Remember “The Golden Suicides,” the tragic and mysterious “double suicide” story about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, two artists deeply in love, who both committed killed themselves one after the other? The story about beautiful, talented, up-and-coming artists who suddenly committed suicides under mysterious conditions consumed media (especially New York media where they were from for weeks)?
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- 1/17/2020
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Did Jerry Lee Lewis kill his wife and get away with murder? Was the Church of Scientology involved in the death of Jeremy Blake, the artist who produced the cover of Beck’s Sea Change album and how did Sam Cooke and Sid Vicious really die? These are all stories from the first season of Disgraceland, a true crime podcast that looks at the deviant side of rock ‘n’ roll.
The podcast, which launched last month, was created by Boston musician Jake Brennan. Here, he talks to Deadline about its origins, the challenges of creating compelling audio stories and plans to turn the project into a bigger, possibly scripted, play.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Sid Vicious and the tale of satanic ritualism within the Norwegian black metal scene make up the first four episodes of Disgraceland with future episodes revolving around Van Morrison, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, the Rolling Stones and James Brown.
The podcast, which launched last month, was created by Boston musician Jake Brennan. Here, he talks to Deadline about its origins, the challenges of creating compelling audio stories and plans to turn the project into a bigger, possibly scripted, play.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Sid Vicious and the tale of satanic ritualism within the Norwegian black metal scene make up the first four episodes of Disgraceland with future episodes revolving around Van Morrison, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, the Rolling Stones and James Brown.
- 3/28/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Mary Lynn Rajskub | Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
If you’re Paul Thomas Anderson, how do you follow up a succession of sprawling epics like Boogie Nights and Magnolia? Why, you make a small-scale rom-com, of course. Except this is PTA, so it’s not that simple. On the surface, Punch-Drunk Love looks like the runt of Anderson’s litter – perhaps not helped, in retrospect, by Adam Sandler’s steady decline since 2002 – but looking again, it has a good deal to offer.
Sandler plays Barry, a blue pill guy in a bad blue suit. He owns a warehouse company that sells … well, who knows? Plungers, certainly. Barry is socially awkward and thoroughly single, and he’s under the thumb of his seven bullying sisters. One day his one vaguely agreeable sibling, Elizabeth (Mary Lynn Rajskub), introduces Barry to...
If you’re Paul Thomas Anderson, how do you follow up a succession of sprawling epics like Boogie Nights and Magnolia? Why, you make a small-scale rom-com, of course. Except this is PTA, so it’s not that simple. On the surface, Punch-Drunk Love looks like the runt of Anderson’s litter – perhaps not helped, in retrospect, by Adam Sandler’s steady decline since 2002 – but looking again, it has a good deal to offer.
Sandler plays Barry, a blue pill guy in a bad blue suit. He owns a warehouse company that sells … well, who knows? Plungers, certainly. Barry is socially awkward and thoroughly single, and he’s under the thumb of his seven bullying sisters. One day his one vaguely agreeable sibling, Elizabeth (Mary Lynn Rajskub), introduces Barry to...
- 1/19/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
It's blissfully romantic, undeniably eccentric, the easy go-to-answer for the best Adam Sandler movie ever made, a modernist gem, a valentine to old musicals and the only film to feature both Philip Seymour Hoffman and an abandoned harmonium in key supporting roles. Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love remains an outlier in the filmmaker's career and one of the more oddball movies to come out of a studio in the past two decades – an ode to true love involving phone sex scams, pudding, wrecked public restrooms and proof that even...
- 11/21/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
If there’s any way to synthesize the many pieces that form the bull-in-a-china-shop filmmaking that is Andrzej Żuławski‘s Cosmos, an adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz‘s novel, consider its status as his first feature in fifteen years. Might some sense of long-awaited release account for its why and how — the intensity of its performances, the force of its camera moves, the sharpness of its cuts, the bombast of its emotions? I’m inclined to think so,...
Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
If there’s any way to synthesize the many pieces that form the bull-in-a-china-shop filmmaking that is Andrzej Żuławski‘s Cosmos, an adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz‘s novel, consider its status as his first feature in fifteen years. Might some sense of long-awaited release account for its why and how — the intensity of its performances, the force of its camera moves, the sharpness of its cuts, the bombast of its emotions? I’m inclined to think so,...
- 11/15/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Punch-Drunk Love: Special Edition
The Film
Normally, Adam Sandler (Billy Madison, Funny People) does not impress me. Prior to 2002, I cannot think of one movie that he has been featured in that I feel compelled to revisit. His films are excessively idiotic and lack charm in all areas and I find that viewing them either kills my brain cells or gives me an hour and a half to contemplate suicide. When it was initially screened, Cannes honored Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by giving it the best director award and I can see why. Anderson was the first director to get a performance out of Adam Sandler, and not just a good one, a great one.
Sandler stars as Barry Egan, a variation on his stereotypical sociopath in need of anger management therapy. However, what Anderson does is takes this trait and actually gives the...
The Film
Normally, Adam Sandler (Billy Madison, Funny People) does not impress me. Prior to 2002, I cannot think of one movie that he has been featured in that I feel compelled to revisit. His films are excessively idiotic and lack charm in all areas and I find that viewing them either kills my brain cells or gives me an hour and a half to contemplate suicide. When it was initially screened, Cannes honored Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by giving it the best director award and I can see why. Anderson was the first director to get a performance out of Adam Sandler, and not just a good one, a great one.
Sandler stars as Barry Egan, a variation on his stereotypical sociopath in need of anger management therapy. However, what Anderson does is takes this trait and actually gives the...
- 11/23/2010
- by Drew Morton
Has anyone ever seen the following poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love before?
The Auteurs posted it as part of their "Movie Poster of the Week" series and it just caught my eye as incredibly striking.
The site writes that this Japanese poster is a chirashi, a word derived from the verb "chirasu" -- to scatter, disperse. Apparently this is part of a set of nine 7"x10" promotional handbills created for Punch-Drunk Love by Toho-Towa, the Japanese distributor. The designs are based on the lush colorfield "motion paintings" by Jeremy Blake that punctuate the film and add to its hallucinatory quality (watch the video to the right).
Tragically, Blake took his own life at the age of 35 by walking into the sea at Rockaway Beach. This came following personal set-backs and the 2007 suicide of his partner and fellow artist Theresa Duncan as reported in New York Magazine and Vanity Fair.
The Auteurs posted it as part of their "Movie Poster of the Week" series and it just caught my eye as incredibly striking.
The site writes that this Japanese poster is a chirashi, a word derived from the verb "chirasu" -- to scatter, disperse. Apparently this is part of a set of nine 7"x10" promotional handbills created for Punch-Drunk Love by Toho-Towa, the Japanese distributor. The designs are based on the lush colorfield "motion paintings" by Jeremy Blake that punctuate the film and add to its hallucinatory quality (watch the video to the right).
Tragically, Blake took his own life at the age of 35 by walking into the sea at Rockaway Beach. This came following personal set-backs and the 2007 suicide of his partner and fellow artist Theresa Duncan as reported in New York Magazine and Vanity Fair.
- 4/12/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The only thing I would really wish different about this gorgeous abstract Japanese poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2002 Punch-Drunk Love is that it were bigger. It is in fact a chirashi. Chirashi (the word is derived from the verb “chirasu”—to scatter, disperse) are small (7" x 10") promotional handbills that are distributed in Japanese movie theaters. Highly collectible among Japanese cinephiles, they are usually full color mini versions of the official release poster, with monochrome photos and text on the reverse, though the small format allows occasionally for affordable variations on the theatrical poster design. There is a terrific selection of chirashi collected, and available for purchase, here.
For Punch-Drunk Love, Toho-Towa, the Japanese distributor, produced a series of nine designs based on the lush colorfield “motion paintings” by Jeremy Blake that punctuate the film and add to its hallucinatory quality (see here). Blake was a rising star in the...
For Punch-Drunk Love, Toho-Towa, the Japanese distributor, produced a series of nine designs based on the lush colorfield “motion paintings” by Jeremy Blake that punctuate the film and add to its hallucinatory quality (see here). Blake was a rising star in the...
- 4/11/2010
- MUBI
Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of such brilliant films as There Will Be Blood and Magnolia, has announced his next film. Tentatively titled The Master, the period drama will focus on a “master of ceremonies” or a charismatic intellectual who creates his own religion in 1952.
The great Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star in the Universal-produced project, re-teaming with Anderson after supporting roles in four of his films, including Punch-Drunk Love and Boogie Nights. As if I needed another reason to be pumped about PTA behind the camera, Psh is in front of it.
The story focuses on the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter and his second in command when establishing the religion. As the faith grows in popularity, Freddie questions his Master and the belief system. The right hand man is uncast.
Variety deliberately points out the film does not scrutinize self-started churches like Scientology or the Mormons,...
The great Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star in the Universal-produced project, re-teaming with Anderson after supporting roles in four of his films, including Punch-Drunk Love and Boogie Nights. As if I needed another reason to be pumped about PTA behind the camera, Psh is in front of it.
The story focuses on the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter and his second in command when establishing the religion. As the faith grows in popularity, Freddie questions his Master and the belief system. The right hand man is uncast.
Variety deliberately points out the film does not scrutinize self-started churches like Scientology or the Mormons,...
- 12/4/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Have you seen any of those recent lists counting down the best films of the past decade? Yeah, I know you're upset that Battlefield Earth didn't make the cut on any of them, but wait until you find out what's certain to be included in the top ten for the tens: Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a film that seems like it will be a scathing look at the life of L. Ron Hubbard and the great religion he founded.
How do I know this movie, which hasn't even been completely scripted, let alone produced, will be a definite contender for the best of the next decade? Because Anderson's movies are always on these lists. The recent countdowns for the aughts all place There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love rather high, and neither of them even featured Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead, as The Master will.
And...
How do I know this movie, which hasn't even been completely scripted, let alone produced, will be a definite contender for the best of the next decade? Because Anderson's movies are always on these lists. The recent countdowns for the aughts all place There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love rather high, and neither of them even featured Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead, as The Master will.
And...
- 12/4/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
One remade Hitchcock's "Psycho," the other wrote the novel "American Psycho." and they each often explore screwed up young characters, but otherwise Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and author Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero") have little in common. The most significant contrast between them is that Van Sant's characters tend to have good souls, while Ellis' seem to have no souls at all. This makes it all the more exciting and curious to see how the duo collaborates on a script about the tragic true story of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
The lovers, who both ended their lives in 2007, were not household names, but they were important figures in the art world, and they both made contributions to cinema. Duncan, one of the first designers of video games for girls, made an animated short titled "The History of Glamour" (watch it here), and Blake did the...
The lovers, who both ended their lives in 2007, were not household names, but they were important figures in the art world, and they both made contributions to cinema. Duncan, one of the first designers of video games for girls, made an animated short titled "The History of Glamour" (watch it here), and Blake did the...
- 10/14/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
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