Ryan McNeil
Happy Monday folks!
There’s a new episode of The Matineecast coming – hopefully today – but my host site, mypodcast.com, is having a little bit of technical difficulties at the moment. Thus, I’ve delayed the accompanying blog post that details the episode until I can be sure you can listen to my handiwork.
In the meantime, perhaps I can offer a visual amusement. Director Spike Jonze – he of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – recently made a short film which played at The Sundance Film Festival. Well now Spike and his sponsor, Absolut, have taken the whole she-bang and put it online.
It’s called I’M HERE…and if i may say so, it’s quite a lovely little piece of filmmaking!
Just watched the trailer – looks fantastic. Something reminds me of 'Lars and the Real Girl' or that recent Park Chan-Wook film prior to 'Thirst'. Neither of which I have seen, it just has that acoustic-y ballad thing and robots …
I think I would have liked to see this instead of Where the Wild Things Are.
Saw most of it before some major crash happened–now the webiste only takes me to the "you must have flash" screen.
Anyway, thanks forthe head's up. Love the way the robots emote.
http://www.floatingredcouch.com/2010/03/im-here.html
@ Simon… I've seen LARS, it's really quite something, give it a look once you've finished your bender of canadian films.
This really isn't very much like it, but it's really quite a lovely film. Give it a look next time you have half an hour to kill.
@ Fitz… Would have made a great double-feature if you ask me!
@ Floating… Glad to see that you finally got to catch the end of it, and way to stick it to the man by doing it on the company's dime!
Good point – I guess most of Spike Jonze's movies do have a commonality in their final act, though this might be the most moving of them all.