Be Kind Rewind (movie)

Michel Gondry goes back to the art house with 'The We and the I'

2013-03-23 07:30:00

Michel Gondry denies feeling stung by "The Green Hornet." The $120-million action-adventure arrived in 2011 as the Oscar-winning French filmmaker's first Hollywood-backed studio movie. A modest hit starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, it required him...

Brand X Files: 'Biggest Loser' finale. TIME Person of the Year. Geeks under fire.

2010-12-15 16:36:26

Weekend movies: 'The Green Hornet,' 'The Dilemma,' 'Barney's Version'

2011-01-14 16:35:24

COMIC-CON 2010: Hollywood's heroes take flight with unexpected directors

2010-07-26 16:34:32

Comic-Con 2010: In search of the next Christopher Nolan

2010-07-26 00:00:00

When the big studios commit big bucks on their big franchises, the list of directors deemed equal to the task suddenly can grow very small. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: New directors: An article in Monday's Calendar section about studios'...

Happy Tuesday: Michel Gondry's low-key video for Mia Doi Todd

2010-02-02 21:34:25

Michel Gondry's 'Be Kind Rewind' spools out on DVD

2008-06-15 00:00:00

IT'S A pity that Michel Gondry's “Be Kind Rewind,” a movie rife with DIY optimism and analog nostalgia, arrives this week on DVD and not, as befits its premise, good old-fashioned VHS. Gondry has a reputation for technical wizardry -- he is...

Selling 'Be Kind Rewind' with a slapdash of humor

2007-12-31 00:00:00

In Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Gondry's upcoming comedy "Be Kind Rewind," Jack Black and Mos Def play accidental auteurs -- a couple of knock-around film novices who end up making movie magic with a minimum of resources: tin foil and cardboard, a...

Weekend Preview: Get your party on, get your swede in

2013-05-02 04:15:00

Here's what's on our mind this weekend: Low-budget movies, cheap drinks, free music, Ben Taylor, Mike Piazza and two leading curators of the cultural drift: Augusten Burroughs and KRS-One.� SWEDE ME, BABY Organizers of the second annual South Florida...

Film Review: â€˜Mood Indigoâ€™

2013-04-23 16:30:03

After an opera adaptation and earlier cinematic efforts by Go Riju and Charles Belmont, Boris Vian’s supposedly unfilmable cult novel “Froth on a Daydream” has been adapted to the bigscreen as Michel Gondry's often inventive but finally exhausting...

1926's silent 'The Flying Ace' displayed a hidden America, and Americans

2013-01-24 12:53:00

With its "entire cast composed of colored artists," the 1926 silent film "The Flying Ace" was photographed in the sunny scrub and swampland of Jacksonville, Fla., produced by the Norman Film Manufacturing Company. The outfit delivered "race films" to...

OUT AND ABOUT - THIS WEEKEND June 16-19

2011-06-16 01:30:27

Art and music night, 6:30 p.m., Red Rooster Coffee House, 202 S. Main St. Aberdeen Municipal Band, 8 p.m., preceded by South Dakota 4-H Performing Arts Troupe at 7:30, Melgaard Park band shell. Remdog karaoke featuring Ryan Malsom, 9 p.m., Maverick's,...

Where to see him: "The Blind Side" What he's done: Bodyguards and perps for Mr. Aaron.

2009-10-28 16:11:18

The French filmmaker turns the camera on his aunt Suzette to find out about her life as a school teacher in rural France from the 1950s through the 1980s. Along the way, Gondry uncovers a bit of family history he never knew existed. Why?

2009-05-12 16:07:56

is the guy who never seems to have an off button. Every group of friends has one.

2008-12-16 11:30:16