Thom - Wirksworth Film
01-01-11, 12:35 PM
Hello Everyone,
A very happy new year to you all.
On the 14th January Wirksworth Film will the showing the fourth film of our 2010/11 programme "I Heart Huckabees."
The film will be shown in the Town Hall, with a bar provided by the Hope & Anchor. Doors and bar will open at 7pm with the showing beginning at 7:30pm. Guests are welcome to join us and guests tickets are £4.50.
When asked to describe the film in an interview for the Suicide Girls website David O Russell said;
"Here’s how I described it to the people who financed the movie. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are existential detectives who you could hire to investigate the meaning of your life. They are formal, they wear suits, they are Paris-trained and their clients include Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Wahlberg. Their nemesis is Isabelle Huppert. Hilarity ensues”"
Chosen to close the 2004 London Film festival, I Heart Huckabees marked the return of director David O Russell, the man behind eccentric Gulf War Drama, Three Kings and the earlier Sundance favourite, Spanking The Monkey.
One of the biggest influences for the ideas in the film was 9/11. The director is quoted as saying in Film Comment Magazine;
“For about two months after 9/11, people were asking really profound questions about reality and existence-and then it was back to business as usual. Indeed this seems to be the case whenever bad things happen in life as people search for the reasoning behind the events and for a meaning to their own existence.”
This is true of the characters in 'I Heart Huckabees.' From an activist fighting urban sprawl to a firefighter blaming the worlds ills on petroleum hungry nations, 'I Heart Huckabees' presents profound questions about existence with a unique comic approach.
Featuring a stellar cast the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Albert Markovski, the head of the Open Spaces Coalition, who has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which he is unable to comprehend. Enlisting the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail stores. But when Brad also hires the detectives, they dig deep into his seemingly perfect life and his relationship with his spokesmodel girlfriend, Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts) - who happens to be the voice of Huckabees. Albert, meanwhile, pairs up with a rebel firefighter, named Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg), to take matters into his own hands, under the guidance of the Jaffe's nemesis, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert).
At first glance, with the film's slapstick, yet witty intellectual dialogue combined with unique visuals, it would seem that this is the product of Charlie Kaufman. But Russell's ideas are undeniably his own and have been pondered upon in his mind for years. 'I Heart Huckabees' is filled with three-dimensional characters and crisp-sounding dialogue that will leave you chuckling hours after seeing the film. This is a hugely enjoyable film that sneaks in no end of moral and emotional concerns, and amply demonstrates that in making the transition to established director, Russell has lost none of his irreverent indie edge.
See you there,
Wirksworth Film
A very happy new year to you all.
On the 14th January Wirksworth Film will the showing the fourth film of our 2010/11 programme "I Heart Huckabees."
The film will be shown in the Town Hall, with a bar provided by the Hope & Anchor. Doors and bar will open at 7pm with the showing beginning at 7:30pm. Guests are welcome to join us and guests tickets are £4.50.
When asked to describe the film in an interview for the Suicide Girls website David O Russell said;
"Here’s how I described it to the people who financed the movie. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are existential detectives who you could hire to investigate the meaning of your life. They are formal, they wear suits, they are Paris-trained and their clients include Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Wahlberg. Their nemesis is Isabelle Huppert. Hilarity ensues”"
Chosen to close the 2004 London Film festival, I Heart Huckabees marked the return of director David O Russell, the man behind eccentric Gulf War Drama, Three Kings and the earlier Sundance favourite, Spanking The Monkey.
One of the biggest influences for the ideas in the film was 9/11. The director is quoted as saying in Film Comment Magazine;
“For about two months after 9/11, people were asking really profound questions about reality and existence-and then it was back to business as usual. Indeed this seems to be the case whenever bad things happen in life as people search for the reasoning behind the events and for a meaning to their own existence.”
This is true of the characters in 'I Heart Huckabees.' From an activist fighting urban sprawl to a firefighter blaming the worlds ills on petroleum hungry nations, 'I Heart Huckabees' presents profound questions about existence with a unique comic approach.
Featuring a stellar cast the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Albert Markovski, the head of the Open Spaces Coalition, who has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which he is unable to comprehend. Enlisting the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail stores. But when Brad also hires the detectives, they dig deep into his seemingly perfect life and his relationship with his spokesmodel girlfriend, Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts) - who happens to be the voice of Huckabees. Albert, meanwhile, pairs up with a rebel firefighter, named Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg), to take matters into his own hands, under the guidance of the Jaffe's nemesis, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert).
At first glance, with the film's slapstick, yet witty intellectual dialogue combined with unique visuals, it would seem that this is the product of Charlie Kaufman. But Russell's ideas are undeniably his own and have been pondered upon in his mind for years. 'I Heart Huckabees' is filled with three-dimensional characters and crisp-sounding dialogue that will leave you chuckling hours after seeing the film. This is a hugely enjoyable film that sneaks in no end of moral and emotional concerns, and amply demonstrates that in making the transition to established director, Russell has lost none of his irreverent indie edge.
See you there,
Wirksworth Film