The Matrix franchise has to be one of the greatest sci-fi movie series ever made that has pushed the genre to a new height. But it was never easy to make it. There were a lot of changes in the cast of several characters, including Neo and Trinity. But interestingly, the Wachowskis presented the script in a very different way.
Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix films
Directed by the Wachowski siblings; Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, The Matrix franchise started on a weird note, at least not what Warner Brothers expected. The duo reportedly presented the script in a format that was beyond the wildest imagination of the studio. No wonder they picked it up after several rejections from so many different studios.
The Unusual Presentation Of The Matrix Script By The Wachowskis Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. Credit: Creative Commons
The first installment of The Matrix was...
Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix films
Directed by the Wachowski siblings; Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, The Matrix franchise started on a weird note, at least not what Warner Brothers expected. The duo reportedly presented the script in a format that was beyond the wildest imagination of the studio. No wonder they picked it up after several rejections from so many different studios.
The Unusual Presentation Of The Matrix Script By The Wachowskis Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. Credit: Creative Commons
The first installment of The Matrix was...
- 4/1/2024
- by Lachit Roy
- FandomWire
Clockwise from top left: Thelma And Louise (MGM), Chicago (Miramax), The Handmaiden (Cj Entertainment), and Ocean’s 8 (Warner Bros.)Graphic: The A.V. Club
The trailers for the upcoming films Drive-Away Dolls (opening February 23) and Love Lies Bleeding (opening March 8) have us thinking about all the badass women who have...
The trailers for the upcoming films Drive-Away Dolls (opening February 23) and Love Lies Bleeding (opening March 8) have us thinking about all the badass women who have...
- 2/23/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
Welcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV. When it comes to movies of the last 20 years, Lana and Andy Wachowski's Bound can make a strong case for containing the single best-known sex scene. The 1996 crime noir stars Jennifer Tilly as a gangster’s moll named Violet and Gina Gershon as an ex-con named Corky who team up in both love and crime. With help from famed sex educator Susie Bright, the actresses and directors created a sex scene that scans as authentic, riveting, and, of course, hot. Jennifer Tilly tells us how it all came to be. Actors are always saying, "Oh, sex scenes are so technical. Everyone's standing around and watching." It is technical, but there is something about being naked with a member of the opposite sex that you still want them to think that you're hot. There's a...
- 12/1/2014
- by Jennifer Vineyard
- Vulture
Stars: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan, Christopher Meloni, Richard C. Sarafian, Mary Mara, Susie Bright | Written and Directed by The Wachowski Brothers
Watching Bound you can’t help but be impressed with its style and understand why people cite its importance to the Matrix movies which were the Wachowski next movies to work on. Then you realise that this was their first movie and see just why it is so impressive and brave. Bound is a modern noir that takes two female leads and puts them in the place of power and most importantly a realistic love affair. This may sound nothing surprising now, but at the time it had never been done in this style, especially by two writer/directors who wanted to make an impact in Hollywood. Now that it’s getting the Arrow Video treatment, it’s time for Bound to get the attention it definitely deserves.
Watching Bound you can’t help but be impressed with its style and understand why people cite its importance to the Matrix movies which were the Wachowski next movies to work on. Then you realise that this was their first movie and see just why it is so impressive and brave. Bound is a modern noir that takes two female leads and puts them in the place of power and most importantly a realistic love affair. This may sound nothing surprising now, but at the time it had never been done in this style, especially by two writer/directors who wanted to make an impact in Hollywood. Now that it’s getting the Arrow Video treatment, it’s time for Bound to get the attention it definitely deserves.
- 8/18/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Queen Elizabeth II has requested television time to sign what is being called a historic pledge of non-discrimination in the Commonwealth. "We are implacably opposed to all forms of discrimination, whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds." Other grounds is meant to refer to Glbt people, but toned down to defer to members of the Commonwealth that still have draconian gay laws. While it sounds like a cop out to me, diplomatic sources say "The impact of this statement on gay and women’s rights should not be underestimated. Nothing this progressive has ever been approved by the United Nations. And it is most unusual for the Queen to request to sign documents in public, never mind call the cameras in."
The Ufc's Rashad Evans has come out for equality after talking to his friend Brendon Ayanbedejo. “I've never been a homophobe, never understood what that is all about.
The Ufc's Rashad Evans has come out for equality after talking to his friend Brendon Ayanbedejo. “I've never been a homophobe, never understood what that is all about.
- 3/10/2013
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Tags: IMDbFeminist FridayAmy PoehlerTina FeyRachel Maddow
This Week in Ladybits
Do your ladybits feel supremely annoyed this week? I can’t blame them. Our old pal Paul Ryan signed on to co-sponsor the so-called Sanctity of Human Life Act again. Among other things, this bill would allow rapists to sue for parental rights.
The only abortion clinic in the entire 48,430-square-mile state of Mississippi is in real danger of closing.
A bill in Wyoming would ban abortions after six weeks.
The Commonwealth of Virginia will still be the Commonwealth of State-Mandated Unnecessary Ultrasounds, but did narrowly narrowly narrowly vote down a ban on abortions. Trap laws are staying in place, though. Wonkette hears there have been some attempts at shady dealings behind that.
And Rachel Maddow covered the inspiring and scary story of the people who are risking their lives to re-open a women’s health clinic that provides abortion services in Wichita,...
This Week in Ladybits
Do your ladybits feel supremely annoyed this week? I can’t blame them. Our old pal Paul Ryan signed on to co-sponsor the so-called Sanctity of Human Life Act again. Among other things, this bill would allow rapists to sue for parental rights.
The only abortion clinic in the entire 48,430-square-mile state of Mississippi is in real danger of closing.
A bill in Wyoming would ban abortions after six weeks.
The Commonwealth of Virginia will still be the Commonwealth of State-Mandated Unnecessary Ultrasounds, but did narrowly narrowly narrowly vote down a ban on abortions. Trap laws are staying in place, though. Wonkette hears there have been some attempts at shady dealings behind that.
And Rachel Maddow covered the inspiring and scary story of the people who are risking their lives to re-open a women’s health clinic that provides abortion services in Wichita,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
Lansing, Mich. — A state lawmaker who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying "vagina" during debate over anti-abortion legislation performed "The Vagina Monologues" on the Statehouse steps – with a hand from the author.
Eve Ensler, whose groundbreaking play about women's sexuality still packs theaters 16 years after it debuted, oversaw Monday night's performance by Democratic state Rep. Lisa Brown, 10 other lawmakers and several actresses.
Capitol facilities director Steve Benkovsky estimated about 2,500 spectators – women and men – watched the play in downtown Lansing from lawn chairs and blankets. Billed on Facebook as the "Vaginas Take Back the Capitol!" event, the combination play and protest included political signs and chants of "Vagina! Vagina!"
Ensler, who flew in from California, where she's overseeing production of her new play, said she was thrilled to be involved and likened the punishment meted out by the Republican leadership of...
Eve Ensler, whose groundbreaking play about women's sexuality still packs theaters 16 years after it debuted, oversaw Monday night's performance by Democratic state Rep. Lisa Brown, 10 other lawmakers and several actresses.
Capitol facilities director Steve Benkovsky estimated about 2,500 spectators – women and men – watched the play in downtown Lansing from lawn chairs and blankets. Billed on Facebook as the "Vaginas Take Back the Capitol!" event, the combination play and protest included political signs and chants of "Vagina! Vagina!"
Ensler, who flew in from California, where she's overseeing production of her new play, said she was thrilled to be involved and likened the punishment meted out by the Republican leadership of...
- 6/19/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Belle de Jour Directed by Luis Buñuel Written by Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviéve Page Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour is a sexy and disturbing psychological case study that investigates the masochistic desires of its main character as she attempts to fulfill her urges and reconcile her past. The film opens with a red herring of sorts, as we're introduced to a couple on a romantic carriage ride. The woman, an attractive blonde, shuns the advances of her companion, resulting her forceful removal from the carriage by its drivers. She's led into the woods blindfolded, and eventually tied to a tree, hands above her head. After ripping down the back of her dress, the man signals the drivers to whip her. She seems to enjoy it. An abrupt cut reintroduces the same couple, now in their bedroom getting ready for bed. It was all a dream…...
- 1/28/2012
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
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By Raymond Benson
It was surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s most popular film and his biggest financial success, even outperforming the great Oscar-winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (the idea for which was given to the director by actor Owen Wilson during a time travel escapade to Paris in the 1920s*). Starring an effervescent, young and beautiful Catherine Deneuve in a defining role that would forever typify her as the kind of cool, intense, independent blonde she would portray for the rest of her long career, Belle de Jour broke ground for eroticism and feminism alike.
Released in 1967, the picture is one of Buñuel’s most accessible pictures. The plot is simple enough. Severine, a frigid and frustrated woman of the Parisian upper class who is married to a successful doctor, has disturbing fantasies of being sexually humiliated and degraded. When...
By Raymond Benson
It was surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s most popular film and his biggest financial success, even outperforming the great Oscar-winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (the idea for which was given to the director by actor Owen Wilson during a time travel escapade to Paris in the 1920s*). Starring an effervescent, young and beautiful Catherine Deneuve in a defining role that would forever typify her as the kind of cool, intense, independent blonde she would portray for the rest of her long career, Belle de Jour broke ground for eroticism and feminism alike.
Released in 1967, the picture is one of Buñuel’s most accessible pictures. The plot is simple enough. Severine, a frigid and frustrated woman of the Parisian upper class who is married to a successful doctor, has disturbing fantasies of being sexually humiliated and degraded. When...
- 1/25/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
I first watched Belle de Jour back in March of 2009. Unfortunately I didn't write about it at the time, which gives me nothing to look back on as far as my interpretation of what I saw. Considering we're talking about the work of surrealist director Luis Bunuel it would have been nice to refer back to something, but sometimes life gives us oranges. What I watched then was a rented Netflix copy of the previously released Miramax DVD version of the film, which, to my recollection, didn't include any special features. Fortunately Criterion is here to save us on that front with an excellent high definition transfer and uncompressed monaural soundtrack, but on top of that an outstanding audio commentary and one specific featurette I found incredibly enlightening. As for that first viewing of Belle de Jour, I remember having a conversation about the film's ending and confusion over what...
- 1/17/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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The Ides of March Studios really need to widen their windows when it comes to films being released in theaters and then on DVD and Blu-ray. The fact Moneyball is already on DVD and Blu-ray and now The Ides of March lessens the films somewhat in my mind. There's no urgency. The film just left theaters a week ago and is now available to own at home. The rush to get content to people is cheapening the product and good films such as this are suffering for it.
I can just imagine the conversation, "Did you see The Ides of March?" "Which one is that?" "The one with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney." "The political one?" "Yeah." "No, didn't see it." "You should, it's even better the second time around." "I'll try and check it out, but I really...
The Ides of March Studios really need to widen their windows when it comes to films being released in theaters and then on DVD and Blu-ray. The fact Moneyball is already on DVD and Blu-ray and now The Ides of March lessens the films somewhat in my mind. There's no urgency. The film just left theaters a week ago and is now available to own at home. The rush to get content to people is cheapening the product and good films such as this are suffering for it.
I can just imagine the conversation, "Did you see The Ides of March?" "Which one is that?" "The one with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney." "The political one?" "Yeah." "No, didn't see it." "You should, it's even better the second time around." "I'll try and check it out, but I really...
- 1/17/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Release Date: Jan. 17, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Parisian housewife Catherine Deneuve is up against the wall in Belle du Jour.
The surreal and erotic 1967 “daydream” drama film Belle du Jour, from provocateur Luis Buñuel (Viridiana), is a classic movie that’s both an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure, as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions.
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve (Potiche) hides a cracked interior in the actress’ most iconic role: Séverine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day. Fantasy and reality commingle in Séverine’s head, just as they do in the viewer’s in the movie, which is recognized as one of Buñuel’s finest.
The film is presented in French with new and improved English subtitles. It got a new high-definition digital transfer and an uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition.
The...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Parisian housewife Catherine Deneuve is up against the wall in Belle du Jour.
The surreal and erotic 1967 “daydream” drama film Belle du Jour, from provocateur Luis Buñuel (Viridiana), is a classic movie that’s both an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure, as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions.
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve (Potiche) hides a cracked interior in the actress’ most iconic role: Séverine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day. Fantasy and reality commingle in Séverine’s head, just as they do in the viewer’s in the movie, which is recognized as one of Buñuel’s finest.
The film is presented in French with new and improved English subtitles. It got a new high-definition digital transfer and an uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition.
The...
- 10/17/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
As editor of The Best American Erotica series and host of the weekly audio show In Bed with Susie Bright on Audible.com, Susie Bright has never been one to shy away from discussing sexuality, erotica, and feminism, becoming one of America’s leading “sexperts.” In her new book, Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir (Seal Press/Audible), Bright traces her entertaining and influential political/sexual revolution—from a fearsome Irish Catholic Girl Scout to teenage radical in The Red Tide and International Socialists to co-founder of On Our Backs, the first erotic magazine created by women. Below, Bright describes her fortuitous move from San Francisco to teach “an extended version of erotic forensics” at Uc Santa Cruz. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 3/31/2011
- Vanity Fair
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