March 2007
17 posts
The Final 'Sopranos' Deathwatch Begins
As April 8th approaches, and HBO breadwinner The Sopranos marches towards the series finale, odds-makers are again staking claim on an inherent segment of Monday morning water-cooler talk: the deathwatch. Gambling website BetUs.com is taking odds on who gets whacked first and last, if Tony exacts revenge on Uncle Junior for damn near offing him in episode 1 of Season 6 (which set Vegas on its ear...
'Los Hijos del Hombre'
With apologies to Marty, the best film of 2006 is now available on DVD - and really, it’s the one new release (opening - 1:54) you need to be concerned with for the moment. Students of film, take note - The Long Take.
Trailer: 'Day Night Day Night'
Companion piece to lo-fi thriller Cavite? Counterpoint to 24? A 19-year-old (newcomer Luisa Williams), known only as “she” has a date with Times Square.
“Good work does polarize people, and people should have different opinions. The last thing in the world that I would want to do is to make a movie that everybody feels the same about.” - Director Julia Loktev (via...
Chloë Does Dos & Don'ts
Love her or hate her. Grade or be graded. Chloë Sevigny joins Vice Magazine’s Gavin McInnes in a Dos and Don’ts segment for VBS.TV, takes dig at a Project Runway champ. Joining the special clique that includes David Cross, Jay McCarroll (PR), and Judah Friedlander (30 Rock) in the continuing D & D video series, expect more like this from Chloë in the coming weeks.
Items: Sandler, Letterman, 'Huckabees' Tirades,...
— David Letterman’s stomach flu was Adam Sandler’s gain Tuesday night, as Sandler went from guest to guest host after Dave’s last minute scratch from the show . Muddling through the monologue, diarrhea jokes with Danica Patrick, singing an “Endless Love” duet with Reign Over Me co-star Don Cheadle - all should provide a nice little opening weekend bump for Mr....
Review: 'This American Life' on Showtime
“A surprising number of public radio listeners are suspicious of anything on TV. They see radio as an inherently superior medium, which I don’t agree with.”- Ira Glass.
Probably the most common questions from the This American Life faithful when learning of the public radio-to-cable television adaptation are “How?” and “Why?” When approached by Showtime...
Trailer: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney...
Not sure how one could go wrong with the casting of Phillip Seymour Hoffman (looking Love Liza era haggard) or Laura Linney in this story of siblings Wendy and Jon Savage - reprieved temporarily from their own crumbling matters, coming together to tend to their estranged father. Directed by Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills), everything appears to be in order, although the inclusion of...
Casual Browsing: All Ages Ed.
— Yeah, yeah - a Barrymore and Spike Jonze sighting…yawn. Give me a Jonze and Where the Wild Things Are sighting please. Via AICN, who also provide early impressions on Alan Ball’s (writer of American Beauty, Six Feet Under) upcoming feature-film directorial debut - Nothing is Private.
— Attn: Seattle, The Stranger is hosting an event (last item) for indie darling...
Casual Browsing: Parental Guidance Ed.
— Early word from the inside is that everyone wants to take Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (R rated trailer) out behind the middle school to get it pregnant. “They’re saying how it’s funnier and filthier than The 40 Year Old Virgin which Judd Apatow also wrote and directed and produced, but also has that same level of emotional honesty.” [Deadline Hollywood]
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Trailer: Adrienne Shelly in 'Waitress'
Starring Kerri Russell, the romantic comedy Waitress debuted at the Sundance Film Festival just two months after the film’s writer/director Adrienne Shelly was found dead in her New York apartment in what was first thought to be a suicide, but deemed a murder a week later. As an actress, Shelly (pictured left, along with Curb Your Enthusiam’s Cheryl Hines, and Russell) was a staple...
Tracy Morgan Will Wreck Your Talk Show for Free
Which Tracy poses more of a threat to your talk show career - Jordan or Morgan? 30 seconds in and life imitates the best new comedy going. I’m Captain James T. Kirk. I’m going to Vietnam.
Video via A.V. Club. Somebody gonna get pregnant.
Trailer - John Malkovich in 'Color Me Kubrick'
Based on the true-story of Londoner Alan Conway, who duped a number of actors and entertainers - even Hollywood producers, posing as the great Stanley Kubrick - a recluse who never wanted the attention to begin with. As Conway is John Malkovich, who would never say no to a good tale of fraudulent celebrity.
Color Me Kubrick trailer via Coming Soon.
Items - Don't do it
— If not for lagging behind the Aqua Teen snafu, the post-suicide roadtripper Wristcutters: A Love Story (trailer), starring Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon (pictured), and Tom Waits, could have inspired the early front-runner for controversial marketing scheme of the year, using cardboard cutouts of characters cheating life by jumping off bridges, or hanging themselves.
— Speaking...
Sopranos Grace Vanity Fair
Gandolfini says “It’s time for me to do other things” as Tony, Carmela, and the family, along with The Sopranos creator David Chase are featured in the April issue of Vanity Fair, which should just be hitting newsstands now.
Included among the photo spreads are graphic homages to a few castmates “gone missing”, such as Big Pussy, Joey Pants, and Adriana, says Access. ...
Items: Lauren Ambrose & Parker Posey, Fay Grim,...
— Help is on the way, now that Lauren Ambrose has fallen back in step with Six Feet Under sibs Peter Krause (ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money) and Michael C. Hall (Showtime’s Dexter) to save television, or at least bring some heat to their respective networks. Ambrose has signed on to play the younger sister of Parker Posey in the Fox comedy The Return of Jezebel James.
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Chloë Says
From the Chloë Sevigny newsdesk (via Starpulse):
Apparently bored by the source material for David Fincher’s Zodiac (and I have to say, a good number of the local opening night crowd were mumbling similar thoughts about the film itself), she tossed her homework aside:
“I started reading ‘Zodiac Unmasked’ before we went into production and I couldn’t get through it....
Video Selections: Christina Ricci Ed.
“There just haven’t been many buddy movies that have my premise of a black bluesman trying to chase the demons out of a white sex addict.” (earlier) Director Craig Brewer be-moaned (ha!) the fact that that the release of his film was pushed back 6 months due to marketing concerns, but the publicity campaign has certainly found its well-tread groove. With Black Snake Friday upon us,...