1. No link. Just a plead to HBO to give this man, and his character, their own series.
2. "2 for All-Time, 4 for No-time": House contributor N.P. Thompson reviews The Violin, The Band's Visit, 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days, Caramel, and Taxi to the Dark Side.
["Absolutely essential viewing, Francisco Vargas’s black-and-white drama from Mexico tells the un-sugarcoated saga of an octogenarian street violinist Don Plutarco (Ángel Tavira) whose rough, folk melodies enchant a brutal military officer (Dagoberta Gama). The two enter into an almost Scheherazade-like relationship: Plutarco may look after his harvest on occupied land, if he plays violin for the captain. This, however, is no art-house fantasy a la The Lives of Others—monsters aren’t redeemed by exposure to music (or literature or theatre or painting), and The Violin doesn’t insult us by pretending otherwise, which is why it took the movie years to find a U.S. distributor."]
3. "The Hollywood studio mentality in one paragraph": Courtesy Jim Emerson and Kimberly Peirce.
["Perfectly circular bureaucratic logic -- so beautiful in its impeccable shape that Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller must be laughing so hard they're crying...."]
4. "Danica Patrick makes history with IRL victory" From MSNBC.
["Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 after the top contenders were forced to pit for fuel in the final laps."]
5. "Stinky manure smell engulfs London": There's a hole in the world like a great, black pit/And it's filled with people who are filled with shit/And the vermin of the world inhabit it...
["A foul smell permeating London and parts of England over the past two days is due to farmers on the European continent spreading manure in their fields, forecasters and British farmers said Saturday. The agricultural odor is inescapable in central London and smells vaguely of farmland or even garbage. Forecasters said a stiff breeze from the east is carrying the smell across the North Sea from Belgium, the Netherlands and even Germany. They said the smell is likely to hang around through the weekend as the easterly wind continues."]
Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): Can you guess which of these two idols opened for the Lord Sith?
Clip of the Day: The answer to our "Image" question...
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"Links for the Day": Each morning, the House editors post a series of weblinks that we think will spark discussion. Comments encouraged. Suggestions for links are also welcome. Please send to keithuhlich@gmail.com.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Links for the Day (April 20th, 2008)
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7 comments:
Yeah, Stephen Dillane has been pretty exceptional in John Adams. I've also enjoyed Rufus Sewell's Alexander Hamilton, as well as the many Barry Lyndon homages on the soundtrack.
Yeah, I agree -- Rob Brydon was great in Tristram Shandy.
What?
YES! What a scene-stealer he is.
#1 -- Ditto.
Yes. Dillane is fantastic. I keep wondering why I'm watching "John Adams" and not Thomas Jefferson".
kza and I are like-minded.
LOVED the movie reviews. I also thought The Band's Visit was a wonderful, quiet revealing of the humanity of all the people in the movie, Israelis and Egyptians alike.
AND, I was overjoyed by Thompson's comments on Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days. I had been snookered by, I believe, a rave from The New York Times. Some critic thought the film was robbed by not being an Oscar nominee for best foreign film - and pontificated that maybe it was political since the topic was abortion. I HATED the movie and had doubted my own taste ever since. What joy to read the reviewer's skewering of it.
I can hardly wait to see The Violin. I haven't seen it at any of our local art houses, and hope it will be coming.
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