Good Joe Link
Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 10:00PM • LA Times RIP the iconic Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
• MNPP celebrating Michelle Williams, who just turned 40
• /Film Ewan McGregor confirms that he'll return to the role of Obi Wan Kenobi for a one season series on Disney Plus. For what it's worth Ewan will be 50 years old when they start shooting next year but that's still young for Obi Wan adventures. Sir Alec Guiness was 63 when the original Star Wars was released in 1977
After the jump, we stan Jane Fonda, Oscar dreams for Mark Wahlberg?, a 'what if' for 2020 movie culture, Sigourney Weaver on set and more....
• Pajiba "It's time to kill off the myth of the wealthy writer" hear hear!
• AV Club compares Dune 2020 visuals to Dune 1984
• Guardian Supposedly Mark Wahlberg is hoping to be back in the Oscar race for Good Joe Bell, a drama premiering at TIFF, about a man who fights against bigotry after his son kills himself due to homophobic bullying. Wahlberg seems like a really strange choice to headline a social justice movie!
• Coming Soon that George & Tammy movie starring Jessica Chastain as country music legend Tammy Wynette is now going to be a television miniseries instead - Chastain is still attached
• Boy Culture Jane Fonda has always been a hero - check out this great 1970s clip of her talking about gay rights. 1970s... LONG before the world began to come around.
• The Playlist Warner Bros is rumored to be considering pushing all of their fall slate big ticket movies back (to make more space for Tenet to have legs)
• Variety a new study shows that streaming services are more fond of female leads than other types of tv
• Vulture Joe Reid imagines what 2020 movie culture would have been like without the pandemic. Fun piece of alternate reality
• CGTN China's Ann Hui is the first female dirctor to win the Golden Lion at Venice
• Variety Oliver Stone taking a restored copy of Born on the Fourth of July (1989) to festivals
• / Film Sigourney Weaver films underwater sequences for Avatar sequels
Reader Comments (18)
That alternate 2020 article just made me depressed....and I was just starting to feel better about the state of movies this year!
Jessica Chastain looks like she will win the Emmy before the Oscar
RIP Dame Diana. One of the best Bond Women and best Game of Thrones character.
Dame Diana Rigg was an icon when I was a child, a great leading lady, and won over a whole new generation with Game of Thrones. Is there any of us that didn't admire her? What a Dame and what a life. RIP
Did anyone read a recent interview with Daisy Ridley about her character Rey from the Star Wars series possibly being a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi? I would've preferred that instead of her being a grand-daughter to Palpatine.
Oh gosh, hopefully the fact that Jane is a gay advocate isn't news (this clip from SF has been around for a while) - Read her autobiography :)
More importantly, 'FireDrilleFridays' -
Diana Rigg, what a career. Folks like her don't come around much these days.
Love that Fonda clip whenever I see it. Iconic.
Zee -- if you would like to email me I will map out / explain why your other comment that you tried to post about 7 times was not approved. You're persistent, I'll give you that. Perhaps just maybe not self aware of what you're actually saying when you type?
Charles -- i know she deserved a full piece but as someone who didn't really watch Game of Thrones (i never saw one of her episodes) of The Avengers I didn't feel I could do her justice.
Jem -- i was aware she was pro gay but I think archival clips really are worth sharing. People dont realize how brave it is to speak out 20 years before something becomes acceptable to the mainstream. She is such a brave woman. Always has been.
Zee -- i'm asking you politely for the final time to stop sending the same offensive comment every few hours. It will not be published. It does not "fit within the ethos of The Film Experience" as you claim. Think of this site as a house. We built it for many years. We've invited you in. Anyone who enters anyone else's house knows that they should be nice inside. It's really quite simple. If you dont understand why your comment was demmed offensive and not published please google the following words "negging" and "nonpology" and "gaslighting" -- which all describe various common but negative practices so that you can understand. This is the last time I will address this in the comments.
To everyone -- in order to return TFE's comments section to the good happy arts-discussing place it once was, we're taking a strict stance. Absolutely zero comments will be approved that contain ANY insults towards any of our readers or towards any member of our team. If you absolutely hate not having this option as a commenter, I beg you to do some self-reflection and ask yourself why. You might find you get much happier yourself when you stop saying things that are likely to spread unhappiness to others.
To anyone who already knows how to discuss things respectively, we hope you'll continue to comment. We love to read 'em.
A precision : Ann Hui is the first female director to win the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award, not the competitive Golden Lion (already won by Margarethe von Trotta, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair and Sofia Coppola :)
I am utterly bereft at Diana Rigg's passing!!
Discovered her in The Avengers when I was just a little kid and loved her cheeky insouciance ever since.
Whether as the wry Mrs. Bradley in that short-lived mystery series, James Bond's only bride, Vincent Price's daughter in Theatre of Blood, the chic robbery victim in The Great Muppet Caper, the businesswoman who gives up worldly things to become a Benedictine nun in "In This House of Brede" or one of the bitches she loved to play like the ones in Evil Under the Sun or Mother Love she could always be relied upon to bring her very best to every role. And offscreen she came across as a decent, funny quality person.
A sad loss but she left a tremendous legacy behind.
RIP Jiri Menzel, the director of such gems as Closely Watched Trains (Oscar winner), My Sweet Little Village (Oscar nominee), Larks on a String and I Served the King of England
Diana Rigg gave the best performance in a Muppet movie. She was a woman who perfectly understood the tone of the movie, and her Lady Holiday was just hilarious.
That Good Joe Bell movie is rumored to be this year's awards season critical flop (or one of them, anyway).
Have you all ever thought of reviewing actressexual books here? I would love to read a TFE writer's perspective on Jane's new book.
Diana Rigg... I was convinced that she’d grab the elusive Oscar nomination (to complement her Tony/Olivier/Globe/BAFTA clutch of wins and nominations) so it makes me especially sad.
Though her obituaries seem to mention one or two films in post-production so hopefully I’m lamenting too soon!
Now everybody loves Jane Fonda. It wasn't the case in America not long ago. We're a country of hypocrites.
According to IMDb, the miniseries Chastain will be headlining will be about Tammy Wynnette. Her film about Tammy Faye Bakker, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, has already wrapped production and is scheduled to be released in 2021.
Ohhhh ... Dame Diana Riggs deserves a little tribute here, maybe someone else could take over Nathaniel ? I fell in love with her when I was 7. Class, style & dry British humour - ... she defined "kickass" ... literally - what a legend - what a career also on stage ! And no one wore a catsuit like her ! RIP
I'm so sorry to hear about your trouble with comments Nathaniel - please do know that your (and your teams) exquisite work does mean a lot us - well to me anyway !
I don't comment a lot (due to my insecurity that English is still not my 1st language) but this is a sacred place for me, where I go when I can't talk to my friends, family & partner - who are all not as passionate about movies then I am. Thanks for keeping it that way.
(Unfortunately the habit of commenting to divide has become a supreme discipline in our world in the past years.)
Keep up the great work !
(.... that said: where are my f.... April predictions ... lol ... ;-) sorry had to put that in there I know I will get them before Xmas - well thats like eating an old Easter egg :-) xxx