Thursday, March 13, 2008

Punch-Drunk Link

Bright Lights Film Cotillard vs. Tatou, who will win the French gamine sweepstakes?
Kenneth in the (212) takes the words right out of my mouth in regards to Madonna's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
YTMD Can Luke Skywalker get anything right? Hee
Dave Kehr wishes the new DVD set Forbidden Hollywood didn't have so much Norma Shearer. Nathaniel's Shearer lovin' response: grrrr
I Watch Stuff has seen the Meet Bill poster somewhere before
Fabulon Why is Thombeau always showing me things I want that I can't have? Check out these movie dolls
Reverse Shot doesn't want to play Haneke's Funny Games anymore
Victim of the Time Appreciation of The Lovely Laura Linney reveals the terrible truth about IMDB. Nobody who spends non-research time there knows anything about movies (except for possibly superhero and other genre movies)

And check out this cool tribute to Paul Thomas Anderson films... (thanks, Rob) It's beautifully put together, imaginatively so, even if there's not quite enough of the incredibly sad female characters that man has created in favor of those equally well-written lonely men


Greedy Bastards!
Coming Soon it's official that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be two films. This is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard in the history of franchise greed. The middle act in the book could be summed up in about 2 minutes of screen time. Zzzz. It's such a weirdly paced and padded novel -lots of dead space in the middle, too much crammed in at the end. Why add extra padding for the movies. Just work on the pacing. Oh, right. Money. That's all it's about. Not the desire to make the finale the best film it could be.