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Sex and the City Uncensored: BlogNosh 04/07/08

By Karina Longworth posted 5 months ago

“Once Upon A Time in America, Dead Man, L’Argent, Ivan the Terrible, Crash—these are some of my favorites in the BFI series of monographs,” Girish writes. “Are there others in the series you particularly like and would recommend?” I read tons of these in grad school; my favorites included Groundhog’s Day, Independence Day, Salmon Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz, and Camille Paglia on The Birds.
Jeff Wells, after trisecting Gus Van Sant’s career, worries which version of the filmmaker showed up to make Milk. “If Van Sant who made Drugstore Cowboy is making Milk, terrific. If a blend of that Van Sant along with the guy who made Elephant is directing Milk, beautiful. But if the Finding Forrester Van Sant is anywhere near the Milk set, watch out.”
On a recent press tour for Smart People, Sarah Jessica Parker was reluctant to speak about the Sex and the City movie at all, but she did try to assuage worries that, content wise, the film is going to be more TBS than HBO. “I don’t think we have any interest in doing some homogenized, conventional version, in order to appeal. We don’t think mass.” Via Michael Musto.

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Milk on Castro

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

Steve Rhodes has pictures from the San Francisco set of Milk, Gus Van Sant’s biopic in which Sean Penn plays the openly-gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated by a fellow city supervisor who later claimed he had killed whilst in the throes of a sugar rush. Van Sant and crew have apparently dressed a stretch of SF’s Castro district to match its 70s glory. More photos here.

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