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If you’ve never seen Dogville, Lars von Trier’s 2003 masterpiece(?) that gives our Nicole three full hours’ worth of very tricky acting, watch it. Or at least, try to watch it. You may find it absolutely insufferable, and turn it off even before Nicole appears, twelve minutes in. This is the definition of a movie not meant for everyone, and perhaps even a movie for almost nobody except a small sliver of people. But I suppose am one of those people for whom the film was made, and I think it’s fantastic. And it’s one of my all-time favorite performances by one of cinema’s greatest actresses...
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on the images for magnified detail)
There’s an image from The Elephant Man I can’t get out of my head.
Well, there are a few. David Lynch and Freddie Francis didn’t exactly slouch here. But there’s one moment, quite early on, that struck me with its oddness. Dr. Treves (Anthony Hopkins) has snuck into the legally-tenuous circus of Mr. Bytes (Freddie Jones), just as the police are about to shut him down. The deeper one ventures, the strange the surroundings look. Here we see a cop navigating this temporary labyrinth of light and shadow...
Two departures to report, both of them Oscar nominees and enduring figures of great cinema. Major British thespian Sir John Hurt and French icon Emmanuelle Riva have died at 77 and 89 respectively...
Oscars Cometh Awards DailyLove and Mercy is pulling out all the stops for their Oscar campaign including Brian Wilson concerts Twitter everyone is excited that Mad Max Fury Road is getting an Oscar campaign but most hits get this treatment even the ones that have no chance. Academy ConversationsTruth is on the campaign trail, too with this recent conversation in NYC. Pssst. I believe NY's BAFTA chapter also hosted a screening just last night at the theater I was in (though I was there for a different movie) NYT Style "The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino" like Matt Damon before him he might do his latest Oscar campaign good by just shutting up. In this new profile he infuriates a lot of people with his anger about his racial criticisms of his work and even has the nerve to be chauvinistically condescending about Kathryn Bigelow's beating him at the Oscars
Look, it was exciting that a woman had made such a good war film..."
General Linkage Variety WOW. Meryl Streep, who has never really been a film festival queen like some respected actors will be president of the Berlinale jury in 2016. It's her FIRST film festival jury. Naturally she starts at the top as president of an A list fest AV Club on a fun new instagram movie/tv mocking account "Night Lotion" LOL EW a roundtable with the creatives behind Aladdin for its Blu-ray release TFE did you vote on our Aladdin inspired poll? The Tracking Board collects all the recent Jennifer Lawrence news... which is a lot and frankly we don't have the strength this week. Can we talk about any other actress for a change? She doesn't even have a movie out right now. Can we at least wait for her to be in movie theaters again? Gothamist Lena Dunham's next HBO series in development is called Max about magazines and second-wave feminism in the 1960s Guardian Sir John Hurt's given the all-clear from doctors after his chemo for cancer. Yay! Guardian in extremely confusing Hollyweird news Paramount is developing a remake of The Ten Commandments (1956). Didnt they notice all the money lost on the last one (Ridley Scott's Exodus)? Vulture goes to the set of The Knick NYT Playboy magazine will no longer feature nudity but tone down their pictorials to "suggestive" EW want to be naked with Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips? Everyone gets naked (including the audience) for the video for "The Milky Milky Milk" /Film on recent Marvel news - the biggest of which is that Hulk will co-star in Thor: Ragnarok Playbill interviews the huge stage talent Danny Burstein. He is really remarkable on stage but has a low profile on film and TV. I was pleased to see him pop up recently in The Family Fang and Blackhat albeit in tiny roles. If only they were making great screen musicals and casting appropriately. Pajiba collects the best tweets from the Democratic Debate last night. Some really funny ones here Variety Julianne Moore lead Hollywood committee fighting for gun violence prevention
*throws rice* Finally, congratulations to Victor Garber (Alias, Titanic, Argo,The Flash). He married his boyfriend of 16 years, the artist Rainer Andreesen this week. They eloped apparently. Photo via Rainer's instagram
Amir here. When I was compiling my list of 2013’s most anticipated films a couple of weeks ago, one of the titles that slipped under my radar was Snowpiercer. With the first official still from the film released yesterday the internet is awash with news about this sci-fi and I might have to adjust my list a little bit!
Snowpiercer, adapted from a French graphic novel titled Le Transperceneige, marks the English language debut of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. He’s dabbled in different genres but is best known for his two most recent efforts: the monster flick The Host, which became a smash hit in its home country; and the internationally acclaimed Mother, for which Kim Hye-Ja won a bunch of best actress titles including from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 2:00PM 
