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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 9:16PM • Vulture why Charlize Theron is so pleasurable to watch in action films
• My New Plaid Pants Luca Guadagnino signing on to deliver a feature adaptation of Scotty Bower's "Full Service" which has already inspired a feature doc and that gas station as whorehouse in Ryan Murphy's Hollywood
• Vanity Fair What Olivia de Havilland remembered about the 1939 Oscars
After the jump, Ramy's nominations, Michael Fassbender's return, Hugh Jackman's butt, Scarface memories, X-Men's 20th, and more...
• Pajiba celebrates Ramy's two Emmy nods and why they're important
• Shadowplay Love letters to Conrad Veidt's incredible face
• MNPP Michael Fassbender is coming back to us at last
• Film School Rejects why zombies never go out of style at the movies
• Awards Daily talks to the costume designer of The Alienist (the costumes are very cool)
• /Film finds Who Framed Roger Rabbit is just as pleasurable as ever on a revisit
• Coming Soon Jordan Peele and Issa Rae producing a horror thriller called Sinkhole
• MovieMaker an excerpt from a book in which Oliver Stone reminisces about Scarface (1983)
• Boy Culture when your favourite artist (Madonna) f***s up and embraces a quack doctor and dangerous COVID messaging
• The Guardian interviews Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Old Guard)
• Pajiba goes deep into the X-Men movies for the original's 20th anniversary
• Comics Alliance after censoring Daryl Hannah's butt in Splash, Disney Plus is allowing Hugh Jackman's butt in X-Men for some reason
• Film School Rejects listens to filmmaker commentary on comedy classic Airplane (1980). I can't recall the last time I listened to a commentary track. I used to love them, though
Reader Comments (26)
Madonna is an aging dinosaur who hasn't made a decent album in 20 years let alone a decent song in 14. It's time for her to retire. The fact that she supports a quack who threatens the lives of civilization and agrees with a human septic tank is proof that she needs to go.
And for the record, if there was a true female heir to David Bowie. It is Annie Lennox, not Madonna. Plus, I read a tweet from someone who met Annie at a pharmacy as she was actually nice to everyone including the staff and was just being herself. No "I'm a superstar, I can do whatever I want". I'm going to call the Iron Sheik so he can give Madonna that Camel Clutch and make her humble.
Pity about Madonna, I am hoping she will come to her senses very soon.
When I am in the need for a lift I check out the twitter feeds of both Cher and Bette Midler. They are up to date, caring, and never disappoint. Some icons come through.
Re: the Guadagnino - isn't the Rogen/Goldberg involvement even stranger? I guess it can't turn out much worse than what Ryan Murphy did with it, so - go for it?
Great story about Ms DeHavilland’s recollection of the 1939 Oscars! I wish there were a book comprised of Old Hollywood’s stories like that. I remember being riveted at Eva Marie Saint’s little anecdote before the award she presented the other year. I live for tales from the greats!!!
thevoid -- i dont know how many times we have to tell you this but AGEISM is not welcome at the Film Experience. Particularly Ageism directed at women. I dont know if you've noticed this in your years of reading but we tend to obsess on women of a certain age. Please be respectful.
Dave -- i dont really understand Guadagnino or his career so i always am just like "oh, that's interesting" and nothing about it surprises me anymore cuz i can't fathom what his motivations are ever.
Always down to read another article about Conrad Veidt’s impossibly goregous visage. He seems largely forgotten today.
Glad to see Michael Fassbender coming back. I don't love all of his film choices, but when he gets them right, he's stellar. I wish he'd try some lighter material once in a while. He seems to have a good sense of humour in interviews I've seen.
I don't think Madonna needs to retire I just think she needs to do a great Pop album,everyone is doing 80's sounds and she helped created the 80's.
With every film, I love Charlize more and she has shown just how versatile she is. What that article points out so wisely, is that Charlize uses her gifts as an actress to create characters that have seen and lived through a lot of violence. Beyond her ability to do stunts, the violence lives in her.m characters.
I’m so glad she won her Oscar early and didn’t get trapped in doing a ton of full Miramar/focus feature type prestige pics to win awards. She’s so good, and the range of roles she’s had, including action, are what makes her so special.
Guadagnino seems to have at least a dozen films/tv shows in development. He had a string of three fantastic films... it would be great if he could recapture that magic.
Fassy is also co-starring with Elisabeth Moss in Next Goal Wins, directed by Taika Waititi. I'm unsure if this will be out this year or next, but it has been filmed. Taika and Moss are on a hot streak, so this could get his career back on track.
Joe G: I do think, with how much action she's done, she should get a nomination for an action movie at some point. But, well, Helena Gothanam Carter (Fight Club, Burton, Harry Potter) never got a nomination either, so I guess actors just...don't think that way?
That is a great piece on Charlize. I'm very pleased with how she's managed to keep her career interesting and to challenge herself both physically and dramatically.
That picture of young Conrad Veidt reminds me a little of Cillian Murphy - another unconventionally handsome actor with way-too-pretty eyes, who's uncommonly good at playing a villain (even though he still gets cast as heroic/romantic leads, too).
And I'm all for a Fassy-naissance. He's way too hot and talented for his career to stagnate, give or take a pandemic...
Confession: I've never really liked Madonna as a singer or actress though I appreciate her as a "performance artist", but I really feel for all reasonable Madonna fans out there today. I can imagine what it would be like to have, say, Julie Andrews or Barbra Streisand or even Cyndi Lauper and Annie Lennox (more my style) come out in favor of a really dangerous "doctor" like the Dragon Sperm MD.
And Conrad Veidt has a face made for the movies. I just wish he had been alive at a different time so color photography could have captured those early amazing eyes.
Fassbender does have a comedy directed by Taika Waititi coming, possibly even released this year? I wonder if part of the reason behind his stepping away from the limelight for a while were some dodgy allegations in his past... not sure he'll get away with it tho
Did Olivia storm off in a huff after losing to Hattie or is that just myth?
Carlos: Eh, until it becomes more than rumour/borderline rumour, I'll give the benefit of the doubt. After all: There's more then enough reason for him to back off the limelight in his career choices in 2016 and 2017.
Seth Rogen seems the last person I would think about getting involved in a Scotty Bower movie- I really don't see it topping the wonderful documentary
Gawrsh those pics of Fassy on Jason's site, I'm just swooning, he's sex on legs.
Nice to see this website has a new villain, thevoid99.
Disgusting display of infancy. thevoid99!!!
My understanding of the Disney+ butt decisions: They censored Daryl Hannah because Splash is a PG movie (made right before PG-13 came along), and nude butts aren't allowed in PG movies under the current guidelines. Disney didn't censor High Jackman because his movie is PG-13, and butts are allowed.
They could have left in the butt in Splash and put a disclaimer on the preview screen about it. Or they could have resubmitted it for a new rating from the MPAA. It would get a PG-13 and then there would be no confusion or censorship. I probably would have done the former. If they can have warnings about racially insensitivity in old movies without censorship (which they do), they can have a nude butt warning without censorship.
Naked butt are PG 13?!
In the early 70s you could slip a few butts into a G rated film (honestly). Check out the MPAA website to see what the original PLANET OF THE APES and ANDROMEDA STRAIN are rated. Then, watch the films and enjoy the butts. My how things change. On the other hand, THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE was rated X for a lesbian love scene that you could probably see in an episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY today.
In the '70s, All the President's Men got a PG rating with 11 f-words. I believe PG-13's limit now is 2. Kramer vs. Kramer had a full frontal, and it was PG. The MPAA of today is not the MPAA of the '70s.
If the film was released by a major studio the ratings board was more lenient except maybe with gay sex scenes. And they have no problem with extreme violence.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is the tale of an oppressed people's fight against gentrification.