1. A performer who looks and sounds eerily like Kermit the Frog covers Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt." (Hat tip to ALOTT5MA.)
"The needle tears a hole." Continue Reading »
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Archive: March, 2007
Links for the Day (March 31st, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 31st, 2007 at 7:00 am in Links for the Day
All you need to know
by Keith Uhlich on March 30th, 2007 at 2:00 pm in Television
The Sopranos in Seven Minutes. Hat tip to...well, hell, who isn't linking to this?
Links for the Day (March 30th, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 30th, 2007 at 11:12 am in Links for the Day
1. "Leni Riefenstahl: Pretty as a Swastika." From L.A. Weekly, John Patterson on "Steven Bach's majestic new biography of the morally besmirched filmmaker known to 1930s anti-fascist wags as 'Hitler's Honey.' "
"One wonders what might have been her destiny had Riefenstahl simply upped sticks and immigrated to Hollywood wholesale, along with the rest of the German UFA diaspora, in, say, the late '20s, long before she ever met Adolf Hitler. Certainly, she would have found a large German-exile community to nourish her, and a studio system hungry for German talent. And, possessed as she was of sharp elbows, a functionally sociopathic determination to rise, a bottomless appetite for attention, and the bulldozing drive of a Joan Crawford, who knows how she might have rewritten the history of women directors in Hollywood?" Continue Reading »
The Lookout: Higher self-esteem through robbery
by Matt Zoller Seitz on March 30th, 2007 at 2:00 am in Film
From Immigration to Anarchy: Sacco and Vanzetti
by Matt Zoller Seitz on March 30th, 2007 at 1:11 am in Film
T.V. on TV: The Tudors, This American Life and Planet Earth
by Todd VanDerWerff on March 29th, 2007 at 2:00 pm in Television
By Todd VanDerWerff
If you don't already know what to expect from The Tudors, the credits will tip you off. Closeups of characters staring lustily into the camera are intercut with romantic pursuits through opulent hallways and a hefty dose of violence and sex. It's grand history reimagined as borderline-tawdry soap opera. The images recall HBO's similar, superior Rome, which recently ended its run. But by the end of the Tudors pilot, you're used to the fact that this isn't the next great TV drama. It's just old-fashioned trashy fun—a bodice-ripper that aspires to more but never quite gets there. Continue Reading »
Sopranos week: Call for submissions
by Matt Zoller Seitz on March 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm in Television
From April 1 through April 8, the premiere date for the first of eight final episodes of The Sopranos, The House Next Door will run articles on various aspects of the show.
On deck thus far: A portrait of Paulie Walnuts, a piece on the show's use of music, a conversation between New Jerseyans about the series' portrait of the Garden State, and links to articles on other sites, including Star-Ledger articles by Alan Sepinwall and yours truly. More stuff is in the works, and it'll be posted when it's done.
If you'd like to contribute, email your pitch to the editor at reeling@aol.com. Pieces can be of any length (we tend to run longer articles, but short and sweet is good, too.) Appreciations are welcome; contrarian opinions are encouraged.
Lost Thursdays: Season Three, Episode 14, "Exposé"
by Andrew Dignan on March 29th, 2007 at 7:00 am in Television
By Andrew Dignan
"The universe has a way of course correcting and—and I can't stop it forever."—Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) Continue Reading »
Links for the Day (March 29th, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 29th, 2007 at 1:49 am in Links for the Day
1. "What I Learned From John Hughes." From Dame.
"I have JH to thank for a lifetime of falling for the most interesting guy in the room. John Bender. Duckie. Cameron. Keith (I still have SUCH a crush on Eric Stoltz). Pretty boys have their work cut out when it comes to me. Instead, I fall for the rebel, the artist, the geek, the guy who has the guts to wear crazy vintage shoes and knows all the words to "Try A Little Tenderness"...Oddballs and rebels everywhere owe John Hughes big time." Continue Reading »
Links for the Day (March 28th, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 28th, 2007 at 4:00 am in Links for the Day
1. "The Onion Vs. Viacom: The Huddled Masses are Yearning to Watch Free." Time TV critic James Poniewozik writes about The Onion's viral videos (the first of which you can watch by clicking the above image)—and why the satirical news service could fill a content gap created when Viacom made YouTube delete clips from Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Related: Medialoper's "Examining NBC Universal and News Corp's So-Called YouTube Killer." Continue Reading »
Headspace: In a Trance Where Strobes Flash and the Techno Beat Pulses
by Matt Zoller Seitz on March 28th, 2007 at 2:58 am in Film
To read the review, click here.
U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha: Those Arias, That Tragedy, in Xhosa
by Matt Zoller Seitz on March 28th, 2007 at 2:54 am in Film
No one can know whether Bizet, whose Gypsy opera, "Carmen," is set in Spain and sung in French, would have approved of the movie musical "U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha." But you suspect that he would have admired the filmmakers' gall.
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To read the review, click here.
Links for the Day (March 27th, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 27th, 2007 at 3:00 am in Links for the Day
1. "Film Forgery." One can plagiarize written work easily enough. But David Bordwell wonders: is it possible to plagiarize a movie? Continue Reading »
Links for the Day (March 26th, 2007)
by Keith Uhlich on March 26th, 2007 at 11:48 am in Links for the Day
1. "Things to Look Into: The Cinema of Terrence Malick." By Adrian Martin, for Rouge. Continue Reading »
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