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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
