YOU AND I: the t.a.t.u. movie, directed by the academy award-winning roland joffé, starring mischa barton

Mischa? I thght she was only into smoking weed and getting her pics taken by the paps. She seems a vile person which of course means perfect to depict one of the Tatu chixors.

no, she plays a russian lesbian who falls in love with an american. and they both idolize t.a.t.u., who play themselves. watch the trailer!

oh man...

New single ("220") is better than the last one ("Beliy Plashik") if one dares discuss Tatu's music...

i was watching joffe's bbc work from the 1970s the other week -- 'the spongers'. very hard-hitting, ken loach-type material about a single mum with a kid with downss syndrome whose life gets torn up by social services. quite a transition. i think he'll do whatever people give him.

yeah, THE SPONGERS is superb - hard to imagine a current BBC prog opening w/ THAT title laid over an image of the royal family

Other falls from grace -

Monte Hellman: from TWO LANE BLACKTOP to SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT III (tho of course Hellman started off making exploitation pics for Roger Corman)

Arthur Penn: from BONNIE AND CLYDE to PENN AND TELLER GET KILLED

watch the trailer!

Uh no, thanks. If I get some weed, then maybe.

good examples. though monte hellman seems a bit like edgar ulmer in that he'll claim that he enjoys working on the margins, though perhaps not THAT far on the margins.

another steep decline would be nic roeg, who apparently made some movie called PUFFBALL (?!) last year, but whose previous feature credits were THE SOUND OF CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, and the made-for-TV FULL BODY MASSAGE.

something about joffé seems uniquely discouraging in that he started out making features at "the top," that is, he made tony, award-magnet films with serious themes, and then entered a precipitous decline. his name very, very quickly failed to really carry any prestige.

anyway, from the clips of this film i've seen, it looks really poorly shot, a wide-angle HD look that reminds me of music videos.

i do wonder, with someone like joffé, if he worries about films like this damaging his reputation. maybe he's just happy to work? after all, it's a tough business.

tell you wot's tuff? russia-spain 1:4 is well tuff, kthnx god.

It says it's based on a novel.

hey but also nic roeg is now officially batshit insane, correct?

*would like to read that novel that last night's russia-spain 1:4 's based on*

Suzy, wasn't he always? ;-)

i'll find an apologetic interview i read with joffe.

he likes to travel maybe--did a huge indian film about five years ago: don't even know it it played in the west.

roeg's 'schiffer' film was just a short but 'puffball' seems to be a real film. it stars kelly reilly so me and dastoor would buy tickets whatever happens.

Other falls from grace -

Arthur Penn: from BONNIE AND CLYDE to PENN AND TELLER GET KILLED

-- Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:06 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I'd call that an improvement

puffball sounds bizarre but ya sounds like a real roeg film in the "classic" mode.

joffé's fall is pretty brutal but there have of course been billions of others...

Hi dere, Hal Ashby!

"Beverly Hills Buntz" (1 episode, 1988)
- Duck! L'Orange! (1988) TV episode
Jake's Journey (1988) (TV)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
The Slugger's Wife (1985)
... aka Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife
Solo Trans (1984) (V)
Let's Spend the Night Together (1983)
... aka Rocks Off (TV title)
... aka Time Is on Our Side (USA)
Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Second-Hand Hearts (1981)
Being There (1979)
... aka Chance
Coming Home (1978)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Shampoo (1975)
The Last Detail (1973)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The Landlord (1970)

wait is that john malkovich at the end of the trailer

ashby got all coked out, so that explains the career drop

a russian-american company, RAMCO

F for creativeness of name

it sounds like they should be manufacturing iron widgets or something

so

did anyone see this?

actually this appears to remain unreleased, despite having cost (per IMDB) 20 million dollars.