Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a documentary released in 2001 about Stanley Kubrick. Narrated by Tom Cruise, the film was
Well, there goes my night.
(Also: narrated by Tom Cruise? Hmmm.)
“This is not some apron-wearing mother you’re speaking with—I know all about your Valhalla of decadence and I shouldn’t have let him go. He’s not ready for your world of compromised values and diminished brain cells that you throw away like confetti…
If you break his spirit, harm him in any way, keep him from his chosen profession which is law - something you may not value, but I do - you will meet the voice on the other end of this telephone and it will not be pretty.” - Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) in Almost Famous
If champagne and fancy suits aren’t your thing, maybe you’d enjoy some young, reckless love and guns instead?
The newly-restored Badlands is at Film Forum until 5/16. Go get it.
Hey dudes! I’m still alive and reading the internets and watching movies and stuff, I swear. I’ve just been too lazy to write about it. Don’t even get me started on the Tribeca Film Festival.
Hey remember T9 word? That pre-auto-correct function in phones that would allow to type wildly away at the keypad and then it would guess what you were trying to say? Well, my old-school Samsung would always correct “lazy” to “jazz” and it was the best.
So really: apologies for the disappearance, but I was too jazz to write.
ANYWAY. SummerScreen!
It’s a beautiful day today, which is already giving me hope for continuous nice weather, but when SummerScreen announces their lineup then I really get psyched. Here it be:
July 10: Can’t Hardly Wait
July 17: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
July 24: The Craft
July 31: The Goonies
August 7: Speed
August 14: **Audience choice!**
Yes, everyone in Williamsburg is a child of the late 80s/early 90s. Don’t be so aghast. But also: The Craft!!
Click here for more info and to vote for what screens on August 17th (Heathers, please!).
At least we’ve still got a good three months to find the perfect cutoffs and picnic blankets.
Well, here’s my weekend productivity soundtrack. Super Fly in particular is making me feel like the queen of emails right now.
Time for some highly-curated eclecticism, dudes.
Check out the NY Times breakdown here.
OK, maybe it’s not as exciting as the new Bowie album, but I’m putting it in all caps anyway: I have a NEW BLOG called Red Wine and Fruit Hoops.
My bestie Andrea and I are each sharing one photo a day, a little peek into our lives so we can stay connected across the states and over-share with the blogosphere. It’s not as movie-and-music focused as this one, but surely we’ll be ranting about one or both of those things every now and then. Follow it, love it, tell your neighbors about it.
If I had a GIF of my brain exploding from excitement, it would go here.
Stanley Kubrick, in an interview about A Clockwork Orange.
I love this quote and I feel it really encapsulates the way I feel about film violence too. The entertainment industry can’t take all the blame for violent crimes when there are so many different factors in our modern environment that make disturbed people do the terrible things that they do.
Read more about directors’ thoughts on film violence here.
(Also: I swear I read more than just Flavorwire! I do! It’s just that their stuff is often so ripe for re-blogging.)
Film Forum’s badass-looking series New Yawk New Wave series starts Friday and the Times has some nice things to say about it. They’ll be focusing on NYC’s own indie film revolution that started in 1950s with low-budget classics like Little Fugitive and On the Bowery and went on to ignite the directing careers of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes and influenced countless others.
I don’t know what I’m more excited for: the seven different actors and directors dropping by or the two whole days of Mean Streets.
That’s right, kiddies, get out your holiday sweaters and start mixing your whiskey with eggnog. It’s time to watch ridiculous Christmas-themed movies! And BBQ Films is here to make it a party!
You get to choose from a screening of Elf, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, or Gremlins (or buy an All Access ticket and see all three if you wanna be a baller about it). The fine folks at BBQ set up all the rest - including drink specials, snacks, insane decorations, and cool people in crazy costumes. Oh AND a portion of the proceeds are going to Hurricane Sandy relief - pretty good excuse to stuff yourself with stout and cookies, huh? Get your tickets just by clicking that magic link.
And here I was feeling crazy for already wanting to watch Home Alone on repeat….
(via Scoutmob)
I’m especially psyched for these slumber-party movies with BUST magazine that they speak of. Genius.
Check out all the sweet scary movies playing this weekend/week in beautiful slideshow format - thanks NY Times! Craven and Raimi and Hitchcock, oh my!
SJP not included. Enjoy that ridiculous screenshot instead.
Hey gang!
I know I’ve been slacking on my usual movie/music/general-pop-culture nerd reporting, but believe me - my brain is abuzz with a million unpublished things. But here’s a thing that made it out of my brain coherently! Check out this piece I wrote for Flavorwire on the best creepy horror movie kids and leave some comments, tell your friends, read it aloud on the subway, etc.
Hopefully I’ll be posting some more relevant stuff here reeeeeal soon. After I sleep. And figure out a Halloween costume. :0
With Taken By Trees.
Fingers crossed for another teeny tiny tambourine.
