Gone Girl (2014)
He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier cool girl. You think I’d let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No fucking way. He doesn’t get to win.
A Look Inside the New ‘Emily Ratajkowski’ Photobook
Well before “Blurred Lines” and Sports Illustrated made her famous, aspiring model Emily Ratajkowski traveled to Woodstock, New York in late Spring 2012 to work with photographer Jonathan Leder. The photographs from her time with Leder are some of the more striking and raw images of a young Ratajkowski, who shows incredible comfort with herself and the camera.
The Emily Ratajkowski” photobook is available for $40 via Imperial Publishing. You should also know that only 250 signed and crash-numbered editions were printed.
First and Final Frames Supercut from 55 Films
Jacob T. Swinney has edited and juxtaposed the first and final frames of 55 movies in an exploration of how image can communicate themes. In the video above you notice that some scenes are nearly identical, others are drastically different, and some even seem to play into one-another. Featuring Kill Bill, Gone Girl, Her, along with 52 others, see how many you can spot in the video above. It’s interesting how, in two frames, you can determine whether a film’s plot is progressive, regressive or static.
Gregg Araki on His New Movie "White Bird in a Blizzard"
The movie focuses on the life of Kat Connors, played by Shailene Woodley, after her mother, played by Eva Green, disappears. “It’s such a weird coincidence—our trailers dropped the same week,” Araki says. “I was flattered and shocked though, because that’s, like, a $60 million David Fincher studio movie, and our little indie movie was being compared to it.” In fact, the difference between the two films is a perfect encapsulation of the gap that exists between traditional Hollywood and the niche that Araki has carved out for himself since he started making films in the late eighties: If Gone Girl is all bombast and big surprises, White Bird is a quiet drama that’s as moody and mottled as the brooding soundtrack of shoegaze, Siouxsie Sioux, and Depeche Mode that scores it.
Our 13 Most Anticipated Films of the 52nd New York Film Festival
If you haven’t had the chance to get yourself to Cannes or TIFF, it’s that thrilling first time of the year that you can indulgence in your cinematic passions and see some of the most exciting new features of the year from your favorite filmmakers around the world. And this year, the 52nd NYFF will be screening so many wonderful films, from Hollywood icons such as David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson to acclaimed artists such as Olivier Assayas and Mia Hansen-Love. So with the festival beginning this Friday with Fincher’s Gone Girl, we rounded up our most anticipated features and one very special presentation.
