1. Mike D'Angelo's New York Film Festival page, just updated with his (at the moment) best movie of the year, Afterschool. A prior Cannes wrap-up of Antonio Campos' film at GreenCine.
["Remember in Mulholland Dr. when that creepy dude points at the headshot and says, flatly, "This is the girl"? Try to imagine me heavier and much more intimidating as I tell you with equally unshakable certitude: This is the film."]
2. "My Gal": Saunders on Palin in The New Yorker. (Hattip: Stephen Cone)
["How does the moose feel about it? Who knows? Probably not great. But do you know what the difference is between a dead moose with lipstick on and a dead moose without lipstick? Lipstick. Think about it. Moose are, truth be told, Élites. They are big and fast and sort of rule the forest. Sarah took that one down a notch. Who’s Élite now, Bullwinkle? Not Sarah. She’s just Regular as heck."]
3. The second episode of Vinyl is Podcast, with House contributor Ryland Walker Knight, Mark Haslam, and Brian Darr.
["RWK here. This episode: we're joined by local hero and blogging buddy Brian Darr, of Hell on Frisco Bay, to talk the upcoming rep calendar. Of course, any talk about movies, especially a talk meant to cover so much, will spill over into other topics and other films other than the films and film series at hand. We even divert into a talk about Cut Copy and their upcoming, sold-out show in San Francisco on Sunday, October 5th, as well as Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, among other things, including my trip to Telluride, again, of course. Speaking of: a big apology to Howie Movshovitz, one of the real cool pair of moderators/hosts for our Student Symposium (the other: Linda Williams), whose name I totally blanked on during our recording session. If you make it that far, you'll hear me grasping, failing, griping -- and coming up with Harvey. The reason I didn't follow Brian's "on air" advice and splice in some kind of edit correction is because I just want to let the tape run. As I say at one point, this is not planned. I like it that way. I did a better job of projecting my voice this week, I think, which might make it easier to listen to, but I still dig how un-NPR we are on these experiments. Thanks for indulging us. We're still trying to make this mic work, but it's tough. I've got a (pretty cheap) directional mic so it really needs you to talk at it -- it doesn't record the space of the room all that well -- and, as is natural, Brian and Mark turned towards me to talk, to perform our conversation, so their voices are a little lower than mine in the mix. So turn it up."]
4. Catching up with Alan Sepinwall's Emmy coverage, at The Star-Ledger and his blog.
["It was hard to imagine anyone finding a way to make the show worse than it was last year, with the clumsy theater-in-the-round layout and Ryan Seacrest stumbling his way through one bad joke after another, but this year's producers managed. They did away with the round theater, but brought back Seacrest and teamed him with fellow Outstanding Reality Show Host nominees Jeff Probst (who won that category), Tom Bergeron, Howie Mandel and Heidi Klum (the latter of whom should never be allowed on live TV again). Their opening bit, in which they rambled on forever about having nothing interesting planned, was so disastrous that various winners and presenters referred to it contemptuously throughout the rest of the evening."]
5. "Spielberg gives $100,000 to back gay marriage": Possible punchlines: a) Catch (or pitch) me if you can. b) Saving Ryan's privates. c) Amistud.
["Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, are the latest celebrity donors to the fight against California’s November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Spielberg and Capshaw have donated $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, they announced in a statement Monday. “By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation,” the statement said. “Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other.”"]
Quote of the Day: Adelle Davis
Image(s) of the Day (click to enlarge): Three views of Shakezula, the mic rula. (Hattip: Robert Humanick)
Clip of the Day: Longest fingernails in the world
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Links for the Day (September 23rd, 2008)
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2 comments:
After School is 5 years late. Everything it deals with was already covered in Elephant, Cache, Demonlover, etc.
Plus, the decision to use virtually no music is one of the most pretentious, hackneyed devices is art film: Ooh, look at how serious this is! It must be art! Because there's absolutely no humor and everything is glum!
If the movie took place in a gulag, okay. But I'm pretty sure kids in prep school listen to music and occasionally tell jokes.
Anything can be funny. Even the idea of John McCain in a POW camp stuck in a body cast having somebody else wiping his ass can inspire a smile.
It reeked of early-20s filmmaking ideas. Campos should've waited until he was 5 years older until he made a feature.
Why are schools are used as the setting with these types of films?
Eh...
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