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Fool’s Gold Matthew “I’m Not Wearing My Shirt” McConaughey and Kate “Did You Know Goldie Hawn Is My Mom?” Hudson are together again, because, apparently, the public demand for their return has been deafening. This time, they’re hunting treasure in the tropics and get murdered by pirates. No, that last bit’s only in my fantasy … more…
Update! The Son of Rambow screening was cancelled! Doh! But I’m getting compensated with last-minute screenings today of the Oscar-nominated short films: I saw the animated ones this morning (they’re wonderful!), and this afternoon it’s the live-action ones. I’ve always wanted to be able to see these before the Oscars, so I had to jump … more…
Watch this: And then this: I’m not sure I agree with the message behind the second film, but I’m highlighting these two because they so perfectly exemplify how video that is cheap and easy both to make and to distribute is being used in new ways. Artists have always responded to one another’s works — … more…
I should have walked out at the ‘comical’ dog-sex scene. Instead I endured until Martin Lawrence got skunked in the face — that should have made me happy, and yet I felt dirty all over, and had to escape.
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.
And then there are movies, like *Fool’s Gold,* in which absolutely *everything* goes wrong. In which not one single element works… in which not one single element seems even calculated to have worked in the first place.
Christopher Hampton, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Atonement, won an Oscar for this adapted screenplay for 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy Dangerous Liaisons at Amazon.) (Read my review of Atonement.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar countdown, Christopher Hampton, Dangerous Liaisons)
Urban performance art by the the group ImprovEverywhere: via Gawker (Technorati tags: Frozen Grand Central, ImprovEverywhere)
Isabella Rossellini made some short movies about bugs having sex, and some of them were at Sundance. No, this isn’t the bug sex, but Rossellini talking about it: Thanks for reader Lowell for pointing this out to me. (Technorati tags: Isabella Rossellini, Green Porno, Sundance)
Hal Holbrook, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Into the Wild, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but he cemented his place in movie history with his performance as Deep Throat in 1976’s All the President’s Men. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy All the President’s … more…
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