Links: Refn Gosling Love, Tang Wei Wins, Green Lantern Bile
Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 1:13PM 
Alt Screen rounds up takes on Martin Scorsese's New York New York (1977) now that it's freshly released on Blu-Ray. Liza Minnelli is so great in that movie. I'm so excited to see it again. The Blu-Ray is still in its wrapping though. Must get to that soon.
Film Dr "12 notes comparing a purple bottle cap with Green Lantern" (One thing I deeply appreciated about dumbass movies like Green Lantern is the creativity they inspire in critics.)
<--- Movie|Line goes to the LA Premiere of Drive (2011) and enjoys Nicolas Winding Refn's freewheeling intro speech including this bit.
Now, I want to thank Ryan Gosling, because he gave me the opportunity to come to Hollywood and do this movie with him. It all started on a very strange blind date between us that led to a very strange, notsexual encounter, but it led to a mental creation between us. And of course, we couldn’t have done that without Jim Sallis’s book called Drive, which I highly recommend.
i09 great find: an old "Equal Pay Act" PSA starring Batgirl from the Batman tv series. ♥
Twitch has a series of neon movie posters from artist Mr Whaite. Here's Pulp Fiction.
I said god damn.
Pajiba "how homophobia lost its cool" good piece from a hetero man which kicks off with the homoeroticism of Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy in X-Men First Class
The Awl really lets loose the bile with Green Lantern and what's become of a too dominante subgenre of movies. (Note: We all know that reviews do not exist in a cultural vacuum so will the mass hatred for Green Lantern help or hurt Captain America reviews next month? It could go either way...)
IndieWire Vera Farmiga hits Provincetown to promote Higher Ground
FINALLY...
I'd like to personally congratulate Tang Wei, who many fine actress connoisseurs have been rooting for ever since her startling debut in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (2007). In the past two months she's picked up not one but two awards for recent performances in the romantic films Crossing Hennessy and Late Autumn. To make those rewards more impressive, one was from China (and remember they forbade her from working for a time after the sexual explicitness of Lust, Caution) and the other was a Korean Award which had reportedly never gone to a Chinese actress before. You can see her winning that one in this clip below. (She starts in Korean, switches to English, and then moves over to her native tongue.)
Will Crossing Hennessy and Late Autumn ever make it to US or European theaters? Stay tuned.
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Correction: The Korean Award that Tang Wei won was not for "Crossing Hennessy" but a Korean (mostly in english language) film called "Late Autumn". She is three for three now!
Trailer for "Crossing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLllgpQCsls
Trailer for "Late Autumn": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlVkcfEWlHA
Saw X-Men: First Class yesterday. At the beginning I thought we'd regret changing Midnight in Paris for this one in the very last minute, but not at all. I enjoyed from beginning to the end, even with its flaws or the things I didn't get (I'm quite unfamiliar with the story) just like a kid. But, oh my god, the homoeroticism! I've come to the conclusion both actors decided at some point when working with their characters that those two had had offscreen sex. There's no way such homoeroticism just comes along. Last month (it was last month?) I saw The Eagle (one is only human) and not even in a gladiator movie about the slave-master relationship of two guys there's so much eroticism, though there is as well.
It makes me wonder if this is a tendency. Writers used to include gay undertones when talking gayness openly was out of the question. Now, there's more freedom to portray gay relationships, but the extreme reactions against some of them (Brokeback ?) may be pushing writers towards those more subtle ones? So, are we going back somehow? I don't know, I just know I wanted Fassbender and McAvoy to be together, but they won't be (snif). Such is the life of superheroes and villains.
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