Editors Note: Nathaniel is running behind on the Cinematography Special - but don't miss yesterday's installment or Tim's huge ongoing post at Antagony & Ecstasy so we'll resume tomorrow night. In the meantime enjoy Eric's look back at the Globes in '77, since its our Year of the Month.
Peter O'Toole with Globe winners Jane Fonda (Julia), Richard Burton (Equus), and Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Globe/Oscar comparisons are always fun to see because though the groups have different sensibilities, inevitable industry hype influences both. Yet the Globes are rarely revisited outside of their years since Oscar is the one people obsess on when they look back, "the one that matters" as it were. Let's correct that as we gaze at 1977...
To any one of you out there having a rough time of it... this too shall pass. Take this electricifying piece of comfort from Liza Minnelli in Martin Scorsese's New York New York (1977) on her birthday. And who would know better than her?
Somebody loses and somebody wins And one day it's kicks, then it's kicks in the shins But the planet spins, and the world goes 'round- But the world goes 'round But the world goes 'round
Sometimes your dreams get broken in pieces But that doesn't matter at all Take it from me, there's still gonna be A summer, a winter, a spring and a fall
Moviefone looks back at the troubled release of Martin Scorsese's New York New York for its 35th anniversary Awards Daily someday my prince will come... or not. On Brave and more in 2012 Serious Film gets into spoilers to revel in the whiteboard of terrors in Cabin in the Woods Movie|LineMagic Mike already making Broadway transfer plans. Huh. The Incredible Suit happy third birthday to this fun blog
Rope of Silicon applies Pixar storytelling rules to Brave to see where it went wrong... um. If you think it went wrong. It's not a perfect movie but I'm surprised by how much some people don't like it. Vulture first look at Shirley Maclaine in Downton Abbey. Yes! How Are You I'm Fine Thanks illustrates the Scooby Doo gaga at the beach. Great stuff. GQ interviews Elisabeth Moss on Peggy's Journey in Season 5 of Mad Men... and Season 6 Empire spreads the rumor that three Avatar sequels will shoot back to back. I can think of better things for Sigourney Weaver to do with her time and I loved Avatar. TMZ more old footage of Channing Tatum's stripper days
Alt Screen rounds up takes on Martin Scorsese's New York New York (1977) now that it's freshly released on Blu-Ray. Liza Minnelli is so great in that movie. I'm so excited to see it again. The Blu-Ray is still in its wrapping though. Must get to that soon. Film Dr "12 notes comparing a purple bottle cap with Green Lantern" (One thing I deeply appreciated about dumbass movies like Green Lantern is the creativity they inspire in critics.) <--- Movie|Line goes to the LA Premiere of Drive (2011) and enjoys Nicolas Winding Refn's freewheeling intro speech including this bit.
Now, I want to thank Ryan Gosling, because he gave me the opportunity to come to Hollywood and do this movie with him. It all started on a very strange blind date between us that led to a very strange, notsexual encounter, but it led to a mental creation between us. And of course, we couldn’t have done that without Jim Sallis’s book called Drive, which I highly recommend.
i09 great find: an old "Equal Pay Act" PSA starring Batgirl from the Batman tv series. ♥ Twitch has a series of neon movie posters from artist Mr Whaite. Here's Pulp Fiction.
I said god damn.
Pajiba "how homophobia lost its cool" good piece from a hetero man which kicks off with the homoeroticism of Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy in X-Men First Class The Awl really lets loose the bile with Green Lantern and what's become of a too dominante subgenre of movies. (Note: We all know that reviews do not exist in a cultural vacuum so will the mass hatred for Green Lantern help or hurt Captain America reviews next month? It could go either way...) IndieWire Vera Farmiga hits Provincetown to promote Higher Ground
FINALLY...
I'd like to personally congratulate Tang Wei, who many fine actress connoisseurs have been rooting for ever since her startling debut in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (2007). In the past two months she's picked up not one but two awards for recent performances in the romantic films Crossing Hennessy and Late Autumn. To make those rewards more impressive, one was from China (and remember they forbade her from working for a time after the sexual explicitness of Lust, Caution) and the other was a Korean Award which had reportedly never gone to a Chinese actress before. You can see her winning that one in this clip below. (She starts in Korean, switches to English, and then moves over to her native tongue.)
Will Crossing Hennessy and Late Autumn ever make it to US or European theaters? Stay tuned.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 9:45PM 
Peter O'Toole with Globe winners Jane Fonda (Julia), Richard Burton (Equus), and Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
