Some recent posts that tie in nicely with topics in this film studies textbook instructor's manual I've been working on. Although, apparently, my lazy confreres requested a "test bank" for this iteration. Slackers.
Really, Lena Dunham? I mean, REALLY? [above]
It's the mise-y-ist! AV Club has the skinny on The Royal Tenenbaums house.
Comment dit-on / como se dice REDNECK in other languages? Pixar now knows. Which reminds me that apparently dubbed "King of the Hill" totally works on Francophone CBC: Boomhauer just sounds like a Newfie or something.
Those Coppola people can't leave poor Elle Fanning alone!
"I tried to find what is the core of each profession, and then present it visually, with just a few simple words of explanation..." I am super in love with these posters and can't wait to share 'em with students. [via]
"What is it that sucks out swag from some charismatic people and magnifies it in others when they get on film? Is it just if they don't play themselves? Madonna is great in Desperately Seeking Susan and A League of Their Ownfor the same reasons Timberlake is good as Sean Parker in The Social Network. They both were playing to type. But Timberlake's decent performance is only impressive given how bad he had been in other movies. His acting is graded on a very sharp curve." Molly Lambert asks Can Justin Timberlake ever be a good actor?
Baller! "Highlights from the renowned UCLA Festival of Preservation will screen for audiences outside of Los Angeles in select North American venues*. The Festival spotlights recently completed UCLA Film & Television Archive preservation projects spanning an entire century of moving image media: classic Hollywood feature films, television programs, newsreels, silents, documentaries and contemporary independents." [via] *a.k.a. Nowhere within eight hours' drive, but it's still cool.
Guess the recent release: "I can’t top your invocations of Buster Keaton and La Chinoise. But if I have to allude to a classic of world cinema in order to indicate that I thought this new version of [redacted] is pretty a’ight I’d mention Au hasard Balthazar: the other movie about a sad donkey that just can’t win."
You guys, I'm super excited about this: "Kaneto Shindo's haunting, erotic ghost story KURONEKO is making its way to the Criterion Collection this October. I worked on this cover with Eric Skillman, who came up with this concept as an adaptation of my original theatrical poster."
Clumsy? Sublime! "Mulvey’s point is that rear projection was rarely intended to be noticed in its time; it only “seems in hindsight like an aesthetic emblem of the bygone studio era.”[3] Like the attraction, the clumsy sublime destabilizes our ontological assumptions about how the image was made (indeed, its impact stems largely from our sudden awareness that the image was manufactured in the first place). "
Finally, anyone else see this clip and think Marwencol? "Don't play no games that I can't win."
Indeed. Cinetrix out.
