I Am Link

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--- Firstly, y'all can click on over here to enter a contest to win a pair of tickets to a preview screening of A Single Man here in NYC, Tom Ford's film with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, which I really dug. There are also passes for the film in ten other US cities and soundtracks to win too. The soundtrack, by the way, is lovely. I've always had a thing for über-dramatic strings though.

--- Get Serious - Next, I demand that you go and read my bud Sean's piece on the Coens latest flick A Serious Man right now. Go! Read it! He put so many of my feelings about the film into words that I wasn't able to. I still have every intention of seeing the film a second time, and Sean's piece has got me even more enthusiastic about it. One of the best movies I've seen this year, by far; one that's haunted me for weeks now.

--- Monsters Mashed - Over at io9 they've got a terrific gallery of images from Tim Burton's exhibit at MoMA right now of monster movies he hasn't gotten to make. I meant to go to the show this past weekend but time got away from me; probably this weekend then.

--- Mid Ladies - The date has been set, the gauntlet thrown down! If you wanna join in on Stinky Lulu's 4th annual celebration of supporting actress performances of the year, the day will be January 17th, 2010. Click on over for the details.

--- Bad Cop Good Cop - I wasn't as in love with Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant film as I wanted to be but I still appreciated this briefish piece on the film over at Sunset Gun. But then I always appreciate whatever Kim Morgan has to say on pretty much anything. I have such a heretosexualish crush on her. I mean, she got to meet Herzog, and she basically just gushes about that fact. I would too! God I would too. I've been fortunate enough to have seen so many of my heroes at screenings here in New York (Haneke, Aronofsky, Park Chan-wook), but he's eluded me so far. Argh.

--- Further proving what a rock-star she is, Morgan also wrote up a terrific piece on the ten year anniversary of Fight Club, and it knocked my designer socks off. I can't believe the movie is ten years old though. Marla Singer!

--- Go Green - Ryan Reynolds talked a little bit about The Green Lantern to MTV:

"That to me is the tough thing to get right," he explained. "And that's something that they did get right [in 'Iron Man']. You see why this guy's in the suit, and that's what's interesting to me. Not that he is in the suit, but why.

... It is [an origin story] to a certain degree, but it's not a labored origin story, where the movie [truly] begins in the third act," he explained. "The movie starts when it starts. We find out Hal is the guy fairly early on, and the adventure begins."

--- Mister Potter & Co - Over at Cinematical they've got the first official image from the first half of the final pair of Harry Potter films, based off the last book The Deathly Hallows (convoluted much?), seen here:


It's always a boring shot of those three staring towards the camera that's the first image released, isn't it? Blah. But over at DH, the film's director David Slade is talking about his grungier take on the series than previous installments, as well as... nudity?

"It's going to feel very real. We're going for a vérité approach. Being away from Hogwarts, they're like these three refugees on the run. They're out in the big bad world, facing real danger, unguarded by those wonderful benign wizards at Hogwarts. They don't have a home to go to. We're kind of pulling away from the magic a bit and bringing more reality to it" said Yates.

One thing that may be surprising is nudity. Readers will remember 'The Silver Doe' chapter from the book in which Harry strips down to his undies to retrieve a sword from the bottom of a lake.

If Radcliffe in wet tighty-whities isn't enough to get the girls screaming, Yates indicates he may have no kit on at all as Ron sees nightmarish visions produced by a horcrux trying to defend itself and Yates tells Video Business (via Coming Soon) that one "shows Hermione and Harry embracing and kissing. It's something intriguing and sensual for Rupert to react to, and Dan will be bare for that."

Hey now! It won't just be the girls screaming there in the theater. I'll be clutching my wizard's robes about me in engorged anticipation too. Oh dear. The things I type sometimes. The shame.
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