Sweet 16 Links: Colette, Noni, Gaga, and a Lynch Reunion
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 1:30PM Variety Keira Knightley in talks to star in the biopic about the French writer Colette. Crossing my fingers about this one. Colette is fascinating (she wrote Cheri!)
Comics Alliance on Marvel, politics, and why corporations are not your friend
Towleroad TitanMen has offered disgraced Congressman Aaron Schock (the one with abs and a Downton Abbey fetish) $1 million to star in a porn film. LOL
Variety Clive Owen, Alba Rohrwacher, and more join Meryl Streep's competition jury at Berlinale
Kenneth in the (212) Shirtless Russell Tovey reportedly causes a Broadway audience member to faint. Ha!
Pajiba checks in w/ the Trainspotting cast, 20 years on
i09 Naomi Watts reunites with Lynch for Twin Peaks S3
i09 Noomi Rapace not returning for the Prometheus sequel
IndieWire thinks "The Chickening," a short film remix of The Shining is insane and genius. Definitely the first part. As for the second...
Towleroad a first for ESPN, actor Matthew Wilkas (Gayby, You're Killing Me) labelled "Gus Kenworthy's Boyfriend" during the X Games
Coming Soon Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford (we ♥ her) has joined the cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show the next TV musical (though this one won't be "live")
Salon "Where are all the women in American Film?" a SAG-AFTRA member reviews her screeners
I had seen four films, 75 percent of which completely leave women out of the story. But maybe women really don’t feature in West African war zones. Or in the history of NWA. Or in finance.
But of course we feature. It just depends what story you want to tell.
TODAY'S WATCH
Lady Gaga performering her and Diane Warren's Best Original Song nominee "Til It Happens To You" at the PGA Awards
LEFTOVER SUNDANCE BUZZ
Variety 19 breakthrough performances from the festival
Film School Rejects talks to the cast and filmmaker of the LGBT Korean-American drama Spa Night
The Guardian Oscar buzz from the fest including Manchester by the Sea, Ira Sach's Little Men and Rebecca Hall as Christine
TODAY'S MUST (LONG) READ
"Winona Forever" by Soraya Roberts for Hazlitt. It's a great history of the star's youth and her sudden generational iconhood. And how we've trapped her adolescence ever since.
Winona Ryder arrived at the perfect time. Film scholar Timothy Shary characterizes the teen genre as “cyclical.” Ryder’s first film, Lucas, was released at the end of the hyper-hormonal Porky’s era (AIDS and teen pregnancy ruined it for everyone), five years before the release of Boyz N the Hood. In the period between 1986 and 1990, during her teen career, there were about 250 American films about adolescents, the most memorable being nostalgic thefts of innocence such as Dirty Dancing (1987), Hairspray (1988) and Dead Poets Society (1989). Three of Ryder’s films—Great Balls of Fire, 1969, Mermaids—adhered to this theme. She was in a sweet spot: post sex-crazed, pre-violence crazed—the ideal landing pad for a wide-eyed alien.
“You’d be hard pressed to say who was an average girl in teen movies after the mid-80s,” says Shary. The Brats had moved on, and so had John Hughes (his last teen film, Some Kind of Wonderful, came out in 1987), though no one forgot about them. “[Hughes] showed that you could make sensitive teen films that didn’t have nudity that didn’t pander to the supposed teen sex urge,” Shary says. He thinks this was “a contributing factor in helping set up an actress like Winona Ryder who could come along in the later ‘80s and be taken seriously as a teen actress.” While Hughes muse Molly Ringwald pined for the rich guy, Ryder merely pined for herself...
It's a delicious read and for those of you who didn't live through the Depp/Winona years, a fine encapsulation of the generational fascination with their relationship.
Reader Comments (12)
RE: the swooning audience member at A View from the Bridge
Did no one notice the tell-tale odor of poppers in the theatre?
RE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fox
Isn't the New Orleans-set horror picture show The Passion ("with your host Tyler Perry") the next one?
RE: Lady Gaga
I'm more convinced than ever (after her Sound of Music medley, American Horror Story and PGA performances) that Ex Machina was a biopic about her early existence. Her rise to fame and current stardom is what happened after Ava escaped from the compound.
Why Keira Knightley? Colette was French?
I don't know it this is about young Colette, but they really should cast the magnificent Emmanuelle Devos in this role. She could play her from late 30's to late 50's.
Just got an FB update that says The Gaga will do a Bowie tribute at the Grammys. YEAH BABY!
Do we know yet if she will be performing her nominated song at the Oscars?
@brooksboy - I hope we see some British stars be part of a Bowie tribute - Annie Lennox would be perfect (just one example).
I'm so grateful Keira Knightley is finally selecting a new film project, working with Stephen Wooley ("Carol", "Made in Dagenham") is a good sign. Colette is a fascinating subject - plenty there for a script.
I grew up in the 80's/90's the height of Winona love and to my neice who is 14 Winona is a legend,feel old.
So they want to boycott the Marvel because its CEO donated 1 million to Donald Trump ? Ha-ha-ha - Easier Marvel fans killing their own mothers than dropping their heroes and toys. And only now find out that corporations are not friends ? How old are you, twelve ? The men-children who sustain Marvel, DC Comics and all that care about racism, homophobia, sexism, xenophobia, really? I always thought these comics just celebrate this kind of thing.
Kimberly S. - Condescending and snobby. Just what we need more of.
Matthew Wilkas is so weird/funny in that first episode of Looking on the date with Patrick. "Are you drug and disease free?"
Gaga's song is so... obvious.
Wino Forever! I was more into Mary Stuart Masterson because I was born that way
Daniel Armour,
I am not saying that the idea of boycotting is wrong.
What I am saying is that the Marvel
fans would hardly join one that mean not to consume its products.
Also that the comics universe is not exactly the kingdom of diversity and political correctness - not that this can't be changed.
Kimberly S.- I don't disagree with what you're saying at all. I think the idea of any of us Superhero fans - via through the movies or books - boycotting is laughable. I also find it a bit hypocritical since most companies are lead by older white men with similar views, which would mean we'd have to boycott pretty much everything. It was the whole man-children thing that didn't sit well with me. I just get a little annoyed when I see hints of - or perceive - people looking down on others.
Daniel Armour ,
"Man-child" is how some comic books fans call themselves.
I didn't put in a bad sense. Not like a derogative term.