If sports are good for anything, they’re pretty good for sticking around for the commercial breaks and catching TV spots for the big movies coming out in the spring and summer. Excitement for the video game film adaptation Warcraft ignited when the first full trailer came out for it back in November. That excitement has now been …
My first real attempt at understanding the brilliance that was Stanley Kubrick came in my freshman year of college, when I wrote a research paper on 2001: A Space Odyssey for an English class. After all that work, I only received a B and found myself more confused than ever. But there it was – …
Following on from the success of Moon and Source Code, director Duncan Jones took some time away from scripting his third and yet untitled feature to direct this ad for Virgin Money. Filmed at Shepperton Studios in London (where he shot Moon) and with extensive use of miniature models, Jones has put together a rather …
News In Film is featuring an interesting interview with Jake Gyllenhaal about his new movie Source Code. He talks about shooting the film, the alternate scenes and endings, working with director Duncan Jones and much more. Check out the full interview here. Here’s a short excerpt: Do you have any intention of directing? Jake Gyllenhaal: …
There are many reasons why some characters in the movies seem a bit familiar. Sometimes, the actor has become so badly typecast that they only seem to play one character, as Matthew Perry and Hugh Grant seemed doomed to do in the 1990s (before Perry was cast in short-lived TV series Studio 60 on the …
Recently on Sound On Sight radio, Simon, Derek and I had a heated arguement about Duncan Jones’ Source Code, with Simon actually defending a film for once. If you’ve seen the film or haven’t, I highly recommend taking a listen, but in the meantime you might also be interested in reading up on some of …
Source Code Directed by Duncan Jones Written by Ben Ripley 2011, United States Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhall, Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain) wakes up strapped to a chair. He has no memory of who he is, where he is or who the uniformed woman on the nearby screen is. As his memory comes into focus so …
Source Code Directed by Duncan Jones Written by Ben Ripley USA/France, 2011 Splitting the difference between big-ticket pyrotechnics and the burgeoning auteurist touches of director Duncan Jones (Moon), Source Code combines high-concept ambition with appealingly pared-down execution and crackerjack pacing. Its ideas are pilfered equally from a number of speculative-fiction touchstones (particularly 12 Monkeys, Total …
Director Duncan Jones (Moon) is back with his sophomore film, Source Code. The mind-bending sci-fi thriller just made its premiere at SXSW and our Austin correspondent Emmet wraps up his review by simply saying,”Ultimately, the film is a damn fine action movie. Everything else aside, it’s a thrill.” I prefer to not watch videos, trailers …
Source Code Directed by Duncan Jones Written by Ben Ripley 2011, USA Director Duncan Jones first made waves back in 1971 when he was fathered by glam god and the man who fell to earth, David Bowie. His next big move, the 2009 film Moon, established Jones as an artist in his own right and …
Summit Entertainment has released some new images from Source Code, the latest film from director Duncan Jones (Moon). The film will be premiering at SXSW next week and opens wide on April 15th. Here is the plot synopsis: When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, …
Readers of Sound On Sight can be sure that we will indeed be covering the SXSW Film Festival once again. As previously reported, Duncan Jones’ latest film Source Code is opening the festival and there will also be premieres for the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Greg Mottola’s Paul, and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver. Now …
Last month, it was reported that director Duncan Jones (Moon) was possibly moving forward with his sci-fi future noir Mute as his follow-up to Source Code. The film is reportedly inspired by Blade Runner and centers on a mute bartender in 2046 Berlin who must go against the city’s gangsters in order to find his …
Moon Directed by: Duncan Jones Written by: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker 2009, USA In a genre that typically gets bogged down with clichés and conventions, Moon is a standout, a subtle and surprising 2009 film, the debut of director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). Refreshing and original, Jones takes us on a poignant journey …
BadassDigest reports that “scheduling problems” have prevented Clint Mansell from continuing on the project to score Source Code the latest film from director Duncan Jones and will be replaced by Chris Bacon. His most recent work was actually for the film score for Moon, the feature debut of director Duncan Jones. After the release of …
Earlier today, Film School Rejects announced the full synopsis for Source Code, Ducan Jones’s follow up to Moon. Moon was the 2009 British sci-fi sensation starring Sam Rockwell as a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Earth’s …
Child monsters, rampaging wrestlers, avenging vacuum cleaners and a body-popping plague – it must be FrightFest! Remember FrightFest world premiered WHISTLE from the then unknown MOON director Duncan Jones? Well, be amongst the first to spot the bright new talents of tomorrow at Film4 FrightFest’s International Short Film extravaganza. Included in this year’s fantastic programme …
79– Divine Intervention (2002) Directed by Elia Suleiman Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama Palestinian writer-director Elia Suleiman has rightfully been compared to Charlie Chaplin with his talent to create such brilliant deadpan black out sketches in the midst of his long slow-paced moments of expressive silence. Divine Intervention is his second feature, best described as the …
Duncan Jones made his debut with the film Moon, released earlier this year. Now talk of the talented director’s next film is buzzing about. Variety reports that Jones has recently signed on, with Jake Gyllenhaal in mind to be his leading man; his latest script endeavor is called Source Code, being released by Universal. Ben …
Director Duncan Jones is on a mission to get actor Sam Rockwell an Oscar nomination by getting behind a grassroots fan campaign. Sony Pictures isn’t offering to put any money into any sort of promotion and so we here at Sound On Sight are helping out. Personally I think Duncan should also be nominated for …
As the summer winds down, I decided to make my list of my ten favorite films so far in the year. With TIFF and Oscar season on their way, there’s a good chance that only half these films will make my top ten come the end of the year, but I felt the need to …