Oy Vey This Goy Is Beyond Smitten

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The Box opens in 11 days so I suspect we'll be seeing and hearing from the film's director Richard Kelly and perhaps its stars, James Marsden, Cameron Diaz and Frank Langella, in the interim. In fact I doubt I'll be able to keep up with it all. Mostly because I'm too lazy for that nonsense. But for now, here's a couple things!

Kelly will be blogging all week long over at MTV, so check that out if you care to. As of now he's already instructed me that David Lynch has a Twitter account, something I did not know, so that was cool of him. Cool!


And then there was a nice chat with the director over at the New York Times over the weekend. If by "nice" I mean "riddled with his boot-shaking desperate-for-a-hit terror." And I do! Choice bit:

"In person Mr. Kelly comes across like a former fraternity guy, his torn jeans and gelled hair complementing a T-shirt that reveals an obsessive weightlifter. “My dream is to be able to have thought-recognition software that, as I’m exercising, will just write the script,” he said.

His Twitter feed (with more than 5,000 followers) has revealed his love of University of Southern California football, beer pong and the Coen brothers’ movie “A Serious Man.” (“Oy vey! This goy is beyond smitten!” he tweeted.)

Everyone interviewed for this article mentioned the dissonance within Mr. Kelly. “A contradiction would imply something that would be understood,” Mr. [Jake] Gyllenhaal said, “two things that would be a yin and a yang. He’s not that.” Mr. Gyllenhaal then took a moment to formulate an accurate description. “I sometimes feel like he’s out of the mind of John Hughes. He’s like the missing character in ‘The Breakfast Club.’"

Somewhere right at the start of those paragraphs everything went flying off the rails and it might take me a week to figure out what any of it means. The whole article's like that. And that's why I like this man.
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