Links: Dujardin Sings, Madonna Votes, Camp Dies
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:00PM Cats on Film Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) as experience by Jonesy the ginger tom.
New York Observer Good piece on 'the death of camp' and the new Broadway musical TV series "Smash" (which I do mean to write about soon).
Socialite Life teaser for Season 5 of True Blood. Ugh. If it really is about the return of King Russell, I think my love for the show will die. Repetition is so dangerous for good television and the show FINALLY wrestled its way out of the endless Sookie/Bill/Eric loop.
Empire Online has their annual "Done in 60 Seconds" competition. One minute amateur films spoofing on famous movies. Watch some and vote! Film Experience reader Jack made #20 on The King's Speech. Congrats for making the semi-finals, Jack! I haven't had the chance to watch any of this yet but they're 60 seconds long. I can squeeze a few in.
Boy Culture Magic Mike's Matt Bomer and Joseph Mangianello were friends in college (who knew?) and give great advice for male cast bonding.
Serious Film top 10 overlooked performances of the year
Antagony & Ectasy doles out The Antagonists. I live for personal ballots. They're so much more interesting than consensus nominations. Yeah, yeah. I know I need to finish my awardage.
Vulture Best TV news ever? Shirley Maclaine joining the cast of Downton Abbey!
The WOW Report Channing Tatum signin' autographs and looking good
24 Frames Madonna's vote for Best Picture (yes, she's an AMPAS member) sounds like it's going to The Tree of Life. Who knew?
I think it’s a spiritual, deeply profound movie. My mouth was hanging open the entire time I was watching it"
Flavorwire Harvey Weinstein's own take on The Artist. You win no points for predicting that he loves it!
Focus on Women's Filmmakers has a Streep Oscar Chart that plays into all of my biggest pet peeves about awards season including the implict suggestion that it's wrong that she's the only thing ever recognized from her movies (um, what if the movies aren't good?) and including my #1 pet peeve, suggesting that she was the supporting actress in several movies. The modern awards campaign circus has completely destroyed collective understanding of narrative and now if you aren't the movies POV , you suddenly aren't a lead? Soon people will be --- NO, I CAN'T. MUST STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS TOPIC EVERY YEAR. [Breathe, Nathaniel. Breathe]
Guardian Awww, happy face. The original Eponine and Jean Valjean are joining the cast of Les Misérables... albeit not in their starring roles.
Jean Dujardin sings after the jump!
I love the way he reacts to Scott Feinberg's list of Oscar statistics (I think that's Scott talking). It's the only proper way to react to statistics when you're one of them. [src]
Reader Comments (15)
That is a very creepy picture of Madonna...
Has Dujardin's boy band history been linked yet?
http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/comments/merde-the-artists-jean-dujardin-was-in-a-french-boyband.php
Is there anyone out there who doesn't find Dujardin adorable? I hope it stays this way forever!
I don't understand the point of the Streep Oscar chart.
And good for Shirley MacLaine. Love her. And Maggie.
Oh no you Shirley McLaine'nt!! (sorry - that's really bad...)
That Oscar chart on Streep is ridiculous .... she was supporting in Deer Hunter,Kramer, and Adaptation... period.
As you say, Dujardin's did well when faced with that statistics, especially since the person mentioning it got it wrong - Boyer was not nominated once but four times.
@fbh
The boy band was just for fun it's not a real one. It was to mocking the real boys band. Sorry for my englsh, I'm french...
Casting Wilkinson in Les Mis is a nice touch, it was the first musical I ever saw as a kid in Toronto and he was playing Valjean in the production, more than 2 decades later and I still remember it and him in it.
That Streep chart. oh dear.
Thanks for the shout-out Nat! :)
Everyone, I need your votes in the Empire competition. Please vote for "The King's Speech".
http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/diss/default.asp#vote
That is all ;)
Oh dear indeed!
If a leading performance requires that character to have the primary POV so there could only be ONE leading actor per film. Ridiculous.
What you can say about all the performances at hand is: If it was not Meryl Streep producers would have tried to sell her as Supporting; but it would have been category fraud. Plain and simple.
She shares the spotlight with Renee Zellwegger in One True Thing. And I bet at the time they went Supporting for Renee. We could say that Hurt was not Lead.
Same with Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada.
Same with Amy Adams in Julie and Julia. In this case I believe Streep had more scenes than Adams and her character is richer than Adam's Julie.
Well, I do agree with the chart lady on The Devil Wears Prada. At the very least, it makes no sense (real sense, not Oscar sense) that Meryl was nominated for Leading in Prada and Cate for Supporting in Notes on a Scandal the same year. Even Hudson had probably more screentime than Meryl. I understand that not everybody only counts screentime on this matter, but still.
I can;t imagine how Meryl is not the lead of TDWP, the whole film is about how her character affects everyone, she drives the story just as much as Anne's character. Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are the supporting actors in that film, not Meryl.
I guess for me, the dealbreaker is: if you're onscreen for clearly less than half of the film AND someone else is onscreen for most of the film (and Hathaway is basically in every scene), you're supporting. I respectfully disagree with the "affect" approach - after all, a character may only have one scene and still have a huge impact on everyone.
Jan there is an argument to be made for both I guess, but I don't think screen time is the end all and be all for me, though I can see how it can be. Do you think Anthony Hopkins is the lead or supporting actor of Silence of The Lambs, he is in what 20 minutes of the whole film? But I just can't think of him as a supporting character as he is so larger than life and memorable in those few scenes. I think of Rachel Weisz as a co-lead in The Constant Gardener and she is (SPOILER) gone from the last half of the film , etc
Clearly Nathaniel, you MUST keep writing about the lead/supporting issue ;)