I Am Link

--- The Strangers Are Coming, Again - Consider me a member of the cult who think Alex Proyas' Dark City is a genius film, so I'm pleased as punch to hear it's getting the proper big DVD treatment. As long as they leave that Roger Ebert commentary track on, which is brilliant unto itself.

--- What Rich Said - FourFour's got a good piece up defending the right of a person to feel the desire to watch transgressive - in this case, so-called "torture porn" - cinema. He's taking to task a tactic of reviewers that I too find particularly offensive - saying that one even having the desire to watch such films equals a deficiency within whomever would feel that desire. All that said, I have no plans to see Captivity, but only because it looks so utterly bad.

--- Miike's Big Gay Movie - I haven't written anything on what I thought of Takashi Miike's A Big Bang Love: Juvenile film that I saw at the NYAFF because... well, to be honest, I was sorta at a loss for words. Thankfully Twitch reviewed it from a separate screening and I find their words... illuminating. It was a fascinating film from a highly hit-or-miss director; I've got Izo lined up to watch soon, so perhaps, if they're really semi-companion at least in tone as Twitch says they are I'll get more of a grasp on what Miike's going for... or not.

--- Err... Harrison Ford signed on for three new Indy movies? All the jokes have already been made - Indiana Jones and the Arthritis Cream of Doom, for example - so I'll just leave it be. But I don't buy it.

--- Strange Brew - I know I'd posted before that David Gordon Green, he of All the Real Girls direction, was directing the next Judd Apatow Family Picture - called The Pineapple Express - but to hear that it really exists, and is being screened and review at AICN... it's real? My mind's blown. And highly anticipatory.

--- I know people who know people in the band Spoon. This means I am like one degree of separation from people in Radiohead. It also means I could have heart failure right this instant. Apparently a couple members of Radiohead were at the listening party for Spoon's new album, and let it slip that they're in New York because they're mastering the new album. Which means... I mean, that's gotta mean it'll be out before the end of the year, right? Knees buckling...