Spike Jonze Made an Animated Short and it’s Wonderful

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If the title alone hasn’t made your eyes and cursor dash to the video player below this text then to quote Mrs Landingham, “Well gosh, Jed, I don’t even wanna know you.” If you need a preamble then this is a Spike Jonze short using cut out animation called Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die [...]

Adam Lowes – 2010 – A Year in Highlights

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I started writing for the site around August time, and it’s been an incredible few months. Amongst the many, many highlights has been interviewing one of my favourite actors of all time (the great Vincent Cassel) during the Black Swan premiere at this year’s London Film Festival. To be stood face-to-face with such a tremendous [...]

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman To Reunite?

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The L.A. Times are reporting that one of cinema’s most inventive creative forces are pitching a new project to financiers and whenever Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze are mentioned in the same sentence I’m immediately interested. The past few years have been good for the pair with Synecdoche, New York marking a solid directorial debut [...]

Win a Copy of Where the Wild Things Are on DVD

We loved Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and it found its way easily onto my top three films of last year. Jonze was able to create a perfect Wild Things world, and made one of the finest fantasy films in recent years. I’ve been waiting to enjoy this one [...]

I’m Here Readies for Global Online Launch

‘I’m Here’, the highly anticipated short film collaboration between ABSOLUT Vodka and Spike Jonze is set to make it’s global online launch today (in 5 minutes) at 12:00 GMT on www.imheremovie.com. The 30 minute film, which forms part of the ABSOLUT campaign ‘In An ABSOLUT World, Ordinary Is No Place To Be’, is a robot [...]

In the UK and Want to See Spike Jonze’s I’m Here? Here’s how…

Sadly we couldn’t all be at Sundance for the premiere of the new Spike Jonze short I’m Here, produced in association with Absolut Vodka, but we’ve learned how you can get to see the 30 minutes film in advance of its release on the 1st of March. In key cities around the UK (that’s London, [...]

New Images from Spike Jonze’s Short I’m Here

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Spike Jonze’s short film I’m Here had its premiere at Sundance last night and if you’ve not seen the excellent trailer then please do take a moment and revel in the robot charm of it all here. While we await news of how we can enjoy Jonze’s 30 minute short, sponsored by apparently hands-off Absolut [...]

Trailer for Spike Jonze’s I’m Here

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Spike Jonze did the impossible in rendering Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are on the big screen with great success. Even if you’re not taken with his evident quirk it’s impossible to deny the visual luxuriance on show, Jonze is an artist whose cinema visions are always worth seeking out. His next project following [...]

Review: Where The Wild Things Are

In bringing one of the most beloved children’s book of recent times to the screen Spike Jonze had only one objective in mind: to be faithful to the spirit of Maurice Sendak’s seminal work, and this love for the crazed, childlike escapism of the source material is powerfully bought to the screen. Adapting Where the [...]

Audio Interviews with the Cast and Crew of Where the Wild Things Are

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Yesterday, Jon was lucky enough to see Where the Wild Things Are. His review is here, and to whet your appetite our friend James Kleinmann has been lucky enough to catch up with the cast and director, Spike Jonze and collected these great audio interviews. James also interviewed with the child star of the movie [...]

Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak / Jonze Featurette

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Where the Wild Things Are as a movie has been in production for about 4 years now and we’re finally getting close to the being able to see it on the big screen. It’s out 11th December and we here at HeyUGuys can’t wait to see it. The guys over at VBS.TV have just sent [...]

Where The Wild Things Are Featurette

A new featurette from behind the scenes of the eagerly anticipated movie Where The Wild Things Are has just been released. The featurette follows the relationship between the film’s director Spike Jonze and the 9 year old lead, Max Records. In the clip are examples of how close the two are, how Spike managed to [...]

Amazing Behind The Scenes Images from Where the Wild Things Are

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Our lucky US cousins are already getting their first look at Spike Jonze’s fiercely awaited adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wiid Things Are, and initial indications proclaim it to be a triumph. I don’t think it was in any doubt that Jonze would bring his considerable aesthetic talents to this revered work, and [...]