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Vanity Fair celebrities react to Fathom Events Woody Harrelson Lost in London Live streaming experiment (which happens this week) Interview Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) one of the "Faces of 2017" portfolio TFE Happy birthday to Betty White and James Earl Jones both among the oldest living screen stars Vulture in-depth interview with smart funny one of a kind Billy Eichner This is Not Porn Jim Carrey impersonating celebrities in 1992 Coming Soon new images from Netflix superhero team series The Defenders In Contention Thelma Schoonmaker and Janet Ashikaga to be honored by the Editors Guild this year Mind of a Suspicious Kind a reminder of the amazing cinematography of Wings (1927) with a funny anecdote Mike's Movie Projector two movie premieres of 1954: A Star is Born and East of Eden
ICYMI If you were away for the weekend... Team Experience AwardsMoonlight, Arrival, Jackie, The Handmaiden, and more... Nathaniel's Top 20Sing Street thru La La Pfandom Episode 2 Pfeiffer in 1979 Pablo Larraín we spoke with the director of the incredible Jackie about "curiousity, love, and rage" Podcast in the two most recent conversations we covered Silence, 20th Century Women,Hidden Figures Toni Erdmann's screenplay. Have you seen it yet?
Oscar weekend is a busy time but it's also your last opportunity to watch these titles free if you have Amazon Prime or Netflix. As is our silly habit, we've freeze framed a handful of them at a totally random place to whet your appetite. If this scene looks intriguing maybe you should carve out a couple of hours...
Off Oscar. Should You Need a Break Boy Culture attends Madonna's royal premiere here in NYC for W.E. David Bordwell "a guide to the perplexed" for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Stale Popcorn We need to talk about "Katniss". Good question: What is it with archery these days? THR Two Beauty and the Beast related projects coming. Because in Hollywood there always must be double dipping on the limited idea pool.
Okay. Back to Oscar. Stop Slacking! Tom and Lorenzo on Jennifer Lawrence's unfortunate morning as the nominee announcer. Ultra Culture on the best typography among the Best Pic Nominees. Love this. Towleroad "Hot Movie Moment" from one of my favorite Best Pictures Wings (1927) the first one! Indiewire The Oscars are moving to electronic voting in 2013. Cue: thousands of articles about whether or not This. Changes. Things. Oscarologists are so excitable.
In Contention looks at the Art Direction category Examiner plays an "Oscar Replacement" game for the nominations Carpetbagger on Glenn Close and her makeup and wig team for Albert Nobbs MNPP A rarity: JA sounding off on the Oscars. Yay. He's one of the only blogging voices we love that have virtually no interest in them. (No interest in the Oscars? I know. I know. Difficult to comprehend.)
Finally... a sad goodbye to British actor Nicol Williamson (1936-2012), my very first "Merlin" (though I've lost track of how many actors I've seen as the sorcerer since).
Mirren and Williamson owning Excalibur (1981)
Daily MUBI has the roundups of obits for the Excalibur (1981) actor. My most vivid memories of that film, aside from the Lancelot nudity (gasp) was the Merlin/Morgana Le Fay rapport. I was way too young to know that Helen Mirren and Williamson had... history.
Drawn Need Christmas Gift ideas! Here's favorite art books of 2011. Love to see "Hark! a Vagrant" and "Amazing Everything" listed, both of which we've linked up before. Several movie books also make the list including The Art of Pixar and Saul Bass. Movie|Line is still on Team Uggie (The Artist) even if the dog may soon retire. In Contention Andy Serkis on MoCap performances and Oscar. toh! Zoinks. I want to go to this restored Wings (1927) screening so bad. Someone buy me a roundtrip to Los Angeles. The silent classic was the first to win Best Picture and let's just say that ol' Oscar started on a high note. Especially since he essentially gave two Best Pic prizes that year and they other one Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is also wondrous.
Gold Derby on the opening weekend performance of a "need to see this" movie like Shame. Stale Popcorn the ladies who lunch with The Ides of March. Hear hear on the Giamatti/Hoffman business. Telegraph Daniel Radcliffe joins the bizarrely long list of actors to play Beat poet Allen Ginsberg . The Guardin Pixar House inspired by Up goes for $400,000 Pajiba 'movies that should've made an assload more at the box office than they did in 2011'. Interesting list though I'd argue that the gross that 50/50 did receive was much higher than one could reasonably expect given that it was a) a tearjerker for guys and guys aren't supposed to like tearjerkers and b) a comedy ABOUT CANCER. The movie should be proud of its gross.
The Wrap super-duper insanely great news for Meryl Streep fans. The living legend will reprise her guffaw-worthy Camilla Bowner character on the second season of Web Therapy. If you never saw the original Web Therapy shorts that played on the internet (before it was a Showtime series) she played a reparative therapist who was attempting to 'cure' Lisa Kudrow's character's husband of his homosexuality.
Top Ten o' the Day - David Edelstein I lurve top ten lists. It matters not whether I find them (individually) nonsensical, just right or aggravating. There's something in me that adores the cataloguing of each year's work. So in each day's link-roundup, I'll be bringing you my favorite bit from whichever top ten list I've just been reading. Here's Edelstein on Beginners:
Melancholy and madcap, Mike Mills’s inventive weave of past and present ushers you into the mind of its hero (a superb Ewan McGregor) as he agonizes over his emotional inheritance. As the dad who comes out of the closet at 75, Christopher Plummer is light and lithe, buoyed by his new life among the boys.
I also really dig his question-mark description of Alexander Payne even though The Descendants isn't coming anywhere near my list.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 2:01PM 
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