Miscellinkia: Beatty-ful Summer, Vampiric Tilda, Gamey Thrones,
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:00PM Links
Ultra Culture Cannes Abuse Checklist. An invaluable chart!
Boy Culture scores the first Val Lauren interview post Sal Mineo / James Franco casting.
Scanners Opening Shots: Woody Allen's Another Woman
IndieWire wonders if winning the Palme D'Or equals box office revenue. Well... it might if any Palme D'Or were released immediately after their win. But by the time they're released summer prestige glory is usually a footnote. Take Uncle Boonmee. No, it was never going to be a "hit" but wouldn't it have played better if it had a normal curve of buzz, release, discussion? Instead of opening 10 months later?
Tilda, Ezra and Lynne Ramsay at the WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN premiere
Movie|Line wonders if a slow burn favorite might win the Palme D'Or instead of The Tree of Life. Cannes Jury predictions crack me up each year because everyone assumes its done deals (just like the Oscars)... but it's often far from predictable.
Towleroad GLAAD Awards. Kim Cattrall's acceptance speech is quite funny. 'I played a gay man on a popular tv show'
Slash Film Tilda Swinton and Michael Fassbender for a Jim Jarmusch vampire flick? Curious and possibly awesome. I guess this means that Countess movie with Tilda isn't happening though. I can't see her doing two vampire films in a row.
Film Doctor steals notes froms the Mrs for Bridesmaids
Gagging on Game of Thrones
I know that my initial impression of HBO's Game of Thrones was far less favorable than most critics and fantasy fans, but can I at least get an amen that the casting of both "fourth in line" Renly Barantheon and his lover The Knight of Flowers, who are often described in the book as intensely charismatic, is terribly off. The casting does not reflect either The Knight of Flowers legendary beauty or Renly's reputation as the most charming fellow in the Seven Kingdoms. They both come across as whiny slightly-bitchy wimps which is about a 180 from the books wherein The Knight is someone you'd NEVER want to meet on a battlefield he's so deadly physically and Renly is someone everyone wishes were king. I really am not pleased with this. And I did not to hear those campy sound effects for well, MOVING ON... But I'll admit that for all my reservations, the series is hooking me just like the first novel did. That first novel was so brilliantly plotted but I really must stop watching this before it goes off the plot horse never to remount in any subsequent books or, uh, seasons as the new case may be.
A Beatty-ful Summer
Tonight in New York City at 92 Street Y, elusive actress/writer/director Elaine May will be showing her cut of the infamous 80s flop Ishtar starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. May will discuss the movie afterwards which she rarely does. I'm totally going. Tickets are still available. And then in June, the man himself will be appearing at a Dick Tracy screening in Los Angeles to discuss the movie. Tickets for that are $30 but it's a rare opportunity to hear Beatty talk about his work and see that comic flick on the big screen. If I were in LA, I wouldn't dream of missing it. But then I have an unheathily attachment to Beatty and his Mrs.
Cannes, Dick Tracy, Elaine May, Game of Thrones, Ishtar, Kim Cattrall, Tilda Swinton, Warren Beatty, casting
Reader Comments (7)
In re: Game of Thrones, I cannot attest the accuracy of the casting as I have not read the books, although I personally find Renly just fine. As in... FINE. The other one, though... no. Just no.
If I was not in rehearsals for a show opening in two weeks I would SO be at that Ishtar screening. Will you report back to us? I am dying to hear what Ms. May has to say about the film, and how her cut differs from what ended up getting released.
ALSO, everyone should know that Criterion is releasing Lee Chang-Dong's Secret Sunshing on DVD and Blu-Ray in August! I am so excited to finally be able to see this amazing performance by Jeon Do-yeon that was raved about here so much.
denny -- i will definitely report back.
So agree with you, Nat, on the casting of Renly and Loras in AGOT. I've read all the novels and am a fan of the HBO show, but the producers so screwed the pooch with choosing these two actors. Both Renly and Loras are suppose to be not just fine, but Super Fucking fine, and unfortunately neither of these actors are good looking enough or charasmatic enough to fit the roles.
Loras is suppose to be a badass knight, strong and skilled and hot. The actor that plays that character is too scrawny, not good looking enough, and had back acne (acne on his back) to boot! Shit, it's fucking laughable because at one point in the scene which you screen capped above, he says that he's been practicing swordfighting since the age of 4. Ha! If he did that, he should be ripped with an athletic build, not some scrawny scarecrow of a boy that looks like a strong gust of wind could blow over. Hell, the actor that plays Theon Greyjoy has more a ripped build than this dude.
Renly of the books was a handsome, dashing, kind and charasmatic guy, which a lot of people genuinely liked and followed. He was also a decent knight in his own right, and could acquit himself accordingly at tourneys...etc. This HBO AGOT Renly freaks out at the sight of blood and is a boring bureaucrat.
Epic fail, HBO.
And btw, apologies for the rant. But you'd see much worse at a lot of AGOT websites...
I have a feeling Tilda and Fassy onscreen will be potentially explosive. In a good way. And as vampires? Directed by Jim Jarmusch? This movie cannot be in my life soon enough.
Nate, I know you're a ride or die Meryl Streep Stan, but could you create a special place just to post pictures, quotes, and news about Saint Tilda?
Agree on AGOT casting...I don't mind Loras being less-than-pretty, but I should not be asked to believe that that scrawny guy took down The Mountain That Rides in the tourney.
I really want to like this show, but it still has a lot of "staged reading of the book" moments that destroy its momentum, which just kills me because the source material was so gripping (esp in Book 1). Still, it's better than most other fantasy adaptations out there.
I've just read in a review that the idea for Von Trier's Melancholia came from some letters he exchanged with Penélope Cruz where she told him she wanted to play Genet's The Maids, but that as he doesn't work with material from other people, he wrote Melancholia. I hope that he wasn't joking and that it's true. I want to see those letters!!
How strange it must be to give birth to an idea and then not be part of it? Ah, show business!