Obviously we are just as guilty as the next person when it comes to our love for New York’s favorite step-daughter marrying ball of neurosis (look at our logo!), but a Woody Allen tanktop? Haven’t we moved past this as a people?
Merrie Melodies Go To The Library
Spend your lunch going to the library with this 1938 Merry Melodies cartoon.
The Richard Lester / Donald Bartheleme Collaboration That Never Was
Every few years, I return to Steven Soderbergh’s Getting Away With It, a book that juxtaposes Soderbergh’s journals in the time just before he made Out of Sight with a series of conversations between Soderbergh and Richard Lester. (If Lester’s name doesn’t ring a bell, watch A Hard Day’s Night or The Knack…And How to Get It or, er, Superman 3, all of which he directed.)
That Definitely Sounds Like A Movie Bret Easton Ellis Would Write
The Canyons “will follow a small group of Los Angeles twenty-somethings, in a psycho-sexual thriller that will have both crime and redemption elements” — and a note that the earlier established requisite of a male lead being “full-frontal naked banging girls and guys” won’t be “employed salaciously.” (Via Vulture)
The Dream of Dystopia 1985 is Alive in a Back to the Future 2 DVD
The Detroit City Council hasn’t built a half-man/half-robot to patrol the streets (if there was, I’m sure it would be voiced by Clint Eastwood), we aren’t yet at a Road Warrior level of totally fucked with our fuel supplies, and New York isn’t one big maximum security prison like John Carpenter imagined*. We also don’t have hoverboards, something promised to us in one of the most overlooked dystopian films of its time, Back to the Future 2.
I Saw God And/Or Alvy Singer Or: The Time I Stalked Woody Allen
I’ve been waiting a really long time to see Woody Allen in the flesh, and the other night I finally got to.
Joan Of Arc Doing “Joan Of Arc”
Because after a Cap’n Jazz reunion and a novel by your lead singer, what else is there to do but score a 1928 film about the French heroine/Roman Catholic saint who your band is named after?
Michael Chabon In Hollywood
It’s funny how things changes when you learn one of your favorite writers is behind a project you were initially skeptical of. In this case it’s finding out about Michael Chabon’s involvement with the upcoming Disney film, John Carter, has made me quite curious after seeing commercials for the film and muttering an “Ehhhh…” Chabon co-wrote the screenplay for the film, and coupled with his upcoming work with HBO, it would seem he’s finally getting on the right track when it comes to getting […]