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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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The Doom Generation(1995)
Amy: Life is lonely, boring and dumb.
I don't think I entirely understood how formative this movie was for me until I re-watched a screener of the new 4K restoration of it last weekend -- it was the first time I'd seen it in some time; long enough that I have some distance from who I was in my late teens / early 20s when I first saw Gregg Araki's films and can see that he was responsible for stamping my personality as much as Paul Reubens had been earlier in my life. The outward cynicism giving way to a creamy dreamy center; posturing as too cool for school when you're really the type to whimper like a puppy in bed. That teenage feeling that the world is collapsing around us... oh wait that one's still around.
Anyway the 4K restoration is out here in NYC today -- I posted a trailer here -- and it is indeed a "Director's Cut" of the film, which hasn't been seen since it played Sundance originally back in 1995. It had been long enough since I'd seen the movie that I wasn't entirely sure of what scenes and moments are new, but they're definitely in there, sprinkled about. The film will be traveling outward from NYC so keep your eyes to the ground; and I have zero doubt this one will be getting a deluxe blu-ray treatment before the year is through. Now bring on the rest of Araki's movies!
THE PEOPLE DEMAND A TEENAGE APOCALYPSE BOXED-SET! https://t.co/kMNfifzdBT
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 6, 2023
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Lucas Bravo Nine Times
I hope that Lucas Bravo has talented smart people getting him the roles that that face of his demands right now, because I need to see him leading some movies stat! The show Emily in Paris seems to've gotten him his first notice here in the US (he is French, of course -- I say "of course" because that accent is part of his appeal) but since I never watched that it was the movies Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and Ticket to Paradise where I became aware of, and then quickly obsessed, with him. Of course this has all been within the past year so if you've been here for that long you've seen all of this play out in real time -- here are our Lucas Archives for a refresher. (And make sure to check this post, good god, specifically.)
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Anyway I say all of that because IMDb doesn't have any new projects listed, but I'm sure there's deals being made given our boy's current heat levels. And I'm doing my part! By posting every photo possible. This here is a new photo-shoot for Citizen K magazine (via) and it gives his perfect legs a good work-out (I too would like to do the same, wink wink) so hit the jump for them all...
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How To Blow Up a Pipeline in 200 Words or Less
A killer heist movie about shit that actually matters, writer-director Daniel Goldhaber's seat-gripping eco-thriller How To Blow Up a Pipeline flips the script on the usual slave-to-Capitalism narrative these movies suck at the teat of by making the politically righteous destruction of corporate greed their mark. The filmmaker's previous and also-terrific movie Cam managed a similar feat, funneling an of-our-moment discourse about sex-work and online personality crises through genre tropes -- this movie proves Goldhaber's the real deal, a talent to show up again and again for.
Pipeline's constantly shuffling structure owes plenty to heist movies of the past -- I just watched Jules Dassin's 1955 masterpiece Rififi for the first time last week and it all starts there, right? -- but what makes Pipeline stand out is its fiercely political point-of-view; anger of the sort that's sadly a real rarity in these generic times of ours. And so too the characters, the kind of on-the-margins loners weirdos and cast-offs who would never be the central focus of a slick Soderbergh-esque entertainment. (That's no slight meant to Soderbergh, of course - I love you, Stevie!) The actors, all fascinating up-and-comers with riveting faces, snap together like exquisite calibration. This sucker thrums!
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It Had To Be Yeun
Is that it? I guess that's it. I'm done for this week -- I'm calling it. I got nothing else to say, and I am gonna go home and veg the fuck out tonight. If you're looking for things to veg with -- Beef starring Steven Yeun (and his butt) is now on Netflix! It's good! Here is my review. And How To Blow Up a Pipeline is in theaters and very very good -- I reviewed that just below. Although that's not really a vehicle for "veg" as it's tense as all get out. Anyway you'll figure it out. I have faith in you! Bye!
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Good Morning, World
If you don't follow the actor Pablo Schreiber on Instagram then you might not know that he's been vacationing in Jamaica for the past week or so -- an activity which he's been relentlessly documenting on his social media account, much to our gratuitous delight. I've barely been able to keep up with it all and lawd knows -- I try. I'm a trier. But here, to help combat those Monday morning blues which I know we're all combattin', a collection of noted Schreiberian beefcakery set against a tropical locale after the jump...
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
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Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Julien: Being an adult means to have aspeedometer that marks 210and not driving over 60.
A happy 50th birthday to the great and gorgeous Guillaume Canet today! This movie above is probably the first thing I ever saw him in (it's also where he first met his partner of the last sixteen years, a certain Miss Marion Cotillard) and I remember digging the movie but I haven't seen it since. Looking through his filmography I've seen surprisingly few of his movies, actually? It seems like he makes a lot that never makes it across the pond. Oh well that hasn't kept me from documenting him plenty over the years -- check our archives right here.
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Pics of the Day
Back in February I told you that Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan were set to star in a movie together called Saltburn, from Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell -- well looks like that's happening! These two gym snaps were snatched off of Barry's Insta-stories -- they're actually not the first time we've seen the two chillaxing; you can see a previous photo (that Jacob took of Barry) right here. I know Barry's a wee one but Jacob is still so gosh-darn tall, sheesh! Anyway the movie sounds very Ripley-ish, with Barry's character a creeper who becomes obsessed with Jacob's, so we've got mile-high (or should I say Elordi-high) hopes for queerness slathered all over this sucker. Don't let us down, Emerald!
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Good Morning, World
Even though I have never watched Riverdale I know enough about Riverdale to know that whatever the hell the context of this promo photo of the show's leading man KJ Apa in tighty-whities is (via) it's got to be utterly ridiculous -- that's how the show rolls. And lord knows I have no problem with ridiculous in general, but especially when it results in KJ Apa in tighty-whities. No problems at all over here! Let's hope we get more of this when this episode actually airs, which I will dutifully share if/when we do.
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Pedro Pascal Nine Times
I think it was yesterday that we got confirmation that Pedro Almodovar's "Gay Western" short film starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke and Manu Rios will be premiering at Cannes -- perfect timing then for this Esquire cover shoot of Mr. Pascal to arrive then! Funny how that works. It's almost like there are literally one thousand people employed to build a "sustained buzz" about a person who has a lot of projects coming out. Huh.
Not to slight Pascal's dogged work-ethic -- he's been at this for a very long time and he has fully earned this moment. I like him! I really really like him. He's talented, he's very sexy, and he's best friends with Oscar Isaac. How could I not? I mean, there is one big elephant in the room that tends to elbow me about the larynx some, cough cough, but I suppose that day will, uhh, come out. Someday. One... supposes. Aaaaaanyway! Until then let's just shut off that nagging voice in our brain and enjoy the photos after the jump...
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TikTok To Me
This is one I ended up watching twice during Sundance this year because I liked it so much (here is my review) -- Talk To Me is a new horror flick and A24 picked it up for release in July and today, a trailer. It's about a young woman whose mother recently died who gets pulled into the cool new TikTok-ish party-game of her friends who are holding hands with a cursed hand that possesses them with a dead person for a minute. Which they then make viral videos out of. It's a little bit of a drug-rush, it's a little bit Monkey's Paw and a little Ouija Board too, and it is a whole lotta freaky. Anyway shit goes wrong, as it inevitable always does -- imagine if it didn't? What if she held the hand, she got her high, and then she just went about living her life? Dare to dream, horror movie characters. Some day! For now... nope. Not the day.
Talk To Me is out on July 28th.
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Quote of the Day
"The movie is going to be seen how it was meant to be seen: with a bunch of drunk, hot people,... At Sundance earlier this year, Jimmy said to me that someone once told him, ‘When me and my girlfriend were watching Doom Generation, as soon as it was over, we had to go back to our condo and fuck.’ For me, that’s a five-star review.”
-- That's The Doom Generation director Gregg Araki talking (the Jimmy he mentions is James Duval, the film's star) about the new 4K restoration I told you was hitting screens here in NYC last week, and then spreading out like an STD from there. (Here is the trailer.)
Read the entire chat here, although the most important bit of information comes in the introduction where we're told that Nowhere, Araki's 1997 film that makes up another third of his "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy" (along with Totally Fucked Up) is also getting restored and that will play in theaters this fall! And that there are actually "hopeful" plans for a Criterion boxed-set ahead!
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Y'all! This is the thing, The Thing, that I have spent half my fucking life hollering for! if this indeed comes to pass I don't know what I'll hoot and holler about after this. Maybe I'll have to like, go do charity-work or some shit now. Bogus!
Read the entire chat here, although the most important bit of information comes in the introduction where we're told that Nowhere, Araki's 1997 film that makes up another third of his "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy" (along with Totally Fucked Up) is also getting restored and that will play in theaters this fall! And that there are actually "hopeful" plans for a Criterion boxed-set ahead!
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Get Busy Living Or Get Busy...
Although there are some exceptions -- and yes I am talking about you, Robert Downey Jr remaking Vertigo -- I'm glad that I pried the stick out of my ass about movie remakes right around the time that Luca Guadagnino put his version of Suspiria into the world. Because I told myself and I believed myself that we'll always have the original thing in the world, so if the new version sucks we can just pretend it didn't happen! Voila, magic! And then sometimes these things don't suck and we're all the better for it.
Which brings me to Oliver Hermanus' 2022 film Living, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru -- a lot of people got really hung up on that! But I'm glad I wasn't one of them because I found Living profoundly moving. Mostly thanks to Bill Nighy's Oscar-nominated turn (he should have won), but not just -- the gorgeous score and Hermanus' camera-work and the supporting turn from Aimee Lou Wood (she should've gotten a Supporting Actress nomination dammit). Point being I adore this film. Here's my 2022 Sundance review. And it's now (getting to the reason for this post) on blu-ray today! Pick up your copy here. I wish they'd release the scene of Nighy singing "The Rowan Tree" in the film so I could embed that; maybe I'll have to go add it to my own YouTube page some time. That'll convince you to see the blasted movie if you haven't yet!
Which brings me to Oliver Hermanus' 2022 film Living, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru -- a lot of people got really hung up on that! But I'm glad I wasn't one of them because I found Living profoundly moving. Mostly thanks to Bill Nighy's Oscar-nominated turn (he should have won), but not just -- the gorgeous score and Hermanus' camera-work and the supporting turn from Aimee Lou Wood (she should've gotten a Supporting Actress nomination dammit). Point being I adore this film. Here's my 2022 Sundance review. And it's now (getting to the reason for this post) on blu-ray today! Pick up your copy here. I wish they'd release the scene of Nighy singing "The Rowan Tree" in the film so I could embed that; maybe I'll have to go add it to my own YouTube page some time. That'll convince you to see the blasted movie if you haven't yet!
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Pedro's Strange Ways
Speak o' the devil! (Did you see those hot-cha-cha pictures of Pedro Pascal we posted earlier?) Here is the official poster for Pedro Almodóvar's short film Strange Way of Life starring Pascal and Ethan Hawke -- this is the "gay western" that Almodóvar's been talking about ever since ye olde Brokeback days. Here's an official still too:
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Knowing how rich Pedro's short film The Human Voicewith Tilda Swinton was a couple years back the fact that this is only thirty minutes long gives me no pause whatsoever. Anyway it's premiering at Cannes and we cannot wait. That poster up top is so Johnny Guitarwe might explode!
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Portrait of an Artist on Fire
About three weeks back I got distracted (as I'm wont to do) while talking about the anniversary of Harmony Korine's film Spring Breakers, specifically by its poster -- it was designed by one of my absolute favorite working movie poster artists, Akiko Stehrnberger, and therein I yammered a bit about her work and how friggin' excellent I find it to be. Anyway one of my holy grails has been the hardcover book about her work that was released in 2020 and immediately went out of print -- there isn't a week that rolls by where I don't search eBay for it. But search no more! Because a second-edition is getting issued this fall and you can pre-order it right here. Indeed if you order it right now it's on sale for 40 bucks instead of 50! This second-edition has a new cover (seen above) and includes some of Akiko's newer work, some of which you can see in the Instagram post below. Score!
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Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
... sweating to the Orli.
I have no idea where I picked up the nickname "Orli" for Orlando Bloom -- is that even a thing? I swear it's been a thing for ages; I don't think I made it up. Anyway my brain's playing all kinds of tricks on me today because I also had to double-check that I hadn't posted this Men's Health video before. And I have not! There are many, many similar videos from the past few years in our Orlando Archives -- ever since those paparazzo photographed his big-time altogether and then some on that paddle-board back in 2016 he seems to've embraced the gratuity. And thank goodness for us on that front. And that back. And that front. And so forth. Aaanyway I've got the new video and new gifs for you after the jump...
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Good Morning, World
It was Rings of Power actor Ismael Cruz Cordova's 36th birthday a couple of days ago -- happy belated to him! -- and he shared these photos on his Instagram as a gift for us, I guess? I feel blessed, anyway. They seem to be outtakes from his photoshoot for Behind the Blinds magazine, which I posted the original batch of right here in November. S'good stuff! Highly recommended! Hit the jump for the several more...
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