2008 Directed by Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Speed Racer is the tale of a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, he must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. Inspired by the cartoon series.
Emile Hirsch Christina Ricci John Goodman Susan Sarandon Matthew Fox Benno Fürmann Hiroyuki Sanada Rain Richard Roundtree Karl Yune Ariel Winter Roger Allam Paulie Litt Kick Gurry John Benfield Christian Oliver Ralph Herforth Scott Porter Nan Yu Nayo Wallace Melvil Poupaud Ramon Tikaram Ben Miles Peter Fernandez Cosma Shiva Hagen Moritz Bleibtreu Joon Park Nicholas Elia Melissa Holroyd Show All…
Joel Silver Bruce Berman Grant Hill Lilly Wachowski Lana Wachowski Michael Lambert David Lane Seltzer
Hugh Bateup Marco Bittner Rosser Stephan O. Gessler Cornelia Ott Anja Müller David Scheunemann Stefan Speth
Jill Brooks John Gaeta Pierre Buffin Mark Freund Julie Orosz Mohen Leo Lisa Goldberg Thomas Nittmann Edson Williams Daniel P. Rosen Sean Cushing Sam Khorshid Fabrice Lagayette John T. Van Vliet John Knoll Kevin Scott Mack Danny Braet Melinka Thompson-Godoy Douglas Bloom David Van Dyke Denise Davis Bryan Hirota Brent M. Bowen Steve Dellerson Chris F. Moore Geoffrey Niquet Danny S. Kim Mark Webb Dan Glass Kim Libreri Olivier Sarda Chadi Abo Lori Green Gillian George Laura Zentil Henrik Fält Andrew Byrne Ramprasad Sampath Beau Janzen Joshua H. Johnson Pascal Etangsale Simon Magnan Gregory L. Smith
Dane A. Davis Cory Mandel David A. Whittaker Mike Chock Bryan O. Watkins Gregg Rudloff Rick Kline David Werntz Adam Kopald Jason Oliver Zack Allen Drew Yerys
Studio Babelsberg Village Roadshow Pictures Silver Pictures Anarchos Productions Velocity Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
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so this is a joke right? 5 stars for speed racer? weirdly enough, speed racer is a movie that means so much to me. that's not a normal thing to say. but it's true.
my brother died in 2011. he was 7 years old and never went a day without smiling and making everyone around him smile. his favorite movie, and mine at the time as well, was speed racer. i talk about this movie now as a joke, considering how bright and insane it is. but in 2011, in a car accident, my brother died, leaving me with an emotional mother and a drunk father. i was left with movies and speed racer was what was left of carter.…
While maybe not as consistently engaging, this is genuinely in the same lane (haha) as Spiderverse and Fury Road in terms of visuals. If you had any doubts that this wasn’t a good movie please revisit the “Non-ja” joke.
Okay, I do NOT like the way things look when they are outside or surrounded by a lot of people. All those scenes look somewhere between a nauseatingly-saturated mid-2000s boy band music video and a Robert Rodriguez-directed episode of Angela Anaconda. They also look like they were a nightmare to shoot! But the rest of it? Unimpeachable.
The Wachowskis absolutely understand how to translate a ridiculous anime to a ridiculous live-action piece without making it feel like they’re just taking the story and not the entire energy of the original. The plasticky look of the cars works so well in making the race sequences feel like a child playing with Hot Wheels, and the ghost car effect they cribbed straight…
100
Ate Twizzlers and Air Head Xtremes Bites while watching. Saw a lot of indistinct shapes and sounds clustered around the vibrant colorscape of a cameraless paint-bucket bedazzlement. I think John Goodman called a Ninja a 'nonja' but I'm not sure. Truly an achievement in rendering the presence of the lens mute to the point where frames woosh by like cotton candy. The Grand-Prix is Heavenly Art; a stain-glass creativity monument, complete with a Cooties Warning to boot.
"You can feel her talking to you, telling you what she wants, what she needs. Listen."
So visually dense that you can get completely lost image to image. A triumph of idiosyncrasy, the Wachowski Rosetta Stone, and a spectacular anti-capital assertion of individuality over oppressive systems. Would make a great double feature with ALI.
There was a period in the mid-2000s, when digital was first taking full root as the new form of filmmaking, when some directors decided to test the technical possibilities of the format. 2006 was a watershed for this, with Pedro Costa, David Lynch and Michael Mann turning in radical works that boldly explored unique properties of lighting, compression and image speed. In terms of blockbuster filmmaking, the high water mark for the use of digital remains Speed Racer, a living cartoon that fulfills the Wachowskis' attempts to make anime out of the Matrix films.
When I think of this film, I think of Sergei Eisenstein's love for Snow White, how he saw in animation the potential of a total filmmaking,…
every so often I get really drunk and stay up past my bedtime and watch speed racer and cry through the grand prix to make sure I can still feel anything
colors on a 35mm print are insane, it really was like seeing it again for the first time. crazy how this movie starts with among the best-edited 15 minutes of any movie ever made and then ends with the most rousing blockbuster moment in history.
i love how SPEED RACER teaches you how to read all its visual rules within 1 opening 20-minute sequence that dissolves time/stretches space. SPEED RACER is beyond editing, beyond the frame, beyond cinema. past and present/cut and image become one.
"all you gotta do is listen. close your eyes and listen.
the wachowski's are too loving & sweet for this cruel world... what did we do to deserve them?
It's been almost ten years and there still isn't another film that looks like Speed Racer. The film begins with a kaleidoscope unfolding until the Warner Bros. logo appears. That single moment involving the kaleidoscope informs the visual language that is used throughout the two hour and fifteen minute runtime. This is created through the effect of camera wipes, but The Wachowskis go even further with that technique and use it to superimpose backstory, exposition and emotional imagery into the film seamlessly. The shot/reverse shot structure is all but swept to the wayside in favour of a camera always unfolding inside of itself or moving on by placing an image on top of another. This is to say nothing of…
This entire medium peaked with the climax of the Grand Prix sequence. Few films are more joyously, colorfully expressive.
