The Hot Blog Archive for March, 2007
Daily David – 300 Ways To Leave Your Xerxes
Sequel To Adaptation?
Susan Orlean on the magical art of origami
The Daily David – A Tough Day For E-Journalism
An Immodest Proposal
With Variety grabbing Anne Thompson and Cynthia Littleton away from The Hollywood Reporter, they achieve two things. In Anne, they get the blogger/columnist they have been trying to create for over a year now. In addition, combined with dropping the pay wall, they are saying to Hollywood,
15 Comments »Moan-y Moan-y
You can argue that Black Snake Moan falls apart when hit by the wake of its own good intentions. You can argue that a performance as raw and real as Jackson’s is lost on a central conceit – an unquenchable fever for “dick,” to use the film’s terminology, tamed only by a moron boyfriend – that is simply too goofy to hold up. You can definitely argue that Brewer’s ability to convey ideas of time – as in, this whole movie seems to take place in a week, when it clearly has to be at least a month – is so messed up that the whole thing seems like a giant wink at the audience.
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News Or Norm?
Someone I assume is a stringer/freelancer/pitcher to the New York Magazine Intellegencer column caught M. Night Shyamalan on a red carpet in New York and got him to defend Lady In The Water in a way I don’t consider remotely unusual. If he didn’t like what he made, he wouldn’t have made it. They then spun on his clearly casual throwaway, “I’ve got shit to say!”
To be fair, Intellegencer is admittedly a gossipy column. But they sent it out to media outlets as “news” or at least something worth linking to.
It seems to me like this is right at the line. Night humiliated himself with that book and then he compounded it with the relative failure of his film. But does this make his off-season and general defense of his movie into something worth discussing?
Discuss…
The Daily David – The Oscars In 5 Minutes
Smells LIke Oscar Spirit
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Sunday Estimate by Klady
Well, It looks like my little Wild Hogs theory was right. The Saturday bump suggests that pretty clearly. It’s a family film, not a middle-aged comedy. Ya gotta give that one to Disney.
Amazingly, it looks like The Number 23 could sneak up on Jim Carrey spring vehicle Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind ($34.4m/d), which had so much positive energy and media love compared to this year’s release. I’m not sure what that says about the movie world, but I doubt it’s good.
The Oscar bumps are pretty much inconsequential.
Gross On Zodiac
Zodiac stands to Se7en very much the way Inland Empire stands to Mulholland Falls. It’s auto-critique. It takes an artist’s admirable if relatively conventional accomplishment and smashes it deliberately into several oddly shaped but ultimately connected pieces.
The most important disturbing, disconcerting aspect of the film is that, despite competent dialogue, and an excellent cast, it is not character centered, but structure and theme centred
Friday Numbers by Klady & BO Hell
Wild Hoggies couldn’t drag me to it
Wild, wild hoggies, they went to that shit
What can you do? People still eat a lot of Big Macs, they want to read about Britney
The Daily David – March 2, 2008
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What To Do About Docs & Foreign Language Films
As we put away the last notion of this last awards season – it’s been amazing how many people were talking about not remembering who won in any year for more than 24 hours – I want to send it off with one last thought
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Manohla Dargis’ NYT rave of Zodiac is shockingly similar to my pan. The difference is that she loves many of the exact same things that I find disconnected and indulgent.
And I think this pretty much defines Zodiac. The emperor is the emperor, but the clothes… up for grabs…