Links: Herzog, Björk and Novaks (Kim & Djokovic)
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 8:00AM 
The Lost Boy Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams is just a few days away from joining the top gro$$ing documentaries club.
JobMob check out what some celebrity acting resumes look like
Sociological Images Some off flick backstory on that DDT spray scene in The Tree of Life. I wanted to soak in that scene, didn't you?
Tom Shone Terminator 2 turns 20 years old this week. What a stroke of genius casting Robert Patrick was.
Old Hollywood great my-how-time-changes-things quote from Kim Novak on the initial failure of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Movie|Line Remember those omnibus films celebrating Paris and New York. It's official: Sydney, I Love You plans to move ahead in early 2012
The Wrap looks at the reasons that the superhero crop of 2011 isn't really delivering as expected at the box office.The last sentence, though, is an unintentionally hilarious negation of the 'there's too many of these' thesis statement. It goes like so...
The good news for the box office: New installments of Batman and Spider-Man are due out next summer, with fresh incarnations of Superman and Iron Man following soon after.
off cinema
The Daily Beast backstage at Men's Fashion Week
Low Resolution ranking the hotness of Wimbledon men
Slant reviews Björk's new single "Crystalline". I love this bit:
Bjork's most esoteric album to date, 2004's Medúlla, is also among her best, and so my policy is to indulge Mrs. Matthew Barney in all pretensions so long as the music works.
Reader Comments (8)
Kim Novak: ..this feeling that I’m supposed to do something, to mean something.
(Story of my life)
Novak Djokovic: I want to have sex with James.
(OK I made that up)
James -- combining the two would totally work. Doing that something would totally mean something ;)
My boyfriend had told me stories years ago about running behind DDT trucks when he was a little kid, so when the images of that popped up in the Tree of Life trailer he was very very excited by it. He still hasn't seen the movie but I think because of connections to its imagery like that he'll end up liking it more than I did.
I've got to go back and listen to Medulla some day. I didn't try very hard with it, it sorta got tossed to the side. I do love Bjork so otherwise.
JA -- i'm not sure i tried hard with Medúlla either... partially because enjoying one of its singles felt like enough for the acapella experience, you know? But i have all her CDs so they're at the ready should i need them.
I do think Vespertine and Volta are underrated.
Verspertine isn't underrated.
Sydney, I Love You would be great if Justine Clarke and Claudia Karvan get to showcase the same magic that they have on their respected TV shows. OH, and a Judith Lucy segment could near steal the whole movie!
A lot of fellow Bjork fans like to site Homogenic as her best effort and it is a rather flawless album but I'd have to go ahead and agree with the Slate reviewer and site Medulla as her best work. Hugely challenging, greatly innovative, beyond ambitious and heavily rewarding with multiple visits, it's one of the best from the 00s, period.
I basically agree with the review too, the fantastical last minute of "Crystalline" makes me excited finally for the album.
Re: Sydney, I Love You
At first I let out a big EH (New York was kind of a mess after Paris, Je T'Aime was rather great and even brilliant in parts) but then I read the article and got REALLY excited at the potential talent they can line up for this. Paging Jane Campion? Let's shoot for the stars here, producers. Plus, how cool would it be to see some Aussie heavy hitters finally sharing screen time together? Cate + Nicole, let's make it happen!