She's Just Not That Linked To You
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 10:38PM 24 Frames Carey Mulligan nervous about expectations surrounding The Great Gatbsy
Felix in Hollywood Liz, Judy & Monty together. Love this photo.
Hollywood News We Bought a Zoo early positive reactions
Interview Magazine Scarlett Johansson covers the December issue. You can't call it a comeback as she's never been away but will her new films revive her heat as an actor ? What'cha think?
Cracked Speaking of ScarJo. Remember when we were talking about the difference between the way male and female heroes are portrayed -- here's a new illustrated parody/reminder with The Avengers.
La Daily Musto Charlize Theron is a "director slut". Love this exchange.
Awards Daily a Q&A with Steven Spielberg post War Horse screenings.
Joblo a new role for Juliette Lewis in a thriller called Blood or Water
In Contention is there any revival coming for Nick Nolte's Best Supporting Actor chances for Warrior?
Adeilade Now good interview with Ryan Gosling who believes he thinks like a girl. I love the bit about returning to directors (Derek Cianfrance, Nicolas Winding Refn) with whom he's already had creative success.
I feel like I've been dating all these film-makers and now I just want to get married."
just 4 fun
Boing Boing a rollercoaster staircase. Whaaa? love.
Got two hours?
Here's Boyd Van Hoeij, a friend of ours and terrific critic, interviewing one of our favorite filmmakers Todd Haynes for a film festival "master class" at the XIIth Queer Film Festival Mezipatra in Prague. If you'd like to hear this conversation in podcast form you can do so over at Mezipatra's official site.
Carey Mulligan, ScarJo, The Great Gatsby, Todd Haynes
Reader Comments (8)
Tell Carey not to be apprehensive. There's no way the movie could ever equal the book, so there aren't any expectations. The best movies from books are generally from schlocky-but-good genre fare (e.g. Godfather, Carrie, Silence of the Lambs).
I really hope that this is the year Scarlett Johansson makes a comeback to acting rather than posing, or operating as a generic sex object. According to IMDB, she's in the next Jonathan Glazer film, and aside from the fact that Jonathan Glazer doing ANYTHING is cause for great excitement, a science-fiction think piece would be an interesting move for Scarlett.
On the Avengers poster front, does anyone remember Joss Whedon's very spirited take-down of the posters for trapped that sexualised Elisha Cuthbert's "death by sand." I'm sure this isn't his say-so, and more the studio's (at least I'm telling myself that since the trailer is hardly inspiring), but it's interesting.
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Good lord, what did they do to ScarJo? Someone with a heavy photoshop airbrush and a dislike of female sexuality has all but neutered her into some vague genderless tan blur.
Well, to be completely honest, I like the way Johansson's career is taking nowadays. I fell in love with her when I saw her in Lost In Translation and Girl With Pearl Earring, I saw (and I see) a natural acting talent waiting for a right role. I loved her work in Match Point, The Other Boleyn Girl and Vicky Cristina Barcelona and seeing her in such a good movie like The Prestige, but it seemed that she was stuck on "being sexy" and she didn't get meaty roles.
I think she realized she couldn't be seen as a sex-symbol forever (people get old), so she started putting her ACTING RECOGNITION back on track by taking the risk of doing Broadway. "We Bought a Zoo" may give her some awards recognition (maybe not an Oscar, but something she will get from a sucessful Cameron Crowe movie) and "Under the Skin" may be a great acting showcase for her (Glazer can pull great performance from his actors/actresses and since the movie is a "one woman show"...). Being part of "The Avengers" is a nice popularity move, btw.
Maybe people will start seeing her more as an actress and less as a body!
In my opinion, ScarJo isn't right for great ensemble movies, because she as no big chances to shine. She's a kind of actress who needs to have a camera focused on her... She's so natural, so subtle and she can be amazing when watched up close (do you remember Lost In Translation, Girl With Pearl Earring or A Love Song for Bobby Long, where you feel like watching her character's private moments?) - that's why she shined on Broadway: she was the center of the attentions.
I'm really curious to see her in "We Bought a Zoo", but specially in "Under the Skin" and the announced "Can a Song Save Your Life?"
Have you seen the part 3 of THR writers roundtable?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/video-award-season-roundtable-series-writers
Love Almodóvar's candid answer, "not now" and Sorkin's arrogance. I haven't found the entire video, but the director's was priceless, there were such big egos there, much more so than in the actress roundtable
The shot of her on all fours is one of the most awkward photos I've ever seen...