In the Links
Friday, May 18, 2018 at 10:45AM • The New Yorker Kathleen Turner is singing... yes, singing, at Cafe Carlyle for a week or so. OMG I'd love to cover that for y'all but that place is pricey.
• Film School Rejects the troubled history of the film adaptation of Lin-manuel Miranda's In the Heights may finally be ending with Warner Bros snatching up the rights
• MNPP on the trailer for the art slasher flick Knife + Heart premiering at Cannes
• The Guardian thoughtful piece by Xan Brooks about provocative cinema, Cannes, and Lars von Trier in our new age of moralizing
• Playbill California readers take note. At the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Annie, Megan Hilty, Ana Gasteyer, and Lea Salonga star. Fun casting! And those voices!!
• Boy Culture Trinity Taylor makes over Nico Tortorella who now identifies as gender fluid, or as he says 'sort of cisgendered but not so... CISSY
• AV Club Jordan Peele producing a series set in the '70s about Nazi-hunting in NYC. What now?
• DListed obsesses over a strange Cannes moment with John Travolta and 50 Cent
• MovieMaker profiles Geena Davis's Bentonville Film Festival
• W Magazine interviews Brie Vinaite on her busy post-Florida Project life
• Film School Rejects "How Marvel Broke Storytelling" a good piece on exactly what the problem is with how they've trained audiences and deferred endings
• Playbill This is so heartbreaking. Just a few months ago Tony-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I) lost her daughter (to a driver who hit five pedestrians including Miles) and now due to complications from that tragic event she's lost her unborn child
• ExtraTV silly bro clip of Josh Brolin talking about his naked ad for Fish Love
Exit Video
Here's the trailer for the series finale movie of Sense8. Sad that this singular series from the Wachowski sisters and J Michael Straczynski is ending but glad we'll have closure.
Reader Comments (11)
The Bentonville Film Festival sounds really cool. It's great to see Davis really taking her values and purpose as far as they can go.
I know it seems silly, but I haven't been able to watch season 2 of Sense8 knowing it will reach a hurried conclusion. I must get my mind around this and watch it soon. Peak TV will make fickle fools of us all.
Ruthie Ann Miles's loss is so unimaginable. My heart breaks for her and her husband.
I've heard they have to mop the floor after she sings Send in the Clowns.
That Guardian piece is so bad. It's the right wing equivalent of a bro exclaiming "but mah free speech" while seemingly missing the problem at heart.
I second Raul's comment about Ruthie.
AlexD -- you think so? I don't think there's anything wrong with wondering about the place of provocation in art and free speech in an age where people are offended so quickly. I actually think it's something we'll keep having to grapple with as a culture (one person's art has always been another person's garbage)... and "safe" art, where the artist strives to not offend anyone, can often be boring art or art that just preaches to the choir -- (this is simplifying things and kind of a tangent but It's kind of the reason nobody watches network tv and everyone turned to cable.)
It's always been this way but lately this divide has been thrown into sharper relief. Or maybe I just don't understand what crimes Lars von Trier has committed exactly since he's always made intermittently offensive art and has always been grappling publicly with mental illness and misogyny (depiction not necessarily being endorsement and all of that). And he's always been trolling the public in his interviews and movie promotions so it's alarming to me that people still take what he says at face value.
Sawyer -- i get that. I have chosen NOT to watch some series in the past because I knew they were cancelled early. I dont like to see incomplete stories (which is probably why i prefer movies to tv)
DJDeeDay -- agreed. That festival was a smart move on Davis's part. I just wish it were more accessible and in a better location. I looked it up the first year to see about going but it's in the middle of nowhere and so it seemed kind of pricey. I mean why Arkansas? And Wal-Mart. (sigh)
The double edged sword of it all is living in a liberated society where every group is no longer a figure of fun. That literally means no taboos unless the taboo is criticizing the previously marginalized and discriminated group. People rarely comprehend the importance of bringing order to chaos. Without a social and political conservatism grounding the culture art has no places to shock and enlighten.
Times Up and Me Too will not produce better art than what we have now.
Wow... Lars has managed to rile up everyone. Honestly, I'm just laughing over this. This is exactly what he wants. He lives to rile people up and everyone is just playing at the palm of his hand except for Gaspar Noe who was smart enough to know what Lars was doing and enjoyed it. Oh Lars, you've done it again! All hail cinema's Satan.
Ruthie Anne Miles's story broke my heart so much. RIP little angels.
Josh Brolin and that interviewer dude were mad douchey. Ugh, be warned before clicking. You'll need to shower afterwards.