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For its 75th Anniversary, we continue our baton-passing recap of Alfred Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner Rebecca.
Previously on Revisiting Rebecca: Nathaniel introduced us to our No Name heroine (Joan Fontaine). While travelling as a companion to a wealthy older chocaholic named Mrs. Van Hopper, she meets a mysterious stranger with a name that drips of money, Maximilian de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier). When her employer falls ill, Maxim and No Name take the opportunity to get to know each other better. Until one day...
Part 2 by abstew
27:00 Despite Mrs. Van Hopper's skepticism over Maxim and um...Joan Fontaine's marriage (we can't officially refer to her as "The Second Mrs. de Winter" just yet since ol' Maxxie hasn't put a ring on it), the two are off for a quickie nuptial: Monte Carlo-style. Which apparently means wearing your travel clothes, almost forgetting the official papers (Freudian slip, Maxim?), and having the ceremony performed by a member of ZZ Top. More...
Manuel here bringing you two teaser trailers that will surely whet your appetite for fall movie season.
Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan, focuses on the early twentieth century fight for rights for women in England. It stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. With the hashtag #VotingMatters, it’s clear the film is aiming for a zeitgeist-like marketing campaign (for those of us in the US, the UK election is coming up next month).
And then, well, then there’s this gorgeous teaser trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (which we’d discussed back when we checked out what former Foreign Language Oscar winners were up to). The teaser doesn’t tell us much but boy does it show us. I feel we could make an entire Hit Me With Your Best Shot episode on this teaser alone! The film stars Michael Caine, Paul Dano, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel.
Other than making you excited for these two films, do you also find it fascinating the stark contrast between the teaser trailer approaches? Makes you wonder what hashtag Sorrentino should be using for his film, perhaps #YouthMatters? #CaineMatters? #WeiszMatters?
WOOoooOOo Multiple Oscar Dates Announced! Important dates for this forthcoming season. I've included Off-Oscar business, too. So mark your calendars...
• Nov 14th, 2015 Governors Awards. (We don't know who will be honored yet but they generally make the announcement in late summer. They've already chosen two of the women on our top ten most deserving of honoraries list so hopefully we'll get a third this year!) • Dec 30th, 2015 - Oscar Nomination Balloting Begins
• Jan 8th, 2016 - Oscar Nomination Ballots Due • Jan 10th, 2016 - The 72nd Annual Golden Globes • Jan 14th, 2016 - Nomination Morning. Merry Christmas! • Jan 23rd, 2016 - Producers Guild Awards • Jan 30th, 2016 - SAG Awards
• Feb 8th, 2016 - Oscar Nominee Luncheon • Feb 12th, 2016 - Voting Begins on Winners • Feb 13th, 2016 - Sci/Tech Awards. Which beauty will host this year? It's usually a rising young actress. Margot Robbie did the honors (with Miles Teller) last year • Feb 23rd, 2016 - Final Oscar Ballots Due
Your Weekly Reminder The Julianne Moore is an Oscar winner. She won 52 days ago!
The High Holy Nights • Feb 28th, 2016 -88th Academy Awards. Predictions Ongoing Here. Yes, I know I need to continue. We'll try to start again tomorrow! • Feb 26th 2017 -89th Academy Awards. • Mar 4th 2018 - 90th Academy Awards. Ohmygod. Soon we're just a decade shy of Oscar's Centennial! They better pull out all the stops in 2028 and have every living Oscar winner there. Hopefully we'll all still be alive to see it!
It's David Dastmalchian! Perhaps you don't know his name yet but you probably know his face (The Dark Knight, Prisoners, TV guest spots and two movies this summer: Marvel's Ant-Man and the SXSW sensation Animals). He'll be here in a week or so taking over the blog for a day.
Please welcome this rising actor! Got any questions?
MNPP reminds us that today is the 15th anniversary of American Psycho, Mary Harron's masterpiece. True story: I used to get her confused with Mary Lambert as if the same person made Madonna's "Like a Virgin" Hee! WOW was Dennis Quaid losing his shit on a film set real or staged? MTV Which Avenger deserves a solo film most? The answer is obvious and Joss Whedon knows it. Weird that Marvel doesn't i09 the real reason we didn't get a third solo Hulk film has been unveiled Comics Alliance the Avengers playing Family Feud on Jimmy Kimmel. Awards Daily Director Michelle McLaren has left the Wonder Woman picture Variety revisits the Sony Hack (remember that? seems so long ago) and the minefield of legal questions its opened up
I'm sorry there's so much superhero bizness lately but that's all the news feed is ever offering up of late
Biggest Tease Josh Gad says he can't wait for you to "Be Our Guest"... yep, it's the cast of Beauty & The Beast (2016). Or some of them at least.
A photo posted by Josh Gad (@joshgad) on Apr 14, 2015 at 11:37am PDT
Is that Luke Evan with the suddenly pointy twink hair? If so he looks so different with shorter hair. No Audra McDonald (Wardrobe) or Emma Thompson (Mrs Potts) in this photo though. Grrrrr
Earth's Mightiest Illustration Love this. Well done Stephen Byrne
On The Political/Theatrical Stage BuzzFeed points out the delightful Hillary Clinton 404 page MNPP as if those of us with tickets to this summer's Little Shop of Horrors event weren't excited enough. Jake Gyllenhaal is announced as Seymour! DissolveMagic Mike franchise may be heading to the stage next New Hedwig <-- this is my favorite reaction to the first image of Darren Criss as Hedwig.
Small Screen Must Love Movies the story of Daredevil's opening credit sequence. The Playlist Cary Fukunaga doing The Alienist as TV miniseries. That book freaked my shit out back when it was a best seller but I am sad that we've lost Fukunaga (Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre) to the overworked land of the serial killer procedurals. Did he really need to do another after True Detective? David Fincher isn't likely to be dethroned as king of the genre so let's have some other genres for our talented rising auteurs! Pajiba shares the VERY welcome news that Katee Sackhoff is taking her career into her own hands by creating her own series since Hollywood is far too stupid to notice her gargantuan charisma. It's called Rain and its sci-fi.
Madonna Screen (aka Nathaniel's Brain) The Daily Beast surveys the rampant bald ageism and sexism that's greeting Madonna's every move this past week or two. It's all become very Freudian with the world's collective fear of 'all consuming female sexuality.' Watch What Happens Live Andy Cohen invites Sandra Bernhard to watch the latest Madonna video "Ghosttown" (previously discussed) and it is a joy... especially when she sees Terrence Howard cooking beans and hunting Madonna with a rifle.
He's going to barbecue the bitch!
...Get me a rib. Get me a meaty rib"
LOL. Also on my 130th view I was looking around Madonna's beautifully lit apartment (with dirty mattress) and realized that we'll still have electricity after the apocalypse! Whew, that's a relief
Exit Video This made me laugh so hard that I now feel bad about myself. Apologies world, I am terrible. (P.S. I'm really hoping Trixie Mattel is the queen that RuPaul brings back that shashayed away too early on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race)
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 4:00PM 
