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Monday, October 3, 2011 at 3:56PM 
TV|Line Madonna may be this year's halftime performer at the Superbowl
The Oreo Experience. An amusingly provocative (and depressing) look at fall movie trailers and what the white and black characters get to do in them.
My New Plaid Pants on Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus... coming soon. I'll admit a lack of familiarity with this particular Shakespeare play, too.
ioncinema Andrew Haigh, the writer/director of Weekend names his ten favorite films. I asked him a similar question (which I didn't include in the published interview) and he only mentioned three of these: Don't Look Now, Last Night and Some Like It Hot.
Natasha VC on best uses of music in a Martin Scorsese film
Movie|Line Netflix Ten Most Rented Movies. An Interesting and Irritating List.
Shock Till You Drop asks David Cronenberg about his future projects including sequels (?) to Eastern Promises and The Fly. I spoke with Cronenberg today (interview coming eventually) but I didn't have time to talk up future theoretical movies since my predilection is always towards actual existing movies. Crazy, I know. I feel so lonely sometimes since most people only seem to care about future movies... though obviously I would be quite happy to see either of those imaginary movies as I'm a fan of both originals.
New York Mag talks to Laura Dern (Enlightened) who is my new hero for saying this:
I’m becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I’m 60."
I have been suggesting this to actresses since I started writing a decade ago and finally someone is smart enough to take my advice. (okay okay. Maybe Laura doesn't read The Film Experience but let me have my fantasies. Shut up!)
Finally, Sasha over at Awards Daily sounds off on the old complaint/notion that talking Oscar sucks the air out of the film room... particularly during the fall when we should be talking about how good the movies are. I'm in complete agreement here about film advocacy being the thing people are missing when they bitch about the Oscars. I discovered my cinephilia through the Oscars (as have several other people I've been lucky enough to meet over the years through my writing). They're two separate things now -- as they should be but all things take time -- but I take no issue with them sharing space each year.
Coriolanus, David Cronenberg, Francophile, Laura Dern, Madonna, Netflix, film festivals
Reader Comments (11)
I have a feeling if Madonna plays the Halftime show, this would be the most watched Super Bowl in history by gay men :-) YAY!!! Finally a reason to watch sports!!!
Jodie Foster, Ashley Judd, Jane Fonda, Ally Sheedy, Emma Thompson, Sigourney Weaver, Helena Bonham Carter - they all speak French and some of them have even acted in French. They should move now to France.
Sigourney Weaver should be involved permanently in foreign language film. God she's so undervalued here.
The Netflix list is like my worst nightmare. Numbers 10, 8, and 6 and 4 I can stand, I guess, but the Top 3? Ew. Ew ew ew.
^oops, meant 5, not 4.
I haven't seen The Bucket List, but the top two on the netflix list are so annoying. The Blind Side, after that much box office at the theatres can still do this well on DVD? Totally didn't expect it.
Though I think something that totally factors in is that a lot of younger people torrent their films or just get it off the internet somehow, hence reducing the sales. I have a feeling more people have watched Inception at home than The Blind Side. It's just they get it from different sources.
The one on the Netflix list that I really don't understand is "The Bucket List."
No Country for Old Men, Inception, The Departed, The Hurt Locker, Benjamin Button, Crash, The Blind Side = Oscar effect. I might not care for all of them, but they got huge exposure on the big night.
Iron Man, Inception, Sherlock Holmes, The Departed, The Blind Side = blockbusters with big fan bases.
Now, why are so many people renting The Bucket List? Critics hated it, and it flopped. Do Nicholson/Freeman fans make up a freakishly large cross-section of the Netflix audience? Are people attempting to make their way through the entire Rob Reinder catalog? If so, good luck to them. They're going to need it.
Sandra Bullock + Race relations = Netflix gold!
They all say that but they never do it! (working in Europe)
Peggy Sue -- so true!
Ryan T -- lol
Liz -- you're wonderful.
COMEDY GOLD ;)@cal roth - Your list is great, and I'd love to see these actresses make a movie in France, especially Foster and Judd. I'd add two men to this list: Joseph Gordon Levitt (I think he studied French at Columbia) so he has a place to mature and grow while he's still considered too boyish; and Zac Ephron, who looks like he came from another era, IMO Alain Delon-ish. The other actor I wish would move is Amanda Bynes - to theatre school in England and a career on the English stage where she would be considered beautiful and her wonderful sense of comedic timing appreciated.