Grab the pitchforks and the torches, we got a monster to stalk! AICN has posted a review by a guy in South Korea who saw Park Chan-wook's new film Thirst last night. Sigh. I suppose I can't begrudge him the experience too much, he's an avid fan of PCW's... just... what about me, world? What about me? Sigh. Anyway, here are some edited-down mostly non-spoilery choice-bits from his review:
"Expectations were high on this one. It's playing in competition at Cannes against the likes of Tarantino, Noe, Campion and others (too many great filmmakers to list here); it stars Song Kang-ho, one of the most distinguished actors working in South Korea; and it earned the Lust, Caution seal of approval for graphic sexual content (not to mention full-frontal male nudity). Like I said, high-profile in the extreme...
... What did I think? I walked out bewildered. I still don't know what the fuck I just saw. I know I'm going again. I'm know I'm going again as soon as humanly possible with as many people as I can find to drag along.
... Thirst is a dark film. No color (except red), no fluff, no floral patterns...the visual design of the film is sparse, barren, a lot of whites and blacks and browns. It is (undoubtedly) a Park product, but it's less poppy, softer, more subtle. I didn't notice the music so much in this one, either; it was much less obtrusive.
This is a vampire film in the way that Let the Right One In is a vampire film; it exists both within as well as outside of the genre. There's no garlic, no capes, no fangs, just a whole lotta blood."
Random thing I have to mention: For some reason when I was taking a shower this morning I couldn't stop thinking about the movie V.I. Warshawski. WTF? Anybody remember that hot tranny mess? Is that what killed Kathleen Turner's career? The awesome War of the Roses was only a couple years before this, and then, after this, cue tumbleweeds rolling across her career. But I think my cousin had a crush on her so I remember us renting this movie and watching it like a dozen times way back when, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about it now.
I haven't seen last night's Lost yet!
--- Show Me Your Finger, Bitch - Like the rest of the horror-geek online-community I am going to take this opportunity to say that the idea of a Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters movie, where the crumb-dropping duo have grown up and gotten their Salem on, gives me a total boner. So good job, Dead Snow dude!
--- Pattycake Part Two - I was all excited to see Robert Zemeckis mention the possibility of a Roger Rabbit sequel maybe finally coming true after years upon years upon years of such talk going nowhere, but then he made it sound like he wants Roger to look like the dead-eyed freaks in his Polar Express movie and I suddenly never want this to happen EVER.
--- The Lone Geek - I loooove the fact that Buffy's Danny Strong, aka uber-nerd Jonathan, has become a super successful screenwriter. Yay! DH has word on his next job, a biopic of that White House butler dude that was at Obama's inauguration. That is the sorta biopic I like to hear about. That guy lived a fucking life, ya know?
--- A Pair Of Fine Years - Nostalgia is all the rage, y'all! Miss Stacie Ponder is taking a look back at the horror-flicks of 1985 (and admits to never having seen The Stuff... Stacie, if you don't correct that fact I just have to let you know that am going to sneak into your house and fix it myself...), while Cinematical is looking at a very very important Summer of movies to me - 1993 - and lays out a beautiful encapsulation of why Jurassic Park felt so cinematically earth-shaking to my generation. Should I mention again that I saw it 15 times in the theater?
--- And finally, my favorite quote-machine cum movie director Eli Roth chatted up MTV the other day about his Nazi-propaganda-film-within-a-film for Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, and he says he basically offended himself this go-around. (thx Mac for the heads-up).
"God, I didn’t think I could be more offensive after ‘Hostel 2,’ but how can I upset people more than that?’” Remembering his direction techniques, Roth laughed. “I was going, ‘More swastikas! More swastikas!"
But as ironically over-the-top as the whole experience may have been, Roth has been wondering lately if he did too good a job on the mini-movie. “The first time we showed it to an audience [the actors] were in character, but the Germans were screaming ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘Kill the Jews!’ and it was terrifying,” he remembered. “We watched it over and over, and we were all friends and joking around by the end of it. But there was still something very powerful about that. I looked at Quentin and said, ‘What have I done?’”
“I’m going to, like, resurrect the Nazi party,” Roth explained. “They are going to make me their Sarah Palin. They will be like, ‘We love his movie. But he’s a Jew! But it’s such a good movie. But a Jew made it!”
“It’s going to really throw off all the neo-Nazi’s,” he grinned. “I can’t wait.”
" ...that I have secretly found out that Mr. Blume is having an affair with Miss Cross. My first suspicions came when I saw them frenching in front of your house. And then I knew for sure when they went skinny-dipping in Mr. Blume's swimming pool, giving each other handjobs while you were taking a nap on the front porch.".
--- Viva La Pfeiff - Nat wishes his main home-girl Michelle Pfeiffer a happy 51st birthday, as do I, and I share his enthusiasm (although I could never match the intensity that Nat brings to the table where she is regarded) that she's back on movie screens these days. She was missed. There aren't that many lady-peoples in the movies that make me swoon the way she does.
--- Speaking Of Swoon - Nat is also playing the "Brad Davis in Midnight Express" card, specifically that frustrating yet heart-pounding shower scene for the ages, which is a trick I will pony up to see every damned time. If you wanna see a little of my attachment to the lamented Mr. Davis, click here. Dude's tops.
--- Miss Child - Cinematical has the trailer for Julie and Julia - the movie where Meryl Streep channels master-chef and giantess Julia Child and Amy Adams will presumably be adorable - and can I just tell you that the title for this film makes my brain hurt? I didn't even notice for a good long while that it wasn't called Julia and Julia like I thought it was, but ever since I did notice now I can never remember which order it's supposed to be in and I have to stare at it for like five minutes every time. I don't know, I just can't deal with it. I am simple though.
--- Big To Little Edie - I think I liked the Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange version of Grey Gardens more than Adam at Club Silencio did, but I have to quote this from his review because I think it's beautifully put:"The Beales' shared dreams and tattered remains do eventually translate, but only after too many orchestrating scenes of Edie trying to escape and those ever-painful "biopic moments" that seek to define a history rather than deliver it. It's no different than a film like Van Sant's recent Milk, which turns a radically emotional and personal documentary into a more calculating take on its characters - to the benefit of some perspective and to the loss of so much personality. Both are fine films by any standard, but too bound by structure to pull at my heart-strings."
--- Inside Turned Out - The directing-duo behind the very very disturbing French horror film Inside - the one where scary-toothed Beatrice Dalle wanted to steal a baby right outta the womb (my review) - have announced their next film called Livid, and it will be in English. Twitch has the details. This is of course after they ditched the Hellraiser remake presumably due to The Assholes Weinstein, which made me like them more than ever.
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Although it's not that strange a happening for one of my first waking thoughts to be a random snippet of dialogue from a John Waters movie - seriously, this happens all the time; I'll just be staring at my tube of toothpaste and I'll want to scream, "Just cause you got them big udders don't mean you're somethin' special!" - but this morning it happening meant something, something I wasn't aware of at the time.
give me a break!" I was actually doing that in honor of Mr. Waters today. Yay! Kismet!
Dawn Davenport: You want your spaghetti with or without cheese?
Donna Dasher: I'll have two chicken breasts please.
Dawn Davenport: Well, uh, we're not having that, we're having spaghetti.
Donna Dasher: I couldn't possibly eat spaghetti, do I look Italian?
Donald Dasher: We rarely eat any form of noodle. But I'll take a small portion to be polite, with cheese, please.
Donna Dasher: I'll have an extremely large glass of ice-water.
Aunt Ida: Well I just use common sense. I mean, if they're smart they're queer, and if they're stupid they're straight, right Ernie? Are you sure you won't have another pretzel?
Ernie: I'm sure, miss Thing, I'm sure. Pretzels give you plaque.
School snitch: Mr. Wineburger, Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in class and she's been passing notes!
Gator: I got off on it! I really got off on it!
Dawn Davenport: Oh DID you? Well, hip hip hooray for your cheap climax! What about ME, fuck face?
Earl Peterson: I'm sorry... I been drinking..
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