'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
To quote World of Kane where I spotted this:
Beautiful and fascinating test footage from director Henri-Georges Clouzot's ('Les Diaboliques', 'Wages of Fear') never-completed psychological thriller 'Inferno' ('L'Enfer'), a study of jealousy tipping into madness.
It's mesmerizing. What a loss that movie wasn't finished. I'd always wondered what happened to Clouzot's career. He wrecked it on this movie where he was given an unlimited budget. It's very Lynch-like.
I finally saw Julie/Julia last night, and it was about what I expected. What was most disappointing to me was how sugar-coated the Julie Powell story was. (I should have expected it since it was Nora Ephron, but I'd forgotten she was involved until I saw the credits.)
What I remember from reading the blog back in 2002 was that by the end of it, Powell was basically a hysterical wreck. In the movie there's one throwaway line about "and I'm getting so fat!" and no attempt to actually show it - in real life, she gained 60 pounds that year and her writing made it clear how difficult that part of the project was for her to deal wth. In real life the money she spent on ingredients was a huge strain on her marriage, and in the movie there's (again) one throwaway line about Paypal. Etc etc etc.
Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci were marvelous as Julia and Paul, though. I could have watched a whole movie just about them.
Natalie Portman To Take On 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies'
She's been a princess, a senator, a freedom fighter and, most recently, a grieving widow. Next up: zombie slayer. Natalie Portman is set to produce and star in an adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." No... that's not right. She's set to produce and star in an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's zombified remix of Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," Variety reports. There. That's better. The planned big screen adaptation joins a previously announced graphic novel retelling of the story.
Oh, and Up In the Air is really good.
Just got back from seeing The Princess and the Frog with Matilda. I don't think I can even say anything about it yet; I'm just all hand-flappy swoony squee. I want to see it about eleventy-million more times. SWOON.
We went and saw Broken Embraces (Almodovar's latest). We both found it kind of boring. But we did have a Kate Moennig sighting afterwards! That's Shane from The L Word, in case you didn't know.
That's Shane
What a nice name...
Isn't it though? :)
COME BACK SHANE!
"I just love Shane!"
Wow, she's hot...
What? Is she even close to that hot in the flesh?