3 Notes on New Photos: J Edgar, Hunger Games, Pines
Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 2:26PM You may have noticed that I don't post every "exclusive" new photo!video!thingamajig! the second it's released. I figure you can get them in 760,000 other places and if I post too many of them there will be no room for the words which is why we do this thing they call blogging. And this: I'd prefer to get paid advertising on the site than give free advertising. That said, I'm thinking we should include more so maybe roundups like this?
Here we go...
• I want that tie. I want it windsored up in my business immediately. Would it be unprofessional to beg Deborah Hopper for it first chance I get to interview her?
• Despite the Oscar friendly nature of the bulk of Clint Eastwood's modern filmography, none of his movies have ever been nominated for costume design. Could this be the first?
* Armie Hammer is very handsome.
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• Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne looks just like Patrick Bateman which... well, may the costume designer never put him in a transparent splatter protection jacket.
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a cop suit does nothing for me. I prefer him in Slim Jim Joe Inception suits.
• Those extras in the background are really given it their all! You know they were so excited to get the gig. "I'm going to be in a Batman movie!!!!!"
Hunger Games and The Place Beyond the Pines after the jump
• There are so many iconic images and poses of Marilyn that the marketing team had practically limitless resources to choose from but I think they've done a good job with the marketing of this movie. Focusing on Marilyn's face is smart since Michelle Williams body isn't very Marilyn-esque and you can totally make anyone look like Marilyn with washed out photography and a crack makeup team.
• Michelle Williams is definitely in the running for Best Actress. I think the race is too tight -- at least at this moment -- for us to assume that anyone is locked outside of Viola Davis for a nomination. (I know, I know. Meryl... but all of her heat is still theoretical.)
• I wasn't too crazy about My Week With Marilyn but I'd be lying if I claimed I wasn't looking forward to giving it a second viewing.
Ryan Gosling in "The Place Beyond the Pines"
• This is how you know how instantly iconic Drive has become. You see a photo of driving Ryan Gosling in a jacket and gloves but it's the wrong jacket, the wrong gloves, and he's on the wrong vehicle because it's not The Driver and it's not Drive!
• Sometimes I still giggle about the pornish headline Katey wrote when news of this movie first surfaced "Bradley Cooper Confirmed to Tail Ryan Gosling in the Place Beyond The Pines" LOL... at least gay New Yorkers would giggle.
• Also...skull pants? Really?
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•I am a big fan of profile photography. Always an interesting way to study someone's face. And hopefully both the lead faces (Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) will keep being studied since they're both so (seemingly) talented.
• Rue... I almost photoshopped this image out to make it a RuPaul in the Hunger Games mash-up but that would be overkill given the Scorpio Birthday post.
• I haven't read the books but isn't the degree of gloss on all the photos anti-narrative... given that it's about people killing each other as a reality show game? Particularly Woody Harrelson -- he looks so botoxed and shiny and perfect skinned as Haymitch. Scratch that. The Boyfriend (who has read the books) is telling me that all of the killers get a team of stylists or something since the games are televised. Stylists = high fashion gloss?
click on photo for gobs of new photos from J Edgar
And back to J. Edgar to wrap up...
• I'm interviewing the bio's screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) very soon. I'll gladly take suggestions in the comments as to what to ask him.
• Armie Hammer is very handsome. Do you think Leonardo resented him while having to wear the unbecoming double chin prosthetics and bald caps and stuff?
• I don't understand the composition of this still at all. Lamps as visual bow ties?
Reader Comments (11)
I think you should mention that Armie Hammer is very handsome. Oh, wait, you did! :p
I just can't think of a clever question for Dustin Lance Black especially since I haven't seen the movie.
The Boyfriend is weird. If I got it right, he's an artsy francophile who reads lots of young adult literature?
Yup, I'm pretty much having a dull Saturday night and I need to talk nonsense :)
At least the new MY WEEK WITH MARYLIN poster is better than the previous one! Can't wait to see the movie next tuesday at the Rome Film Festival.
Gordon-Levitt can show up at my place in that cop costume any time he wants.
Ew, slicked-back hair. What happened to his gorgeous drool-worthy parted hair in TDK? Is the new hair supposed to signify character change? Unnecessary.
James T -- the reading is voracious so it expands over many categories.
Caroline -- i don't get the hair either
There are parts in The Hunger Games where the characters are all dolled up looking beautiful even Woody Harrelson's, it's actually quite important in the first book. I won't go in to detail because I don't want to spoil anything.
I always find the extras and one-line parts in super-hero movies to be painfully distracting, overacting in abundance, ugh.
I still can't see Davis in the Best Actress category ... she was totally a in an ensemble where all the acting was excellent... I know, I know ... she began and ended the film, but did she carry the film??? NO ... Davis for BSA>>>
"I'd prefer to get paid advertising on the site than give free advertising. That said, I'm thinking we should include more so maybe roundups like this?"
I'm enjoying this post because of your commentary, Nat. In other words, for me, no, I don't want to see too many photos on this site. I come here as a READER. But I'm sure others will disagree.
Am I the only one who finds it very odd that the two quotes praising Michelle Willams and MWWM are credited to their media outlet sources "Vanity Fair" and (whatever the second source is, I can't read it - a radio station?) but NOT to their respective authors (or speakers)? is that really the wave of the future, even film critics (or cheerleadering flacks, which is becoming much the same thing) are nameless automatons and only the source/company matters? Argh.
My lesbianism be damned, but Hammer IS handsome. Almost a little too much so? Chisled Apollo-in-marble perfection? And am I being sexist in saying that? ie, I'm really saying that men are more interesting as they age (and women should stay flawless)? And as if to prove the point, I think conversely think that JGL is a really sexy in that photo, mainly because he is looking "older" compared to what I'm used to. Some of the boyishness worn away a bit. (And I am not turned on by cop uniforms of themselves. Stepfathers, childhood trauma and whatnot.)
I do like that tie too, but that doesn't contradict my lesbianism, so *whew*.
I'm continuously on edge about J. Edgar, I'm still angry with Leo D. (who I generally adore) for his work in Inception where I sort of loathed. Al of a sudden all the criticisms lodged against him seemed true, so I'm sort of thinking that he'll be overly precise and dramatic and essentially terrible here, which I hope isn't true but there's no love lost between Clint and I...although I did like Changeling. A lot.
I know it's old news at this point, but I'm more interested in Dustin Lance Black's experiences in writing "Milk." He is an Oscar winner for this script after all. I'm becoming less and less interested in "J. Edgar" by the day. But maybe ask him about possible cultural wars between him and the Clint. There had to be some.