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Friday
May182018

In the Links

The New Yorker Kathleen Turner is singing... yes, singing, at Cafe Carlyle for a week or so. OMG I'd love to cover that for y'all but that place is pricey.
Film School Rejects the troubled history of the film adaptation of Lin-manuel Miranda's In the Heights may finally be ending with Warner Bros snatching up the rights
MNPP on the trailer for the art slasher flick Knife + Heart premiering at Cannes

 

The Guardian thoughtful piece by Xan Brooks about provocative cinema, Cannes, and Lars von Trier in our new age of moralizing
Playbill California readers take note. At the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Annie, Megan Hilty, Ana Gasteyer, and Lea Salonga star. Fun casting! And those voices!!
Boy Culture Trinity Taylor makes over Nico Tortorella who now identifies as gender fluid, or as he says 'sort of cisgendered but not so... CISSY
AV Club Jordan Peele producing a series set in the '70s about Nazi-hunting in NYC. What now?
DListed obsesses over a strange Cannes moment with John Travolta and 50 Cent
MovieMaker profiles Geena Davis's Bentonville Film Festival 
W Magazine interviews Brie Vinaite on her busy post-Florida Project life
Film School Rejects "How Marvel Broke Storytelling" a good piece on exactly what the problem is with how they've trained audiences and deferred endings
Playbill This is so heartbreaking. Just a few months ago Tony-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I) lost her daughter (to a driver who hit five pedestrians including Miles) and now due to complications from that tragic event she's lost her unborn child
ExtraTV silly bro clip of Josh Brolin talking about his naked ad for Fish Love

Exit Video
Here's the trailer for the series finale movie of Sense8. Sad that this singular series from the Wachowski sisters and J Michael Straczynski is ending but glad we'll have closure.

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Reader Comments (11)

The Bentonville Film Festival sounds really cool. It's great to see Davis really taking her values and purpose as far as they can go.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterDJDeeJay

I know it seems silly, but I haven't been able to watch season 2 of Sense8 knowing it will reach a hurried conclusion. I must get my mind around this and watch it soon. Peak TV will make fickle fools of us all.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterSawyer

Ruthie Ann Miles's loss is so unimaginable. My heart breaks for her and her husband.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterRaul

I've heard they have to mop the floor after she sings Send in the Clowns.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

That Guardian piece is so bad. It's the right wing equivalent of a bro exclaiming "but mah free speech" while seemingly missing the problem at heart.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterAlexD

I second Raul's comment about Ruthie.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterrdf

AlexD -- you think so? I don't think there's anything wrong with wondering about the place of provocation in art and free speech in an age where people are offended so quickly. I actually think it's something we'll keep having to grapple with as a culture (one person's art has always been another person's garbage)... and "safe" art, where the artist strives to not offend anyone, can often be boring art or art that just preaches to the choir -- (this is simplifying things and kind of a tangent but It's kind of the reason nobody watches network tv and everyone turned to cable.)

It's always been this way but lately this divide has been thrown into sharper relief. Or maybe I just don't understand what crimes Lars von Trier has committed exactly since he's always made intermittently offensive art and has always been grappling publicly with mental illness and misogyny (depiction not necessarily being endorsement and all of that). And he's always been trolling the public in his interviews and movie promotions so it's alarming to me that people still take what he says at face value.

Sawyer -- i get that. I have chosen NOT to watch some series in the past because I knew they were cancelled early. I dont like to see incomplete stories (which is probably why i prefer movies to tv)

DJDeeDay -- agreed. That festival was a smart move on Davis's part. I just wish it were more accessible and in a better location. I looked it up the first year to see about going but it's in the middle of nowhere and so it seemed kind of pricey. I mean why Arkansas? And Wal-Mart. (sigh)

May 18, 2018 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

The double edged sword of it all is living in a liberated society where every group is no longer a figure of fun. That literally means no taboos unless the taboo is criticizing the previously marginalized and discriminated group. People rarely comprehend the importance of bringing order to chaos. Without a social and political conservatism grounding the culture art has no places to shock and enlighten.

Times Up and Me Too will not produce better art than what we have now.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

Wow... Lars has managed to rile up everyone. Honestly, I'm just laughing over this. This is exactly what he wants. He lives to rile people up and everyone is just playing at the palm of his hand except for Gaspar Noe who was smart enough to know what Lars was doing and enjoyed it. Oh Lars, you've done it again! All hail cinema's Satan.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered Commenterthevoid99

Ruthie Anne Miles's story broke my heart so much. RIP little angels.

May 18, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterSTFU

Josh Brolin and that interviewer dude were mad douchey. Ugh, be warned before clicking. You'll need to shower afterwards.

May 21, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterPaulie
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