Not even those who worked on the Oscar-nominated film Her are sure exactly how near we are to the near-future depicted in the movie. "I think the idea of the near-future is that you can’t predict the pace of technology," says graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, who designed the interfaces for the film.
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In the new Spike Jonze film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a dude who falls in love with an operating system
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One of the best moments in the new movie Her is watching Joaquin Phoenix ride an elevated train through a Los Angeles of the near-future
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Early in Spike Jonze’s new film Her, Joaquin Phoenix’s character gazes out his Los Angeles window. As the camera pans, we see not a squat, sprawling metropolis, but a golden-lit landscape of skyscrapers stretching all the way to the horizon. When I saw the film last Friday night, this scene made me gasp.
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Here’s the first trailer for Spike Jonze’s newest project, Her. It’s your typical romance, where a meek guy you can’t help feeling bad for (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with the cryptic Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), who mysteriously shows up and makes him teach her, and himself, how to enjoy life. But Samantha is an artificial-intelligence companion coded into what looks like a cellphone.
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