The Poor Things Cometh

There is a big interview in Vogue today with Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos on their forthcoming film Poor Things -- you will be clearly want to check it out right here. Not only do they share the above poster for the first time, but they share several new images from the movie (and the making of) which I will share below. Poor Things isn't out until September, but you can see some of it thanks to the teaser trailer...



... which I inexplicably hadn't yet posted? I think it dropped when I was out of town. That's the only explanation! I did post a few previous photos from the movie right here, though. And now I will share a few more, after the jump...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

Emma Küsters: Everybody's out for something.

Once you realize that, everything is simple.

Writer director and MNPP fave (the last part being the most important, natch) Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born on this day in the year 1945. In all seriousness we sure do like him! Even though he was, as the kids say, problematic. We're all fucking problematic -- but not all of us can turn our bullshit into The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Point Rainer. Have any of you seen Mother Küsters before? It's been awhile for me but I remember loving it very much, with it containing one of his greatest roles for Ali: Fear of the Soul star Brigitte Mira. She plays a housewife and mother who becomes politically radicalized. I feel like this movie used to be kind of tough to get a good copy of, but that changed last year when Arrow included it in their third boxed set of RWF movies. So go see it, is my point. And happy Fassbinder Day!

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... leaning on Morgan Spector. (via)

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Good Morning, Rodeo Ken

Are these cowboy photos of Ryan Gosling camp? I feel like they might be -- they're so aggressively butch, but simultaneously with so many highlights and lowlights and so, so much cleavage. And with him spending the entire interview justifying his role as "Ken" in the Barbie movie... I feel like this has to be considered camp. Camp can be sexy, and these are sexy camp. I'll brook no argument -- I have decided. Campiest thing of the week, y'all. Hit the jump for the whole shoot...

That Romantic Nosferatu

BD has word today that Robert Eggers' long long long awaited new version of Nosferatu wrapped filming in Prague on May 19th -- starring sexyboy Bill Skarsgård as the titular fiend, Lily-Rose Depp as the fair damsel, Nicholas Hoult as her hot cuck hubby, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as some guy named "Friedrich Harding," and Willem Dafoe as "Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz" (yes it's true IMDb has finally updated the cast list with names, huzzah!), the film according to BD filmed for three months. I shared a photo of Nicky, Bill and Aaron chilling at a Prague pub back in April -- now I suppose we just start waiting, and waiting, although the wait is less arduous now that we know the movie's actually been filmed! Eggers has been talking about doing this for a decade, and I have been wanting to see what his Nosferatu would look like for exactly that long. There is a little bit more new info at BD on the movie, and given the look of Eggers' films has become of paramount importance here three masterpieces (yeah I said it) in, it's some vital information:

"Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke confirmed that the film had been shot in color, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism.”

When I think of Romanticism I think of lots of colors -- warm, vibrant colors. So this movie is already shaping up to be very different from the movie I had in my head, which was stark; if not black-and-white then something desaturated and stage-bound like Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. But this painting below, Eugène Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" from 1830, is what Romanticism should make you think of:

Not at all what I had in my head for a Nosferatu! And that makes me incredibly happy, and curious, and yes indeed impatient. I can't wait to see what this thing will look like. I love to be surprised. Now they have me picturing the scenes in Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner where that painter's paintings got recreated in glorious detail:

They Abide and They Endure

Just a quick heads-up that one of the most beautiful and perfect films ever filmed, 1955's The Night of the Hunter -- which was actor Charles Laughton's single directorial effort -- has been released onto 4K blu-ray today by the fine folks at Kino Lorber. Buy it right here -- Amazon's got it on sale for 28 bucks at the moment. This is one of those movies that I will buy over and over and over again with every upgrade that comes along -- I have the already-gorgeous Criterion blu, but I don't know if I'll be able to resist this. Shelley Winters floating corpse in glorious 4K? Who could possibly resist such wonders???

Ohhh I didn't know that @KinoLorber just dropped THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER onto 4K today https://t.co/HMNTEtm9b5 I might have to upgrade -- this stunner deserves it every time! pic.twitter.com/6gReuqPzQF

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 30, 2023

Which is Hotter?

Both Orlando Bloom and James Marsden were pap-snapped having some fun in the sun over the holiday weekend -- both of them had just been at Cannes and both of them were photographed in Antibes, France, and on very similar looking rafts to boot! So it's a shame they weren't splashing around together! But no -- if they were together the photographers didn't seem to capture that. James was photographed with...

... French actor Benoit Magimel (from Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher and many more) though! What a strange small world if you're rich, beautiful, and famous. Anyway if anybody can find proof that Marsden & Bloom were together send it my way -- I'm just going to force them to compete for our pleasure though:

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That sorted I have several more photos of the both of them,

so hit the jump and I will share them...

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The Manitou (1978)

John Singing Rock: What does a

white man want with Indian magic?

Harry Erskine: There's a 400-year-old

medicine man that's being reincarnated

on the back of a woman that I know.

John Singing Rock: How well do

you know this woman?

Harry Erskine: Quite well.

John Singing Rock: Well, that should help.

Love is one of the strongest medicines there is.

I hadn't planned on saying anything about the fact that I re-watched the utterly ridiculous 1978 trash called The Manitou yesterday, because the fact that I have seen this garbage two or three times more than I have seen any Ingmar Bergman movie is kind of embarrassing. (And "kind of" is me being very kind to myself.) But then I saw that today would have been the 85th birthday of the actress Susan Strasberg -- the daughter of famed thesp-teacher Lee Strasberg, she played the woman with the 400-year-old medicine man growing on her back mentioned above -- and it seemed to big a coincidence not to bring this movie up. Do you think she asked her father for advice on how to play this character? "Daddy, how do I convincingly shoot lasers out of my fingers at a gigantic eyeball while topless on a hospital bed floating in outer space?" The mind boggles. What a movie!

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Good Morning, World

Happy Tuesday and welcome back from the holiday weekend -- I would say that this photo of baby twink Alexander Skarsgård (via) was a gift to thsoe of you who are mourning the TV show Succession, which aired its finale this past weekend, but it is very clearly a gift to everyone of us. Even people like me who think Succession is a gigantic pile of steaming cow-plop! Ahhhhhh (to quote Jessie Ware) that, felt good. What I am mourning is my ability to poke at that show and its fans, since they're so Borg-mindedly defensive about it. That's what I will miss most of all! Anyway let's get on with it, busy few weeks ahead.

Your Hurt My Wisp

There are two very good movies out today! Hard to believe, it being summer and all -- I mean neither of the movies I speak of are the live-action re-do of The Little Mermaid. Nothing against Melissa McCarthy playing Ursula the Sea Witch -- I kinda love that. But I haven't seen that yet and I probably won't until a very bored weekend afternoon when it's streaming. For now though you should head to the theaters (if you live in a place where these smaller titles are showing) to see these two films -- first off there is Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues’ futuristic pornographic fireman musical Will-o’-the-Wisp, which is a description that nope, I am still not tired of writing. I reviewed the film at NYFF last year, read that here. (And here is the trailer.) I've been dying to see it again because in its sixty-ish minutes it packs so much strangeness in that I didn't come close to sussing out all of its meaning with a first view. But even among all the weirdness it's sexy and goofy and unforgettable. 

Far easier to "get" but no less enjoyable a viewing experience there is Nicole Holofcener's new movie You Hurt My Feelings, which reunites her with the world's greatest comic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. That's right, I said it. And right this second as long as I don't try to think up other options I mean it, too! Here is my Sundance review of the film. She plays an author who accidentily hears her loving husband saying he hates her new book, causing her to, as one can expect from JLD, spiral in hysterical fashion. It's a perfect fit into Holofcener's canon -- heartfelt, perfectly observed, and laugh-out-loud funny. Sometimes summer is good to us! Here's the trailer:

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Good Morning, World

Jeez, is Ted Lasso actor Phil Dunster's press agent earning their overtime bucks this month or what? This is the third big photo-shoot of him in May -- see the first one here and the second one here -- this time for Man About Town magazine (via). We ain't complaining. He's got a face worth looking at three times in one month -- heck, maybe even twice that! Anyway a heads-up that I've got a half-day today and then we're off on Monday for the holiday, so prepare your bodies. And once that's done (once your bodies, and minds, and souls, are prepared) hit the jump for all of the other Phil photos...

Young Mazino Seven Times

If you watched Beef on Netflix (I reviewed the series here, if you missed it) then you no doubt recognize Young Mazino, who played Steven Yeun's brother on that series and often stole the spotlight from his more recognizable co-stars. Yes, sometimes he did it by being naked! Nothing wrong with that. Anyway Netflix's Queue magazine were smart enough to get him to flash some more flesh for a new photo-shoot and interview -- click over there for the words, but I got the pictures! Hit the jump for them...

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How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2018)

Zan: What is Punk, Boadicea?

Queen Boadicea: It's just the fag end
of the Blues, dear.

A happy 5 to this incredibly underrated musical-comedy from John Cameron Mitchell! I said at the time it was like a lost episode of The Monkees crossed with the miniseries V and I very much stand by that assessment! It's super goofy and Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are having a blast and I wanna re-watch it right this minute.

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Pics of the Day

I ended up having to take down my post of paparazzi photos taken on the set of Fellow Travelers last year because the studio freaked out about them and were making Google snap its jaws at us little people -- if you do a google search I'm sure they still come up because the internet is forever, but you might recall they were a wonderful assortment of photos of Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer romping around half-naked on the beach, as seen in the first official still from the limited series seen above. That's coming from Vanity Fair, which has a big piece on the forthcoming series today -- see my first post about FT right here, which gives the gist. Or I suppose to click over to Vanity Fair, where they have a more thorough gist and several more photos. I doubt Google will threaten them!

Good Morning, World

And a happy 28th birthday to Nope breakout Brandon Perea today! That gif is taken from a video on Brandon's Instagram of him doing some Spider-man moves that's a couple of years old but it's new to my eyes and my eyes are satisfied. See more of Brandon that we posted circa Nope right here. Next for the actor? He just signed onto that Twister sequel Twisters a couple of weeks ago! So another disaster-in-the-skies flick. Don't get typecast, stud!

Anyway that sucker (heh, get it) is chockfull o' hotness though, with Glen Powell, David Corenswet, and Anthony Ramos also on board in its cast beside Brandon. Oh and ALSO there's super-hottie Daryl McCormack from Good Luck to You, Leo Grande! Y'all should probably just prepare yourselves because good grief am I going to make SO many jokes about tornados + sucking with this flick...