Infinity Links... "a fun filled year of lensing"
Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7:47PM Esquire cool interview with the director of John Wick: Chapter 2, a former stuntman
Stage Buddy on a new book about the immortal classic Casablanca
Vox an excellent piece on AMC's Humans and how it differs from HBO's similarly AI themed but wildly different Westworld
NYT Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy to return to the stage
Indie Wire Tulip Fever gets pushed back AGAIN even though it was supposed to open in less than two weeks
Silver Screening Room on the Adapted Screenplay race of 1976 for reasons I dont know but I enjoyed
More after the jump including Avengers Infinity War...
Day one of what promises to be a year of fun-filled lensing."
Have you seen this promo on the start of production for Avengers: Infinity War? Look, Robert Downey Jr's sarcasm is part of his performance shtick so it doesn't necessarily mean anything that he seems annoyed to be there. On the other hand the air quotes on "fun-filled lensing" don't exactly instill confidence either.
And Marvel Studio bigwigs promising the best villain ever. This is not exactly a high bar if you've seen Marvel Studios films. They make good movies but they keep failing this particular test within them. I wanted to love this promo. I want to be excited (I have enjoyed all Avengers movies and all Captain America movies especially. But it felt like being doused with cold war instead. Strange.
Off Cinema
Buzz Feed a webcomic of gay firsts. It's kind of lovely
Michael Musto checks in on Broadway happenings (with Jake Gyllenhaal & Glenn Close) and counts down the best black male models of all time
A Brilliant Idea
Someone should pull a WICKED on SINGING IN THE RAIN: tell the whole story from Lina Lamont's perspective. (Suggested casting Busy Phillips.)
— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) February 13, 2017
Politics (with occasional Movie connections)
HuffPo "in a world of storm troopers, be Leia"
Browbeat Shia Labeouf's anti-T**** installation at the Museum of the Moving Image shut down due to lots of controversy and policing issues and white supremacists and Labeouf's own
22 Words every state in the Union described in one bitter sentence. I LOL'ed a few times.
Washington Beacon a realization by a Trump defender that Trump defenders are idiots
The New Yorker a sobering but brilliant piece "Our Part in the Darkness" about Who We Are as Americans
Reader Comments (5)
The Weinstein Company is dying. They've been dying since the late aughts/early 2010s, but this seems like their final stretch and afterward A24 takes their spot in the marketplace.
I lament at what Downey jr's career has become.
It seems after The Judge flopped, RDJ really came back running to the MCU. Other than the Richard Linklater film he has coming out, all he does is Marvel movies. To the point where I've getting pretty tired of always seeing him tbh.
RDJ's "shtick" has been in place since before Tropic Thunder, all those billions of years ago, and considerable talents aside, whatever those may be it's been so much time now since I've laid witness to them, he's 1/2 a franchise movie away from becoming Depp and just doing "douchey billionaire" ad infinitum as Depp got stuck playing "eccentric with no purpose".
Meh. They could disappear and I'd care not.
If they had balls they'd kill Iron Man. THAT I'd pay good monies to see. Twice!
Manny: The stronger focus on continuity (and, somewhat, the changing directorial hands between appearances) at least forces RDJ to dig a bit deeper (Civil War is the strongest he's been since Tropic Thunder...and no one noticed or cared because he did it within the context of a blockbuster movie character he's been playing for almost a decade), on the MCU films, than Depp has for a LONG time. He's a great choice for the murder victim in Orient Express. A massive a-hole we're supposed to think is completely justified to kill? Yeah, that sounds like a role perfect for modern Johnny Depp.