With Good Kill in UK cinemas this week, Ryan looks back at writer-director Andrew Niccol’s classic sci-fi debut, 1997's Gattaca...
It’s all there in that swooning opening music: Gattaca isn’t just another sleek film about the future. The feature debut of New Zealand-born director Andrew Niccol, the smart, elegant, intensely moving Gattaca may just be his finest film to date.
The film introduces us to Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke), who’s in the process of a carrying out a painstaking daily ritual: shaving every stray hair from his body, exfoliating his skin and burning the material left behind - it’s as though Vincent’s treating himself as a crime scene.
Vincent lives in a future where genetic profiling has divided society into Valids - those whose DNA has been fettled to perfection by scientists before birth - and In-valids - those conceived naturally, with all potential genetic flaws it involves.
It’s all there in that swooning opening music: Gattaca isn’t just another sleek film about the future. The feature debut of New Zealand-born director Andrew Niccol, the smart, elegant, intensely moving Gattaca may just be his finest film to date.
The film introduces us to Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke), who’s in the process of a carrying out a painstaking daily ritual: shaving every stray hair from his body, exfoliating his skin and burning the material left behind - it’s as though Vincent’s treating himself as a crime scene.
Vincent lives in a future where genetic profiling has divided society into Valids - those whose DNA has been fettled to perfection by scientists before birth - and In-valids - those conceived naturally, with all potential genetic flaws it involves.
- 4/8/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Feature Ryan Lambie 4 Jul 2013 - 06:30
With Sinister and The Purge on his recent CV, and Getaway on the horizon, Ethan Hawke's becoming one of the finest genre actors working...
Mention of Ethan Hawke's name might conjure up some of his critically lauded performances in movies such as Reality Bites, Training Day or Before Sunrise. You might associate him with his successful stage career, or his two well-received novels, or the documentary he made last year about Shakespeare's Scottish Play.
Yet since the very beginning of his career, Hawke has made occasional - and often excellent - forays into science fiction, thrillers and horror. His first screen role was in Joe Dante's 1985 sci-fi fantasy Explorers, in which he played a young boy who, along with his friend Wolfgang (the late River Phoenix) creates a spaceship and heads off on an intergalactic adventure. Although not a financial hit,...
With Sinister and The Purge on his recent CV, and Getaway on the horizon, Ethan Hawke's becoming one of the finest genre actors working...
Mention of Ethan Hawke's name might conjure up some of his critically lauded performances in movies such as Reality Bites, Training Day or Before Sunrise. You might associate him with his successful stage career, or his two well-received novels, or the documentary he made last year about Shakespeare's Scottish Play.
Yet since the very beginning of his career, Hawke has made occasional - and often excellent - forays into science fiction, thrillers and horror. His first screen role was in Joe Dante's 1985 sci-fi fantasy Explorers, in which he played a young boy who, along with his friend Wolfgang (the late River Phoenix) creates a spaceship and heads off on an intergalactic adventure. Although not a financial hit,...
- 7/2/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Fringe begins its third season tonight, and the time has come for J.J. Abrams’ erratically awesome freaks-and-geeks fest to become consistently awesome and fulfill its long-teased promise of becoming TV’s coolest, craziest, most creatively audacious cult pop thingie. Lost and Heroes are gone. FlashForward fizzled out. I never got aboard the Supernatural bandwagon — and I jumped off the Smallville bandwagon a long time ago. The Event has potential (I’ve seen the next two episodes—they’re strong), but Fringe has the pole position. The show has the goods for a great run. The braintrust installed by Abrams and...
- 9/23/2010
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW.com - PopWatch
'The Other Guys,' 'Dinner for Schmucks' also get special treatment Wednesday at 4 p.m. on MTV!
By Eric Ditzian
Zoe Saldana in .Avatar.
Photo: Fox
All year long, MTV News' "Behind the Screen" series has been giving you exclusive sneak peeks at the most anticipated movies of 2009 and beyond, from a first look at Brad Pitt in "Inglourious Basterds" to Sam Worthington chatting on the U.K. set of "Clash of the Titans."
On Wednesday, December 16, at 4 p.m., the final "Behind the Screen" of the year will bring you our biggest show yet: 30 minutes bursting with fresh looks at the films everyone is talking about — chief among them the big-screen game-changer, "Avatar."
We have an exclusive sit-down interview with director James Cameron, who talks about the challenges of bringing his 3-D motion-capture epic to the screen and the future of his burgeoning sci-fi franchise. Cameron also walks...
By Eric Ditzian
Zoe Saldana in .Avatar.
Photo: Fox
All year long, MTV News' "Behind the Screen" series has been giving you exclusive sneak peeks at the most anticipated movies of 2009 and beyond, from a first look at Brad Pitt in "Inglourious Basterds" to Sam Worthington chatting on the U.K. set of "Clash of the Titans."
On Wednesday, December 16, at 4 p.m., the final "Behind the Screen" of the year will bring you our biggest show yet: 30 minutes bursting with fresh looks at the films everyone is talking about — chief among them the big-screen game-changer, "Avatar."
We have an exclusive sit-down interview with director James Cameron, who talks about the challenges of bringing his 3-D motion-capture epic to the screen and the future of his burgeoning sci-fi franchise. Cameron also walks...
- 12/14/2009
- MTV Movie News
What is it with Ridley Scott having to attach himself to every fourth movie that's in development? Today we hear that the hardest working filmmaker in pre-production is attached to helm Gucci, a thriller/drama that has Angelina Jolie in talks to play the lead role.
The hottest wife ever of Brad Pitt, Jolie would play Patrizia Reggiano, the wife of Maurizio Gucci. Reggiano killed her rich and famous husband to try and take the Gucci fortune. After the murder she was arrested and eventually sentenced to 29 years behind bars where she has to make knock-off bags in the prison's factory. Beats working the phones in the call center.
While Scott is busy in post-production on Universal's Robin Hood movie he's also got upwards of two dozen movies in development including the Alien reboot/prequel, The Forever War, the Red Riding remake, Brave New World with Leonardo DiCaprio, a Monopoly movie,...
The hottest wife ever of Brad Pitt, Jolie would play Patrizia Reggiano, the wife of Maurizio Gucci. Reggiano killed her rich and famous husband to try and take the Gucci fortune. After the murder she was arrested and eventually sentenced to 29 years behind bars where she has to make knock-off bags in the prison's factory. Beats working the phones in the call center.
While Scott is busy in post-production on Universal's Robin Hood movie he's also got upwards of two dozen movies in development including the Alien reboot/prequel, The Forever War, the Red Riding remake, Brave New World with Leonardo DiCaprio, a Monopoly movie,...
- 10/21/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
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