In honor of teaching Mulvey for the zillionth time this coming week, here are some visuals what brought my gaze pleasure.
The kid is all right. Way you know he'll will survive his post-Potter existence? Daniel Radcliffe busts out some Lehrer in front of Rihanna and Colin Fookin' Farrell. [via]
Talk about New York stories! Scorsese directed a soon-to-debut HBO doc about Fran Lebowitz. [Kids, ask your spinster aunts and gay uncles.]
Take me back to dear old Blighty. Danny Leigh of the Guardian is now on British tellies as cohost of a BBC One film reviewing program[me]. He also has some choice words about a recent IFC panel on Anchorman.
It's only natural that would eventually translate into the burnished respectability of the panel discussion, right? Except no – not at all. Admittedly, I don't entirely share the enthusiasm about it in the first place, which may not help. Is it funny? Of course – no one smiles more fondly than me at the memory of Ferrell's adoption of the new-fangled craze of "yogging". But let's face it, it's no Zoolander, and – here's the crux of the matter – even if it were, the fact it's been elevated into a filmic landmark worthy of extended musing and debate leaves me reaching for a line from that very movie, specifically the baffled exclamation of Ferrell's fashion guru Mugatu: "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills."
Finally, if you have an hour to kill later this week, as all and sundry start slacking in anticipation of turkey gorging to come, why not watch Helena Bonham Carter, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Hilary Swank, and Amy Adams natter on for a bit? I'm only a third of the way through and already think that if some drag queen is not doing a throaty Bening impersonation, that's an opportunity lost. Plus, Carter simply cannot be contained.
