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BlogNosh 01/15/08

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

Nikal Saval has an admittedly cranky but masterful takedown of I’m Not There at N + 1. Calling Todd Haynes’ pastiche the Worst Movie of 2007, Saval scratches particularly aggressively at Haynes’ habitual referencing and naked larceny: “Haynes is drowning in his film school education, just as his audience is drowning in allusions, and not a single original idea floats by to rescue him or us.”
I still haven’t received my copy of Berlin Alexanderplatz (I know you’re concerned; right now, it looks like the problem is with UPS and not Amazon, and I’m working on it), so I’m going to avoid Ed Howard’s episode-by-episode recap of Fassbinder’s series, for the time being. Via The House Next Door.
Erin at Steady Diet of Film has a helpful translation of what Jason Reitman, John Sayles, Adam Shankman and Joe Wright were REALLY saying on a recent episode of Sunday Morning Shootout. Useful information gleaned: Reitman, who “hates going to awards shows because he has to stop dressing like he’s homeless,” has a masterful death stare, but Sayles is not impressed.
Lots to report today on the Berlinale front, including the news that Martin Scorsese’s long-delayed Rolling Stones doc Shine A Light will finally make its premiere at the festival–and on opening night, no less. David Hudson has two roundups.

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Nicole Kidman’s streak of high-profile disappointments looks like it’ll continue with The Invasion. Dennis Harvey’s review confirms the bad buzz: “Perhaps the sole distinguishing element in this Invasion is that it provides a new transmission oh-so-characteristic of our filmic era: projectile barfing.”
Jennifer Aniston will join Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connelly in He’s Just Not Into You, making the New Line project surely the most star-studded movie based on a self-help book ever made.
Rosario Dawson is teaming with the creative team behind the hit animated sci-fi web video series Afterworld to star in and produce The Gemini Division, a 100-episode “live-action/motion-capture animation online sci-fi series.”
Emerging Pictures is calling on students at historically black universities around the country to help promote Honeydripper, John Sayles’ upcoming musical starring Danny Glover. EP, in partnership with Clark Atlanta University, is creating a college course through which “students from participating schools will help develop and implement a grassroots marketing campaign with their professors and the film’s distribution team.” The film will make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival.