The Fall (the film) (1 Viewer)

[Gambra]

This has nothing to do with Mark E. Smiths's lot. It looks like it could be an amazing film though, it was made by a director who normally makes ads and music videos completly without CGI and all out of his own pocket. Reviews are really good so far, I hope this gets some sort of theatric release over here.

In this era of digital special effects, we've become accustomed to the idea that by manipulating pixels on a computer screen, filmmakers can show us practically anything in a more or less convincing manner.

And yet The Fall — an independent feature film from Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, a veteran music video and commercial director who uses Tarsem as his professional name — is full of sights that provoke genuine astonishment. There's an underwater shot of an elephant swimming gracefully overhead, a palace courtyard built out of interlocking staircases that might have been designed by M.C. Escher, a village clinging to a mountainside where all of the buildings seem to have been individually painted in subtly different shades of inky blue.

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Director David Fincher (Zodiac, Seven), who met Tarsem on the music video circuit and has remained a friend, is listed as "presenting" The Fall along with a fellow music video alumnus, filmmaker Spike Jonze. Fincher said of Tarsem's approach: "He told me when he was going in that 'my production value is going to be the earth; I'm going to use the entire world as my backdrop.'

"I was like, 'What does that mean?' and then I saw that montage where he literally covers 10 countries. I kept asking him, 'That's a matte painting, right?' And he'd say, 'Nope, that was a real place,' and he'd explain where that place was and how he'd found it on some Pepsi commercial or some Audi commercial that he'd done."

Jonze added: "Had a studio done what he did, it would have been an $80 million movie. But he's so experienced at it and knows people in all these countries and knows how to shoot with a tiny crew. That's how he got away with it. But still, he spent his own money, which is insane."

Read the rest of this article here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sfl-thefall-nytsbjun05,0,7184891.story

THE FALL

http://thefallthemovie.com/ - Official Site & trailer

Roger Eberts Review:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080529/REVIEWS/805290301/1001/reviews

 

[plug]

wow. that looks... pretty amazing. deadly face/desert match cut in the middle there too. class.

 

[plug]

I wonder will the story live up to the cinematography. will it matter?

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

looks like interesting stuff but the cell was fucking atrocious.
he's kinda like the McG of the arthouse world. IMHO

 

[Beak]

Is that the fella from the Kaiser Chefs in the sleeveless top?

 

[Lili Marlene]

all I can think of is

 

[David Kronenbourg]

don't like the look of this at all. it looks like a campy, overblown snoozefest. directors go professionally by a single name, e.g. tarsem or mcg, should be put in stocks and pelted with fruit.