Link Breakers
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 12:00PM Port Magazine's film issue is guest curated by Daniel Day-Lewis and features Brendan Gleeson & Paul Thomas Anderson
AV Club every stammer in every Woody Allen movie. A 44 minute (!) supercut. Good lord.
Anderson Live even though I think it's kind of dangerous to let Anderson Cooper get any yummier, he has. Look, it's Anderson Coopcakes!
Blackbook what do you make of the new tv spots for The Great Gatsby. (I'm trying not to react as it's my favorite book of all time and I can't see it working as a film. Unless it's just completely it's own thing and borrowing the glory of the title.)
Paul Reese thinks Spring Breakers might be the best American film since Mulholland Dr
just for lolz
BuzzFeed 12 unanswered crazy-making questions about Disney's Beauty & The Beast
Spiral 16 scientific data confirms that "We Built This City" is the worstest song ever recorded.
Reader Comments (7)
I'm puzzled by your frequent assertions that The Great Gatsby won't work as a film. I finally read it last year (LOVED it) and the story felt very cinematic to me!
I want to eat Anderson Cooper...I meanhis cupcakes, Anderson Cooopers cupcakes
The Great Gatsby looks like a hot ass glorious mess and I can't wait to see it!
I'm not sure what I think about Spring Breakers, tbh.
I can't help but think that Gatsby is doomed. Mulligan seems so miscast. I hope I'm wrong. As bad as the Mia/Bob version is, I still can find terrific things in it.
I think The Great Gatsby looks visually stunning, but as much as I LOVE Baz Luhrmann, I just think his style doesn't really fit the somber melancholy of the novel. I would have chosen either Joe Wright or Tom Ford to direct, but maybe that's just me.
And DiCaprio is just too old to be playing Gatsby, especially in a world where Tom Hiddleston exists. I'm REALLY looking forward to Mulligan, Edgerton, and Fisher, though.
Gatsby looks pretty great. I hope Baz pulls it off.
I'm still processing Spring Breakers. I feel like I'd need to see it again to really settle my conflicting thoughts and feelings, but that would require me to actually watch it again, which I have exactly zero interest in doing. The use of color is pretty great, though. Those reds and pinks and greens!
Carrie is actually one of the few castings in this movie that I feel like was done right, though I probably would be singing a different tune had I not seen her in Shame. Maguire feels so miscast as Nick (I know him and Leo are buddies, but seriously) and Edgerton is physically wrong for the role of Tom Buchanan (I would say he was better fit for George Wilson but fellow Aussie and Zero Dark Thirty co-star Jason Clarke has the role and is a really good choice).
The Redford version is definitely flawed with some good things to it. It was beautiful, Mia was a good Daisy, Karen Black was excellent, Waterston was good. Bruce Dern felt very wrong for Tom Buchanan (again, oddly a better fit for Wilson), the Jordan Baker actress had no presence, and Redford's blankness actually felt like it could work in a better directed movie where the pacing did not feel so glacial. I think Coppola initially wanted to direct the movie with Brando as Gatsby but some obvious setbacks ($$$$) stopped that from materializing.
And I really liked Spring Breakers. I think it is satire but also equal parts absurd and sincere and also a re-fitted, modernized in gender politics, mythology story. I actually might see it again, mainly because I do enjoy being surrounded by a mixed audience either being really baffled and disturbed or really enjoying the ride.