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Tony Scott's lesbian vampire classic The Hunger was released 35 years ago yesterday, and so we're scissoring ourselves into the celebration - click over to The Film Experience to pick your sexy sapphic poison.
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Monday, April 30, 2018
James Marsden Two Times
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In these photographs James is somehow managing to express my current mood -- I have a splitting headache from an extreme bout of insomnia last night -- in a sexy way, and for that I am thankful we have James Marsden. I project my misery here and it's not so bad. Thanks, Jimmy. (PS I haven't watched last night's episode of Westworld yet so don't say anything please.)
Today's Secret Word is... Funko
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Ahhhhh!!! Funko is doing a line of Pee-wee's Playhouse figures! They're out at the end of May. To be honest I'm not huge on loving Funko unless they do something different than the Big Head Cow Eyes design they're known for; I only have one of those sorts of figures (the stag-man from Hannibal cuz come on). But I do tend to love their little figures, like the ones they did for The Golden Girls and Twin Peaks...
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OH MY BOB I didn't realize that Funko's TWIN PEAKS figures were on sale already YOU WILL BE MINEEEEE https://t.co/CCvhAJgGcg #TwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/a6AsPBvuzf— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 4, 2017
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That said they're different enough that
I'm very into the Chairry & Pterri figures...
I'm very into the Chairry & Pterri figures...
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Holy Smoke (1999)
PPJ: I don't want to disempower you. If you want
disempowerment, you go back to mother India.
See how they treat women there. Or didn't you notice all
those little ultrasounds beeping away? So that people can
say, "Oh, my God, it's a girl!" And flush her out of the border.
Ruth: They're more honest.
PJ: Excuse me?
Ruth: They're more honest in their hatred of women!
PJ: I don't hate women. I love ladies.
Ruth: Ha! Ladies. You wouldn't know any. I bet you date
little barbie dolls, don't you? "Oh you so brainy!
You're so big! Can I suck your dick?" Can I be alone now?
This movie feels ripe for a re-watch - it's been years.
Anybody watched it lately? Happy 64 to Jane Campion today!
It's Morning Again, World
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Two "Good Morning" posts right in a row make me feel like a dullard - where did them twenty-four hours go? I don't know about you but I had my feet raised and my Elio in front of me, that's (some of) what I did. Anyway I hope it was a nice twenty-four for you and that you're ready for the new week because ready or not (I am most definitely the latter) it's Monday. Oh and it's also the birthday of the director Jacques Audiard - that's the actor Tahar Rahim you see here in Audiard's 2009 film A Prophet.
Very good movie, that! It was either that or Matthias Schoenaerts in Rust and Bone and we just did that Matthias post yesterday plus we've pretty thoroughly covered R&B before. (See here.) Anyway we're fairly very excited for Audiard's next movie, which we've talked about a couple of times already - it's his first English-language film, it's called The Sisters Brothers, and it stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, John C Reilly, and Joaquin Phoenix. I think it should be out by the end of the year, but who knows, the way the world is...
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Good Morning, World
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my interruption for this video of Matthias Schoenaerts
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Happy Sunday, folks.
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Friday, April 27, 2018
Say Good Night, Ewan
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The Tribeca Film Festival ends on Sunday but you should stay tuned to The Film Experience probably through all of next week for more reviews from me and my fellow movie-reviewing compatriots - for the time being though I have hard hit a wall and spent the past couple of hours just swimming in place trying to get to the end of the day... and it's here... so I'm out. Enjoy this lovely new photograph of lovely Ewan McGregor (via) and have a nice weekend, everybody.
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Raúl Castillo Three Times
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The pictures that I took of Raúl and the rest of the cast at the We The Animals screening I attended last weekend at Tribeca weren't the greatest, but you can see one here if you'd like. I hope to write up my thoughts on the film soon, but it's not an urgent priority since somebody else is writing it up for The Film Experience. Hopefully nest week once things've wound down...
... since the film's phenomenal, absolutely unmissable. I had no idea going in what to expect (I'd missed the praise during Sundance) and was floored by it. It's out in August and I highly recommend marking the date in your calendars right now. And not just because of this. That doesn't hurt. Not even a little. But not just that.
Great Moments In Movie Shelves #147
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One of my favorite things about Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread - and I had quite a few since it was my second favorite movie of 2017 - is how small and cramped and old almost all of the rooms felt in the world of Woodcock. Something the tacky Donald Trumps of the world will never understand about actual luxury is the grandeur of compact spaces - lord knows I'm a New Yorker so I'm brainwashed by necessity but the football-field sized living-rooms of America's McMansions smell of utter desolation to me; give me a series of tight small spaces overwhelmed with beautiful objects (think the endless drawing rooms in The Age of Innocence for another example) and I feel utter peace.
There are a load of examples of this old-money think-small mindset in Phantom Thread - the party at the Baltimores towards the end of the film is pretty choice - but I was obviously pretty keen on this fainting quarters of Reynolds' own because swoon times one thousand what i would give for a library slash fainting quarters of my own. Also on the big screen...
... that painting feels much more prominent and I was really transfixed by it. I don't know if that's a real artist or not - does anyone recognize it? But it's prominently lit so we're clearly meant to notice it. What it reminds me of most is the scene (later in the film) where Reynolds, actually sick (not just being a toddler having a fit) and again being waited on by Alma, where he is visited by the ghost of his mother. The picture n the shelves feels like an early echo of that sort of ghostly presence that haunts the film... or you might even say the thread of phantoms that run through the picture...
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
The Shape of Water (2017)
Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful.
If I could go back to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything
about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
Elisa: [in sign language] What would you say?
Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth
and fuck, a lot more. [Elisa smiles and gently nudges him]
Giles: Oh no, no, that's very good advice.
Who won Best Actress this year?
Oh it wasn't Sally Hawkins,
who is celebrating 42 today, you say?
Well isn't that interesting...............
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Heads Up, Ed
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“A Patriot” takes place in a future authoritarian state that has walled itself away from a world ravaged by climate chaos and resource wars. The story follows the unquestioning Border Corp Captain — played by Green — as she fights to defend the purity of the population, until a chance discovery makes her doubt the authorities she has pledged her allegiance and life to protect."
And in related news...
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You're going to have to excuse me for a minute— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 27, 2018
This picture of Riz Ahmed & Ed Skrein has winded me pic.twitter.com/RSohBSDHqd
Prince Among Men
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S Is For Suspiria
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I had to stop reading tweets out of the Suspiria remake's CinemaCon presentation yesterday after about ten seconds because I didn't want to hear anymore details about specific footage until i saw it all myself, but the general vibe sounds super grotesque, like director Luca Guadagnino really fucking went for it, and about that I am a happy happy clam. Anyway that above is the teaser poster - no word on when we're seeing a trailer yet but t.he movie has a Twitter account now so follow them here and we'll all be the first to see the trailer together!
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Today was fun. #Suspiria pic.twitter.com/MglzLXOB6n— Suspiria (@suspiriamovie) April 26, 2018
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In related news the Metrograph movie theater here in NYC has announced they're doing a Dario Argento series in June, and apparently the man himself is going to be there for some screenings! OHHHH MYYYY GODDDD. It's also a really fantastic choice of films from the director - I love that they're showing The Stendhal Syndrome for one, and not just because of how brain-scorchingly dirty-hot Thomas Kretschmann is in it... not just, I said.
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All of my immediate future plans are as of now cancelled so I can refresh @MetrographNYC every five seconds until tickets for their DARIO ARGENTO series go on sale pic.twitter.com/DMVeGMN5bT— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 26, 2018
Martha Marcy Jude Coon
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"[The film] will feature Law as a businessman who brings his American wife and kids home to Britain to pursue new business opportunities, only to be plunged into despair as their unaffordable new life in an English manor threatens to destroy the family. As the eerie isolation of the house divides the family, each member descends into a self-destructive cycle, leaving everyone unsure if the clan will survive.".
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Don't Call My Name, Alessandro
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You should probably only read this if you've seen Disobedience already but there's an interesting chat with Alessandro Nivola up at Awards Daily (thanks Mac) in which the actor talks about his process of crawling under his character's skin for the film - bookmark it until you see the movie, at least. In case you missed it I reviewed the movie at TFE yesterday - the film is out in theaters this weekend and I highly recommend seeking it out. It's the best thing I've seen in 2018. Rachel Weisz & Alessandro are doing Q&As here in NYC at a pair of screenings tomorrow that I would kill to go to if I weren't still tied up with Tribeca stuff. Somebody go and take pictures of these beautiful talented people for me, please.
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
KaKay: Personally, I never subscribed to that old
Egyptian custom. At least I think it was Egypt.
Cary: What Egyptian custom?
Kay: Of walling up the widow alive in the funeral chamber
of her dead husband along with all of his other possessions.
The theory being that she was his possession too so she was
supposed to journey into death with him. And the community
saw to it that she did. Course that doesn't happen anymore.
Cary: Doesn't it? Well, perhaps not in Egypt.
The great Douglas Sirk was born 121 years ago today.
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I Don't Do Much Talking These Days
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I love all the photographs of Nico and Andy Warhol doing Batman and Robin so much. They delight me. But if that's the Nico you think of when you think of Nico you should probably definitely watch the new bio-pic called Nico, 1988, which catches up with the iconic singer twenty years after her Warholian heyday - my review of the movie's up at The Film Experience now. Short version: the actress Trine Dyrholm is unmissable in the film.
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Even More Pics of the Day
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I'm not feeling super creative with post titles today, my apologies, so these new shots of Rami Malek playing Freddie Mercury in the forthcoming rock bio-pic Bohemian Rhapsody are just going to have to get umbrella'd in under some same old same old, sorry. I still have no idea what to think about this movie - it seem troubled even before Bryan Singer got fired as its director, what with all the word that the surviving members of Queen were having way too much input and possibly diluting what should be an R-rated story. We'll see! If you missed the previous pic of Rami in costume click here.
Mary Elizabeth For President of Everything
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It feels strange to feel that Mary Elizabeth Winstead is woefully underrated given how much she works and with prestige people at that - she just recently turned in a generally lauded performance on the last season of Fargo, for instance - but to those of us who love her we really feel like she should be getting more. More roles, more praise, more attention as a very talented very serious actress. It's a lot of shouldas - she shoulda gotten an Oscar nomination for her performance in Smashed back in 2013, she shoulda gotten Emmy nomination for Fargo, and goddammit BrainDead shoulda stayed on the air! Well fingers crossed because Tribeca just gave her maybe her best showcase to date, at least as far as movies are concerned - go read my review of All About Nina over at The Film Experience. And then join me in forming a chanting circle to make whatever needs to happen happen to get this woman an Oscar nomination.
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Start the fucking Oscar campaign for Mary Elizabeth Winstead right now #Tribeca2018 #AllAboutNina pic.twitter.com/kbRwPvIkWz— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 24, 2018
Pics of the Day
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The first photographs from Lars von Trier's upcoming... uh, movie? Miniseries? I'm still not sure which it is. Anyway it's called The House That Jack Built and it stars Matt Dillon as a serial killer doing his thing in the US in the 1970s and I have no doubt whatsoever that it will piss a bunch of people off because Lars von Trier. There's a teaser trailer right here, although I myself haven't watched it.
It also stars Uma Thurman and Bruno Ganz and Riley Keough - can you guys believe the career that Riley's built by the way? I think she's great so I'm happy about it but I wouldn't have guessed it a couple of years ago - and Jeremy Davies, among others; it's not going to be released properly until this fall but it's premiering out of competition at Cannes next month so we're sure to hear plenty soon. You can hit the jump for a couple more pictures...
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