BUTTERKNIFE 8: Smelly Elly
All of our SXSW coverage can be found here. Except for our Andre Williams interview, which lives here.
Butterknife wrapped up with episodes 7 and 8 (see above), and a where-are-they-now on the cast and crew.
Live Twittering the Cinema Eye Honors.
Anthony Minghella died of a brain hemmorhage.
On FilmCouch: Loving Rachel Welch, not loving Love Songs.
The sex tape as stealth marketing.
2 Girls, 1 Clooney
When Batman sequels and presidential politics merge.
Harry Houdini battles the robots.
How long can Owen Wilson hide from reporters before we just automatically assume his films are crap?
Suburban moms get a chance to suck on Mr. Big.
If Madonna and Guy Ritchie break up, Swept Away will hold all the answers.
Please, somebody, give Parker Posey a decent job!
“Oh snap!”
Mamie Van Doren nipple slip. Yes, seriously.
Yay, Muppets!
Nerds are mad at Harvey Weinstein.
Trailers: The Children of Huang Shi, Tropic Thunder, Pathology
Sam Raimi + Jack Ryan = WTF?
Help a filmmaker by sending him your film.
Short films have a new venue: the news.
If there’s anything worse than green beer, it’s a bad Irish accent.
Judd Apatow is very busy.
Tracking the evolution from romantic solipsism to existential dread, from All That Heaven Allows to Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.
Why the audience shouldn’t be blamed for the faults of distributors and the laziness of critics.
Who’s buying movies from iTunes?
The Jewish Juno.
Chris knows why they call it slapstick.
Without Lily Tomlin, it’s just not a real feminist film.
The marshmallow King Kong.
I’m fairly certain Cary Grant was never asked by an interviewer to watch internet scat porn so that his word-for-word reaction could be printed in a major magazine, but poor George Clooney lives in a different time. Presumably because there’s very little new to say about Clooney––he’s good looking! He’s liberal! He’s an Oscar winner prone to making casually derogatory gay jokes about Brad Pitt!!!––and yet, as there’s endless demand for his silver foxiness on magazine covers, Esquire’s AJ Jacobs spent a day with the actor. Surfing the internet.
Towards the end of their session, after Clooney confessed to a certain affection for a YouTube clip called “Monkey Smells Butt,” Jacobs decided it was time to move on to the harder stuff: the poo and puke internet porn sensation of late 2007, 2 Girls 1 Cup. The clip, which spawned a wave of reaction videos last fall, sent the one-time Batman running from the room in disgust. If only Jacobs had whipped out a video camera ala Joel Stein––not only would there be something simply cool about the idea of Everyone’s Favorite Movie Star participating in an online video meme, but I’m sure the document of Clooney’s squeamishness would have been a page view bonanza for the magazine. Alas. Excerpt from the Esquire story after the jump [Via Indie Eye].
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