros. in a senior publicity job in its motion picture unit. Brown comes to News Corp. from Viacom, where he ran corporate communications for MTV. Prior to MTV, Nathaniel ran corporate communications at Xm Radio, where he oversaw communications for the Sirius/Xm merger. He also had a senior role at Sony BMG's corporate communications group. Brown will...
- 8/20/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
“Enter the Void” will be loathed by a lot of people. Dismissed as a pretentious stoner flick trying desperately to dazzle. And I won’t completely disagree. But French director Gaspar Noé’s third effort is also hard to ignore.
Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is a young, soft-spoken American drug dealer who moves about almost exclusively in the nighttime of Tokyo’s neon jungle. Caught in the middle of a bad deal, he is singled out and shot to death by police. Oscar’s spirit leaves his body, and for the rest of film, floats through walls, soars above skyscrapers and powers into the minds of his still-living friends and relatives.
“Enter the Void” brims with gorgeous, psychedelic visuals and shocking depictions of horrific and taboo happenings, daring you to flinch. If you know anything about Gaspar Noé and his other films, “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irréversible” (2002), then you won’t...
Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is a young, soft-spoken American drug dealer who moves about almost exclusively in the nighttime of Tokyo’s neon jungle. Caught in the middle of a bad deal, he is singled out and shot to death by police. Oscar’s spirit leaves his body, and for the rest of film, floats through walls, soars above skyscrapers and powers into the minds of his still-living friends and relatives.
“Enter the Void” brims with gorgeous, psychedelic visuals and shocking depictions of horrific and taboo happenings, daring you to flinch. If you know anything about Gaspar Noé and his other films, “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irréversible” (2002), then you won’t...
- 2/17/2011
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
Chicago – Gaspar Noe’s “Enter the Void” is one hell of a trip. Unapologetically inspired by experiences with hallucinogens, the film is such a unique, bizarre, and memorable experience that one has to recommend it simply for its audacity. You’ve never seen anything quite like “Enter the Void” outside of anime. The uncut version released on Blu-ray is too bloated, running nearly three hours, but there’s so much to like here that the film’s flaws can be forgiven.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
From the very beginning, including a credit sequence that should have most viewers instantly mesmerized, “Enter the Void” is unique. Here’s all you really need to know — the film unfolds in first-person Pov (with the occasional third-person, over-the-shoulder flashbacks) even after the lead character dies. That’s right. Death doesn’t stop “Enter the Void.” In fact, it’s kind of what it’s all about.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
From the very beginning, including a credit sequence that should have most viewers instantly mesmerized, “Enter the Void” is unique. Here’s all you really need to know — the film unfolds in first-person Pov (with the occasional third-person, over-the-shoulder flashbacks) even after the lead character dies. That’s right. Death doesn’t stop “Enter the Void.” In fact, it’s kind of what it’s all about.
- 2/10/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy
Director: Gaspar Noe
The Scoop: This experimental French film has been dividing audiences since it debuted at Cannes. Some feel its psychedelic visual style is a work of genius, while others argue that the movie itself is in need of an intervention. The plot is something about a drug dealer who goes to Japan and gets shot to death, but persists as a ghost who floats around, watching events and entering people’s dreams.
Special Features: Deleted scenes, trailers
Not rated, 161 min. | Watch the trailer...
Director: Gaspar Noe
The Scoop: This experimental French film has been dividing audiences since it debuted at Cannes. Some feel its psychedelic visual style is a work of genius, while others argue that the movie itself is in need of an intervention. The plot is something about a drug dealer who goes to Japan and gets shot to death, but persists as a ghost who floats around, watching events and entering people’s dreams.
Special Features: Deleted scenes, trailers
Not rated, 161 min. | Watch the trailer...
- 2/5/2011
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
Following up our DVD giveaway for Enter the Void, as promised, here's your chance to win it on Blu-ray. On January 25th it hit shelves. When we reviewed it here, we were quite fond of it and we even listed it in our Top 10 Overlooked Films of 2010. Folks, this is one you're really going to want to see. Luckily for you, we've got quite a few copies to give away. As the second round of our Enter the Void sweepstakes, we're offering up 2 copies on Blu-ray to our readers, and to find out how to win just read on.
Newcomer Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) star as a brother and sister trapped in the hellish nighttime world of Tokyo where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which...
Newcomer Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) star as a brother and sister trapped in the hellish nighttime world of Tokyo where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which...
- 2/4/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
[Update: Oh, and we forgot to mention, these DVDs are autographed by Gaspar Noe. Sweet.]
Eight years after Gaspar Noe put out his previous feature film, he delivered a story of love and drugs in a trippy little film called Enter the Void. On January 25th it hits shelves. When we reviewed it here, we were quite fond of it and we even listed it in our Top 10 Overlooked Films of 2010. Folks, this is one you're really going to want to see. Luckily for you, we've got quite a few copies to give away. First up, we're giving away three copies on DVD, and if you want to know how to win, just keep reading.
Newcomer Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) star as a brother and sister trapped in the hellish nighttime world of Tokyo where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in...
Eight years after Gaspar Noe put out his previous feature film, he delivered a story of love and drugs in a trippy little film called Enter the Void. On January 25th it hits shelves. When we reviewed it here, we were quite fond of it and we even listed it in our Top 10 Overlooked Films of 2010. Folks, this is one you're really going to want to see. Luckily for you, we've got quite a few copies to give away. First up, we're giving away three copies on DVD, and if you want to know how to win, just keep reading.
Newcomer Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) star as a brother and sister trapped in the hellish nighttime world of Tokyo where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in...
- 1/29/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
By Christopher Stipp
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IP Man 2 -Review
It’s Sammo Hung who deserves the kudos for this sequel.
It may be Donnie Yen’s reprisal of Ip Man, the man who would mentor Bruce Lee if you’re unfamiliar with this man’s provenance, who is bringing the same kind of furious fists and feet that he brought to the first film or director Wilson Yip’s fresh take on a genre that has been beaten like the prunish face of any man coming out of the well-choreographed fight sequences but it’s really all about the action when it comes to Ip Man 2. It’s the latter of these points that explains why this film needs to be consumed and enjoyed for what it is and not,...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
IP Man 2 -Review
It’s Sammo Hung who deserves the kudos for this sequel.
It may be Donnie Yen’s reprisal of Ip Man, the man who would mentor Bruce Lee if you’re unfamiliar with this man’s provenance, who is bringing the same kind of furious fists and feet that he brought to the first film or director Wilson Yip’s fresh take on a genre that has been beaten like the prunish face of any man coming out of the well-choreographed fight sequences but it’s really all about the action when it comes to Ip Man 2. It’s the latter of these points that explains why this film needs to be consumed and enjoyed for what it is and not,...
- 1/28/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about what I consider to be the greatest thing since sliced bread… Netflix streaming movies instantly to your computer and/or compatible home theater. As Netflix makes movies titles available in their already vast and eclectic catalog of rentals via online streaming technology, I’ll spotlight the one’s I feel are worth taking note of as they become available.
In this, the first edition of Netflix Nuggets, we’ll feature five films; two brand new and wildly unique foreign films, one new documentary, and two classics from master filmmakers.
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (1970)
[streaming of Ballad Of Cable Hogue available only until 1/31/2011]
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Synopsis: Abandoned in the desert, prospector Cable Hogue survives his ordeal when he discovers a freshwater spring. Transforming the oasis into a much needed pit stop on the local stagecoach route, the resourceful Hogue sits back to wait for his double-crossing former partners.
In this, the first edition of Netflix Nuggets, we’ll feature five films; two brand new and wildly unique foreign films, one new documentary, and two classics from master filmmakers.
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue (1970)
[streaming of Ballad Of Cable Hogue available only until 1/31/2011]
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Synopsis: Abandoned in the desert, prospector Cable Hogue survives his ordeal when he discovers a freshwater spring. Transforming the oasis into a much needed pit stop on the local stagecoach route, the resourceful Hogue sits back to wait for his double-crossing former partners.
- 1/27/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Just added today on Netflix: My top two choices of 2010? The Movie Gods must really hate my social life. Take a trip to the afterlife, visit a bizarre Greek family and weep for a Peruvian atrocity in these bleak streams.
• • •
Enter The Void
When Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a foreign drug dealer living in Tokyo with his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), is fatally shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future into a chaotic whole. This riveting third film from provocative French auteur Gaspar Noe screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Cyril Roy co-stars.
It's good to know that should you feel like getting wet but short on Pcp, you only have to fire Netflix up and watch this movie to get roughly the same effect. I've twice written and gushed about this...
• • •
Enter The Void
When Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a foreign drug dealer living in Tokyo with his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), is fatally shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future into a chaotic whole. This riveting third film from provocative French auteur Gaspar Noe screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Cyril Roy co-stars.
It's good to know that should you feel like getting wet but short on Pcp, you only have to fire Netflix up and watch this movie to get roughly the same effect. I've twice written and gushed about this...
- 1/25/2011
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Red: "Robert Schwentke's Red comes at a bit of an inopportune time. This year has seen a surprising overload of "group of killers and their hijinks" movies -- The Losers, The Expendables, Operation: Endgame, The A-Team -- all movies about with very similar concepts. They're all humorous films about assassins/government operatives/mercenaries who get betrayed in some fashion, and are forced to gather together and shoot people and blow things up in an effort to clear their name. Being the last one on the list doesn't help things, either. That said, Red has a few things going for it. It's easily the most talented cast, the premise is a little more original, and it's tongue-in-cheek humor is a little less broad and a little more clever." - Tk
Secretariat: "The moment you see "Walt Disney Presents" in the opening credits for a film, you know almost exactly what to expect.
Secretariat: "The moment you see "Walt Disney Presents" in the opening credits for a film, you know almost exactly what to expect.
- 1/25/2011
- by Intern Rusty
This week has been busy some amazing news coming in from the Sundance film festival. To mix things up here is our weekly post of notable films coming out on DVD/Blu-ray and some cool films you can add to your instant Netflix queue. Which movies are you looking forward to that are set for release this week?
Blu-ray Releases:
Dead Space: Aftermath
Add To Queue
Synopsis:
The year is 2509. The first-responder ship Usg O'Bannon has arrived at Aegis VII, attempting to hold the planet together in the wake of the catastrophe that destroyed the Ishimura. But only four members of the O'Bannon crew have survived, and the catastrophe remains unchecked. What went wrong? What secrets do they hide? And what new threats have been revealed...in the Aftermath!
Enter The Void
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Synopsis:
Controversial and brilliant director Gasper Noe follows his worldwide sensation Irreversible with another triumph.
Blu-ray Releases:
Dead Space: Aftermath
Add To Queue
Synopsis:
The year is 2509. The first-responder ship Usg O'Bannon has arrived at Aegis VII, attempting to hold the planet together in the wake of the catastrophe that destroyed the Ishimura. But only four members of the O'Bannon crew have survived, and the catastrophe remains unchecked. What went wrong? What secrets do they hide? And what new threats have been revealed...in the Aftermath!
Enter The Void
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Synopsis:
Controversial and brilliant director Gasper Noe follows his worldwide sensation Irreversible with another triumph.
- 1/25/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
"Dogtooth" (2009)
Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
Released by Kino
"Enter the Void" (2010)
Directed by Gaspar Noé
Released by Mpi Home Video
Somehow it's fitting that two of last year's most dangerous films will be hitting DVD shelves the same week, both being favorites of the IFC.com staff. "Dogtooth," Lanthimos' much-debated Un Certain Regard winner from Cannes, concerns the lives of three culturally isolated children -- two daughters and a son, who range from mid-teens to early 20s -- fenced in by their parents' country home, who receive a reeducation when their lone connection to the outside world, a female security guard for their parents' business, introduces them to the joys of sex and Sylvester Stallone films. Meanwhile, "Irreversible" provocateur Noé's latest is a wildly ambitious 155-minute extravaganza set inside the mind of a drug dealer told from the first-person perspective. Nathaniel Brown and "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta...
Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
Released by Kino
"Enter the Void" (2010)
Directed by Gaspar Noé
Released by Mpi Home Video
Somehow it's fitting that two of last year's most dangerous films will be hitting DVD shelves the same week, both being favorites of the IFC.com staff. "Dogtooth," Lanthimos' much-debated Un Certain Regard winner from Cannes, concerns the lives of three culturally isolated children -- two daughters and a son, who range from mid-teens to early 20s -- fenced in by their parents' country home, who receive a reeducation when their lone connection to the outside world, a female security guard for their parents' business, introduces them to the joys of sex and Sylvester Stallone films. Meanwhile, "Irreversible" provocateur Noé's latest is a wildly ambitious 155-minute extravaganza set inside the mind of a drug dealer told from the first-person perspective. Nathaniel Brown and "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta...
- 1/24/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Enter The Void – Sunday January 2 at 9:50pm and Saturday January 8 at 3:00pm @Ritz
Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void is certainly one of the most talked about and controversial films of the year. Its nearly three-hour running time and unconventional storytelling style leaves most audiences either hallucinating or just deeply mystified. But while the film is daringly perplexing, Enter The Void is also stunning. “A hyper-poetic head trip of degradation and rebirth,” writes Boston Globe critic Ty Burr, the film is “most assuredly not for pregnant women, the seizure-prone, or the faint of heart.”
We were lucky enough to host the film twice already, once when it played at SXSW in March and again at Fantastic Fest in September. Since then, the film has been playing around the country in an edited version, with a full 20 minutes missing. That wouldn’t do for us. But when IFC talked...
Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void is certainly one of the most talked about and controversial films of the year. Its nearly three-hour running time and unconventional storytelling style leaves most audiences either hallucinating or just deeply mystified. But while the film is daringly perplexing, Enter The Void is also stunning. “A hyper-poetic head trip of degradation and rebirth,” writes Boston Globe critic Ty Burr, the film is “most assuredly not for pregnant women, the seizure-prone, or the faint of heart.”
We were lucky enough to host the film twice already, once when it played at SXSW in March and again at Fantastic Fest in September. Since then, the film has been playing around the country in an edited version, with a full 20 minutes missing. That wouldn’t do for us. But when IFC talked...
- 12/28/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
Enter The Void – Sunday January 2 at 9:50pm and Saturday January 8 at 3:00pm @Ritz
Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void is certainly one of the most talked about and controversial films of the year. Its nearly three-hour running time and unconventional storytelling style leaves most audiences either hallucinating or just deeply mystified. But while the film is daringly perplexing, Enter The Void is also stunning. “A hyper-poetic head trip of degradation and rebirth,” writes Boston Globe critic Ty Burr, the film is “most assuredly not for pregnant women, the seizure-prone, or the faint of heart.”
We were lucky enough to host the film twice already, once when it played at SXSW in March and again at Fantastic Fest in September. Since then, the film has been playing around the country in an edited version, with a full 20 minutes missing. That wouldn’t do for us. But when IFC talked...
Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void is certainly one of the most talked about and controversial films of the year. Its nearly three-hour running time and unconventional storytelling style leaves most audiences either hallucinating or just deeply mystified. But while the film is daringly perplexing, Enter The Void is also stunning. “A hyper-poetic head trip of degradation and rebirth,” writes Boston Globe critic Ty Burr, the film is “most assuredly not for pregnant women, the seizure-prone, or the faint of heart.”
We were lucky enough to host the film twice already, once when it played at SXSW in March and again at Fantastic Fest in September. Since then, the film has been playing around the country in an edited version, with a full 20 minutes missing. That wouldn’t do for us. But when IFC talked...
- 12/28/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
In the screening I attended, the cinema accidentally started the wrong movie. After 1 minute the audience started to whisper, "This is too normal. Where is the strobe lighting?" The screen goes blank again. Then a caption appeared: 'Warning: This film contains very heavy strobe lighting.' The usher standing by the isle commented, 'Oh sorry folks. This is the right movie...'
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It's imitating to be issued any kind of warning before a screening especially when it encroaches the arena of health. But I am prepared. You see Enter The Void comes from the fertile mind of Gaspar Noé, the gentleman behind Irreversible, one of the most abrasive and challenging viewing experiences I've had. I'm not a fan but I do believe it has merit to exist. It's far from a bad movie. I felt Noé seen cinema as a way to scar people. I disagreed in Irreversible's case.
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It's imitating to be issued any kind of warning before a screening especially when it encroaches the arena of health. But I am prepared. You see Enter The Void comes from the fertile mind of Gaspar Noé, the gentleman behind Irreversible, one of the most abrasive and challenging viewing experiences I've had. I'm not a fan but I do believe it has merit to exist. It's far from a bad movie. I felt Noé seen cinema as a way to scar people. I disagreed in Irreversible's case.
- 12/17/2010
- by FanboyCrew
Enter The Void
Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander | Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic & Gaspar Noe | Directed by Gaspar Noe
Controversy surrounds Gaspar Noe’s films like a swarm of bees. And not without reason: If Irreversible’s 10-minute rape scene had you reaching for the door, and graphic, prolonged nudity makes you more than a little uncomfortable, then Enter The Void may not be the film for you. If not, you can expect a film experience like no other.
Let’s get the plot out of the way: siblings Oscar (Brown) and Linda (Boardwalk Empire’s de la Huerta) are living in Tokyo, with Oscar making a living selling drugs to his friends and Linda working in a strip bar. The beginning of the film (seen from Oscar’s point of view, complete with blinks) sees Oscar travel to a deal which is really a police drug bust,...
Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander | Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic & Gaspar Noe | Directed by Gaspar Noe
Controversy surrounds Gaspar Noe’s films like a swarm of bees. And not without reason: If Irreversible’s 10-minute rape scene had you reaching for the door, and graphic, prolonged nudity makes you more than a little uncomfortable, then Enter The Void may not be the film for you. If not, you can expect a film experience like no other.
Let’s get the plot out of the way: siblings Oscar (Brown) and Linda (Boardwalk Empire’s de la Huerta) are living in Tokyo, with Oscar making a living selling drugs to his friends and Linda working in a strip bar. The beginning of the film (seen from Oscar’s point of view, complete with blinks) sees Oscar travel to a deal which is really a police drug bust,...
- 11/23/2010
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
Nov 15, 2010
Oscar has just scored Dmt, a drug which takes you right to the best parts of 2001: A Space Odyssey and mostly makes the movie screen resemble a really neat computer screensaver. He probably should have kept refreshing that screen because tonight is not going to go well for Oscar (Nathaniel Brown). Enter the Void is the first film in eight years from French provocateur Gaspar Noe. Following the notorious rape-revenge bludgeoning Irreversible (2002), he courts controversy once again with this exhausting mind trip.
Following potential seizure-inducing strobe light opening titles, Enter the Void ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
Oscar has just scored Dmt, a drug which takes you right to the best parts of 2001: A Space Odyssey and mostly makes the movie screen resemble a really neat computer screensaver. He probably should have kept refreshing that screen because tonight is not going to go well for Oscar (Nathaniel Brown). Enter the Void is the first film in eight years from French provocateur Gaspar Noe. Following the notorious rape-revenge bludgeoning Irreversible (2002), he courts controversy once again with this exhausting mind trip.
Following potential seizure-inducing strobe light opening titles, Enter the Void ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
- 11/15/2010
- CinemaNerdz
Enter The Void
Directed by Gaspar Noe
Starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
Release date: September 24, 2010 (limited)
The void, according to flamboyant director Gaspar Noe, is life. What a pessimistic outlook. But Noe does present to us through his new film Enter The Void potent, disturbing, and rotten instances that back his pessimistic perspective. As soon as we are born into this world (Noe gives us an unprecedented example of this) we have entered the void, and we only enhance the blackness of that void by making ourselves susceptible by living a life that approaches the disgusting, sick, and horror-stricken. His film is a fully realized portrait of a decaying city (Tokyo), but is it really about the world? And a fully realized portrait of its sinful inhabitants (Oscar, Linda, and their friends), but is it really supposed to represent all of humanity?...
Directed by Gaspar Noe
Starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
Release date: September 24, 2010 (limited)
The void, according to flamboyant director Gaspar Noe, is life. What a pessimistic outlook. But Noe does present to us through his new film Enter The Void potent, disturbing, and rotten instances that back his pessimistic perspective. As soon as we are born into this world (Noe gives us an unprecedented example of this) we have entered the void, and we only enhance the blackness of that void by making ourselves susceptible by living a life that approaches the disgusting, sick, and horror-stricken. His film is a fully realized portrait of a decaying city (Tokyo), but is it really about the world? And a fully realized portrait of its sinful inhabitants (Oscar, Linda, and their friends), but is it really supposed to represent all of humanity?...
- 10/18/2010
- by Three-D
- Geeks of Doom
Enter the Void Directed by: Gaspar Noé Written by: Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Gaspar Noé Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander One thing’s for sure, you won’t leave Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void with comparisons ready. More than likely, you won’t want to think about it at all. Over two and a quarter hours, the film hijacks your consciousness like a potent hallucinogen, and leaves you feeling burnt out and brain-fried on the other end. Is it worth the trip? Yes, with an asterisk. After all, the opportunity to see something this flagrantly original comes but once in a blue moon, yet it isn’t the sort of experience many will enjoy having. Enter the Void begins with a strobing title sequence that explodes into a first person account of drugs and death in Tokyo; it ought to come with a seizure warning.
- 10/10/2010
- by Colin
- FilmJunk
Enter the Void is unlike most films you see in the mainstream, a transformative experience so intense that, by the end, your eyes might be bleeding. It’s director Gaspar Noe – a true visionary in every sense of the word, pushing the possibilities of the camera into a stratosphere of its own. Known for being the bad boy auteur in France, Noe’s previous film Irreversible polarized critics for similar reasons in that it dealt with very brutal and uncomfortable situations presented in such a fashion it was hard not to be bowled over by it. The subject matter of his new film is also dark, very dark and can perhaps be construed as a ‘psychedelic melodrama’ between drug addicts, criminals, whores and everything in between. Still, at it’s core Enter the Void is a spiritual and uncanny experience that will most likely leave you unnerved and mesmerized.
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- 10/6/2010
- by Raffi Asdourian
- The Film Stage
Movie Review: Enter the Void-Gaspar Noé's depiction of life reduced to unadulterated primordial need
Adults Only! One Week Only! Starts Friday, October 8th! Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void tells a story of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a small-time drug dealer in Tokyo and his sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta, Choke, Anamorph) who he brings to Japan to an attempt reunite them as a family. Oscar has a penchant for Dmt. Dmt is produced naturally in the body and believed to play a role in mediating the visual effects of natural dreaming as well as near-death experiences. One night, Oscar is caught in a sting operation and shot. As Oscar dies his spirit leaves his body. But refusing to...
- 10/5/2010
- by Pamela Alexander-Beutler, SF Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Those of you who have escaped the foreboding lure of Gaspar Noé's infamous Irréversible (2002) may find yourselves drawn into the psychedelic clutches of his latest film, Enter the Void (2009). In comparison to its predecessor, which featured a grueling, nine minute long-shot of the beautiful Monica Bellucci being raped (not to mention a sequence showcasing the graphic, lethal bludgeoning of a man with a fire extinguisher) , Enter the Void is fairly accessible from a narrative standpoint. The film focuses on Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a drug dealer running the streets of Tokyo, trying to make ends meet so that he can support his displaced sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). As the film opens, we watch as Oscar and Linda look down at the neon-soaked streets of the alienating metropolis. After a brief discussion about the city and their lives together, Linda leaves for work at a strip club and Oscar indulges his work habit,...
- 10/5/2010
- by Drew Morton
(Pictured right: Gaspar Noe and Simon Abrams. Photo taken by Susan Norget)
Though writer/director Gaspar Noé is probably most well-known for the graphic and seemingly interminable rape scene in Irreversible, his second feature, it's very hard to make charges of being a provocateur stick. The man's intuitive style of filmmaking and fascination with the interplay between corporeality, taboos and the afterlife precludes the assumption that he is knowingly trying to push your buttons. Enter the Void, his trippy third feature, continues in that tradition, focusing on the risqué relationship between Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and his estranged sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta).
Enter the Void is, amongst other things: a 161 minute-long hallucinogenic trip, a love story, a roller coaster ride, a ghost story, a very loose memoirs, an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey and a further extension of Noé's career-long exploration of the role of rough sex in a Buddhist-inspired cycle of reincarnation.
Though writer/director Gaspar Noé is probably most well-known for the graphic and seemingly interminable rape scene in Irreversible, his second feature, it's very hard to make charges of being a provocateur stick. The man's intuitive style of filmmaking and fascination with the interplay between corporeality, taboos and the afterlife precludes the assumption that he is knowingly trying to push your buttons. Enter the Void, his trippy third feature, continues in that tradition, focusing on the risqué relationship between Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and his estranged sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta).
Enter the Void is, amongst other things: a 161 minute-long hallucinogenic trip, a love story, a roller coaster ride, a ghost story, a very loose memoirs, an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey and a further extension of Noé's career-long exploration of the role of rough sex in a Buddhist-inspired cycle of reincarnation.
- 9/29/2010
- by Simon Abrams
- Moviefone
Enter The Void (18)
(Gaspar Noé, 2009, Fra/Ger/Ita) Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy. 143 mins
Noé adjusts your set from the inside with a film so hallucinogenic you might need to check into rehab afterwards. Despite some of the furthest-out visuals ever seen, nobody could accuse him of glamorising drugs. Following an American loser through the sleazy side of Tokyo, mostly after his death, it's a long, miserable tale, but the execution is amazing.
The Town (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2010, Us) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. 125 mins
Affleck takes on a whole Boston district in this crime saga, which overextends him a little. It's a serious drama struggling to get out of a generic cops-and-robbers thriller.
Eat Pray Love (PG)
(Ryan Murphy, 2010, Us) Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem. 140 mins
Roberts goes to Italy, India and Bali but she's never been to "me" in this emetic hymn to self-absorption.
World's Greatest Dad (15)
(Bobcat Goldthwait,...
(Gaspar Noé, 2009, Fra/Ger/Ita) Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy. 143 mins
Noé adjusts your set from the inside with a film so hallucinogenic you might need to check into rehab afterwards. Despite some of the furthest-out visuals ever seen, nobody could accuse him of glamorising drugs. Following an American loser through the sleazy side of Tokyo, mostly after his death, it's a long, miserable tale, but the execution is amazing.
The Town (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2010, Us) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. 125 mins
Affleck takes on a whole Boston district in this crime saga, which overextends him a little. It's a serious drama struggling to get out of a generic cops-and-robbers thriller.
Eat Pray Love (PG)
(Ryan Murphy, 2010, Us) Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem. 140 mins
Roberts goes to Italy, India and Bali but she's never been to "me" in this emetic hymn to self-absorption.
World's Greatest Dad (15)
(Bobcat Goldthwait,...
- 9/24/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Kinda sorry I'm going to see Legend of the Guardians in IMAX 3D this weekend, and not Gaspar Noé's new film, Enter the Void. This is the movie that could benefit from the full, immersive, 3D treatment: a swirling, gliding, electric voyage into life and death, with sex, drugs, and a dynamically surreal Tokyo thrown in for good measure. That all this is conveyed through the viewpoint of a mere blip on the universe's map -- a low-level drug dealer, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), who comes a-cropper of a botched drug bust and ends up on the wrong end of a cop's gun -- lends what follows no little ironic impact. As he lays bleeding on a lavatory floor, the camera takes the vantage point of Oscar's soul as it rises, experiencing the transition to the next world in a manner that...
- 9/24/2010
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
Tonight, almost a year after its first teaser hit the Web, Enter the Void hits the U.S. with what both the suits and the heads would call “serious buzz.” Not only did that viral clip’s blast of hard techno, sizzling fonts, and optic drift practically telegraph “L-s-d,” but the extreme polarity of critics’ blurbs—“Pure cinema!” “Virtually unwatchable!”—sounded just like the conflicting hyperbole you get straw-polling college freshmen after their first rave. Or oral surgery. Clearly, you don’t take this film on a school night. This is, after all, the first Gaspar Noé feature in eight years, which many of us spent recovering from his last one. In his 2002 breakthrough Irreversible, Noé deployed nearly every destabilizing tactic in modern film-making—reverse narrative sequence, vertiginous crane shots, seizure-baiting strobes, ultra-low frequencies—all, apparently, mere tech rehearsal for Noé’s new first-person-p.O.V. odyssey into sex, drugs,...
- 9/24/2010
- Vanity Fair
If asked whether cinema is a visceral experience or a narrative medium, ideally I would answer "both," but one answer is as good as the other. Enter the Void is, not surprisingly, a cathartic visceral experience, which should be expected from a visually uncompromising filmmaker like Gaspar Noé, who eight years ago spurred disturbed discussions with his film Irreversible.
Perfecting the techniques he first made use on that film, while expanding the limits of what he dares to show on camera, Noé delivers a standard-bending film about life, death and what comes after; although his vision of the afterlife is occupied with his primal obsessions in this life: sex, drugs and strobe lights.
Supposedly based loosely on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (although it's more like it references said book as a mean to explain itself), Enter the Void dons the gimmick of a first-person perspective. The role of Oscar,...
Perfecting the techniques he first made use on that film, while expanding the limits of what he dares to show on camera, Noé delivers a standard-bending film about life, death and what comes after; although his vision of the afterlife is occupied with his primal obsessions in this life: sex, drugs and strobe lights.
Supposedly based loosely on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (although it's more like it references said book as a mean to explain itself), Enter the Void dons the gimmick of a first-person perspective. The role of Oscar,...
- 9/24/2010
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
When you hear incendiary French auteur Gaspar Noé say things like, "To make a good melodrama you need sperm, blood and tears," one has to wonder if he actually hates his audience, or merely likes pushing the boundaries of their collective comfort zone. Noé's latest is Enter the Void, which I briefly wrote about in the Village Voice's fall film preview:
Irreversible provocateur Gaspar Noé unleashes another avant-garde assault upon audiences in this deliriously wicked, undeniably daring acid trip through Tokyo’s neon-splattered underworld. After young American stripper Paz de la Huerta’s drug-dealing brother (Nathaniel Brown) is gunned down by cops, the camera takes the p.o.v. of his disembodied spirit as it floats over buildings, through walls, down sewers, and even inside a fallopian tube. If you’re prone to seizures, anxiety, or staying in your comfort zone, might we instead recommend Kings of Pastry?
In New York,...
Irreversible provocateur Gaspar Noé unleashes another avant-garde assault upon audiences in this deliriously wicked, undeniably daring acid trip through Tokyo’s neon-splattered underworld. After young American stripper Paz de la Huerta’s drug-dealing brother (Nathaniel Brown) is gunned down by cops, the camera takes the p.o.v. of his disembodied spirit as it floats over buildings, through walls, down sewers, and even inside a fallopian tube. If you’re prone to seizures, anxiety, or staying in your comfort zone, might we instead recommend Kings of Pastry?
In New York,...
- 9/24/2010
- GreenCine Daily
Chicago – “Dying would be the ultimate trip.” This line is uttered early on in “Enter the Void,” the extraordinary new film from Gaspar Noé, a director who enjoys referencing his previous work almost as much as his hero, Stanley Kubrick. This line pays subtle homage to the “2001: A Space Odyssey” poster prominently framed toward the end of Noé’s previous film, “Irreversible.”
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Just as Kubrick delivered on his promise to present moviegoers with the “ultimate trip,” Noé seems to be making a similar promise with this wildly ambitious feature, which he defines as a “psychedelic melodrama.” Yet while many audience members took assorted drugs to enhance their moviegoing experience during the initial release of “2001,” Noé aims to viscerally convey the sensation of a drug-induced high, allowing viewers to fully lose themselves within the world of his central character. “Void” comes as close any picture in the history of...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Just as Kubrick delivered on his promise to present moviegoers with the “ultimate trip,” Noé seems to be making a similar promise with this wildly ambitious feature, which he defines as a “psychedelic melodrama.” Yet while many audience members took assorted drugs to enhance their moviegoing experience during the initial release of “2001,” Noé aims to viscerally convey the sensation of a drug-induced high, allowing viewers to fully lose themselves within the world of his central character. “Void” comes as close any picture in the history of...
- 9/24/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
He shocked us all with Irréversible, and Gaspar Noé's latest is a magnificently deranged melodrama, says Peter Bradshaw
It has been eight years now since Gaspar Noé released his notorious rape-revenge film Irréversible, an ultra-violent, ultra-extreme movie that effortlessly exceeded in shock value anything, by anyone, at any time. I myself, having admired his previous feature, Seul Contre Tous, reacted fiercely against it as a piece of macho provocation. Rereading my review now, I find none of its points wrong exactly, but I have to concede the possibility that I was just freaked out in precisely the way Noé intended. Having staggered out of the auditorium, my eyeballs still vibrating from the director's trademark sado-stroboscopic white light display, I may well have succumbed to a convulsion of disapproval.
Enter the Void is, in its way, just as provocative, just as extreme, just as mad, just as much of an...
It has been eight years now since Gaspar Noé released his notorious rape-revenge film Irréversible, an ultra-violent, ultra-extreme movie that effortlessly exceeded in shock value anything, by anyone, at any time. I myself, having admired his previous feature, Seul Contre Tous, reacted fiercely against it as a piece of macho provocation. Rereading my review now, I find none of its points wrong exactly, but I have to concede the possibility that I was just freaked out in precisely the way Noé intended. Having staggered out of the auditorium, my eyeballs still vibrating from the director's trademark sado-stroboscopic white light display, I may well have succumbed to a convulsion of disapproval.
Enter the Void is, in its way, just as provocative, just as extreme, just as mad, just as much of an...
- 9/23/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
France's Gaspar Noé may forever be one of the most controversial auteur filmmakers, having earned quite a reputation with the reactions to his 2002 movie Irreversible , starring real-life couple Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. Certain scenes in the film were so graphic and shocking that many people walked out of the theater revolted by what they had been subjected to. Undaunted, Noé's latest film Enter the Void premiered at Cannes in 2009 and promised to test the limits of moviegoers with its long running time and experimental camerawork that would try to recreate the effects of taking drugs and even more ambitiously, try to simulate what the afterlife might be like. At the heart of the film are brother and sister, Oscar and Linda, played by Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la...
- 9/23/2010
- Comingsoon.net
In Nick Schager's interview with madman/visionary Gaspar Noé, the director notes that one of his inspirations for the Pov shots in "Enter the Void" was a 1947 Raymond Chandler adaptation:
One day many years ago, maybe when I was in my late teens or early 20s, I took some mushrooms with friends, and then I went back home and they were playing "Lady in the Lake" on TV. That's when I decided that the first part of the movie should be shot in first-person perspective.
"Lady in the Lake" is a film that claimed to represent "a startling and daring new method of storytellng, a milestone in moviemaking" but is in actuality mainly a novelty (if a personal favorite of mine). The majority of it is shot from the point of view of the main character, private detective Philip Marlowe (played, when he appears on screen, by Robert Montgomery, who...
One day many years ago, maybe when I was in my late teens or early 20s, I took some mushrooms with friends, and then I went back home and they were playing "Lady in the Lake" on TV. That's when I decided that the first part of the movie should be shot in first-person perspective.
"Lady in the Lake" is a film that claimed to represent "a startling and daring new method of storytellng, a milestone in moviemaking" but is in actuality mainly a novelty (if a personal favorite of mine). The majority of it is shot from the point of view of the main character, private detective Philip Marlowe (played, when he appears on screen, by Robert Montgomery, who...
- 9/22/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Chicago – Few films have conveyed the sensation of an out-of-body experience quite like “Enter the Void,” the latest feature from French filmmaker Gaspar Noé, who continues to be one of the most controversial and innovative filmmakers in modern cinema. When his characters get high, their souls float through space, an experience skillfully depicted by Noé, despite the fact that he’s never experienced it himself.
“I’ve tried for many years to have an out-of-body experience and I’ve never managed to have any,” Noé admits.
The son of an Argentine painter, Noé first gained notoriety with his 1991 short, “Carne,” which was later followed by two features that garnered equal amounts of acclaim and outrage at international festivals. “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irreversible” (2002) confronted deeply disturbing subject matter with an almost animalistic intensity, while allowing audiences to reflect on the repercussions of their epically intimate tragedies. Noé’s nihilistic worldview is apparent throughout his work,...
“I’ve tried for many years to have an out-of-body experience and I’ve never managed to have any,” Noé admits.
The son of an Argentine painter, Noé first gained notoriety with his 1991 short, “Carne,” which was later followed by two features that garnered equal amounts of acclaim and outrage at international festivals. “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irreversible” (2002) confronted deeply disturbing subject matter with an almost animalistic intensity, while allowing audiences to reflect on the repercussions of their epically intimate tragedies. Noé’s nihilistic worldview is apparent throughout his work,...
- 9/22/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Many things can and will be said about Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void. In a way, that’s the best way to “review” it. There is so much going on in this film that discussing it in terms of a simple thumbs up or thumbs down might lack merit. It will be just as polarizing as his last film, Irreversible —that is, some will call it a masterpiece, many will walk out. Regardless, it is a significant work. Noe acknowledges this in our interview, speaking of his excitement of walkouts, because it means the film affected them that much. What I love most about films like this is the that they're sincere and personal works, with so much more work going into them than other films out there - this is something that French production co./world sales unit Wild Bunch have understood and demonstrated in their continued support...
- 9/22/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Enter the Void is Nathaniel Brown's acting debut. Brown is an aspiring filmmaker and Gaspar Noe actually chose to cast him for this reason, as the young actor is behind the camera for a great deal of the film, considered the subjective camera. This must have been a fantastic film school for him, as he describes in the interview being “bear hugged” by Noe as they work the camera together. Paz de la Huerta is the reverse end of that spectrum, being a seasoned pro even at such a young age. De la Huerta has recently been seen in films like The Guitar, The Limits of Control and Choke. She’s made herself a well-known rising star on the festival circuit. In the interview, she discusses her frustrations with working with amateur actors, and perhaps being given too much freedom by Noe. Look for De la Huerta on the just premiered,...
- 9/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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