“One critic wrote that the lengthy lesbian sex scenes in this year’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color were “crucial” for establishing the narrative in this “shattering masterpiece.” But a Times critic, Manohla Dargis, called the film “wildly undisciplined,” and its sex scenes to…
The first non-teaser Anchorman 2 trailer is finally here! Actual footage from the actual movie!
That is good news.
Get an In-Depth First Look at Steve McQueen’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’
The director of Hunger and Shame takes on slavery in America. Brace yourselves.
I’m not a Russell Brand guy, his stand-up just isn’t to my taste. But he’s clearly a very smart person and it’s worth it to see him totally demoralize the hosts of Morning Joe on MSNBC.
Nothing about the trailer blows me away but I have tons of good feelings about what’s going on here. I’m in.
It’s not like I wasn’t going to watch whatever Woody Allen put out next anyway, but this looks terrific.
Cinema Inspired Illustrations by Alice X. Zhang / Tumblr / Store
Previews from the ‘MOMENTS’ solo art show, opening June 7th 2013 at the Bottleneck Gallery / Facebook.
Watch, Learn, and Absorb! Edge of Outside: A History of Independent Cinema is a fascinating documentary that presents a historical view of Independent Cinema through the stories of various filmmakers who embody the independent film spirit. It opens with author Peter Biskind defining the…
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Conclusion form today’s lunch: There are two big misnomers surrounding the career of Brad Pitt.
1. Brad Pitt is a charismatic screen presence.
Think of the last time Pitt was actually charismatic on screen. I’ve got two: Fight Club and Thelma and Louise (it was posited that Pitt’s TaL charisma was ab-based, but anyway…). That’s about it. He doesn’t have the type of Robert Downey Jr./George Clooney/early-Will Smith charisma that is often assumed of him. The type of charisma that - had he had it - might have made The Curious Case of Benjamin Button more enjoyable but he doesn’t and I don’t know anyone who thinks he deserved that particular Oscar nomination.
2. Brad Pitt is a handsome leading man and lacks real talent.
Do you know why he was so charming in Fight Club? Because he’s such a good actor. He’s barely even a leading man. His best performances are supporting roles: Se7en, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Snatch, Babel, and Burn After Reading are all second banana parts wherein he often steals the show from someone else (the exception: he’s the lead in Moneyball, which is among his best, though not his absolute best). Pitt is a character actor walking around with a leading man’s body. It happens sometimes. So while he’s serviceable and things like Mr. and Mrs. Smith and he’s sure to be the same in World War Z, we already know he’s better when he can get weird as in Inglorious Basterds or when he can just hang out and smoke pot as in True Romance, letting the real leading men like Christian Slater do their thing.
No, I’m kidding. Christian Slater is the worst. Even in spite of Heathers.
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."
— When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
(Source: bostonreview, via cinemanotebooks)
Preview of the Coen Brothers inspired art show, ‘Over The Line!’, opening June 7th at Ltd. Art Gallery / Tumblr.
Maybe it was Utah by Craig Church / Twitter
You Seek a Great Fortune by Ian Glaubinger / Website / Twitter / Store
I’m Not Going to Debate you Jerry by Paul Ainsworth / Tumblr / Twitter
The Big Lebowski by Chet Phillips / Store
Anton Chigurh by Clay Sisk / Tumblr
Not a Good Man by Todd Spence / Tumblr
Fucking love the Goodman piece. I want that so bad.
Vesth claims that they, “shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two…So above the waist it will be the star and the below the waist it will be the doubles.”
Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Will Digitally Morph Its Stars With Their Porn Body Doubles
Von Trier is making himself some high-tech art porn.
I’ve posted David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech to Kenyon College each of the past 3 years but this year is a little different because an audio recording of the speech has made its way to youtube and an edited version has been pretty well received.
So this year, give a listen to the full thing above or give a read. As each year since he spoke it, this is worth listening to.
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz spoke with us about the two-year odyssey to revive the show.
(via cinemanotebooks)
