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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, featuring Chris Pratt DEFINITELY 100% not just using his regular voice as Mario

soundchaser wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:40 pm The Super Mario Bros. Movie, featuring Chris Pratt DEFINITELY 100% not just using his regular voice as Mario

I don't get it. I really don't/

cantinflas wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:54 pm House Party

They should've shelved this

Blossoms Shanghai is still happening, allegedly releasing next year

Computer Raheem wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:01 pm Blossoms Shanghai is still happening, allegedly releasing next year

Ha! Thanks for the warning. Looks like a parody of a Wong Kar-Wai film. He should go back to re-editing his earlier works.

Note that this is a trailer for the TV series (webseries, strictly speaking), not the movie. Wong has an ambiguous "general director" credit on the series that typically refers to a more producer-type role. No other directors have been officially mentioned, though Shen Yan (a veteran director of TV dramas) was attached at one point before dropping out over a scheduling conflict, and there's a longstanding rumor that the primary director is Wang Guangli, a Sixth Generation figure who's had an undistinguished career since shifting to mainstream work. (He also happens to be married to the series' screenwriter.) There are indications Wong directed at least part of the series, but given its length (24 episodes of fifty minutes each), it's more than doubtful that he directed it all. The film version seems to have fallen by the wayside and it's not clear if it's happening at all. The series apparently takes place in the '90s and elides the decades-spanning narrative of the novel (which starts out in the 1960s), so I've theorized that Wong is saving the earlier stuff for the film version, since it seems more in keeping with his nostalgic preferences. But who knows?

Wasn't the portion Wong was directing supposed to take place in San Francisco's Chinatown, too? I though I remembered seeing a casting call for that...

Edit: Whoops, that was a different project called Tong Wars that seems to have fallen through

Matthew Heineman’s Retrograde, which I highly recommend

On leafing through this month's Sight & Sound it was interesting to see that Bill Nighy is starring in Living which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, filtered through a script written by Remains of the Day author Kazuo Ishiguro.

And Jan Švankmajer's latest film is a documentary looking through his collections of artefacts accumulated over a lifetime, Kunstkamera (NSFW). That sounds as if it would turn the audience into Alice going down the rabbit hole!

Dror Moreh’s The Corridors of Power

Is this a It's Morbin' Time?

Christopher Landon's We Have a Ghost, which I guess is what we get when we don't pray hard enough for Freaky Death Day.

Angela Schanelec’s Music

^ Mysius’ film looks pretty interesting (and it’s great to see Exarchopoulos in a major role again). Has anyone caught the director’s other work?

Somewhere In Queens, Ray Romano’s first directing effort

Benjamin Millepied's Carmen