More cache clearing, if you'll indulge a bit longer. Ah, fuck the importuning: Just like Barbara Krueger* and Booty Barbie above, I will not play nature to your culture, etc. etc.
- Film Threat gets with the apt neologisms: "Easy Listening Film. Because the ending was fine, it was proper, it made sense – but most importantly it didn’t mean in any way to challenge the viewer. You could arguably say it was a "happy ending." But the point is not the "happy," the point is the "comfortable." Therefore, I could envision the film playing very well across the country. I could see it being a cable-run staple. An easy pick at the Red Box, an eventual satisfy-everyone-in-the-house DVD purchase at your local Best Buy."
- The Boston Globe's Ty Burr assesses the latest Bahstan acksent infamy. "Laura Linney has said that the two accents that send a chill up an actor's spine are Boston and South Africa."
- Part of me wants to pitch it all and apply for Sundance's Festival Manager, Publications Production gig.
- This new books sounds up my alley: POST-CLASSICAL CINEMA: An International Poetics of Film Narration by Eleftheria Thanouli
- Have you been keeping up with Josh Glenn's Shocking Blocking and Odd Cameos over at Hilobrow? The latest example of the former is above. Josh is also part of the newly launched Semionaut.
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Glenn Kenny revisits Olivier Assayas's dreamlover demonlover, a flick that is inextricably linked for me with its 2002 lo-fi character double, Happy Here and Now.
*In my mind, always pronounced syllable by syllable, as did the Italian prof who first introduced me to her work. Try it: Bar-ber-ah Kroo-gherh. See, isn't that satisfying?
