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We're trying to do the Q&A column each and every week so now's the time to gather up your questions. I post this at different times hoping to convince some of you to stop lurking and start participating so this time I'm posting while I'm asleep to get West Coast and Across the Ocean readers. Ask! I shall answer a couple handful of questions -- the ones that spark something.
p.s. no top ten list questions. That's a whole post!
Comic Convos an animated summary of Michael Fassbender's role in Prometheus. Hee Trespass Our friend Glenn reviews The Dark Knight Rises Slate's Tanner Colby gives HBO a free drama series pitch, a bridge between the America of Mad Men and the America of The Wire if you will... Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces of Independent Film Cinema Blend 5 Batman villains they wish Chris Nolan had used in his trilogy. But, you know, you can only use so many and Batman does have the best rogues gallery. Hollywood.com the latest hiccup for The Wolverine. Jessica Biel is not on board after all. So much pre-production trouble with this movie. Now the role may go to Tinker Tailor's Svetlana Khodchenkova
Today's Video Must See Here is Annette Bening and Warren Beatty's eldest child Stephen who was born Kathlyn.
He doesn't speak about his parents at all in this video but the internet is saying that this is Stephen Ira Beatty so I believe (everything on the Internet is true, right?). Stephen makes a joke about staring at us uncomfortably to end the video but the only thing uncomfortable about this charming motor mouthed super smart kid staring at me is a) how hideous the walls in this room are and b) freaking out over how much he EXACTLY looks like a cross between his parents. Especially when he smiles. Well, more Beatty than Bening but still... Right?
Finally, you should know that Park Chan-Wook's first English language film Stoker, featuring a dreamy triangular cast of Mia Wasikowska as a lonely girl, Matthew Goode as her shady Uncle and Nicole Kidman as her unstable mother is no longer the 2012 release we were hoping for. It will open on March 1st, 2013 in limited release. Don't be sad. We still have more Nicole Kidman coming in 2012 with The Paperboy. Next year: Stoker and Oscar Bait The Railway Man.
Mad Men, The Film Experience's favorite show for five years running,and American Horror Story -- cheating with a "miniseries" categorization (like Downton Abbey in its debut year) -- led the nominations with 17 a piece.
The Emmys seem to be over genre shows... or perhaps American Horror Story and Game of Thrones hogged too much attention for the wealth to be spread. True Blood and Teen Wolf scored 0 nominations between them (and to think True Blood once was a nominee for "Best Drama Series") and The Walking Dead and Ocne Upon a Time scored only 3 nods apiece. Dexter somehow managed to keep Michael C Hall nominated for a really terrible season despite earning no other nominations.
Best Dramatic Series
Boardwalk Empire (not my cuppa)
Breaking Bad (the show I feel guiltiest about missing year after year)
Downton Abbey (bliss. I'd be happy to see this win)
Game of Thrones (wildly overrated)
Homeland (so much better than I expected. a worthy nominee.)
Mad Men (still the best show on television - my vote)
Snubbed Entirely and Not Just Here: REVENGE. How weird is that given the impact it made as a new show? It's the best nighttime soap since Dynasty. Respect!
Best Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory (laugh track.noooooo)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (still. really?)
Girls (yay! so individualistic)
Modern Family (still funny. but not as strong as parks & recreation)
30 Rock (still hilarious. but not as strong as parks & recreation)
Veep (often funny. but not as strong as parks & recreation which also lampoons government)
Snubbed: You guessed it!
"We demand a recount"
And the rest of the nominations play like those are the only 12 series the voters watch, if you ask me!
In the Best Shot series we challenge participants to watch a pre-selected movie and choose what they think is the best shot... according to their own fluctuating rules about what "best" means. Next week we return to widely seen classics withThe Royal Tenenbaums (2001) -- will you join us? -- but this week I wanted to challenge everyone with an influential avant-garde gay indie known as Pink Narcissus (1971).
original newspaper ad... cinema village still shows hard to see movies. "MARGARET" played there recently
You can see modern echos or just plain stealing from Pink Narcissus in everything from Michel Gondry music videos to Pierre et Gilles celebrity portraiture. I like to imagine that it's a movie the young Todd Haynes watched non-stop before making Superstar, his Karen Carpenter biopic with Barbie dolls. Truly creative artists, don't need a big budget. They just need the will to make art. Even if it takes them years with their friends (see also: David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE)
Friday, July 20, 2012 at 8:15AM 
