There is one moment of true terror in I’m Still Here , Casey Affleck’s dickish, realish account of his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s “lost year,” and it does not involve the whoring, coke-hoovering, excrement-eating or other Jackass ery otherwise on copious display.
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REVIEW: If Only Joaquin Phoenix’s Lost Year in I’m Still Here Had Stayed Lost
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Onscreen defecation. Back hair removal. Gay-shaming Newsweek reporter Ramin Setoodeh. Britney Spears’s vagina. What do they all have in common? They’re all featured in the insane Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’m Still Here , and if you can believe it, there are some things in it that are even weirder . Here are the 9 most unsettling things about the movie:
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‘We’re failing too many kids,’ Davis Guggenheim tells MTV News. By Kara Warner “Waiting for Superman” Photo: Paramount Pictures “Waiting For Superman,” like “Catfish,” is a documentary that came out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival with major buzz. But the two films couldn’t be more different. Directed by Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”), “Superman” sheds a glaring and startling light on the crippling flaws of America’s school system. MTV caught up with the award-winning director while he was in the midst of a promotional blitz that has included appearances and screenings at schools across the country — one of which MTV was proud to host in conjunction with our Get Schooled campaign . Despite a hectic schedule (which explains why he didn’t have the time to do that Justin Bieber concert movie ), Guggenheim sat down with us to talk education reform, the reasons why MTV viewers should care about their neighborhood schools and what the average person can do to sustain the conversation he hopes to start with his film. MTV : Why tackle this subject now? Davis Guggenheim : Well, I’m a parent and I have three kids. I worry about what education they’re going to get. … Everyone knows the world has changed, but our schools haven’t changed. They’re not built to prepare our kids for this new economy. Right now, if you don’t graduate high school and don’t go to a four-year college, your chances are really limited. We’re failing too many kids. Kids who watch MTV should be really worried about whether they’re getting the right education and whether their friends and siblings are getting a good education, so they can have a good life and a piece of the American dream. MTV : With a film like this, people feel outrage, depression, etc. What is the message or emotion you want people to take away from it? Davis Guggenheim : There are two feelings when you see this movie. The movie climaxes in a scene where the kids I follow end up at a lottery and you realize that their future is going to be determined by how a bingo ball bounces, literally. They are there holding a card with a number, but instead of winning a lot of money, you win a chance to have a future in America, and it’s heartbreaking and it’s really un-American. You say, “Wait a minute. This is not our country; we shouldn’t have to play bingo to get a good education.” That’s the harsh realization, but the other emotion that comes out of the movie is a sense of hope. In the last 10 years, there is a new generation of reformers who are doing an amazing job, in every city across the country. They’re starting to break the code on how you can educate kids, even in the toughest neighborhoods. So there’s a lot of hope if we focus on these reforms and smart reforms, and put away all the adult problems, we can actually start helping kids. MTV : Is there a call to action at the end? Davis Guggenheim : Yeah, there really is. The call to action is, “The stakes are even higher than we thought; it affects all of us. But we can do it and it takes people stepping up, being outraged, and demanding that our schools are great for every kid.” MTV: What is the first thing the average American who sees the film and wants to do something can do? Davis Guggenheim : The first step is to be informed. What I find is that a lot of people think they know what’s going on but really don’t. With No Child Left Behind, you can actually go on and learn the scores of your school. But I think that the best way is to go see this movie. Like “An Inconvenient Truth,” it became this primer, this experience people had and they shared with each other and became empowered to fight for change. When that happens, anything is possible. Some people might go in and tutor a kid, another might want to become a teacher, other people might want to reform their school district. That’s what a film does — it creates a conversation and inspires people to incite change. MTV : What has the response been like so far? Davis Guggenheim : Even moreso than “An Inconvenient Truth,” and I never thought I’d have an experience that would surpass “An Inconvenient Truth.” But even more than [that film], there has been this rallying around the movie. Paramount, a major movie studio, decides to release it. At Sundance there were standing ovations, tears, people are coming up to me and saying “I want to help this one kid, I want to pay for their private school,” “I want to reform my district.” It’s very exciting to see a movie like this have this effect on people. MTV : Moving forward, aside from having made the film and getting the word out, what is next? Davis Guggenheim : Well I’m trying to raise three good kids and make sure, even with a private school, that they have a great education. But it’s not enough to make the movie, I’m on a campaign to fix our schools. … Next month I’m in a different city every day getting people to join our conversation on how to fix our schools. MTV : Well, now it’s understandable why you were a little too busy to tackle the Justin Bieber concert movie. Davis Guggenheim : [ He laughs. ] I think they found someone more talented than me. [But] my daughters love him and my 4-year-old still thinks she’s going to marry him. … It’s so cute. I like his music. MTV : So it was just a matter of too-busy schedules and timing? Davis Guggenheim : Scheduling, timing and I needed to serve this movie first. I have to spend the next six months on this. From the saucy Jessica Alba in “Little Fockers” to James Franco’s grueling journey in “127 Hours,” the MTV Movies team is delving into the hottest flicks of fall 2010. Check back daily for exclusive clips, photos and interviews with the films’ biggest stars. Check out everything we’ve got on “Waiting for Superman.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos 2010 Sundance Film Festival Video Highlights Related Photos Sundance Film Festival 2010
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New movies from Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Danny Boyle and others are drawing attention at this year’s Telluride and Venice film festivals. By Eric Ditzian Natalie Portman at the Venice Film Festival last Wednesday Photo: Danny Martindale/ Getty Images Around this time last year, George Clooney’s “Up in the Air” opened at the Telluride Film Festival and rode that initial buzz to six Academy Award nominations. A year later, another crop of high-profile films have premiered at Telluride and the Venice Film Festival, including new work from Danny Boyle (director of 2009’s Oscar winner “Slumdog Millionaire”), Darren Aronofsky (“The Wrestler”) and Ben Affleck (“Gone Baby Gone”). Which films will we be feting in the weeks and months to come? Here’s a look at the most buzzed-about movies from both fests. “Black Swan” Just days before Aronofsky jetted off to Venice to present his follow-up to “The Wrestler,” the director confessed to MTV News that he gets very nervous before one of his film’s premieres. “When ‘The Wrestler’ showed at Venice the last time, I walked out in the middle,” he said. “I couldn’t handle it. I snuck back in the end. It was not a pleasant experience.” Aronofsky may have been nervous, but “Black Swan” was indeed well-received, with rapturous praise reserved for star Natalie Portman that immediately makes her a Best Actress Oscar front-runner. Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood dubbed her turn a “dazzling tour de force.” The film follows Portman as a ballerina ready to take over the lead role in her company’s production of “Swan Lake,” until a rival dancer (Mila Kunis) shows up and begins to drive Portman toward madness. ” ‘Black Swan’ is a brilliant mind f—,” wrote Peter Sciretta of SlashFilm . “It is one of the boldest films I’ve seen produced by a Hollywood studio in years.” “127 Hours” Danny Boyle debuted “Slumdog” at Telluride in 2008, a decision that came to be seen as a wise one, and the critical darling went on to sweep the Oscars months later. Boyle’s back now with a true story about a hiker (James Franco) who becomes trapped under a boulder in the wilderness and must saw off his own arm to escape. Like Portman, Franco is being discussed as a potential Oscar nominee. “[Franco] pulls off a virtual one-man show,” said Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter . “The actor already has demonstrated tremendous versatility, and just this year, viewers have seen him as one of Julia Roberts’ lovers in ‘Eat Pray Love’ and as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in ‘Howl.’ Here he manages to create a radically different character — an extroverted adventurer who is forced to turn reflective. Expect Oscar to come calling next year.” “The Town” Ben Affleck’s heist drama does not premiere until Wednesday (September 8), but anticipation is high based on the director’s past work and the new film’s impressive ensemble, including Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall and Chris Cooper. “It’s hard to disavow a movie when you’ve written, directed and acted in it,” Affleck told The New York Times . “This is an emblem of the person I want to be going forward.” “The King’s Speech” British director Tom Hooper might not be well- known on American shores, but his new film just might be the buzziest one to debut at Telluride or Venice. Colin Firth stars as member of the British royal family who overcomes numerous obstacles to become King George VI. He’s joined by Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush and Guy Pearce, among others. “After several additional screenings and a rare standing ovation Sunday night as part of a companion tribute to Firth … the film has provoked talk of widespread awards recognition,” said The Hollywood Reporter . “While other films also attracted partisans, ‘The King’s Speech’ was seen as having the broadest support across a broad array of awards categories.” “I’m Still Here” The questions began early in 2009: Just what the heck was going on with Joaquin Phoenix , with that bushy beard and the unhinged public appearances? Phoenix and Casey Affleck filmed the entire unraveling, and now audiences are starting to decide for themselves: documentary or mockumentary? Trouble is, not everyone is convinced they’ve come to the right conclusion. ” ‘I’m Still Here’ finally addresses the question of whether Joaquin Phoenix’s decision to give up acting to pursue a hip-hop career was on the level or a setup. The answer seems to be: a bit of both,” reports Variety . Affleck, of course, is not exactly setting the record straight, which only amps up anticipation for the film. “Elliptically, I would say … I sincerely don’t want to influence people’s interpretation,” Affleck told reporters in Venice, according to The Associated Press . “I can tell you there is no hoax. It makes me think of ‘Candid Camera’ or something.”
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Joaquin Phoenix has gone off the rails of late. Well, it actually started about a year and a half ago. The acclaimed actor announced he was quitting that profession, became a rapper, dressed like a homeless person, spaced out on Letterman and had to be escorted out of his own concert . As it turns out, this was all part of Casey Affleck’s directorial brilliance, documenting Phoenix’s transition from well-respected actor to an unproven rap talent for his new movie. Follow this link to check out the I’m Still Here trailer . Joaquin Phoenix, actor (left), and Joaquin Phoenix, caveman rapper. The official synopsis describes I’m Still Here as “a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix.” “Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of life in the public eye.” Deft and riveting? We’ll see about that. But it’s definitely worth a look.
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Joaquin Phoenix: I’m Still Here!
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For a film shoot that was loaded with enough sordid conduct to sustain two sexual harassment lawsuits , you would be right to think the poster for I’m Still Here might feature some crazed lunacy. Or at least a picture of Joaquin Phoenix getting crapped on . Alas, that isn’t the case. But with a single headshot of the film’s bearded star looking as dazed and confused as ever, Magnolia Pictures has probably gotten to the core of this faux-documentary better than any bodily function could. Click ahead to see the full poster.
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‘I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix’ will chart Phoenix’s path from A-list actor to MC, studio exec says. By Kara Warner Joaquin Phoenix Photo: Jacob Andrzejczak/ Getty Images While fans of Joaquin Phoenix remain divided about whether to take the actor’s rap music aspirations seriously — some saying his bizarre public appearances qualify him for “kooky actor” status,
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Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba in a world beyond noir. Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson in “The Killer Inside Me” Photo: IFC Films Film noir has always been a nasty business, concerned as it is with obsession, betrayal, fate and murder. . In the golden age of noir, the 1940s and ’50s, the genre’s more rousing indelicacies had to be at least somewhat muted with euphemism and pictorial shorthand. But that sort of restraint is long gone, and now comes “The Killer Inside Me,” which might be the most graphically nasty noir ever made. In its blunt brutality, the movie seeks to be true to its source, Jim Thompson’s hardboiled 1952 novel (still a savage read). The protagonist is Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), a small-town lawman in late ’50s Texas. On the outside, Lou is a baby-faced straight arrow, polite and smiling and ready to kill any conversation with his witless chitchat. (“You know, they say haste makes waste.”) But Lou actually isn’t the dullard everyone assumes him to be. At home, in the big house he inherited from his father, he reads books, listens to opera, plays the piano and muses nostalgically over old porn photos. His exhausting small talk is simply a means of needling people he doesn’t like. Which would be everybody. Because deep inside, Lou is really a homicidal sociopath — the sort of criminal degenerate he’s nominally paid to put away. “The trouble with growing up in a small town,” he says early on, “is that everybody thinks they know who you are.” Nobody knows Lou Ford. Nobody still living, anyway. With its conniving characters and their small-time dreams, the story is purest noir. When the son of a local big shot becomes involved with a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba), Lou is assigned to chase her out of town. When Joyce proves defiant, Lou becomes aroused. He whips off his belt — and she becomes aroused. Soon Lou is stopping by for regular S&M sessions, and storm clouds begin to gather. Lou finds it imperative to commit a double homicide. He has rigged up an alibi, but the town union boss (Elias Koteas) — who knows a lot about Lou’s twisted past — and a newly arrived federal agent (Simon Baker) are both suspicious. Lou has to continue stacking up corpses in order to keep himself in the clear and his apple-pie sweetheart (Kate Hudson) in the dark. The movie is powerful (and muddled at the end), but the cast is the main reason to see it. Casey Affleck, with his air of whispery innocence, seems an unlikely choice to play the monstrous Ford; but he turns out to be perfect — coming from such an artfully recessive actor, Lou’s flaring rages are a shock; and Affleck’s soulless voice-overs lay bare the character’s interior rot. Alba and Hudson are both startlingly good too. Alba ventures beyond her normal range in playing a doomed slut with a heart of fool’s gold; and Hudson, a brunette here, is completely convincing as a ’50s good girl with gamey inclinations. (The scene in which she detects olfactory evidence that Lou has had sex with Joyce has to be some kind of first for such a star-powered production.) Director Michael Winterbottom has said that in bringing “The Killer Inside Me” to the screen, he wanted to bring with it the full lacerating violence of Jim Thompson’s novel. But violence on the page and violence in your face are of course two different things, and the ferocious beatings we watch being administered to some of the women in this film might have given pause to Thompson himself. The movie’s sadism certainly pushes the envelope, but who does the director intend to mail it to? (Dozens of people reportedly walked out of a screening of the picture at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.) The film’s pulped flesh and puddling blood break the noir spell — they leave us nothing to imagine. There’s no resonance, only impact. The murky moral depths of the film-noir world drain away under the movie’s merciless illumination. Don’t miss Kurt Loder’s reviews of “Cyrus” and “Jonah Hex.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Killer Inside Me.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
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The brash violence of Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me — adapted from Jim Thompson’s merciless and enthralling 1952 pulp novel about a psychotic West Texas sheriff — began dividing audiences last January at Sundance . It also appears to have divided Winterbottom himself, though he doesn’t know it. The controversy involves two particularly violent scenes, one a protracted sequence in which a character played by Jessica Alba is beaten until her face resembles what one character calls “stewed meat, hamburger.” The nutso sheriff, played by Casey Affleck, throws perhaps some 20 punches; we see about six or seven of them land, as Alba’s face becomes progressively bruised, bloodied and misshapen, until it resembles a cracked-open, oversized plum.
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REVIEW: Characters Deserve Better in Violent Killer Inside Me
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If there’s anything Movieline learned from viewing Michael Winterbottom’s lady-pulverizing adaptation of The Killer Inside Me last January at Sundance, it was that the acclaimed British filmmaker may very well be answering for this one, like, forever . Keep in mind this is a guy who once managed to make graphic, unsimulated screen sex forgettable, so no one takes it lightly that Winterbottom might have really drilled into the cultural consciousness for the first time since 2002’s In This World . This could get good — if only he could articulate his impulse to make ground chuck out of Jessica Alba’s face.
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New Interview Pretty Much Proves There’s No Explaining Killer Inside Me
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