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--- Sweet Miss Mortimer - AICN has an interview with adorable Emily Mortimer up, in which she speaks a bit about a bunch of her recent films - Lars and the Real Girl (which I saw but never reviewed - I went into it with low expectations and enjoyed it muchly; I really think it's gotten a bad rap critically, and Ryan Gosling continues being terrific); Transsiberian - the Brad "Session 9" Anderson directed thriller will play at Sundance, she says; Number 13 - the Hitchcock semi-bioipic (prev. spoken of here) seems to have hit a snag financially; and Redbelt, David Mamet's film about the mysterious world of Jujitsu. Busy girl!

And, as we'd expect, Mortimer comes off as 150% adorableness. Consider this post, Emily, an open invitation for you and your darling delicious hubby for dinner and booze at my place any time! For you, a large meal stuffed with yummy tryptophan, and for the hubby, um, MDMA-laced whatever.

--- Out Of The... - The NYT has an article/interview on/with Stephen King/Frank Darabont about The Mist. Sayeth the duo:

"“I wanted to make as realistic movie as I could,” he explained. “If you look at a classic horror movie like ‘The Exorcist,’ part of what makes it so scary is that it feels so damn real. If you add a layer of too much hysterical, theatrical reality, then audiences take it less seriously. But if you play it for absolute reality, then the dread and the horror — which is why we go to horror movies in the first place — is reinforced.”

Mr. King added: “I also like that the effects were not C.G.I. They did it with old-fashioned stop action, and the whole thing feels like it has a relation to average American emotional life. You miss that in ‘Death Proof,’ ‘Hostel,’ ‘Saw.’ But this is set in a supermarket, for Pete’s sake. It’s more like ‘Twilight Zone.’”

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