I’m going through different stages of excitement after reading this: In recent years, he’s successfully moved into more mainstream, if indubitably classy, fare but David Cronenberg’s latest project looks like a return to the peculiar world of The Fly or Crash. The Canadian filmmaker is planning a big-screen adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1997 novel As She Climbed Across the Table, the tale of a man who loses the love of his life to a shapeless void. According to the Pajiba […]
Good Morning From John Waters
John Waters on the Bat Segundo Show
Woody Allen had His own Television Show?
You learn so many interesting things from reading Emdashes.
More Crap I Didn’t Know About Norman Mailer…
His son is named “John Buffalo.” J.B. has really good hair and is in Wall Street 2 — a movie I’m never going to see. I learned all this via an interview at Big Think.
Spotting Hitchcock
Every time I watch a Hitchcock film I’m on edge anticipating the moment where the director will show up for a brief second. Thanks to whoever made this video, I now know all the spots to look for.
New Harmony Korine Film Creeps Me Out in a Good Way
Stanley Kubrick: Chess Hustler
Check out Jeremy Bernstein’s piece at the New York Review of Books blog: “Playing Chess With Kubrick”. Kubrick explained that early in his career he too played chess for money in the park and that Duval was so weak that it was hardly worth playing him. I said that we should play some time and then left the apartment. I was quite sure that we would never play. I was wrong.
Alice in Wonderland and Wimpy Kid Both Suck, but Make Millions
American cinema sinks into the mud faster and faster every week: Alice in Wonderland took $34.5 at the box office and Diary of a Wimpy Kid took $21.8 (Via Galley Cat)