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4 October 2008 8:32 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Somehow I missed this on Thursday, but apparently so did everyone else, since I didn't see it linked anywhere. Roger Ebert was hanging out at a post-production studio in Chicago, watching the restored new print of The Godfather, when he was unexpectedly joined by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the famously inaccessible duo behind The Matrix, Speed Racer, and (people forget) Bound. Afterward, he got a chance to chat with them -- not in a conventional interview setting, complete with a hovering publicist (the brothers don't do that, remember?), but over a beer.

Ebert was impressed with the "zillionaires": "Nice people. Friendly. No Hollywood attitude." He writes that "[t]he blogosphere paints them as mysterious recluses, which may add to the legend but doesn't match the reality." But their being nice and friendly doesn't make them any less mysterious and reclusive: I'd wager that Ebert only ran the piece because of

Eugene Novikov

26 September 2008 7:42 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

<p><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maybe someday Larry and Andy Wachowski will be credited other than as .the directors of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Matrix</span> trilogy., but it won.t happen today. 2008.s <span style="font-style: italic;">Speed Racer</span> was their first flick since 2003.s disappointing <span style="font-style: italic;">Matrix Revoltutions</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span>, and their only non-<span style="font-style: italic;">Matrix</span> effort since 1996.s <span style="font-style: italic;">Bound</span>. Though positioned as one of the year.s big summer blockbusters, <span style="font-style: italic;">Racer</span> tanked. It took in a poor $43 million and became destined to be regarded as the year.s biggest disappointment. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Even as a child, all Speed Racer (Nicholas Elia) cared about was racing cars. His father Pops (John Goodman) designed cars, and he looked up to his older brother Rex (Scott Porter), a hotshot driver. Alas, that story ends in tragedy, as Rex sells out to some underworld rivals and then apparently dies in a crash. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Though rocked by these events, an older Speed (Emile Hirsch) follows in Rex.s footsteps and becomes the

22 September 2008 11:21 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Speed Racer was a disaster in theaters and it is an even bigger one on DVD/Blu-ray. Watching Warner Bros.' Blu-ray release at home almost proved to be an impossibility. Why? At least in the movie theater the sensory overload was so all-encompassing it somewhat dulled the film's numerous structural failures. In the comfort of my living room, devoid of all the bells, whistles and an obnoxious preview audience directors Larry and Andy Wachowski's labor of love was stripped of all its distractions, the emptiness of the script and the colossal unfocused nature of it all suddenly front and center for everyone to see. While this is supposed to be a movie about flashy visuals and heartfelt family values, what it all adds up to is a disaster that's as perplexing and annoying as it is sometimes difficult to take your eyes off of (at least as long

Sara Michelle Fetters

3 articles from 2008