Friday, September 06, 2013

I Am Link

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--- Fig Leif - Ryan Kwanten is going to star in a movie about the Vikings (the old-timey ones not the football team), which reminds me of Karl Urban's peekaboo loincloth that was kept way too covered up in that movie Pathfinder. What a waste. But back to Kwanten - I know I shouldn't worry since he does such an ace Southern accent on True Blood that I constantly forget he's Aussie, but I am worried about his Viking accent anyway. If he wears a loincloth I promise to not care.

--- Camera Action - The New York Times made a list of twenty young directors that we ought to be paying attention to, and I talked a little bit about the list over at The Film Experience this afternoon. Emphasis on a little, since I haven't totally made it through the entire piece at the NYT yet. Still, Sarah Polley! Always cause to get excited.

--- Bombs Away - Also at the Times today, here's an economist's take on why the Summer Movie Season we just trudged through was been filled with duds, bombs, doody nuggets and the like - her chicken-egg hypothesis makes a lot of sense to this person.

--- Say Yes To Edgerton - Wanna know what a great big upgrade looks like? Joel Edgerton replacing Johnny Depp in a movie. Big ass upgrade! Edgerton's set to star in Shantaram, which Depp was once attached to, and which is about, and I quote, "[a man who] starts as an Australian heroin addict who escapes a maximum-security prison, reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of India and eventually uses gun-running and counterfeiting skills to fight against the invading Russian troops in Afghanistan." Indeed. That be bonkers.

--- September's Tidings - What movies should you see this month? Joe Reid's telling you what's what over at Tribeca. There are actually a few I'm really very excited about, all of which I'm sure you could already name if pressed. October's still where it's at though, all thanks to Gravity.

--- I don't even want to post it here since I think it's so lousy so I'm just linking you over to the first trailer for the Robocop remake, which I wanted to be watchable only because I want Joel Kinnaman to be a movie star, he's so pretty on screen. Alas, this thing looks terrible, like a re-do of the Total Recall remake, like they sucked all wit and POV out of everything Verhoeven was getting at again. And good lord Abbie Cornish just cannot win.

--- Dark Adriana - Before I started watching The Sopranos I would not have given a shit about this news, but now that I am knee-deep in it (in the middle of the fifth season right now) I'm totally excited to hear that Drea DeMatteo has just joined the cast of Charlize Theron's new movie, that adaptation of Gillian Flynn's book Dark Places. Love Drea. If I listen really hard at any given moment I can hear her saying, "CHRISSY!"

--- Dean For Dane - We heard way back in May that Control director Anton Corbijn was planning on making a movie about the friendship between James Dean and a photographer who traveled with him a bunch; now we've got a cast - Dane DeHaan is playing James Dean (apparently he only wants to play roles that are James Franco related) and Robert Pattinson is playing the photographer. I liek Dane a lot but I don't see Dean.

--- Bye Mamet - While I'm always happy to hear that Cate Blanchett's working, I have mixed feelings about seeing her hook up to make a movie with David Mamet now that he's clearly revealed himself to be a right-wing nut-job. I mean, I love The Spanish Prisoner a whole heckuva lot, but Mamet can still kinda go fuck himself.
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2 comments:

will h said...

Ah! Halfway through Season 5? You're about to get to my favorite episode of The Sopranos!

Prospero said...

I make the mistake of auditing one of Mamet's acting classes back in the early 90's. He walked in the firts day and said "I can teach a dog to act." He's been a flaming asshat in mind, ever since.