Link Block Tango
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:56AM HAPPY HANGOVER DAY. I kid I kid. I never drink on St Patrick's Day because who wants to be a cliche? I was too caught up in The Quiet Man but I also got stuck on a subway for hours. Oy so I'm off to a very late start today and last night's roundup post didn't go as well and I missed a few. So make sure to check that out again for all the updates. Definitely check out I/fwp because we always love it when we get a newbie set of eyeballs to this series, so here's a loving cinephile husband on this movie that he wouldn't have seen if not for his wife.
THE LINKS
W Magazine Alicia Vikander photoshoot by Willy Vanderperre. I'm so anxious to see her in Ex-Machina. Loved her breakout parts in Anna Karenina, A Royal Affair. Can she keep it up?
Playbill a new TV sitcom for Megan Hilty in which she plays a former Tony-winning musical star adapting to life as a soccer mom. Ummm... unless she sings every episode this will make me crazy
BBC wonders if sexual fantasy can be filmed looking at 50 Shades of Grey, The Duke of Burgundy, Eyes Wide Shut and more
A Fistful of Films looks back for his birthday to his formative films in this epic post. I love personal blogging like this
In Contention with Suffragette and The Danish Girl, will Focus Features on the forthcoming Oscar season?
Variety John Williams is not doing Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies due to a health issue "that's been resolved". But then why is he also not doing the new Star Wars (with Alexandre Desplat taking over). John Williams is 83 years old so this worries. Best wishes for a speedy recoveries.
The Dissolve looks at The Jinx and wonders why Andrew Jarecki's Robert Durst fascination worked so much better than it did back in All Good Things (2010). I didn't watch The Jinx because a) I'm not that into documentaries, b) I didn't like All Good Things and c) I'll miss Kirsten Dunst too much who was so excellent in Jarecki's first attempt at the story
Pajiba predicts the date of the end of the superhero craze. Ostensibly this post is about Jason Momoa and silly comic book wards
Variety on the Paley Center's celebration of the women in American Horror Story. Connie Britton and Kathy Bates quotes
Empire because Hollywood cannot leave the 80s alone we'll soon have a remake of that Roy Scheider helicopter movie Blue Thunder. This is not what that article is about but it's what we're always about: the one subsection of 80s hits that the studios don't seem to be mining for remakes are all the the actressy ones, you know the Goldie Hawn / Sally Field / Debra Winger / Kathleen Turner type blockbusters.
The Guardian on Disney's Princess franchise box office and the strong first weeks of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
cinematically insane on The Smartest Girl in Town (1936) and Pre-Code love (though this one isn't) in general.
MNPP celebrates Jai Courtney. Confession: My favorite part of Jai Courtney (and there are a lot of good parts) is Jai Courtney's nose. I was sad that it lived to smell no more after the plane crash in Unbroken.
MNPP actually Jason celebrates Jai Courtney twice over. But in this second link it's Jai Courtney celebrating Jai Courtney but Jai Courtney isn't focused on his nose. How many times do you think I can type Jai Courtney in this post? Jai Courtney.
Speaky of hunky deliciousness.. two more takeaways. The first is a new quad teaser poster for 007's next outing Spectre. Craig's first three outing got him in a bathing suit at least once. (Or wait, did Quantum of Solace skip that? -- if so, no wonder it's the worst of the three) but will Spectre?
Finally...
From the annual Broadway Backwards concert, which raised almost half a million dollars, an all male rendition of Chicago's classic "Cell Block Tango" -- Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!
My favorite is #17 the Spread Eagle but L-O-V-E the linguistic swish/switch-up to "uh uh" -hee!
Reader Comments (14)
I'm a bit obsessed with Ryan Steele, the "Cicero" in the "Cell Block Tango" number, after seeing him in "Five Dances," an otherwise dull film enlivened only by the amazing dancers. His spread eagle is amazing.
You should definitely watch "The Jinx." It flies by, and Durst is as far from Ryan Gosling as anyone could imagine. The way the doc slowly envelops itself around its protagonist is something I've never witnessed before on film. It's like "The Thin Blue Line" in reverse.
That lovingly felt piece in Fistful of Films really is wonderful and something we call can relate to. I still remember how as a youngster seeing The Towering Inferno in the theater turned me onto the infinite power of cinema. There's no other feeling like it.
Did you see La Blanchett on the Australian Vogue cover? Whether you are a fan or not II'm not) you gotta love it. Now I'll read your article. Maybe you mention/ed it.
What Raul said -- Ryan Steele, all kinds of dreamy in "Five Dances."
Nothing about Miss Viikander and her transparent Oscar lust? Tsk, tsk.
Oh no-I am not ready for a world without new John Williams scores. Get well soon!
Who cares about Daniel Craig? Give us Fiennes!
KT -- LOL. i shoulda mentioned that. I'm not sure Alicia knwos how it works since EX MACHINA and TULIP FEVER and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. are not the sorta films you make if taht's your goal ;) (okay maybe Tulip Fever if it turns out much better than it should)
It's worth noting that if Williams gets nominated for The Force Awakens he'll officially be at 50 nominations, the second person to hit that milestone.
"Blue Thunder" ?!
Williams is doing the score for The Force Awakens but most people suspected that he wouldn't do the spin-offs, so a new composer - in this case Desplat - doing Rouge One isn't a big shock. Sad to hear he won't be doing Spielberg's film, though. Hope Williams has a speedy recovery.
Nat: Well, Ex Machina was GOOD (Good movies, regardless of genre, build up good will that could be the difference if it's a choice between her and someone else for slot 5 some time. See also: Cotillard sneaking in over Aniston) and she's also the other lead of The Danish Girl.
Nathaniel: One important typo in this round-up: when you typed that Quantum of Solace is the worst of the three, I know that, as a man of exceptional taste, you mean to type 'best'!
(I can never pass up a chance to talk up that underrated movie!)