By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Link Dump: 'What Did I Miss?' Edition
Wherein your humble editor wades through a week’s worth of headlines in 15 minutes, out of sheer compulsion if not necessity:
–Anita Gates cooked up a Sherrybaby souffle in Saturday’s NY Times, featuring a tour through director Laurie Collyer’s “white-bread” New Jersey milieu. the filmmaker claims to have gotten Jersey out of her system; her star Maggie Gyllenhaal, however, revealed her sense that she has a whole script’s worth of topless scenes she has yet to shoot.
–In other New Jersey news, it’s nice to see director Davis Guggenheim cashing in his Inconvenient Truth meal ticket for a shot at directing the formidable tandem of his wife Elisabeth Shue and her brother Andrew. Set for a 2007 release by Picturehouse, and according to a studio note, “inspired by real life events in the Shue family, Gracie is the story of a 16-year-old girl who, after a family tragedy changed her life, fought for and won the right for girls everywhere to play competitive team soccer.” Shooting begins today in Englewood. Run.
–From Cindy Adams’ column today: “Marcia Cross hates sex scenes. Says stripping off and making out in front of a crew is ’embarrassing.’ Yeah? No kidding.” Straphangers around New York throw up in their mouths.
—Cinecultist and beloved Reeler sub Karen Wilson has a few words with Jonas Mekas about his ongoing 365-film iPod project: “I have been working now for about three months and I finished about 60, 65 of them, and I will continue for quite some time. Though I’m involving other people, like Scorsese, Jarmusch, John Waters, and Virginie Marchand is doing 10 iPods in India, in Bollywood.” Leave it to an 82-year-old man to make me feel like a gross underachiever.
–Film Forum sends word that director Terry Gilliam will be in the house to introduce an Oct. 3 screening of Time Bandits, programmed as part of the theater’s upcoming Monty Python series. Tideland questions are more than welcome; Brothers Grimm inquiries not so much.
–Meanwhile, fashion designer and cinema dabbler agnès b. will be at BAM Oct. 9 to introduce a screening of Reflections in a Golden Eye, which she chose as one of nine American films to screen in October’s agnès b. Presents series.
—Quit, fired or contract expired: Really, it is all just one hair-splitting way after another of saying that Tom Cruise needs to come to the Baby Jesus.