Linkopolis
Friday, May 11, 2012 at 4:00PM Movie|Line Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams take over for Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the insta-remake of Love Crimes (read my Ludivine interview) now dubbed Passion
Self Styled Siren and friends are hosting another For the Love of Film blog-a-thon (May 13th-18th) to raise money for a recently discovered fragment of White Shadow which was assistant directed by Alfred Hitchcock. I shall try to write a Hitchcock piece to join in.
NPR worries that James Cameron will be stuck on Pandora forevermore with Avatar sequels. I wouldn't worry. It takes him so long to make a movie, we'll be lucky if we get even two more narrative movies -- of any kind -- out of him.
Animation Magazine Guillermo Del Toro will be co-directing a new Pinocchio movie and presumably be given all the credit for it (sigh). His soon to be unsung partner will be the Fantastic Mr Fox whiz Mark Gustafson so this should look lovely.
Stale Popcorn is working on a 1994 retrospective and has already covered Reality Bites, Blink, and Nell... all movies I loved back in the day.
Hollywood and Fine has had its fill of Zooey Deschanel. Is she overexposed and overquirked now?
Pajiba proof that every rabbit in the history of cinema has been evil. Yes, even the boiled one in Fatal Attraction.
John August first person account of a year on the writing staff of Ringer. Interesting behind the scenes glimpse
Avengers Mania
The Atlantic terrific piece on Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow in The Avengers and the challenge of being a woman in male entertainments
THR The Avengers sequel confirmed (duh) so it's 3 solo sequels over the next two years (Iron Man, Thor, Cappy) followed by another group effort. Why not a Black Widow / Hawkeye movie just to keep things just a tad fresher? I know there are people clamoring for a third Hulk movie since he stole the show but there's a reason he stole it. It's called "leave them wanting more"... something Hollywood is not good with once something's successful.
Vulture times the six heroes to see who has the most screen time. They seem surprised by Black Widow's showing but I wasn't at all. It's Joss Whedon and he always makes room for strong women.
Cannes is Coming
In Contention Cannes Check Jeff Nichols' Mud (and the McConaughey Renaissance continues)
Little White Lies has predictions from four of their contributors. Good read. So much to think about.
The Playlist amazing photoshoot of Robert Pattinson styled after older Cronenberg movies like Dead Ringers and Videodrome.
Reader Comments (3)
I don't know whether to be scared or excited for the next Brian De Palma outing. On one hand, this is the man that made Carrie and introduced Michelle Pfeiffer to the world, on the other his last two films were Redacted and The Black Dahlia. But then on my newly sprouting third hand I really do like Rachel McAdams and I have missed her face at my local movie theater. And while I did like the original (go Kristen Scott Thomas!), I'm happy that he's not planning on doing a carbon copy of the original. So...this is a yes for me?
TB -- yeah, Love Crimes is not sacred ground. It's an odd movie in so many ways that could be improved upon. I think Black Dahlia is underrated personally so I'm hoping Passion is good.
Hawkeye isn't in The Avengers, only his exact opposite is. Played by the human swab.
And even though I think that Whedon handles Black Widow better than the other heroes, I can't take an article seriously that speaks of "a dozen other character arcs to wrap up in the film's two and a half hours". Um, there are no character arcs in The Avengers. No one in this film grows, changes, or develops. I assume that Banner's eventual ability to control both the transformation and the Hulk was intended as a character arc, but in Whedon's clumsy hands even this tiny attempt of character development goes by the board, cause Joss offers nothing but a nonsensical throwaway sentence to underline a major plot point. That's not an arc, that's stupidity.