Monday, February 28, 2011
TImothy Olyphant Three Times
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There existed in the world three pictures of Timothy Olyphant without his shirt on that I'd never seen before! Wonders never cease.
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Santa Sangre in 175 Words or Less
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Santa Sangre is the most accessible film of Jodorowsky's that I've seen so far, following an almost entirely coherent narrative. Imagine that! That's not to say he doesn't find room for an elephant funeral that ends with the corpse being torn trunk from tail by starving villagers, or a pack of young men with Downs Syndrome play-acting at snorting cocaine and pawing at an obese prostitute, or a graveyard full of naked brides and a tattooed ghost-horse.
It's just to say that he finds a way to navigate his beautifully obscene surrealism through characters whose motivations never become a mystic question mark. We get who these people are pretty clearly, and what drives them into the insane places they land. That's not meant as a slight against something as mystifying (and glorious) as Holy Mountain, but where that film dazed me into a numb receptive state where I just let the images wash over me, I was actually able to get swept up in an emotional way with the story of SS. (pics via)
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It's just to say that he finds a way to navigate his beautifully obscene surrealism through characters whose motivations never become a mystic question mark. We get who these people are pretty clearly, and what drives them into the insane places they land. That's not meant as a slight against something as mystifying (and glorious) as Holy Mountain, but where that film dazed me into a numb receptive state where I just let the images wash over me, I was actually able to get swept up in an emotional way with the story of SS. (pics via)
.Today's Mood
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No I don't have any idea why this is stuck in my head.
And yes, I am willing it out of mine and into yours.
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No I don't have any idea why this is stuck in my head.
And yes, I am willing it out of mine and into yours.
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Franco Five Times
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James might not have been the most captivating host for an awards show, but that's not gonna stop me from appreciating his skills at tweeting pictures of himself in his tux backstage (especially when they're at crotch-level).
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James might not have been the most captivating host for an awards show, but that's not gonna stop me from appreciating his skills at tweeting pictures of himself in his tux backstage (especially when they're at crotch-level).
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My Review of the Oscars
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This one time I was making Kraft Macaroni & Cheese - the height of my culinary abilities! - and hovering over the stove, stirring it constantly, behaving as if this were very serious business. My boyfriend came into the kitchen and looked at me for a few seconds and said to me, "It's still gonna be macaroni. It's always gonna be macaroni." This turned out to be an important life lesson. Now I don't pay that much attention to the macaroni, and what do you know, it finds its way into being macaroni, and in the end, it is macaroni. It's always macaroni.
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.Good Morning, World
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I find it terrifically hard to remember and recapture mentally how cute Tom Cruise was back when he started, but Risky Business is a really great movie that makes momentarily blind to the horror-show he is now.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Quote of the Day
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That's Greta Gerwig in the latest issue of Paper talking about the things she'd like to do in her career, which include working with Woody Allen. It's practically obscene how perfect the thought of her in a Woody Allen movie is - indeed she says in this interview that Woody's the reason she moved to New York (me too!) and one gets the feeling that she's crafted herself as a Woody Allen heroine for most of her life (me three!), judging her solely off of having viewed her career from this massively appreciative outsider standpoint of mine. Anyway if you like Greta that interview's only gonna suck you under her spell even further. She's references Lacan and Julie & Julia in the same breath and seems completely unpretentious while doing so. She's a dream.
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"Woody Allen had an erotic renaissance with Scarlett.
He can have a neurotic renaissance with me!"
He can have a neurotic renaissance with me!"
That's Greta Gerwig in the latest issue of Paper talking about the things she'd like to do in her career, which include working with Woody Allen. It's practically obscene how perfect the thought of her in a Woody Allen movie is - indeed she says in this interview that Woody's the reason she moved to New York (me too!) and one gets the feeling that she's crafted herself as a Woody Allen heroine for most of her life (me three!), judging her solely off of having viewed her career from this massively appreciative outsider standpoint of mine. Anyway if you like Greta that interview's only gonna suck you under her spell even further. She's references Lacan and Julie & Julia in the same breath and seems completely unpretentious while doing so. She's a dream.
.Friday, February 25, 2011
Set Your Italian DVRs!
This is the sort of thing you buy a plane ticket for. Apparently a mini-series called Come un delfino (translation: Like a Dolphin) will begin airing on Italian television next week, and it will be starring Raoul Bova as a swimmer... with all the speedo that promises apparently being fulfilled.
(via) I guess we know why he shaved his chest. So how long until this thing's online? Help an American brother out, Italians who might read this! We look to you for aid in our time of need.
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I Hate Your Stupid Words!
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To whomever put all that type in the way of Michael Fassbender in that right-hand picture: I will find you, and I will stamp words all over your crotch and see how you like it. Damn you to hell! This photo-shoot had better find its way online in its pure form, or else! Although I guess I should give them credit for having the word "Obsession" slide between his legs like that. (from the new issue of EW)
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Which Is Hotter?
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Colin Firth as a single man or a speaking king?
Besides just running through this week's two new and completely boring releases in this week's piece at Celebrity Beehive I briefly cast my gaze over at this weekend's Oscars. At least long enough to mention the by-some-assumed conventional wisdom that Colin Firth is winning his statue this year because he didn't win it last year. I mean sure he's terrific enough in TKS, but ASM was the game-changer that made this possible. In my humbly blogged opinion. What sayeth you?
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I really have nothing to say about the Oscars this year. I am excited for hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway - their commercials have been a hoot. But I don't much feel passionate about anything. Natalie Portman deserves to win for Black Swan, and I like her, but I've found her terribly boring on stage so far. Same goes for Christian Bale. He's Patrick Bateman, man! I oughta care. But no, everybody's boring me. Boring boring boring! Dogtooth won't win Foreign Film and that's the most exciting nomination as far as I'm concerned. Blurgh.
Of course I've had a crazy week and I'm exceptionally blown-out this afternoon so perhaps I'll gather up some caring by Sunday after resting a bit. Why don't y'all tell me something Oscar-related I should be excited about in the comments. Work me into a lather!
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Of course I've had a crazy week and I'm exceptionally blown-out this afternoon so perhaps I'll gather up some caring by Sunday after resting a bit. Why don't y'all tell me something Oscar-related I should be excited about in the comments. Work me into a lather!
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Preening Pettyfer and the Prune-Sayer
I'm gonna go ahead and call it right now - next year's Oscars, y'all need to look out for Supporting Actress winner Mary-Kate Olsen. I am basing this entirely off of this hat:
"Prune."That's from the latest trailer for Beastly which I caught on TV last night and you can watch at the bottom of this post. I don't know if it's been out for a while, this specific trailer, I have not been paying any attention at all to this movie, it looks quite awful. Still, that outfit, plus preening Pettyfer...
Plus some weird touchy-feely-ness between a preening Alex Pettyfer and Blind Neil Patrick Harris, equals a post at least.
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I found Alex Pettyfer so much better looking with short hair and a general air of tattooed scuzziness than I do in this current mop-topped incarnation, though.
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Joel McHale Wants To Bang Mila Kunis...
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... in Seth MacFarlane's new movie. The one about the foul-mouthed teddy bear. Joel is not the teddy bear. Via Deadline:
I'm probably gonna have to watch the Spirits with Joel as the host. Dammit. I guess I'll just be spending all damn weekend watching awards I don't care about. It is a terrible chore, my life! He'd better break out his suspicious underpants at least once. It's a low-key affair, Joel! Just wear those the whole gig. It will be talked about. It will be remembered. Forever.
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... in Seth MacFarlane's new movie. The one about the foul-mouthed teddy bear. Joel is not the teddy bear. Via Deadline:
"Joel McHale, who tomorrow hosts the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, is in final negotiations to join Mark Walhberg, Mila Kunis and Seth Macfarlane in Ted, the live action comedy that MacFarlane is directing for Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital. McHale will play Rex, the sleazy boss who is perpetually putting the moves on his employee (Kunis). She wants to marry her boyfriend (Wahlberg), but won't until he redefines his relationship with his teddy bear, the one that came alive during a childhood wish and has become a slovenly womanizing slacker."
I'm probably gonna have to watch the Spirits with Joel as the host. Dammit. I guess I'll just be spending all damn weekend watching awards I don't care about. It is a terrible chore, my life! He'd better break out his suspicious underpants at least once. It's a low-key affair, Joel! Just wear those the whole gig. It will be talked about. It will be remembered. Forever.
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This Is What Happens...
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... when you don't watch Fringe. You die, and Walter molests your corpse. He'll probably be sipping a Slushee or snapping a Slim Jim while he does it too. So you'd better turn in. It's on tonight at 9pm on FOX. EW is saying that tonight's episode is, and I quote, "HUGE!" I didn't read what was at that link besides that headline because I stay spoiler-free for this show. But things have been heading in the HUGE! direction for a bit now so I am not surprised. How good has this season been? So good is the correct answer. So so good.
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I Am Link
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--- Aunt Sassy Forever - Because I had yesterday off - sorry for the no warning there, by the way - a full 36 hours separates me from having attended that Lisa Kudrow Comeback event I talked about going to and I know I'm never gonna write down my thoughts in a proper manner now. I live in the moment! Thankfully KI212 was there and did it for me with pictures, and transcriptions of the notable stuff, so I don't have to feel guilty. Ah sweet laziness. It was absolutely a blast though, and Kudrow came off as funny and intelligent as you hopefully imagine her to be. No Romy & Michelle questions though! Boo!
--- Aunt Sassy Forever - Because I had yesterday off - sorry for the no warning there, by the way - a full 36 hours separates me from having attended that Lisa Kudrow Comeback event I talked about going to and I know I'm never gonna write down my thoughts in a proper manner now. I live in the moment! Thankfully KI212 was there and did it for me with pictures, and transcriptions of the notable stuff, so I don't have to feel guilty. Ah sweet laziness. It was absolutely a blast though, and Kudrow came off as funny and intelligent as you hopefully imagine her to be. No Romy & Michelle questions though! Boo!--- Original Scent Experiences - That's how HBO's marketing team describes the set of candles and scrolls that they've started to send out to websites as promotional materials for their Game of Thrones series. I want an original scent experience!
--- Ten's Best - I hope you've been following Joe's 2010 Awards over at Low Resolution over the course of this past week! I can't stop giggling about his branding Winona Ryder Black Swan's Candyman.
--- Pin Head - Out doing press for Drive Angry director Patrick Lussier's talking about a couple of different topics of note - like what would have happened if he'd made the My Bloody Valentine sequel that no one is clamoring for, or where things stand on his Hellraiser film, which he is still working on. It won't be in 3D! It's not a remake! So on.
--- Shock and Yawn - I was just talking to a friend yesterday about how overrated a cult experience I found Birdemic to be - that it's mostly just tedious to sit though - and lo Rich at FourFour just wrote up the same thoughts.
--- Gird Your Loins - James Marsden and Patrick Wilson are making a movie together. It doesn't sound like they'll rub their bellies together though. Oh well, I can imagine that pretty thoroughly all on my own. The film sounds interesting though.
--- Stick Figures - Henry Selick is gonna make a new stop-motion animated sure-to-be-classic! He's teaming up with Disney for Shademaker, which is described repeeatedly in terms of being a horror film for kids, hooray! I love his dedication to the creepy - I need to watch Coraline again, actually.
--- Speaking of scary movies for kids, Cinematical has a pleasant enough little list of their five favorite animated kid's horror films. I need to watch Monster House again too!
--- Miss Channing - When did Stockard Channing join Ronald Moore's new show with Jamie Bamber? I missed that news, but there it sits scarcely remarked upon in this story of Eomann Walker also joining the cast. Stockard! If this role's anything like what Mary McDonnell got out of BSG good heavens! Which reminds me I saw Mary McDonnell a couple of months ago at that screening of The Conformist at MoMA and never remarked upon that. Well I did! And I so wanted to run up at her and scream, "Throw her out the airlock!!!" That woulda gone well.
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--- Ten's Best - I hope you've been following Joe's 2010 Awards over at Low Resolution over the course of this past week! I can't stop giggling about his branding Winona Ryder Black Swan's Candyman.--- Pin Head - Out doing press for Drive Angry director Patrick Lussier's talking about a couple of different topics of note - like what would have happened if he'd made the My Bloody Valentine sequel that no one is clamoring for, or where things stand on his Hellraiser film, which he is still working on. It won't be in 3D! It's not a remake! So on.
--- Shock and Yawn - I was just talking to a friend yesterday about how overrated a cult experience I found Birdemic to be - that it's mostly just tedious to sit though - and lo Rich at FourFour just wrote up the same thoughts.
--- Gird Your Loins - James Marsden and Patrick Wilson are making a movie together. It doesn't sound like they'll rub their bellies together though. Oh well, I can imagine that pretty thoroughly all on my own. The film sounds interesting though.--- Stick Figures - Henry Selick is gonna make a new stop-motion animated sure-to-be-classic! He's teaming up with Disney for Shademaker, which is described repeeatedly in terms of being a horror film for kids, hooray! I love his dedication to the creepy - I need to watch Coraline again, actually.
--- Speaking of scary movies for kids, Cinematical has a pleasant enough little list of their five favorite animated kid's horror films. I need to watch Monster House again too!
--- Miss Channing - When did Stockard Channing join Ronald Moore's new show with Jamie Bamber? I missed that news, but there it sits scarcely remarked upon in this story of Eomann Walker also joining the cast. Stockard! If this role's anything like what Mary McDonnell got out of BSG good heavens! Which reminds me I saw Mary McDonnell a couple of months ago at that screening of The Conformist at MoMA and never remarked upon that. Well I did! And I so wanted to run up at her and scream, "Throw her out the airlock!!!" That woulda gone well.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
In Case You Were Worried...
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... that there might not be a field of rippling golden wheat in Terrence Malick's next movie, THR has the first photo and you can sleep easy. Phew!
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... that there might not be a field of rippling golden wheat in Terrence Malick's next movie, THR has the first photo and you can sleep easy. Phew!
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I'll See Your Inexplicable YouTube Video....
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... James Franco, and I'll raise you a collage of nine frames taken from it posted onto my blog! Art! (Will this make him love me?) Anyway I trust most of you have taken to following James Franco on Twitter already, but if not you should, he's only been there for a few days and he's taken to it like gangbusters, meaning he posts a bunch of the weirdo shit we want from him. Like this video! Or a picture of urine! Oh James. You honky beatnik.
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Straight From the Source
I like this, the second and latest trailer for Duncan Jones' Source Code, starring Mr. Gyllenhaal, better than I liked the first one. It has a nice sense of rhythm to it as it escalates.
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Did you know this movie's out on April Fool's Day? That's only 37 days away. I had no idea it was that soon. Slacker! I think we ought to have some Jake photo lay-outs some time soon is what I think. Perhaps a beefcake pictorial or two? Eh? Eh?
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Quote of the Day
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The LA Times got to chat with X-Men Muppet Babies star James McAvoy, who's playing the young Charles Xavier to Michael Fassbender's young Magneto, and regarding working with Fassy he had this to say:
Aaaaand I'm just going to stop the quote there. That seems right. From there he goes on to explain that the film's really just a love story between their characters. I'd like my ticket now, please.
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The LA Times got to chat with X-Men Muppet Babies star James McAvoy, who's playing the young Charles Xavier to Michael Fassbender's young Magneto, and regarding working with Fassy he had this to say:"We worked together before, we met on “Band of Brothers,” which was my first TV job and probably his first or second. We both ride motorbikes, you know, scooters, around London, and every now and again, we’d pass each other and stop and give an old pump..."
Aaaaand I'm just going to stop the quote there. That seems right. From there he goes on to explain that the film's really just a love story between their characters. I'd like my ticket now, please.
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
A Single Man (2009)
George: If one is not enjoying one's present, there isn't.
a great deal to suggest that the future should be any better.
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