I Am Link

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--- All About Amy - One of the movies I'm most sad about missing at Tribeca because of timing issues (there are only so many hours and so much sanity in a day) is Goodbye To All That, the new movie from the director of Junebug which stars three of my favorite people - Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey, and in a small but inevitably memorable (always memorable) turn Amy Sedaris. IndieWire caught up with Miss Amy to talk about the movie and her process and oh my god it's a delightful thing to read. (thanks Mac) Loved this bit about having to adapt her affinity for broadness to different director's visions:

"I'm always like, 'Why'd you hire me?' It's just so hard to pull back, or you pull back a little, and then you feel like you're not doing much. I always like to have some kind of weird character. I need something to hide behind so it's weird if I don't have that."

--- Image Maker - It's weird that I'd forgotten what a fantastic music video director Birth and Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer was, since he directed a couple of Radiohead videos that sit amongst the greatest things the medium ever produced, but I did, so thankfully this list of his best videos at The Playlist is there to remind me. Their #1 pick makes me cry whenever I watch it, just so you know.

--- Timed Out - I suppose this is sort of spoilery for the next X-Men movie but whatever, I don't really know anything and this is what I figured, it's not rocket science - they'll be using the time travel story-line and this new movie as a way to give most of the old folks (McKellen, Stewart, Berry, et al) the boot I mean "a proper farewell" and swing things into a new timeline where younger prettier things can take center stage. Shocker! Except for Hugh Jackman! He'll be popping those rage roid veins from his forearms til he's in the triple digits.

--- Jobs For Everybody - Last week I wrote about how Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor had supposedly finally recently made up after Boyle chose Leonardo Dicaprio over Ewan for The Beach, and how that meant we might finally see the sequel to Trainspotting, so I find it funny to read today that Boyle might be making the Steve Jobs movie (the one that David Fincher got kicked off of slash abandoned) with Leo in the lead his next movie - funny because what if Boyle delays working with Ewan for Leo again? Feud forever!

--- Shaky Cam Love In - You probably know that I'm more forgiving for the found-footage genre of horror than a lot of people seem to be - I think there are things about it that work marvelously well. That you-are-there vérité feel can make a movie walk on water. So I'm down with this article over at Fangoria giving love to the sub-genre, although some of the titles mentioned (oh my god Apollo 18 noooooo) need never be thought of ever ever again and you hurt your argument by bringing them up, sir.

--- Hot Mess - I haven't watched any of the Lindsay Lohan reality show, I didn't think I could deal with her anymore, but Kim Morgan's piece at Vulture on it has me aiming for a binge watch once the whole thing's available. Bless Kim for always reminding me of the value of damaged difficult complicated messy interesting women - my exasperation with tabloid nonsense sometimes makes me forget.

--- Knight Down - I am a little bit weirded out by the reaction people have had to the rape scene on this week's episode of Game of Thrones - I agree that the episode's director stuck his foot in his mouth talking about it, but if you're not going to protest scenes like a little child being forced to watch his parents be murdered in front of him, which also happened that episode, then maybe you should step back your indignation a little bit. It's a show about complicated generally horrible people doing complicated generally horrible things, and just because it's the dreamy guy doing it now everybody's all conflicted or betrayed or whatever. Good! Be conflicted! Let's not forget he threw a child out of a window in the first episode, either - I don't recall the internet being split at the seams with outrage then. Maybe don't expect your morality to be kowtowed to a show as amoral as this one, is all I am saying. Anyway the funniest thing about all of this to me was George R R Martin's reaction, which was basically - I don't know nothin' bout no TV show, yo!
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