I Am Link

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--- Fassy Has No Shame - Nor should he, of course! So a huge thanks to everybody who alerted me to all the "OMG Michael Fassbender goes full frontal!" news coming out of Venice and Telluride where his new film Shame premiered to what seems to be lots of acclaim, alongside the lusty stirrings. You're good people, keeping me in that loop! I've got my tickets for the NYFF screening, so that's... god, a month and one day away. SIGH.

Anyway Deadline has some word on what all the happy explicit penis (and apparently Carey Mulligan's vagina makes a surprise appearance too!) could mean for the film's release here in the US. Thankfully director Steve McQueen doesn't seem the type to go cutting things for any ratings board - let's not forget Lil' Fassy was flopping all over Hunger.

You can see a bunch of newly-released pictures, and a clip, from the movie over at IndieWire. Oh and you should check out what TFE's Venice correspondent Ferdi had to say on that film - he dubs it a masterpiece! - as well as all his reportings from out there. We're not only looking forward to this movie for the dirty bits, ya know. They're just a great big uncut plus!
 

--- Speaking of Carey Mulligan's vagina, she's probably going to make another movie with her Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, and all we really know about it is it's called I Walk With the Dead and it's going to have "lots of sex in it."

--- Archers Updated - I was reading this article about how I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino might make an English-language film next, supposedly a sort of remake of the Alain Delon movie The Swimming Pool seen there to the right (and once again I wish anybody on Earth good luck at bettering Alain), when I saw the news that he's also been planning on reuniting with Tilda to make a movie that'd be "an homage to Michael Powell"? I want that movie! I want it right now! Although my boyfriend rightly pointed out that Tilda would have to be the man in a Michael Powell movie, she's far too sharp for one of the girls.

--- Hate State - Pax offers up some positive thoughts on Kevin Smiths' Red State, which is playing VOD these days, I saw it listed when I was looking for Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil last night (which I didn't get around to watching yet anyway, dammit).

--- Were-wang - Joe Manganiello isn't gonna be showing you his penis any time soon. And that's why you'll never be taken as seriously as Michael Fassbender, dude! (That, and the extreme difference in acting talent of course, but let's make him think it's just the penis thing so he changes his mind.)

--- Ruff - Glenn's highlighting some truly spectacular poster designs from Mexico and Ghana over here. I'm completely in love with the one for Cujo.

--- Space Junk - The Guardian has an interesting piece - if labels like "modernist" and "post-modernist" seem interesting to you at all, that is; it depends on my mood if I'm up for giving a shit - on whether Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind might be the "first and greatest work of postmodern art" or not. Choice quote:

"Science fiction is a form of modernism. It shares modern art's belief in progress and meaningful change: it proposes a history of the future. 2001, the great modernist science fiction film, actually creates a model of history in which we evolve as a species under alien guidance. By contrast, Close Encounters does not offer any sense of history or progress or any theory as to what the alien encounter means. It is rooted in everyday suburbia and the revelation that unfurls is beyond understanding."

--- Freud V Jung - Over at Club Silencio Adam takes a look at the recent trailers for Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method - as for the latter, he wants to know who you'd rather lay down on the couch for a 60 minute session with, Mortensen or Fassbender?
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--- The Spooky Season - In less than a month it will be the bestest month out of the year, Osctober. Excuse me, SHOCKtober! Final Girl's going to be celebrating in style and is asking us to send her our favorite horror movie characters of all time. Head over and hear her out.

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