“Should Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck be determining the president of the United States? No, because if they do, then your policies are sure to be goofy.”
That’s what passes as homerun humor coming from Dennis Kucinich. In this Debate Porridge clip from New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential candidate accuses ABC and parent company Disney of usurping the function of the election’s first primary by making the decision months in advance to exclude him from last weekend’s debates. He’s joined in the clip by recent CronenbergmuseViggo Mortensen, who has been tirelessly campaigning for Kucinich in New Hampshire for several days. Whether by coincidence or design, Mortensen has not worked for Disney since 2004’s Hidalgo. After this, will he again? Am I posting this for any substantion reason other than to siphon traffic off Google searches for “New Hampshire”? So many questions…
Steven Boone has published an a-ma-zing interview with film critic Armond White. There’s almost too much good stuff here; at one point, White deflates Boone’s theory that digital video has allowed filmmaking to transition from “aristocratic medium…to one where poor people make films.” White says: “Poor people don’t make films. They’ve got other things to do.” Also, check out Boone’s companion piece at The House Next Door: Ten Armond White Quotes That Shook The World.
“What if this guy got you pregnant? Basically an over aged hippy who ended up with a woman far, far hotter than he could ever have hoped for.” Dennis Kucinich as Seth Rogen’s character from Knocked Up, and other 2008 Presidential Candidates as 2007 Movie Characters.
David Hudson has the first round of competition titles for the Berlin Film Festival. Included: Errol Morris’ S.O.P.: Standard Operating Procedure, and my favorite English-language film of the year thus far, There Will Be Blood.
Kate Coe has found a new twist in the Theresa Duncan vs. Scientology story: Apparently, sometime Scientologist Beck told an Italian newspaper that he was starring in Duncan’s Alice in Wonderland-inspired film, years before he told Vanity Fair that he had never even talked to Duncan about being in the project. The VF article theorizes that Beck’s withdrawl from the project led it to fall apart, which led Duncan to the depression that led to her suicide.
Some movies are violent, some are disturbing, and others are just plain wrong. Paul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race is a fun ride with some gnarly crashes, but it can’t hold a candle to its demented predecessor, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 (1975).
Cinema’s favorite weirdo, Cripsin Glover, is taking his film across the country, personally [...]
Steven Boone has published an a-ma-zing interview with film critic Armond White. There’s almost too much good stuff here; at one point, White deflates Boone’s theory that digital video has allowed filmmaking to transition from “aristocratic medium…to one where poor people make films.” White says: “Poor people don’t make films. They’ve got other things to do.” Also, check out Boone’s companion piece at The House Next Door: Ten Armond White Quotes That Shook The World.
