In the week that Blu-ray consigned HD DVD to the remainder bins of history (and standard DVD will surely follow in the foreseeable future), Michel Gondry, one of the movies' most idiosyncratic ...

The new website for Be Kind Rewind has launched, BeKindMovie.com, where you can find these trailers and much more. I highly suggest you check out that website, it's pretty awesome. They "swede" the ...

To call the narrative shambling and the acting amateurish is not wholly an insult, because Be Kind Rewind is determinedly unslick. Michel Gondry, like many French-born filmmakers, has the Big ...

I hope by now you are familiar with sweding. If not, I'll remind you - it's the term used in Be Kind Rewind to define the new movies that Jack Black and Mos Def create from scratch. If you want to see ...

The act of “sweding” a Hollywood blockbuster in French filmmaker Michel Gondry’s new movie, Be Kind Rewind, involves the twin notions that technology should be subordinated to imagination and that ...

Ah, Passaic, New Jersey! That crumbling, grumbling city across the Hudson from the gleaming skyline of New York, yet worlds removed from Manhattan magic. A place whose residents shiver in dour poverty ...

People who like their movies neat and orderly are going to have a hard time with Be Kind Rewind. Michel Gondry, who wrote and directed the film, approaches matters of story and character in a cracked, ...

Downtown got a little brighter when the neon-heavy Be Kind & Rewind opened in October of last year. Now, in honor of its first full year of business, the video bar is going the way of the horror genre ...

It's a quick trip from whimsy to silliness in "Be Kind Rewind," a notably ephemeral work by Michel Gondry. After partnering with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on his first two features, “Human Nature” ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A strange combination of sci-fi imagination and low-tech wizardry has made all of Michel Gondry’s ...

Be Kind Rewind The DVD for "Be Kind Rewind" claims that the film has been "Sweded," just like the flicks recreated by Jack Black and Mos Def in Michel Gondry's love song to low-fi filmmaking.