"Link, I Am Your Father"
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 9:37AM This doesn't need an entire post to itself but if you haven't heard you should know that SHAME, the eagerly awaited Hunger follow up from visionary Steve McQueen will open on December 2nd. That's the one that stars the naked raw talents known as Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Yay! I'd tell you that I'm seeing it this week but the press screenings at NYFF this year have been more difficult than in past years... so I plan to see it this week.
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Rope of Silicon has first pic of Russell Crowe as Superman's father in Man of Steel. I get why the capes are that muted color but it's still weird to think of SuperPeople with muted color palette costumes.
Movie|Line Awesome inimitable director/personality Werner Herzog will play the villain in the Tom Cruise vehicle One Shot. As TFE's unsung hero Michael put so well on twitter "The only thing that would make that Werner Herzog news cooler is if he's playing Werner Herzog."
Hollywood and Fine on the shifts of star generations and how that plays into The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling vs. George Clooney. It's a smart piece though some of the claims are suspect (like DeNiro and Pacino still having great work in them...uhhhh)
MNPP Luke Evans Seven Times
The House Next Door Jaime N Christley is a dissenting voice on Mexico's critic's darling Miss Bala
Frankly My Dear.... War Horse newbie Jeremy Irvine already has his follow up picture. He'll be in the umpteenth Great Expectations adaptation. This one for director Mike Newell.
Vanity Fair Johnny Depp is the new cover boy and apparently he hates being photographed (uhhhh) and he says yes to all the stupid money for his kids (Uhhhh... what kids need $300 million dollars? Isn't becoming a hack really for your kid's kid's grandchildren at this point? $300 million for the Pirates franchise alone.) Unsolicited advice: Take a challenging role soon, maybe by a new visionary writer/director who nobody would think to bankroll without you, do it for scale and rediscover your gift. Just sayin'.
Antagony and Ecstasy Mr Brayton, one of the best critics on the net and a twentysomething cancer survivor, reviews the twentysomething cancer comedy 50/50.
Today's Recommended Watch
The making of that infamous nippley The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo poster set to the film's score.
Reader Comments (8)
I love Johnny Depp, but a big "YES!!!" to everything you said about him and money, rediscovering his gift, etc.
So, under that grey coat (?) Crowe is supposed to be wearing the same suit Superman is wearing? Because, if it's so, I'd love to see that picture, but not for the same reasons I would have liked to see it ten years ago. And why the muted colors? Are they better for 3D or something?
Love to see Mike Newell working. I hope he does another Donnie Brasco.
The name 'Frankly My Dear' reminded me that Oren Moverman and Ben Stiller are trying to get a David O. Selznick biopic off the ground. a) Who plays Viv? b) Good luck, y'all.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/ben_stiller_oren_moverman_teaming_on_biopic_of_legendary_producer_david_o._/
Pacino can still deliver the goods when he wants to. He was brilliant in "Angels in America," and "You Don't Know Jack" was a great showcase for him. He probably could have won an Oscar for that. Not sure what his Phil Specter will be like, but at least he'll get to wear a fright wig. Now DeNiro's another story . . . sadly.
My hope for playing Vivien Leigh: Katie Jarvis. Seriously, I just want to see her in something. ANYTHING. She was too good in Fish Tank for that to be THE END. Vivien Leigh at Gone With the Wind: 25-26. Katie Jarvis right now: 20. Even right now that's about right. Vivien Leigh was supposed to be 16-18 at the beginning of Gone With the Wind.
"Link, I Am Your Father" is officially my favorite TFEB heading EVER.
The cast of One Shot sounds great, with the exception of the 5ft 6in actor, Tom Cruise, playing the 6ft 5in hero, Jack Reacher. Isn't Alexander Skaarsgard 6ft 5in? Will a great supporting cast mitigate the central vanity casting?
No, muted colours are not good for 3D. But, Nolan would most likely veto the decision if the colour palate was wrong for it. There's no reports of it being 3D. So I'd say not.