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The Time For Tilda Is Always
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Funny enough I was just thinking last night that I was really feeling an aching need for some Tilda in my life - I saw Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs (review eventually) in which she voices a psychic pug and I thought to myself, "I need some Tilda in my life." And here we are. Some news anyway. Tilda will star in the new film from Thai director Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul, his first since Cemetery of Splendor in 2015. (Here's my review of Splendor from the NYFF that year.) Tilda & Joe have been talking about making a movie together for a decade apparently (of course they have - I have a feeling she's got her finger in so many director pies that we know nothing about yet) - this film will be called Memoria and you can get an idea of what it's about over here; as is typical with a Weerasethakul Film he doesn't really describe a plot so much as a mood. It will be set in Columbia; not sure if it will be in English - Tilda's done movies in other languages before of course, although she has yet to speak whatever alien language they speak on her home planet on screen.
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Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... practicing my moves with Jamie Bell.
Okay I thought I might be able to resist Jamie's spell here on his 32nd birthday, having given him an entire post yesterday, but the pull's too hard - he's just so damned charming in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpooland now that I got myself thinking about it I'm all worked up. So hit the jump and let's celebrate the gift of Bell properly with a couple dozen pics...
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Great Moments in Movie Shelves #136
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It is Michael Caine's 85th birthday today and so let's give some love to one of my favorite (although dated and controversial) performances, that of the "psycho transsexual" psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott in Brian DePalma's 1980 trash classic Dressed to Kill. Or let's at least give some love to his office shelves anyway...
... which a surprising amount of the film's action takes place in front of. One of my favorite blink-and-you'll-miss-it touches to the movie is this isn't actually Dr. Elliott's desk that he is always sitting at - the first time we meet him, when Angie Dickinson comes in for her first therapy session, he says that his secretary named Mary is on vacation - we never see this Mary person, just the doctor sitting at her desk constantly. Mary who?? Foreshadowing!
And speaking of Angie this scene also highlights one of my favorite Hitchcockian costume choices that DTK makes - think Marion Crane's bra reversal - Angie wears all white over the course of her scenes but she's no virgin; quite the opposite. She's insatiable, yadda yadda, downfall. But then when you cut to Nancy Allen's half of the film - Nancy shows up in the office and tries to seduce him...
... and she wears all black. Plus the scene is at night, all noirish shadows, as opposed to the bright flatness that bathed Angie's session. But Goth-Whore Nancy is really the film's Good Gal Friday.
She seems much more comfortable (as would we all) in the giant man pajamas we see her flopping around at one point in the movie - these black lacy things are drag for her. DePalma further fucks with the white/good black/bad dynamic later in the movie with the hyper-sexualized nurse uniforms. Not that it matters - no matter what any woman's wearing she ends up with red on her hands...
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Every tall person knows this pain.
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Which is Hotter?
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A happy 32 to our boy Jai Courtney today! Not sure if he's celebrating on the set of his Marines Movie with Finn Wittrock that we've been keeping an eye on but I like to think of them... celebrating. (ETA they are still shooting - he posted this picture yesterday!) Anyway after he finishes Semper Fi he's supposed to make a movie called BEEF...
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... which I have taken to capitalizing because obviously a movie called BEEF starring Jai needs to be capitalized. BEEF also stars Timothy Olyphant and Stranger Things'hair-do actor Joe Keery, among others, and we're looking forward to it - the plot is, according to IMDb, about "a manager of a fast food restaurant in the Midwest [who] is wanted by his bookies." Jai plays a character called "Dipper" and I am already in love. Anyway until then for today to celebrate Jai's birthday let's look backwards at all the beef we've had before...
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The Year of July
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I'm so glad that 44 years ago that witch cast that spell on that demure woodland fawn and the directress Miranda July was born - where would we be without her? I wouldn't know the emojis for mutual butt pooping, I wouldn't weep when the name "Paw Paw" is whispered. I don't wanna know that life! I wished July a happy birthday exactly one month ago today and begged and pleaded with the universe for a third movie from her - well it took the universe exactly one month, but we've got news!
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Miranda July is making another movie and i, for one, am hype as hell pic.twitter.com/NDHsx1nZ2E— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) March 15, 2018
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If you can't read that the press release says the film is the first that July will direct that she will not act in, and it will tell the tale of "Old Dolio, and how her world is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet." Okay! Sounds like something new and probably entirely unique, sign me up. Stay tuned for every detail I can scrounge.
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If you can't read that the press release says the film is the first that July will direct that she will not act in, and it will tell the tale of "Old Dolio, and how her world is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet." Okay! Sounds like something new and probably entirely unique, sign me up. Stay tuned for every detail I can scrounge.
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6 Off My Head: Cronenbergian Freakazoids
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It is the living legend David Cronenberg's 75th birthday today - he's so nice he's got an entire sub-genre slash state-of-mind named after him. It's been four long years since his last movie Maps to the Stars came out - he's talked about retiring from directing and released a book in the meantime but we sure do hope he makes more. The world needs him. The world needs his freaks! His beautiful freaks! And so in honor of all he's given us here is a list of the first few Cronenbergian Freaks that popped into my head...
6 of My Favorite Cronenbergian Freaks
Seth Brundle in The Fly
Rose in Rabid
Yves Cloquet in Naked Lunch
Nola in The Brood
Beverly & Elliott Mantle in Dead Ringers
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Come Suck Your Daddy's Dick
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Criterion has officially announced what John Waters told us was happening last month - his masterpiece Female Trouble is getting the deluxe treatment, hitting stands (are there still things called "stands" anymore?) on June 26th! All the details are on their website but the biggie I think is it's a 4K restoration - I can't even imagine Female Trouble looking... clean? Imagine the poor technician whose job it was to scrape digital junk off of Gator's junk. What a world! Anyway there will also be deleted scenes and on-set footage and a whole buncha stuff. Check it out!
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Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer
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One's always tempted to see something of the primitive whirling about over the porcelain surface of Isabelle Huppert, a singular storm in a teacup - that is her fascination; she is somehow all and nothing at once. But in Claire's Camera what is primitive seems more like "simple" - not in the derogatory sense of "simpleton" but more like what Martha Stewart intends. Yellow linen. Untroubled. It's one of Huppert's most untroubled performances - Claire is a lovely breeze come in off the Mediterranean, making sense of things with an imperceptible nudge.
And so similarly what often reads as a "primitive" conceit in more judgmental hands - the belief that the taking of one's photograph might steal one's soul, one's essence - instead, here in Hong Sang-soo's lovely little contemplative film, becomes a contemplation - what if instead of stealing one's soul the taking of a photograph simply shifted one's self around a little bit, connecting dots that weren't entirely dotted just before?
What if pictures, that is to say cinema, helped sort us out?
It's not an earth-shaking idea but Claire's Camera makes seventy brief and inviting minutes of sitting at a French seaside cafe out of it, and that's certainly not to be sneezed at. I've never been to Cannes but this feels like the anti-glamorous ideal of it - a week before or a week after, everybody's somewhere else and the people who talk in pictures, who think about images, are left to do just that for a minute. How lovely and fine.
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Joey Pollari Eleven Times
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Love, Simon is out in theaters right now! Read my review right here and then go see it, or go see it and then come back here and read my review - whichever, just go put some bank in gay moviemaking or else gay people will never be heard from again, dun dun dun. Anyway this chap Joey Pollari seen here is in the movie as one of Simon's possible suitors (playing the one I would've had the biggest crush on if I had been Simon) just came out this week in a nice little chat with The Advocate, go read it. Congrats to him - he sounds like a nice boy. And he looks like one too; for some pics hit the jump...
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Hunnam Hedlund & Isaac Oh My!
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I have to type fast because my flight to Hawaii leaves soon - I don't know when yet, whatever one is heading that way next, because Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund and Charlie Hunnam are hanging out on the beaches there right now and I don't want to miss it! (ETA they are shooting a movie called Triple Frontier.)
When I tweeted out a picture of Charlie at the beach last night (seriously you'll want to see that tweet if you missed it) I had no idea he was the spicy mayo between two super sexy slices of white bread like this! Hot damn, this feels like a conference of all my crushes - if Jake Gyllenhaal shows up I'm done for.
We only recently found out (see the post here) that Charlie and Garrett are good friends - they've been making up for lost time ever since though, and it's only getting better and better. Anyway I'm sure that more photos will come out of this trip but for now hit the jump for the dozen we've got (including a splendid cameo from the Surprisingly Chunky Bum itself)...
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Good Morning, World
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Thanks to the model-turned-actor McCaul Lombardi for the gift of these two photos (click to embiggen) via his Instagram - we were just thinking about him the other day during the Independent Spirit Awards when Patti CakeS was nominated for some things. You know McCaul either from that or from Andrea Arnold's masterpiece American Honey - or maybe you just know him from the great big gratuitous post we did on him around the time the movies were out. Either way, hello and good morning to us all!
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Hot Dogs For Timmy
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I suppose as co-members of the hip fresh New York Filmmakers Mafia there are reasons that Josh Safdie, the director of last year's most excellent Good Time starring Robert Pattinson, and Timothée Chalamet, actor, might be hanging out together that have nothing to do with making a project together. Perhaps they just got friendly on the awards circuit last year - perhaps they bumped into each other in the bathroom at the Independent Spirits and felt the clouds part and kismet, angel choir, a fair and true love was born. That would be lovely.
But really I just want them to make their next movie together. Anyway Josh posted that shot on his Instagram this weekend; I believe Timothee went to a basketball game and that sure looks like the area right around Madison Square Garden. And yes Timothee has been spotted all over New York since the endless Call Me By Your Name awards tour actually, you know, ended, and yes I look for him everywhere I go. No avail yet. One of these days, Timmy! You're gonna stand awkwardly next to me in a selfie, goddamit.
But really I just want them to make their next movie together. Anyway Josh posted that shot on his Instagram this weekend; I believe Timothee went to a basketball game and that sure looks like the area right around Madison Square Garden. And yes Timothee has been spotted all over New York since the endless Call Me By Your Name awards tour actually, you know, ended, and yes I look for him everywhere I go. No avail yet. One of these days, Timmy! You're gonna stand awkwardly next to me in a selfie, goddamit.
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