The Link Jar
Friday, July 22, 2016 at 5:00PM NewsTalk How Cartoon Saloon became a major draw and how those Oscar nominations helped
Playbill Stephen Schwartz says Wicked (the movie) will have several new songs. Geez, it already has a ton of songs. I guess he wants that Oscar.
MTV Frankie & Johnny is Garry Marshall's best film
Variety Idris Elba responds to those endless Next James Bond rumors
Coming Soon Star Wars: Episode VIII (as yet untitled) wraps production. It's due in theaters in December 2017 as these things take time in Post-Production
The Playlist the teasers for all the new Marvel/Netflix TV series: Iron Fist, Defenders, Luke Cage
Towleroad an interview with the stars of Looking
Comics Alliance Wonder Woman gets her own US postage stamps for her 75th anniversary this year
AV Club Brie Larson spoils Room for dumb people on Twitter
The Retro Set looks back at Judy Garland in her final film I Could Go On Singing (1963)
The Guardian celebrates the five great screen moments for Penelope Wilton (of BFG & Downton Abbey fame)
EW Justin Timberlake talks about his theme song to the upcoming Trolls movie
Finally....
I was going to write a piece about Kirsten Dunst choosing to direct the feature film adaptation fo Sylvia Path's famous novel "The Bell Jar" with Dakota Fanning in the starring role. But Indie Wire's Kate Erbland beat me to it and said basically everything I wanted to say. I love this part.
Dunst’s ability to dive deeply into depression was not just confined to her work in “The Virgin Suicides,” she also captured rich, worldly ennui in Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” and terrifying, world-ending fear in Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” for which she won Cannes’ Best Actress award... Even in her younger years, Dunst was uncannily able to translate bone-deep sadness to the big screen in fascinating ways, like she did as a child in “Interview With the Vampire.” And while most fans of Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” remain hung up on Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet’s work in the film (and rightly so), Dunst’s own subplot about lost love (and lost memories) is one of the film’s most heartbreaking elements.
My only fear here with this project is that it's too on the nose for Dunst. Like Terry Gilliam's desire to make a Don Quixote Picture; haven't they already been making these pictures, figuratively speaking, for their whole careers?
Reader Comments (6)
Kirsten's best piece of screen acting was the mirror scene is All Good Things,if you've seen it you'll know the scene.
Bitch stole my project!
I love The Bell Jar for the prose, but the story itself is not that remarkable - so, the book will not make for a very interesting movie, I fear.
It's like Catcher In The Rye - people have tried to make that book into a movie for years, but it's unfilmable, because what makes the book so special is its prose, and you can't really put all of that beautiful 1st person narrative, all of Holden's thoughts, on screen - so, what you're left with is a story of an angry young man, and we've seen that movie one too many times!
It's riveting to be inside Esther Greenwood's head, but how do you film that?
How will Dunst film that? None of her short films are very good, is she even a good filmmaker?
Dakota Fanning is a good choice, though - she could make a great Esther.
Surely Frankie And Johnnie is Garry Marshall's best film - the Clair De Lune scene is magic.
I'm an ABFAB fan so I will pass this link on to any who share my addiction.
Go Fug Yourself covered all 6 seasons of outfits on Abfab. (Check out Bubble's as well)
http://www.gofugyourself.com/abfabtrospective-everything-patsy-and-edina-wore-on-absolutely-fabulous-07-2016
Penelope Wilton is a gem.
Schwartz has three Oscars already. How badly can he really want another?
I get the cynicism regarding new songs in "Wicked" ("I guess he wants that Oscar."), but Stephen Schwartz already has won two Oscars ("Colors of the Wind" from "Pocahontas" and "When You Believe" from "The Prince of Egypt"), and in the last fifty years, at least, "You Must Love Me" seems to be the only song written specifically for the movie version of a musical (in this case, "Evita") that actually won an Oscar. So yeah, there's that, LOL.