Spike Jonze

...there are plenty of other films to look forward to, and here are the highlights. Where The Wild Things Are Reviews of this Spike Jonze adaptation of the classic children's story by Maurice Sendak have been mainly favourable in the US, and...

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...just-arrived DVD screener for voting groups, Warner Bros. is showing major awards support for "Where The Wild Things Are." The Spike Jonze movie got mixed reviews, but it has its zealous fans, including Rosie O'Donnell, an academy member who...

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...an Oscar for his performance as a suicidal drunk in Mike Figgis' "Leaving Las Vegas," was nominated again for his doppelganger turn in Spike Jonze's "Adaptation," has done art-house Euro schmaltz ("Captain Corelli's Mandolin"), and was paid...

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...follow the hit Where the Wild Things Are, the Maurice Sendak classic adapted with great care (and perhaps greater liberty) by Spike Jonze. Of course, saying these adaptations are "better" than ever does require some qualitative fudging:...

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...says. Swinton describes her Hollywood experience as a time when people she wanted to work with and meet (Joel and Ethan Coen, Spike Jonze) invited her to be in their films. "The people I'm working with now I've known for much longer and...

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...with Wild Things By Richard Corliss Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 Carol (voice by James Gandolfini) and Max (Max Records) in the Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are Everybody was a kid once. Many people still are. And nearly all of...

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Spike Jonze had a pretty impeccable record, from directing Christopher Walken's triumphal dance in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," to producing MTV's transcendently stupid pain-porn Jackass, to his magnificent collaborations...

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...and save an animal kingdom that includes his lawyer Badger (Bill Murray) and his sidekick Kylie (Wally Wolodarsky). Anderson's pal Spike Jonze recently failed with another children's classic, "Where the Wild Things Are," by being too...

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...too intense to be a family film, but they'll be surprised at how easily kids 10 and older (and many who are younger) will get director Spike Jonze's take. Young Max (terrific Max Records) has a fight with his mom (Catherine Keener) and runs...

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...reworking of the tale, "The Wild Things," has been on our hardcover bestsellers list for two weeks. Will the enthusiasm continue for Spike Jonze? The film's director has a "Wild Things"-related book that he'll be signing at the independent...

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