Hey Girl, It's Link Time: Young Lars, Drunk Charlize, Best Pictures
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 9:37AM Grantland has Mark Harris (yay) on the four supposed Best Picture contenders we've seen thus far: Midnight in Paris, The Tree of Life, The Help and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two
Stale Popcorn loves the teaser poster for Young Adult and so do I. Isn't it the most... to say the least? Makes you want to "open it" right away and start reading enjoying.
My favorite detail is that Caldecott-like gold stamp, with Jason Reitman's credits on it. Gah, why can't all posters be this fuuuuunnnnn?
Vulture Did you hear Reese Witherspoon got hit by a car (she's fine). I knew this would rile her number one fan up! haha
24 Frames AFI Fest will open with Clint Eastwood's Oscar-buzzy J Edgar.
This video which I discovered at the WOW report, from WeHoGuy30, does a gay riff on Beauty & The Beast. "Bonjour Girl" ...very funny if you enjoy this sort of thing.
The Lost Boy Ricky Gervais is threatening to host the Golden Globes again live podcast during the Golden Globes ... with comedian friends including Louis CK sounding off on the Hollywood back-patting.
Broadway Blog interviews Jeff Calhoun who is helping to bring new versions of Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde to the stage. He also appeared in the 80s movie musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. And yes, he talks Dolly Parton.
Movie|Line Bad Movies We Love: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in The Main Event.
PopMatters on Contagion and this age of zombie epidemics and vampiric viruses and real world terror
Today's Must Read
Ultra Culture was gifted a copy of an old Swedish documentary on Lars von Trier called Tranceformer (1997) and shares five things he learned from it. Very entertaining. Why is Lars so entertaining? Why is Ultra Culture so entertaining? He just is. They just are. Incidentally, I just saw Melancholia which I'm still mulling over but it is an absolute must-see as there is much to discuss about it. Which we will do soon.
Reader Comments (13)
Melancholia opened here and I'm seeing it one of these days! I hope I love it! I don't have money to waste..
Ugh, I hate I have to wait ages to see al these movies. Luckily I'm going to 'film by the sea' on sunday and I will finally be able to see la piel que habito, drive and midnight in paris!
Melancholia is a complicated movie. I HATED some parts of it, but I found some sequences absolutely brilliant. I don't like his filmmaking choices anymore, like, for an example, music. You have the end of the world to show and the score is Wagner, again? So obvious. Some dialogues, too, are too in your face and maybe stupid. "Life is evil"? Really? That part really doesn't work - it's a moral lesson.
And how is life evil when there are people like Selma, Cvalda, Bess and Dodo? Life may be good, may be evil, may be both, may be neither. Lars don't see any grays anymore, at least when it comes to mankind as a whole. Most of the time this movie doesn't have any gray, it's just shallow philosophy.
Still I think the whole build-up to the end of the world, post-marriage is perfectly tense, dramatic, except when the parts try to theorize about it. Lars surely knows how to build unbearable tension.
That poster is too, too great, I hope it signals a move away from the dull designs that plague most films.
The German Oscar submission was announced today: Wim Wender's "Pina". It's a great film, but I honestly had no idea documentaries were even eligible in the Foreign Film category.
anna -- someone submits one almost every year on that 60 wide list. but to my knowledge none have ever been nominated.
unless you count WALTZ WITH BASHIR which some people do.
*pats her on the head* that's how you do it, bitch.
Its always good be get new and updated movie reviews as it is one of the most important part of our life, entertainment and fashion.Wether it to be a movie or a comedy all have its different place and importance.
I love to see comedic actors do a serious role. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Stranger Than Fiction are actually my favourites from those two actors. I admit I'm more of a comedic type, but the fact that they did them so well and so convincing I think made them my favourites.Quote of the Week a place to get all up dated Quots .
This poster is really great!
anna - I haven't heard about that Oscar submission before, but that's really cool, I like it!
My favorite part of that poster may be the $4.95 price tag at top right.
Poppy.... that's my favorite part ...(...because you see ♪ ♫ )