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Monday
May162016

It has recently come to my attention... that I enjoy link roundups

The Toast has a hilarious rant about Sebastian Stan's hair in Captain America Civil War
Variety details beginning to emerge on Lars von Trier's serial killer drama The House that Jack Built. (Sounds typically overly complicated as befits von Trier's masochistic working methods)
/Film visits ILM to see "groundbreaking" effects work on the forthcoming Warcraft
Variety Warner Bros already planning a Harley Quinn movie for Margot Robbie. Exactly how many superhero films will we get before Marvel ever dares one?
Tracking Board Jenny Slate reuniting with her Obvious Child director for a comedy called Landline co-starring Edie Falco and John Turturro
People Sad news: James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff divorcing after nine years of marriage
Women and Hollywood Laura Dern and Ellen Burstyn starring together in The Tale about a middle aged woman coming to grips with sexual relations she had at 13 with adults - sounds compelling!
Guardian Juliette Binoche on gender in film and disappointment that Scorsese & Spielberg don't feature female leads - disheartening but not totally surprising that Spielberg cites The Color Purple, a film he made 31 years ago, as proof he doesn't have a problem with lack of interest in female characters
The Playlist Another strike against Marvel - they forced a sex change on the villain in Iron Man 3 because they wanted to sell more toys
Variety Madeleine LeBeau, last surviving cast member of Casablanca, has passed away 

Other Showbiz...
THR Broadcast television's upcoming slates - cancellations, surprises, moves, etcetera
Boy Culture we were just celebrating Truth or Dare's 25th anniversary and now we hear that Donna & Niki, Madonna's once longtime backup singers have released a new version of "Rain" 
MNPP Milo Ventimiglia's Ass gets top billing in new TV series "This is Us" 

Today's Must Read
This new profile on Chloë Sevigny by Xan Brooks at the Guardian has been getting a lot of attention for its provocative pullquote on her "disdain for auteurs" but the whole article is interesting.

Photo by Jody Rogac for The Guardian.

Of special interest is her candid conversation about her 90s 'it girl' years in indies.

When Sevigny was Oscar-nominated for her turn in the 1999 indie drama Boys Don’t Cry, as the girl with whom Hilary Swank falls in love, it looked as though mainstream stardom might be hers for the taking. Sevigny scoffs when I say this; she doesn’t think anything is “there for the taking”. But the fact remains that she turned down the sidekick role taken by Selma Blair in Legally Blonde (“which might have made me some money”) and a raft of similar offers. “A few little things like that, more comedic, and it probably wouldn’t have hurt to have done them.” She wrinkles her nose. “But I was very purist back then.”

She also reveals that she really wanted Uma's part in Nymphomaniac and prefers working in television to film now.

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That bit about the rats in the Chloe interview is an amazing window into her psyche. I love her. I hope Drew Droege read the interview. All kinds of fodder for his next video in there.

May 16, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterKieran Scarlett

Hoping the Dern vehicle isn't an endurance test about what audiences will accept in recreating a teenager in sexual situations with adults.

May 16, 2016 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

Rebecca Hall as the Mandarin.... now that would've been even more interesting. Especially for the fact that she and Gwyneth would have the ultimate bitch fight with Tony Stark watching in horror but also excitement.

May 16, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterSteven

The Juliette Binoche piece is good. Ditto a recent Vanity Fair article about Almodovar working secretly with Streep to conjure up a film that he ended up shooting in Spanish.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterTom Ford

Thanks for the heads up Tom. It frustrates me to no end he is obsessed with Streep. It also bothers me he has not bothered once to utilize black Spanish characters. Grace Jones, Lupita Nyong'o, and Phylicia Rashad are fluent in Spanish. He could build an amazing movie out of a perspective rarely explored in Spanish cinema.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

Reminder that Anne-Marie is an extremely talented, under-used actress. She pops more than anyone in the dull Suffragette, gives a vibrant, complicated performance in Nowhere Boy, was utterly heartbreaking in The Magdalene Sisters, and absolutely demolishes Cate Blanchett with her portrayal of Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen. McAvoy to his credit had said he knows he's the less talented of that duo.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterKate

Aw, thanks for posting the Sevigny article--she is still the coolest kid on the block. Wish I was in town when she had her sale because I ALWAYS stay in the East Village when visiting NYC. Come back, Chloe!

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPam

Nat: 1. So, since he didn't cite The BFG, that probably means Spielberg is going to support a "supporting" (ew) campaign for Ruby Barnhill. 2. Shane Black does mention that how Marvel is set-up NOW isn't going to do that again.
Steven: Watching it, I always thought Guy Pearce was barely being directed in the last stretch of the movie. Now I know why: They didn't WANT him as the main villain.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

Kate: Not that overshadowing Cate Blanchett in either Elizabeth movie is hard. She's not THAT focused on in the first (though she's the title character her role in #1 ultimately isn't that much larger than Geoffrey Rush's, honestly) and is far too hammy in the sequel. Seriously, I know the "respectable" choices seemed slim that year, but, in order of respectability: Naomi Watts in Eastern Promises? Charlize Theron in In the Valley of Elah? Michelle Monaghan in Gone Baby Gone? Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd? Amy Adams in Enchanted? Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray? Jenna Fischer in Walk Hard? All better performances than Blanchett in Elizabeth 2.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

The misogynist comments section on that Binoche articles is so depressing.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterRami

Rami, right after I read the article the first thing I warned myself not to do is visit the comments section. Apparently, when women, minorities, and members of the LGBT community demand greater visibility in media, the bigots take that as some threat to their existence. I applaud Binoche for calling Spielberg and Scorsese on their mess and like her more with everything I read about her.

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterTroy H.

And here I thought it was impossible for Binoche to be even more awesome

May 17, 2016 | Unregistered Commentergoran
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