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A con man love story by the people who made Brick.
We shot the movie in Serbia, Montenegro, Romania and Prague. It stars Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximillian Schell, a one-legged cat and one drunk camel. In theaters May 15th in New York and LA, and May 29th everywhere.
This blog is written and maintained by the writer/director, aka Rian Johnson, aka me, and all opinions expressed herein are mine and not the studio or distributor's. You can learn more, make friends and maybe even win a pony at my forum.
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The Star Tribune's Colin Covert accuses us of wearing sarcastic hats! (?)
Ironically, this is probably the most sarcastic review I’ve yet read.
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Seriously, I can not recommend this movie enough.*
*Translation: I won’t stop recommending it, so either get used to it, or go see it.
"— Alexis Hyde, hydeordie
Where to see Bloom this weekend!
We’re expanding to about 20 cities this weekend, click on the link above to find out where, and c’mon down!
I’m doing q&a’s in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. and Dallas, check here for details.
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Penelope’s Theme, The Brothers Bloom Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
In honor of The Brothers Bloom opening in most of the country today, I’m posting the main theme for Penelope, who is played by the amazing Rachel Weisz.
You can also listen to a podcast with David Chen from slashfilm in which we talk about making the score and listened to highlights from it!
Borrowing liberally from (or hopefully tipping my hat very respectfully to) Richard Amsel’s beautiful poster for the John Wayne film The Shootist, this was the first concept sketch I did for The Brothers Bloom poster that felt right. By this point I’d tried a variety of failed concepts, including an oil painting that was going for a Gone With The Wind sort of feel, but all of my attempts had just felt weird or wrong. I think this sketch is pretty funny in retrospect, but Rian must have seen something in its messy scribbles, ‘cause he told me to drop everything else and go for it.
(For anyone who’s a fan of posters, I’d recommend trying to find the sketch that Amsel did when preparing for The Shootist, which in my opinion is even cooler than his finished painting.)
Ty Burr growls at our foolish whimsy and accuses us of masturbating
I feel so dirty…
Live commentary track now available on Apple!
So this is kind of weird, I’m not sure if anyone is going to be into doing this, but I figured it was a fun thing to try. The idea here is you download the mp3 file, put it on your ipod (or what have you) and take it to the theater with you. There are instructions at the beginning of the recording for when to pause / unpause, and if all goes well you will have a live commentary track playing along with the movie.
The track itself is obviously spoiler-heavy, I obviously wouldn’t recommend it for a first viewing. It’s also (to be honest) pretty dry and process-intensive, I go on at length about obnoxious stuff like symbolic color schemes, so if that doesn’t sound appealing, steer clear. The (totally different) commentary I recorded for the DVD is much more easygoing.
If anyone actually does this, let me know (or better yet, tweet me - @rcjohnso.) I’m curious how it ends up working.
Bloom q&a's this weekend in SF, Chicago, DC and Dallas!
Hey folks - I’ll be racking up air miles and answering questions this weekend. C’mon down! For a full list of cities and theaters we’ll be playing in this weekend, check this post on my forum.
FRIDAY - San Francisco at the Century Center 9 - q&a’s for the 7:10 and 8:35, intro for the 10:45.
SATURDAY - Chicago at the Landmark Century cinema - q&a (with Capone from AICN!) for the 7:00, intro for the 10:10.
SUNDAY - Washington, D.C. at the Landmark E Street Cinema - q&a for the 7:00 and 9:45 pm shows
MONDAY - Dallas at the Landmark Magnolia Cinemas - q&a for the 7:10 and 9:45 pm shows.
