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Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 2:06PM NYT Amanda Peet on why she doesn't read reviews
Variety Ron Howard to produce and direct much discussed political book Hillbilly Elegy. A very odd fit if you ask us, since Howard is skilled at broad-stroked popcorn pictures, not nuanced thematic drama
NYT Radley Metzger, erotic cinema pioneer (The Lickerish Quartet, Score) has died at 88
Shadowplay looks back at Joan Crawford in Torch Song with some notes on Feud
Interview Mag talks to Pilou Asbaek (A War, Ghost in the Shell)
MNPP John Waters still making trouble onscreen and in print
Theater Mania Provincetown's got an amazing lineup of concerts this summer including Sutton Foster and Megan Hilty
Coming Soon Some Scarlet Witch action from the Avengers: Infinity War set. It's always amusing to see how strange these things look before visual fx
i09 reviews the direct to video animated feature Teen Titans: Judas Contract, based on the classic 80s storyline
Cinematic Corner the best and worst of 2016. Yes, it's still okay to post these. I know I need to finish up some categories in the film bitch awards
Finally, please do check out the Pulitzer Prizes for 2017. Winners and finalists have been announced. Nothing movie or TV related this year among the winners except, eventually, the fiction winner Underground Railroad, which is Barry Jenkins next project as previously discussed. There are two theater related winners so congrats to Lynn Nottage who is the first black woman to win two Pulitzers for Drama (her new play "Sweat" which stars Feud and The American's Alison Wright alongside Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson) and to Hilton Als of the New Yorker for his theater criticism. Among the finalists that didn't win is one worthy voice for movie lovers: Ty Burr of the Boston Globe was honored with 10 of his columns noted.
Reader Comments (5)
Nothing movie or TV related this year among the winners
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (winner for fiction) is being adapted by Barry Jenkins for Plan B as a streaming miniseries.
Enjoying your links today.
Loved Pilou in Borgen. Wished it would show up on Netflix; more people need to see it.
Hillbilly Elegy is a great book. Highly recommend. So is Underground Railroad (thanks @3rtful for the news re Barry Jenkins' adaptation)
Alison Wright was on one of the Slate podcasts recently, talking about Sweat and her other projects (she's a bit wasted in Sneaky Pete, but hopefully we'll see more of her in S2). She certainly tells it like it is. She also had some choice words about being a "character actress".
/3rtful & pam -- added. we'd already written about it but i forgot :)
"A very odd fit if you ask us, since Howard is skilled at broad-stroked popcorn pictures, not nuanced thematic drama"
Except he thinks he is great at the latter.
Thanks so much for the link! I was holding back on posting this to at least catch Hacksaw but still didn't find energy to check out Fences. So no Viola win there.