Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we’ll be plucking the highlights. This is that.
WATCH: JASON SCHWARTZMAN AND ROMAN COPPOLA SHORT
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Roman Coppola is easily the most playful, ingenious filmmaker in the Coppola family (no disrespect, Sofia and Francis), as evidenced by his recent commercial project with pal Wes Anderson. And now it seems he’s taking his flamboyant personality in front of the camera with this short entitled…wait for it… A Quick-Witted Love Letter From Indie Hollywood’s Favourite Cousins.
Directed by Graydon Sheppard of Sh*t Girls Say fame, the short is a verbal ping pong match between Schwartzman and Coppola, in which they ponder romance and obsession. It’s funny and imaginative in equal measure, with a drop of Michel Gondry’s visual inventiveness – or are we on our own?
THE WEEK IN GIFS
While it’s all good and well to try and re-cap the week’s movie news, we realise that since it’s the weekend and the daily grind has probably all but frazzled your brain, to the point where you can’t concentrate on actual words or things that aren’t brightly-coloured. This is where the internet sensation for GIFs come in, because why try and explain things when you can simply capture all your emotions in one constantly looping moving image?
AN INTERVIEW WITH AARON ECKHART
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Aaron Eckhart has come a long way since playing New York yuppie Chad in Neil LaBute’s classic ‘90s indie comedy In the Company of Men. Since then, he’s played Julia Roberts’ bearded love interest in Erin Brockovich, Big Tobacco’s chief spokesman in Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking, and Two-Face in 2008’s solemn comic book caper The Dark Knight. Now, he’s on the run in Europe as ex-CIA agent Ben Logan, in The Expatriate (aka Erased). We spoke to the 45-year-old about what it is that interests him as an actor.
TOP 10: CHAOTIC FILM PRODUCTIONS
Lynne ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ Ramsay managed to throw her latest film, Jane Got A Gun, into complete chaos by not actually bothering to turn up on the first day of shooting. Everything was in place – sets, scripts, actors, technicians. However, after clashing with the film’s producer Scott Steindorff (a reported three-day standoff) over control of the final cut, Ramsay walked out before a foot of film was shot. Of course, this isn’t the first troubled film production and certainly won’t be the last.
Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.
