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Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7:10PM NY Daily News truly absurd photos of John Malkovich recreating famous images of Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, and less glitzy iconic art, too, like Piss Christ and American Gothic
Slate great piece on why we need less reboots and more original genre fiction - interesting points made that aren't just the usual bitching
Pink is the New Blog Channing Tatum inviting fans to be part of Magic Mike XXL
The Film Stage an interview with director Pawel Pawlikowski on his Polish hit Ida
Interview talks to the director of Wild Tales, which I loved at TIFF, Damián Szifrón
Shark Robot Avengers as cold cereal t-shirts. The best ones are clearly Thorrios and Loki Charms 'bifrosted!"
In Contention another reason to love Virginia Madsen besides that immortal wine monologue from Sideways - she loves the classic Network. She loves it lots
Variety Looks like it's Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch as the four leads directing by Justin Lin for True Detective Season 2. Vaughn is a crime boss, the rest are cops. I love Farrell but this does not excite me as much as the promise of Cary Fukunaga directing Harrelson, McConaughey and Monaghan but we'll see
Twitter ...if you must know my general feeling on Rachel McAdams
Variety Julie Delpy's next effort as a triple threat is a French language comedy called Lolo. She's asked the very funny actress Karin Viard to co-star
Awards Daily Freida Pinto's latest vehicle, Desert Dancer, will open the Santa Barbara Film Festival
Rope of Silicon Interstellar is Chris Nolan's longest film yet. This always worries me with directors. If your films get progressively longer it's often indicative of hermetically sealed bubble trouble. Or believing your own hype and forgetting about the actual story you're telling.
Coming Soon ... speaking of. New stills from the film
The Film Stage listen to the score for Gone Girl
NY Daily News Rumors abound that Quentin Tarantino wants Viggo Mortensen for Hateful Eight. So weird that no cast is in place yet given that we've already had a teaser
Today's Must Read/Watch
Extension 765 Steven Soderbergh is goofing around with Raiders of the Lost Ark - it's now a black and white silent - to teach film staging
I value the ability to stage something well because when it’s done well its pleasures are huge, and most people don’t do it well, which indicates it must not be easy to master (it’s frightening how many opportunities there are to do something wrong in a sequence or a group of scenes. Minefields EVERYWHERE....
Oh and remember that time when people were talking up a Costume Design nomination (which of course didn't happen) for Fantastic Mr Fox? Now there's coverage of the costumes for The Boxtrolls. Hey costume designers are needed on stop motion films.
Awardage
In Contention Casting Society of America nominations and honors. The weird part is that Rob Marshall who just generally casts big stars whether or not they're right for musicals, is being honored. But on a happier front, for the TV Pilot honors Looking was nominated and that show was definitely well cast.
Variety The Cinematographer's Guild are honoring a handful of folks too
P.S.
I had myself a final getaway last weekend to Fire Island before I am chained to the computer and Oscar coverage for the next four months. While I was there I met Robert Chang who was a lot of fun and we argued* about this article he wrote on Hunger Games and Gary Ross's use of breaking the 180 line. It's an interesting argument but it personally drives me crazy when directors break rules largely because they can. It always looks sloppy to me. Still the argument is interesting that it's only used for emotional reasons rather than action reasons which is where you usually see it. What'cha think? Maybe if there was only that and the action sequences were actually well filmed I'd like it.
* I know you're probably not supposed to debate film theory when you socialize with the gays on Fire Island but I am who I am.
Reader Comments (13)
I remember when McAdams was suppoed to be our new our new Julia/Meg/Sandra/Reese.
I think maybe there was a moment when I was excited about Rachel McAdams, but it's been so long that I can't even remember when or why. Where do you actressexuals stand on her these days?
mark - I also remember when Lindsay Lohan was to be one of our brightest stars.
It's sad but McAdams never seemed to improve on her breakthrough. She got a break here and there but they never catch on. When the best things you've been in for the last 10 years were the Sherlock Holmes movies and Midnight in Paris, you know you got some thinking to do.
She worked with Allen, Corbjin and Malick and all of them gave her zero to nothing to do. Then she entered a series of flops which sounded good on paper (Morning Glory, State of Play, The Time Traveler's Wife) but got nowhere. She was bad in the de Palma one and in About Time, Domhall ran circles around her.
I have hope that Wim Wenders will get her mojo back (since I can't believe Crowe has another Jerry Maguire in store and McCarthy is hit and miss). Or maybe Fuqua and Gylenhaal will.
* I know you're probably not supposed to debate film theory when you socialize with the gays on Fire Island but I am who I am.
Beats discussing GaGa's latest haircut or who is really responsible for that nasty strain of clap everyone denies having.
Interstellar is getting raves from those that have seen it. Keep up, Nate.
McAdams has starred in one too many sappy romance and it shows in every performance she gives
That's why my favorite recent McAdams role was in De Palma's Passion. But she was pretty much playing an older Regina George. So yeah, she needs to do more of those types of roles.
I think Malkovich just streamlined the auditioning-for-biopics process.
It's a shame that the Academy mostly wants to honor movies with gaudy CGI in the visual categories these days and ignores stop motion animation, especially in Best Production Design. 2009 must've been the most disappointing year in that regard - they didn't even nominate Fantastic Mr. Fox or Coraline, but gave the award to the garish Avatar. (It's also hugely disappointing that Up won Best Animated over both of them, but that's another topic.)
Tr - i do not read reviews before seeing films. And early reviews of such things are ALWAYS raves. So it means nothing until a wider selection of people see it. ;)
The new cast of True Detective is boring as hell.
I hate when filmmakers jump the axis but only when it happens randomly (or is unmotivated). As for Interstellar's rumored running time; I really enjoyed TDKR and I didn't feel it dragged but I'm always a little cautious about any movie approaching three hours (LOTR, GWTH and a few others being the exception). Hell, hearing that Gone Girl is over two and a half hours makes me a little hesitant. In saying that, I trust in Nolan and believe it will be worth it, so I say bring it on!
Anne Hathaway is skuper talented but loses me when she say things like, "I am so excited for the world to receive this film, because there's going to be a new conversation I believe will happen because of it." Who talks like that? It's so...rubbish.