On one hand, Elia Kazan sold out all his buddies, and on the other, he directed On the Waterfront, so I guess I’m willing to look past him doing what he thought was right. He would have been 101 years old today if, yah know, he wouldn’t have died seven years ago…
Scott Pilgrim’s Progress: The Shared Frenzy of Nerds and Our Tormentors
Posted by Nick Curley By now you may have heard that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was maybe, kinda, possibly supposed to have made more money in its first two weeks than it did. It cost over sixty million dollars to release and thus far has paid out just over one-third of that figure. It’s expected to make up the difference and then some by the end of its theatrical run. The film adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel […]
Thoughts on Pioneer One
Posted by Tobias Carroll Last week, I watched the first episode of a science fiction series called Pioneer One. (Via Warren Ellis’s blog.) It’s being produced directly for the internet, and is being funded using a micro-funding model that anyone who’s visited Kickstarter will find familiar. In one interview, writer Josh Bernhard calls it a “blend of two subjects I’ve always been interested in: Cold War history and space exploration,” which about sums it up. Based on what I’ve seen […]
Terry Gilliam set to Direct the Best Thing He’s Directed in Nearly Twenty Years
Terry Gilliam will direct the live webcast of Arcade Fire’s concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The Arcade Fire show kicks off “Unstaged,” a new online concert series being launched by American Express and streamed on YouTube. The Montreal-based band will live stream their Aug. 5 concert at 10 p.m. EDT, the second of two shows at MSG. (Via)
Anything Will Oldham Does I Automatically Like
John Waters and Elif Batuman on the Same Podcast: The Dream is Realized
Bookworm talks to both of them. I wait for the podcast to become available.
Holy Crap! Americans Don’t Like Stuff That ‘Ain’t American’
So let me get this straight, Americans don’t like foreign films? That’s just craaaaaaazy talk! “It’s difficult to get people to pay attention to foreign language films, even under the best circumstances,” Jim hoberman, a film critic for the Village Voice alt weekly told PRI’s The World. Many Americans look to Hollywood, and begin to view themselves as the center of the filmmaking universe. Getting Americans break out of that mindset, and to tune into foreign films, some with subtitles, […]
Rob Lowe: I Hope Your Memoir is Only About The Outsiders and Your Sex Tape
Also, I was going to say I thought you were funny in There’s Something About Mary, but then I realized that wasn’t you. This week, it was announced that two Hollywood memoirs will hit the stands in 2011. While we hear news of upcoming books all the time, it’s not that often that two Hollywood memoirs appear so close together in the trade magazine Publishers Marketplace. So: time to compare and contrast. In one corner: Rob Lowe. His book, coming […]