Features
• Steve Appleford taps into Spinal Tap, 25 years later. [Los Angeles Times]
• Dennis Lim, meanwhile, revisits the “last gasp of an old-fashioned modernism” that is “Last Year at Marienbad.” [Los Angeles Times]
• A few of the cinema’s most inspiring, moving and emotional dad moments. [Empire]
• John Hiscock talks “Year One” with Jack Black. [Daily Telegraph]
• Popcorn as a sexual aid? [The Guardian]
• Lou Lumenick, spinning his wheels, wonders whether the top brass shakeup at Paramount this week is prelude to a merger with Universal Pictures. [Lumenick on Film]
• Sam Mendes beat Martin Scorsese to the “Middlemarch” punch. [The Independent]
• Speaking of which, Brad Brevet accuses Sam Mendes of attacking the state of American marriage. If the shoe fits… [Rope of Silicon]
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1 6-22-2009 at 9:55 am
red_wine said...
Middlemarch is a big under-taking. It is widely considered to be 1 of the 10 greatest novels ever written. I’ve been meaning to read it for sometime, will definitely do when I find time. But not thrilled about Mendes at all. And Marienbad is 1 of the most startlingly original films ever made.