oh, great: now women have to be sexy behind the camera, too
Yes, sexed-up images of women are used to sell absolutely everything. Yes, film is sexy. But is it supposed to be sexually appealing only to straight men?
Alfred Hitchcock
Contagion (trailer)
It’s like a zombie movie… but real!
watch it: most of Alfred Hitchcock’s cameo appearances in 3:50
You gotta love film fandom this geeky and this dedicated.
The Tourist (review)
Who knew the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had such a sense of humor? A nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, for The Tourist? Unless… No… They can’t mean “Inadvertent Comedy,” can they?
cinematic roots of: ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’
In Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, an adventurous young owl leaves his farm on Tattooine to throw the One Ring into Mount Doom before Zeus releases the Kraken. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
calling bullshit: on the supposed bisexuality of viewership
Aaron Cutler at Slant Magazine opens an essay on a Cary Grant retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — which is, for the New York neophyte, a major forum for film, too — like this: Viewership is by nature bisexual. It compels us to take on the perspectives of men desiring women, of women … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Knight and Day,’ ‘Grown Up,’ ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘When in Rome,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Knight and Day: Tom Cruise does some spy stuff and runs around a lot, while Cameron Diaz does a lot of screaming and runs around like a girl. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The 39 Steps (1935): Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll are mismatched maybe-spies in … more…
watch it: a very young Alfred Hitchcock says naughty things…
…in a 1929 soundtest for his film Blackmail: (via Jezebel)
get your Easter candy sugar rush early
And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the announcement of the winners of the fourth annual Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest. It’s not this one, riffing on Mad Men: Nor is it Alfred Hitchcock’s The Peeps: You’ll just have to click through to find out which entry won. (It is movie-related, as well … more…
Easy Virtue (review)
If Noel Coward had written *Meet the Parents,* it might look something like this: witty and wise and totally lacking in poop jokes.
