Ever since it was
announced a month ago that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's fantastic score for Luca Guadagnino's film
Queer is getting a vinyl release -- out in nine days,
pre-order it right here! -- I've been nursing a hankering to re-watch the movie. (Read my review
here.) And now my hanker has gotten itself goosed because the film's supporting sexpot Drew Starkey
has just lined up a new killer role -- he'll be starring Deep Cuts, in the new movie from
Martha Marcy May Marlene and
The Nest director Sean Durkin! (Yes I ignore
The Iron Claw, as it deserves.) And just as exciting -- his co-star is Cailee Spaeny, who I have loved in everything to date, but most especially
Priscilla. (She's ace in the new
Knives Out movie too, by theway.)
Deep Cuts is an adaptation of
a bestseller by Holly Brickley (which came out at the start of this year) that sounds a lot like it's trying to be for the Aughts what (oh let's just go with the classic example)
American Graffiti was for the 1960s -- a nostalgic encapsulation of a recent time period, or as Deadline puts it "a love story about two music- obsessed twenty- somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade." I guess it was formerly supposed to star Saoirsie Ronan and Austin Butler, but no more. I find it much easier to picture Drew as an "Indie Sleaze" sex-god -- he's basically been having photos of himself taken in that drag for the past few years! See that photo above for proof. Anyway this'll be especially interesting to me since it'll be aiming to capture (at least in part) the Brooklyn music scene in the 2000s, which I very much partook in -- it's always a hoot to see a time and place you walked through turned into a rose-colored memory, and yes by "hoot" I do mean "yet another nail in my coffin."
Enhh...I thought Queer was underwhelming and frankly, kinda sad. The vanity of gays and our endless quest to remain young has ALWAYS annoyed me, but I was blown away by that scene of Craig staring into his "mirror" while "Leave Me Alone" was blasting in the background. That gave me the gooses. I could listen to Power Corruption and Lies from start to end.
ReplyDeleteI think there are too many openly gay actors out there so as not to need to hire any actor to pretend to be gay. It's as offensive, in my opinion, as hiring Scarlett Johansson to pretend to be Asian, or Zoe Saldaña to be a dark-skinned black woman. Let's stop that. Hire GAY actors to play gay characters!
ReplyDeleteWell, I liked "Queer." It's different and heady and the characters are interesting; I didn't read the book but I never really mind departures from the original story. Sometimes they're better. Perfect example is "Children of Men." Pretty poor book but one of the best movies in the last 20 years in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteBTW Jason your Pajiba partners are blocking VPN users. Can't get to the review :/