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--- Getcha Basterds Right Here - Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is out on DVD today. It's also getting some love from the Golden Globe nominations this morning. I still have some issues with the film - I think it has pacing problems and honestly felt it should've been longer; I was going through the list of movies I've seen so far this year just yesterday and was contemplating the film, and even though there's a lot I adore about the movie I don't see it making it into my top 10 for this year. There are a lot of films jockeying around right now that I esteem as a whole somewhat higher. But I have the DVD on its way to me as I type this so perhaps a third viewing will change my mind. We'll see.

None of that is my point here though! My point is Slash directs us to this terrific piece by "The Bear Jew" Eli Roth's father in the Jewish Journal about his son's climactic scene in the film (spoilers then), and it's immensely moving. Read it.

--- Music, Crazy - Also at Slash they've got quotes from Abbie Cornish and the delightful Carla Gugino about the fact that there are song and dance numbers in Zach Snyder's girl-flick Sucker Punch. This movie is very very much anticipated by me.

--- Speaking Of Zach Snyder, AICN has got word on Frank Miller's graphic-novel sequel to his 300, and it is thus:

"It'll return at least one character from 300 (Xerxes, played by Rodrigo Santoro in that film): 'Miller is preparing a follow-up now titled “Xerxes,” which begins about 10 years before the events of “300,” and Snyder has expressed interest in it as a film property as well. 'It’s the battle of Marathon through my lens,' Miller said Wednesday. 'I’ve finished the plot and I’m getting started on the artwork.'"

What do we think - will everybody's favorite gold-dusted fairy-giant Rodrigo Santoro reprise the role in Snyder's inevitable film sequel then?

--- Banana Fanna Fo Filbo - Is Tobey Maguire gonna play Bilbo in the Hobbit films? That's a rumor, that exists, in the world, right now. I don't know that I can see it - he's already got Peter Parker and that string of ten more sequels there coming up.

--- In The Machine - Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer has found distribution for 2010 and will be out in the first quarter of the year. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, and Olivia fuckin' Williams, huzzah.

--- Requiem for a Decade - Adam's piece on Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For a Dream over at Club Silencio is a must-read. Choice quote:

"Ellen Burstyn's monumental performance as Sara Goldfarb is the stuff of cinematic legend: a mother and widow succumbing to her loneliness, seeking emotional and social connections while burrowing deeper and deeper into a hellish disconnect. "Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon..." and complete mental breakdown in the evening. Harrowing, painful and ultimately unforgettable."

--- And finally, how annoying is this piece at Cinematical? I swear to god they post at least one column a month that sets my teeth on edge and this would be December's contender for most obnoxious, it seems. It's about the rumor that genuinely great director David O, Russell (also, asshole) might direct the adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that Natalie Portman is set to star in, and it basically argues that god forbid an interesting director take the reins on the project because it might end up being an interesting film instead of some factory-line bullshit. The writer fears Russell will take the project into "smirking hipster territory." Sometimes I just want to give up.
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