I Am Link

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--- Sue V Liz - I'd forgotten just how enthralled I was back in the day with the '95 Oscar race until I read through Nathaniel's take on Meryl Streep's nomination for Best Actress with The Bridges of Madison County - which I've never seen... should I? - and he got into the other ladies nominated. I was completely bowled over by Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas and as much as I liked what Sarandon did in Dead Man Walking, Shue was my lady, and her loss maybe stands as the moment my young disillusionment with the Oscars began. But looking through all the performances that year, it really was an astonishingly strong roster in restrospect. I mean, both Nicole Kidman in To Die For and Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding were left hanging around in the background, for god's sake.

--- Layers O Slayer - Have you been keeping up with Joe's Big Bad Buffy Countdown? He's listing off his top 30 favorite episodes; so far we've gotten 30-26 and 25-21. All choice.

--- American Animal - Glenn shows us the underwhelming American poster for Animal Kingdom, a film he's been championing for a bit that's apparently getting a release here in the States in August. The Aussie posters that he also shows us are so much better. Still, curious about this flick. I love a good evil lady performance, I do, and it's apparently got a whopper.

--- Tigh One On - I haven't been keeping up well eough with Catherine Harwick's Red Riding Hood movie with Amanda Seyfried but I'm psyched to see Michael "BSG's Col. Saul Tigh, hard ass" Hogan getting some work, for sure, and this movie could end up being very interesting, I think.

--- Double Dip - Miss Stacie Ponder set her laser-beams upon both [REC]2 and Neil Marshall's Centurion yesterday, and came up with happy thoughts towards both. I've already had the pleasure of the former and as for the latter, well yippeie-ki-yay motherfucker it's screening in Brooklyn at the end of this month! Score! Besides Centurion, the Northside Film Festival is also showing Todd Solondz's mesmerizing Life During Wartime and James Franco's much-discussed queer short, The Feast of Stephen! Holy crap!

--- Names - This is a list of names: Tom Tykwer. The Wachowskis. Ian McKellan. Natalie Portman. James McAvoy. Tom Hanks. Oh and Halle Berry. Yes that's in lessening order as it strolls along. But it's also some people that are maybe making a movie together. An adaptation of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (haven't read it). Anything Tykwer's ever attached to, I care.

--- And finally, somebody made this video for Psycho's 50th Anniversary yesterday, and it is spectacular.

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