David Fincher, who has a “presented by” credit on the film along with Spike Jonze, describes the film as “what would’ve happened if Andrei Tarkovsky had made ‘The Wizard of Oz.’”
From a piece last year on Tarsem’s The Fall in the LA Times.
The trailer is now online, as the film is being distributed by Roadside Attractions.
via coudal.
Intricate cover (three bellybands, debossing, and foil) by Jordan Crane for Michael Chabon’s new non-fiction collection Maps and Legends. Published by McSweeneys.
This is not like London or New York, or even Tehran, another car-clogged Middle Eastern capital. It is literally like living day in and day out with a lawn mower running next to your head, according to scientists with the National Research Center. They spent five years studying noise levels across the city and concluded in a report issued this year that the average noise from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. is 85 decibels, a bit louder than a freight train 15 feet away, said Mustafa el Sayyid, an engineer who helped carry out the study.
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works.”
I KNEW IT! The bastards.
