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Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 1:00PM Manuel Muñoz one of my favorite writers on his "sometime love" for director Hal Ashby
Vanity Fair on the Scientology auditions to be Tom Cruise's girl. He's been on 7 of their covers. Won't this spoil their chances at an 8th?
NFB Sarah Polley on her next film Stories We Tell
Pajiba on "The Death of the Movie Theater" a super depressing but otherwise enjoyable read. It's really too bad the nation's theater owners don't get how they've let us all down.
I Need My Fix Alexander Skarsgard for GQ
Guardian Shia Labeouf's antics keeps people talking
Hollywood Elsewhere Will Terrence Malick's To The Wonder inspire twitter brawls?
New York Times RIP. the legendary lyricist and Oscar winner Hal David ("Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head") dies at 91.
i09 first image of Lee Pace (yay) in The Hobbit as Legolas' father. My what good genes those elf boys have. (See also: Orlando Bloom 2001-2003)
Gothamist reports on Leonardo DiCaprio filming with strippers for The Wolf of Wall Street. Is it just me or do you never think of Leonardo as a sex scene kind of star?
Awards Daily Oscar Watch 2013? Matthew McConaughey goes full on Bale as an AIDS victim for The Dallas Buyers Club. He's lost 30 lbs.
CHUD Guy Pearce is having a good year. But is his role in Iron Man 3 only cameo stuff? And even if he says so can you believe him? Remember that Cotillard continually lied about her role in TDKR to the press. You do what you gotta do to stop spoilers.
Gawker Nicolas Cage finally settled his overdue bill with a local video rental store; King of Comedy and A Star is Born cost him! (Even more shocking than the news that he rents from a DVD store is his good taste in movies! Too bad it doesn't show in his own filmography.)
Finally, this video from Flavorwire is inspired by Lawless and a must for Costume Design devotees. Presenting: the coolest looking characters from Prohibition Era set movies.
I want a pin strip suit and a fetching hat, don't you?
Reader Comments (17)
I usually think Steven Lloyd Wilson is a pretty smart guy, but that theater article was damn silly. That was one of the most childish public displays I've read in a long time. It's like going to the library and complaining about why you can't listen to music as loud as you want. Because that's how the fucking library works! Everywhere you go you make concessions to get the service or product you enjoy. You don't like it, don't go in.
But that's just the problem, Jeremy. They make it so unlikeable that people DON'T go in, which hurts us all in the long run. Because if you believe in moviegoing (as I do) it is not helpful to make that experience awful for people.
I LOVE eating popcorn with movies. but i am not spending $5 for stale little bag of it. I like trailers but I don't need 1/2 an hour of them at the movies. And I hate commercials and for anyone born before the 90s, the movies used to be the escape from it, the immediate pleasurable thing that they had over television -- even for people who loved television best.
Oh Nathaniel, you're the wizard of links!
-Ashby: not praised enough!
-Polley = OMG
-Despite the expensive ticket prices and the annoying people who constantly talk, eat and twit, nothing compares to the movie theater experience.
-I never thought I would find Lee Pace ridiculous until I saw that picture. He's the one who should be naked in a movie and not Leo!
“Naz, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
Lol. Love the Tom Cruise/Scientology stories. I wonder if he'll retire at some point or if he'll continue being Tom Cruise.
Ticket prices prevent me from seeing much of anything at the movies. Aside from Flight, The Master, and new Tarantino, Hollywood isn't getting much else out of me. On the art house end, the Alps didn't even screen in LA.
That Tom Cruise/Scientology story is way too bizarre to be believable, even though I'd love for it to be true. Nevertheless, I'm hoping this story has some legs to further whet my appetite for The Master.
And that Pajiba story about movie theatres is the most entitled thing I've read in a long time; modern corporations are well documented for being penny pinchers and having poor, uninformed customer service. Movie theatre chains are no different than any other business operating in the 21st century; they're trying to remain operable in a society that's moving too fast for them. I think the author of that piece was a little too harsh in his actions.
I was kind of shocked by the pile-on on the Pajiba artcle, esp. the continued use in the comments of the word "entitlement." If companies have long-standing, and continually increasing horrible customer service, and you complain about that service, and refuse to support those companies, that's not acting entitled; that's just being a good consumer. That's how the free market is supposed to work, right?
The fact that some "modern corporations are well documented for being penny pinchers and having poor, uninformed customer service" is, frankly, not my problem. I'll spend my money elsewhere, at places that have better service. What, I think, is missing from the complaints about the Pajiba article is that many of us LOVE to go to the movies. I would gladly spend tons of me expendable income at the cinema if I felt I was getting a good value for my money. Sadly, with the tiny screens and the 30 minutes of commercials, and the lousy sound, that is no longer the case.
Hemingway & Gellhorn. Oh God, that was bad. Despite the fascinating subject and characters, nothing really works in this movie. Clive Owen is the dullest Hemingway I have ever seen, Shalhoub looks like Fu Manchu and Parker Posey's role is a waste of her talent. Kidman is simply hilarious. I guess she thought she was shooting a Dior commercial.
MDA: Really? Considering that Scientology is the religion that believes humans were dead alien souls who came here on golden 747's, I wouldn't put anything past them.
"Is it just me or do you never think of Leonardo as a sex scene kind of star?"
Probably because he's not sexy. For someone who supposedly headed up a crew called the "Pussy Posse", he's weirdly asexual.
I'm just so happy that Lee Pace is getting work and has a steady career. After Soldier's Girl and Pushing Daises (which put him in a special place in my heart), i love to see him doing things. Even if he looks like Middle Earth's version of Fabio.
and Leo and sex scenes just seem a bit odd, because lately, he's been so averse to really showing much of his body. I guess he got tired of that during the heartthrob years? I'm just glad to see him choosing less dour projects like Gatsby and Django. Small steps.
and i wish Nicole Kidman and i were besties just so we could talk about that whole Tom era. Can we send Oprah to her house or something? But then Nicole might vanish off the face of the planet so i guess dishing probably isn't worth it.
The Scientology piece was my bedtime read. Freaky.
See? Got so mat at Hemingway & Gellhorn I don't even know where I'm writing!
Have you seen it?
god, that pajiba article got on my nerves. those are things everybody deals with and has always dealt with. I just get popcorn and a drink and its usually worth it. and i love movie theater popcorn. besides, its always been so easy to sneak in food. just dont make it obvious and youll be fine. its not the airport. Pretty much everybody i know still goes to the movie theaters. those things are not even close to being dealbreakers. go with freinds, have fun, thats it. duh!
@ Christine - I agree with you that consumers have every right to complain about shoddy customer service, but tha has nothing to do with a false sense of entitlement. The author of that piece wanted to bring in a product from a competing business, and was absolutely shocked that he was unable to. I'm going to assume he hasn't been living in a cave his entire life, as many businesses employ similar restrictions; his outrage is what makes him entitled, not complaining about poor customer service.
@ Volvagia - Touché.
LEE PACE!
meh, I lost interest in the Tom Cruise article the moment I saw it was written by Maureen Orth, the world's closest living equivalent to Rita Skeeter. I can't take anything she writes remotely seriously.