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IT'S based on one of the world's most popular children's books, but the movie adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, is no kids' flick.

It's a combination of the Faust legend, John Frankenheimer's Seconds and Being John Malkovich, writes Philip French Tuesday, 17 November 2009 In this amusing, intelligent, well-acted picture, Paul Giamatti, playing a troubled actor called Paul Giamatti currently appearing in Uncle Vanya, goes to a New York surgery called Soul Storage and exchanges ...

ALWAYS a joy when Hollywood royalty decides to "go ugly" for a film. Because it's the most naked play for awards that you ever did see.

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 with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation .

A decade after Brad Pitt and Edward Norton punched their way into our hearts, director David Fincher talks to Paul Cullum about his macho masterpiece.

Image from the movie 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Puppets are spreading to other performance genres and Canada is quickly becoming a hotbed for art puppetry.

By Geoff Berkshire, Matt Pais, Alexis Loinaz, Brett Buckalew and S. James Snyder , Metromix Nov.

Sophie Barthes's engaging new comedy Cold Souls is the latest of a new breed of films that can be called "Kaufmanesque", with deference to the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman .

Sreenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who spun American cinema on its head with striking scripts for "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," goes for fiendishly obsessional, intellectual acrobatics in his directorial debut.

For us Brits, the year 2012 means the Olympics, but for the ancient Mayans it signalled the end of the world.

In contrast to his verbal characters, screenwriter-producer Charlie Kaufman is close-lipped about his own life and background.

Absolut, the Pernod Ricard-owned vodka brand, has signed an a oeartistic partnershipa with US film director Spike Jonze.

The Keynote Conversation takes place during the popular event's two-day, flagship conference and exposition at the Burbank Marriott Conference Center.

"Where the Wild Things Are" is depressing, dull and dysfunctional. Childhood fans of the book should beware that a few creatively illustrated pages with fewer words than this review simply cannot be the basis of a feature length motion picture.

Substituting airy family cheer with heady self-indulgence, director Spike Jonze may have lost a near majority of head-scratching critics and 3-D crazed tykes with his dark adaptation of the popular 1963 picture book "Where the Wild Things Are," but he sure hasn't lost his audacity.

"Where the Wild Things Are" ; Starring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ruffalo; Director: Spike Jonze; Rated: PG Movie Review: Spike Jonze directs this movie based on a classic childhood book by Maurice Sendak.

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group will be Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood California.

Araya. Made in 1959, acclaimed at Cannes but skimpily released, this exceptional documentary is very deservedly brought forth again.

Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are , has been the buzz of critics and filmgoers alike since its opening last weekend.

Mr. Burton's next film, "Alice in Wonderland," also dips into classic kiddie territory and promises to be just as odd.