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--- Today's Must Read - The only thing more comforting than coming home after a long week and putting my feet up and watching
Female Trouble is coming home after a long week and putting my feet up and watching several episodes of
The Golden Girls, and tonight has comfort coming because I just whizzed through
Frontier's great big Oral History of the show, wherein they interviewed several writers and producers of the classic sitcom, and my nostalgia for all things Sicily Slash St. Olaf is off the charts.
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--- Today's Second Must Read - Friend of MNPP Matthew Eng wrote up a
glorious ode to the wonders of Kristen Wiig for Tribeca Film that is very long (I only say that so you're prepared) and worth every single word. I still sting when I think of the fact that I have still so far missed her work in
Zoolander 2; I am dying to watch the silly nonsense she came up with in that movie, even if the rest looks played the eff out.
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--- Here's To Your Fuck Frank - This year marks the 30th anniversary of David Lynch's masterpiece
Blue Velvet, and I guess it's gotten a total restoration, which will be playing here in NYC at Film Forum at the end of this month! You can
watch the trailer on their website; meanwhile The Playlist
shares that attractive poster you see to the right there. I love Film Forum for hosting things like this, I really do, so don't take me as ungrateful, but god I wish they had a better actual screen on which to watch such things. I want to watch
Blue Velvet on the Ziegfeld's screen dammit.
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--- South Korean Superstars - Well this is helpful of them - Variety rounds up
what South Korea's three geniuses are lining up next, after coming to America and, uh, now returning back home:
Oldboy and
Stoker helmer Park Chan-wook's got
The Handmaiden, his adaptation of the "lesbian crime novel" called
Fingersmith (
we previously posted on that here) -- speaking of,
Amazon just bought the US rights to that movie. I think we might see it this year? Then there's
Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho who has got
Okja, that monster movie with Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal
we told you about here. That should film this year. And then there's Kim Ji-woon, the director of the phenomenal
I Saw the Devil, who's re-teaming with his usual actor Song Kang-ho on
Secret Agent, a noir thriller, which should also film in 2016.
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--- Kanye's Got No Dignity - You will probably never ever see me linking to a story about Kanye West again, but I couldn't really resist this one - he
recently tweeted out a screengrab of his computer screen showing that he is planning on sampling a Sufjan Stevens song! (He got in a bunch of trouble because he was torrenting it, ha.) Anyway it's a wonderful song of Sufjan's - the one called "Death With Dignity" off of his latest album slash masterpiece
Carrie & Lowell. Kanye, having recently lost his own mother, probably feels a kinship with
C&L, which is about Sufjan's own mother's recent death. Anyway it's a shame Kanye's such a shithead; he can sometimes show good taste.
..--- Shooting The Future - This news is about a week old but it's been shamefully long since I've done one of these link round-ups so I am behind -
Sam Raimi is turning George Friedman's non-fiction hypothetical book
The Next 100 Years, which tries to guess what will happen here on Earth politically, economically, so on and so forth, over the next century, into a movie called
World War 3... so I am guessing that Mr. Friedman has some dire prognostications? Just guessing. Anybody read the book? No word on if Raimi's making this or
his remake of A Prophet first.
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--- And Speaking of week old stories about big time directors adapting books I haven't read, Steven Spielberg
has cast the leading man (uh boy?) for
Ready Player One, his adaptation of
the book by Ernie Cline, and it is Tye Sheridan, adorkable Tye Sheridan.
RPO is about a teenager who has to navigate a treasure hunt inside a virtual reality world. The film had already cast the great Ben Mendelsohn. And I ask again: anybody read this book?
.--- Farewell Farrell - Since I saw
Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos' latest deranged delight
The Lobster (starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz) last fall (
here's my review) I will probably always consider it a 2015 film, and I keep forgetting it hasn't even come out here in the US yet! And now all y'all have got longer to wait -- for some unexplained reason the studio A24
just delayed its release to times unknown, even though it was supposed to come out in just one week. (thanks Mac) I'll make sure to keep track of it though since I am dying to see it again myself. Anyway at least I have Olivia Colman (who gives a terrific performance in
The Lobster) giving a fascinating, weirdly funny performance on
The Night Manager (which I am totally digging) right now to keep me warm...
