Features
• Nathaniel Rogers and Katey Rich offer an early rundown of the best of 2009 thus far. [The Film Experience]
• Breaking down the world premieres at the Edinburgh Film Festival, which yours truly will be covering. [Screen International]
• Shia LaBeouf calls the “Transformers” sequel “literally the biggest movie ever made.” What a shame I won’t see it. [Daily Telegraph]
• Tim Burton gets a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Freaky sketches included. [New York Times]
• Anne Thompson asks why nobody will fund movies for mature audiences, gets Clint Eastwood’s thoughts on the matter. [Thompson on Hollywood]
• Patrick Goldstein on the return (kinda) of Alexander Payne. [The Big Picture]
• Random list of the day: 10 movies that didn’t need girls. (Sorry, but “Wedding Crashers” totally needed Rachel McAdams. Most movies do.) [Cinema Blend]
• Okay, another list, but I really like this one: the 10 greatest multiple-role performances in history. (Yes, #1 is exactly what you think it is, and rightly so.) [Vulture]
• Something belated for the “Bolt” fans: a video interview with Rhino the hamster. [The Guardian]
• Not exactly new, and not exactly movie-related, but have you heard Scarlett Johansson’s duet with Pete Yorn yet? I dig it. [The Break Up Album]
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9 responses so far
1 6-11-2009 at 12:07 pm
Morgan said...
I would have loved for Miranda Richardson in “Spider” to have made that multi-role list.
2 6-11-2009 at 12:28 pm
Marlowe said...
Oh, great, Shia’s in the “I freely use ‘literally’ without actually knowing what it means” club. So sad.
3 6-11-2009 at 12:33 pm
Guy Lodge said...
No, he is actually applying “literally” in a literal sense — he’s talking about the physical size and scale of the film, which he sincerely believes outdoes anything before it.
He’s almost certainly deluded in saying that, but that’s another concern.
4 6-11-2009 at 12:34 pm
Guy Lodge said...
Morgan: I wish “Spider” made more lists, period. Such a masterpiece, that.
5 6-11-2009 at 5:54 pm
tony rock said...
Guy: …maybe it does?
6 6-12-2009 at 12:14 am
Guy Lodge said...
Tony: Hence the “ALMOST certainly” qualifier. Forgive me for being sceptical, though.
7 6-12-2009 at 12:46 am
Vito said...
Guy, why aren’t you gonna see Transformer 2? Just curious.
8 6-12-2009 at 12:52 am
Guy Lodge said...
Because the first one killed off a little part of my soul that still hasn’t come back to life?
Life’s too short for voluntary suffering.
9 6-12-2009 at 1:19 am
Vito said...
Haha, fair enough. I figured it was something like that.