Interior. Link Post.
Monday, September 2, 2013 at 6:24PM AV Club what if you could hit "pause" on pop culture -- what would you catch up on?
Daily Beast an uninhibited interview with the stars of Blue is the Warmest Colour on working with "fake pussies" and watching the movie with their families
Glenn Dunks enters Interior. Leather Bar
Cinema Blend on Zach Snyder's continued defense of Man of Steel's insane body count -- which ruined the movie for a lot of people, my friends at Panel Culture included, because... seriously, what kind of hero is that?
Pajiba wants to get away from The Getaway
The New Yorker on the list as the signature form of our time "a comic nightmare of futile enumeration"
Ultra Culture on an important underreported piece of info from that Lars von Trier Uma Thurman Nymphomaniac clip
Awards Daily Sasha reviews Gravity which she calls a masterpiece. Here's the thing about festivals. They are both a blessing and a curse on the world. One wants to avoid the movies that have upcoming release dates but then you end up being the last person to see them -- i haven't read this for fear of spoilers I'm just saying a lot of reviews are out there now floating in space. How to resist seeing it at TIFF when there are movies that I'm much less likely to get the chance to see next month?
In Contention on a Marilyn Monroe Bruce Dern prophecy that's coming true with Nebraska
LA Times Jason Reitman's Labor Day premieres - sucks that it isn't in theaters now during, uh, Labor Day.
Oooh, Maggie is staring at you.
That's one version of the new poster for the 50th annual Golden Horse Awards. It looks like a delicious VIP ticket, yes? Basically Maggie Cheung's eyes are the selling point on each poster. The Golden Horse Awards are Asia's oldest film awards and still its most competitive. Nominations will be announced on October 1st and will see how well this year's hot titles like Stray Dogs, A Touch of Sin, and The Grandmaster do. The awards ceremony will be held in late November. Ang Lee, who has won two Golden Horses as Best Director (Lust Caution, The Wedding Banquet) and two Oscars for Best Director (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi), is president of the jury this year.
Reader Comments (19)
Saw Jason Reitman's Labor Day today and it is ho-hum but I agree that it should have been released this weekend.
I think we are now going to see a turn of tide with people preferring Telluride to Toronto. Even though this year was special (40th annual festival)...it's managed to steal everyone else's thunder. I never thought I would have seen Under The Skin, 12 Years a Slave and Prisoners here.
It's also a smaller number of films than Toronto so filmmakers would be less worried about their work getting lost in the crowd.
I also said the same exact thing you said about film festivals to a friend 10 minutes before I read it.
I'm so happy for Bruce Dern. Going lead is the honest thing to do even that means he might end oscarless.
Speaking of co-leads, the interview with Léa and Adèle is priceless.
Yeah, seriously? If you really can't get a movie called "Labor Day" ready BY THAT YEAR'S LABOUR DAY (Canadian), you PUSH BACK TO NEXT YEAR for that weekend serendipity magic.
Flick Appeal -- except for telluride is never going to have tha mass appeal because its so prohibitvely expensive. I mean they dont even let press in for free.
You know, I remember people like Sasha Stone getting sniffy about TIFF while acting like Telluride was some pure, art > commerce festival because it was where the cool kids hang while the commercialists in Toronto find another place besides Hollywood to pollute the industry. There are a lot of critics that I like who are there but there are also some annoying Oscar bloggers who seem to fail to separate a great movie from an Oscar movie, Sasha included (but at least she finally saw Blue is the Warmest Color and ended up liking it). I find the Venice word of mouth more interesting from both Guy Lodge and Neil Young among others. I think only Guy Lodge has brought up the Oscars once in his Venice reports but that was with a movie that did seem to exist only for awards purposes, Philomena. Nathaniel, I'm also seeing Gravity and I am avoiding reviews like the plague too.
Nymphomaniac looks messy but I definitely had the same reaction to 'The Whoring Bed' having possible inter-connected segments. Lars, even in messes, tends to make it fascinating. Uma looks great, and you wonder how much of her own personal experience with her and Ethan Hawke ending due to infidelity is conscious in that performance.
The Daily Beast article with Adele and Lea is amazing. Adele sounds like real fun but some of those quotes had they been made by American actresses in a Hollywood production would've melted the internet. Lea's from a family of major people in the French film industry and the conditions of that movie were felt not just by the actresses but the crew. You wonder how much Kechiche risks with those kinds of stories being made public, Palme d'or or not. Lea really had to slap Adele how many times?
That Daily Beast interview could not be more fun. Any interview that starts with both parties admitting to crushes on their cousins is clearly shooting for the stars.
Telluride is way more expensive than TIFF.
If I get wind of one person calling GRAVITY a masterpiece I'm going to test the power of gravity outside my apartment window.
Kurtis O--LOL. Have you seen it?
In defence of LABOR DAY... I mean, Labor Day is a notoriously terrible weekend to release a movie. Also, HALLOWEEN movies rarely ever open on Halloween (August has been the usual time, actually).
I totally get why they didn't want to premiere LABOR DAY on Labor Day since it is a tough movie weekend, but why not a couple weeks prior or even in the same month that the holiday takes place? I mean, to those who have seen it, does the Christmas release make ANY sense at all?
I don't think it is that big of a deal as Labor Day offers no connotation at all. The movie just happened to take place during that holiday. No one cared that Fruitvale Station wasn't released around New Year's.
kin -- than shouldn't they have changed the title? I mean i've even read the book and i'm still unclear why it's titled that way.
Went to the Telluride Film Festival for my honeymoon this year and had a great time although there's no way we could afford to go next year! y'all are right it's terribly expensive. I really liked Labor Day although it's a bit unrealistic. Loved Winslet. I do think the title could have been changed, but Reitman seems such a huge fan of the book, maybe it was to remain true to and be identified with Joyce Maynard's work or something. I promise I won't spoil anything, but I agree with Sasha: Gravity is a masterpiece.
the interview with Léa and Adèle is priceless.
@TB: No! It's just one of those festival films whose buzz is getting unavoidably deafening, and I want to plug my ears to the movie until I see it myself. Shut up consensus! (Not that I take Saha Stone seriously as a "reviewer" anyway; she's just the latest to jump on the pile.)
Sorry, that was supposed to be, "plug my ears to IT [the buzz] until I see THE MOVIE myself."
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