Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have teamed up as professional footballers in “Y tu mamá también” screenwriter Carlos Cuarón’s sibling rivalry comedy “Rudo y Cursi.” In the film, Bernal performs an uproarious cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me.”
Steven Soderbergh chats about “The Girlfriend Experience” with Time Out New York while he talks to Mike Scott of the Times Picayune about the new call-girl in-the-digital-age film and his next project, “Moneyball,” the baseball biopic led by Brad Pitt.
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer in the titular role as a courtesan in 1920s Paris, “Cheri” is the esteemed Stephen Frears latest work, opening next month.
Film International is Slumdogging It.
One Film Wonder: On the shortlist of any greatest action film debate, “The Road Warrior” (or “Mad Max 2” as it was known everywhere except the States) is one of the true plunk-down movies. (To determine a film’s plunk-down status, just flip around the dial and stop on a film. If you plunk down on the couch and haven’t moved in the next 80 minutes, it’s an all-timer.)
George Miller’s 1981 followup to “Mad Max” checks every box for an amazing action movie. A fully actualized world, a wasteland steeped in atmosphere. A gorgeous, cynical anti-hero. Authentic punks. Just the right dose of humor. Kick ass driving stunts. A boomerang wielding Feral Kid…Mel’s leather pants. And a chilling chief villain, The Humungus. Ripped from the stage of a post-apocalyptic Joe Weider competition, the masked, leather clad philospher-cum-psychopath was authentically intimidating. The Humungus was played by Kjell Nilsson, a Swedish weightlifter who moved to Australia to train Olympic athletes preparing for the Moscow games. He was cast in only three other projects; in 1984 he played a “male nurse” in the Australian made for television film, “Man of Letters.” Here “The Ayotollah of Rock n’ Rolla” delivers his final ultimatum in a scene which has almost everything…even Mel’s leather trousers.
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