I Am Link

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--- After Jack - I saw the incredibly tense political thriller '71 starring Jack O'Connell at the New York Film Festival a full year ago (here's my review) and the director Yann Demange was there and I took pictures of him (I remember because he's surprisingly handsome but I can't find a link) and here we are and it's 2015 and the Fest is going and only now am I hearing news of his next movie - he's teaming up with Darren Aronofsky (as a producer) on the true story of a teenage police informant in the 1980s who was eventually arrested for drug trafficking.

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--- Enemy Theirs - As any cinephile worth their weight in pretensions will admit, the distributor A24 is where it's at right now - I've orders posters from their online store! That makes me especially pretentious right? They're the studio behind recent movies like Enemy and Under the Skin anyway - they know what they are doing! So maybe you want to read this behind-the-scenes look at them, it's good stuff if you're a nerd like me.

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--- Camp Flamingos - I already linked to one John Waters interview this week (he's got a retrospective happening in London right now) but this interview with him in the Wall Street Journal has actual news and not just hysterical bon mots - his recent college graduation commencement speech is being turned into an illustrated book, is one. And two...

"He is also at work on a new film, which would be his first since “A Dirty Shame” in 2004, but he decided to stay mum on it for now. “Oh, I’ve got a project, but I can’t talk about it. All development deals, it’s like bad luck to talk about it before they happen,” he said. “I’ve never tried to get pregnant, but it’s the same thing. You don’t tell people. Because then it doesn’t happen.”"

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--- Brood On This - Also being feted on distant corners of the globe is David Cronenberg (he's getting a lifetime achievement thing in Iceland) and he gave a big Q&A while there and confessed some juicy stuff -- most of the headlines have been how he said he was offered directing duties on the pilot episode of the second season of True Detective but he turned it down because the script sucked. Way to kick them while they're down, David!
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--- Sing Psycho Sing - Mark your calendars and set aside a clean pair of tighty-whities, we've got news on the American Psycho musical -- it has a space lined up and it will begin previews on march 24th, 2016. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker is still attached to take on yuppie scum magnate Patrick Bateman, even though I keep worrying that his ex-mother-in-law Meryl Streep's gonna wipe him off the face of the planet.
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--- Starry Something - I won't be able to start celebrating the month of October properly until the New York Film Fest is finished but Final Girl is on the case with the annual SHOCKTOBER watch-a-thon beginning - Stacie Ponder's devoting all month to horror films streaming on Netflix, and the first entry is Starry Eyes, which is a very very good way to begin. (Here's my review of that movie.)
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--- Just The Ridge - Over at The Film Experience you can see the first image of Andrew Garfield in (sigh) Mel Gibson's new film Hacksaw Ridge, which is telling the true story of a WWII conscientious objector who nevertheless won the Medal of Honor after saving a bunch of people in a battle. Yes this means you'll see Andrew Garfield in uniform. I'm ashamed to admit I still haven't had time to see 99 Homes, Garfield's currently-in-theaters drama about the housing bubble with Michael Shannon and Laura Dern - I am hoping to find time this weekend. Any of you seen it?

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--- Into the Woods Again - I was hoping I'd see screenwriter Drew Goddard at the New York Film Festival screening of The Martian more than I was hoping to see any of its stars... sadly I did not see him. (I did see Kristen Wiig dancing though.) But he has been giving interviews and over at Den of Geek he admitted that apparently Lionsgate is actively keen on a sequel to Cabin in the Woods... which seems nuts. That movie had such a hard time getting released. But he says he and Joss haven't written anything yet so it's all theoretical at this point anyway.
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