http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/ Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 05:35:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Prior to the start of this afternoon's press conference for Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys -- (l. to r.) guaranteed Palme D'Or contender for Best Actress Hatice Aslan, Ceylan, co-screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, costar Yavuz Bingol.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/talking_monkeys.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/talking_monkeys.php wired Fri, 16 May 2008 05:35:42 -0800 Sitting now at the American Pavillion, which suddenly -- graciously! -- has installed six plug-ins for those who don't care to drain their computer batteries. Finding work places with plug-ins is a big problem this year. The Orange wifi cafe... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/vessels.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/vessels.php wired Fri, 16 May 2008 01:07:57 -0800 It's 9:15 am as we speak, and curiously gray and cool -- almost chilly. Today's Cannes schedule includes going to the American Pavillion between 9 and 10:30, possibly going to Soi Cowboy or The Chaser at 11, definitely attending the... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/friday_rundown.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/friday_rundown.php wired Fri, 16 May 2008 00:13:41 -0800 The L.A. Times yesterday launched Hollywood Backlot, which features some fairly decent "exclusive, on-set photography" taken by veteran Hollywood snapper David Strick. Twilight costar Robert Pattinson, snapped by Strick on 4.7.08.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/stricklat_site.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/stricklat_site.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 23:59:35 -0800 I'm not sure that Speed Racer was unfairly panned, per se -- a lot of writers felt genuinely pained and pummeled by it -- but it seemed that people didn't give it enough respect for what the Wachowskis were at... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/killing_of_spee.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/killing_of_spee.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 23:26:52 -0800 Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor making each other quiver with posterior pleasure is just what moviegoers are looking for, only they don't know it yet. I'm always intrigued by the idea of straight actors playing gay guys, but comedies... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/two_posters_1.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/two_posters_1.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 23:01:00 -0800 A press release sent out earlier today claimed that U.S. theatrical distributors "appear to be boycotting" Uwe Boll's controversial Postal. The film was scheduled to be released theatrically nationwide, but will now open on only four screens in four cities... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/postal_boycott.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/postal_boycott.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:22 -0800 Taken during last night's Carlton pier party for Kung Fu Panda, which I was happy to be invited to. (Thank you, David Waldman!) A review by Variety's Todd McCarthy said, by the way, that the Jack Black film "features... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/panda_lights.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/panda_lights.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 22:32:27 -0800 I woke up at 4:30 again this morning and did my usual, which is to go to the Carlton lobby and use the free wifi there to do some work. On the way over -- it was about 4:55 by... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/wanderer.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/wanderer.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:58 -0800 http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/excellent_matth.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/excellent_matth.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 21:39:37 -0800 The moral undercurrent in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys -- a quietly devastating Turkish family drama about guilt, adultery and lots of Biblical thunderclaps -- is in every frame. It's about people doing wrong things, one leading to another in... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/three_monkeys.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/three_monkeys.php Thu, 15 May 2008 09:43:16 -0800 My suitcase is still in the hands of Air France baggage retrieval. A French-speaking gentleman -- probably, I'm guessing, the delivery guy hired by Air France to deliver retrieved luggage -- called this morning, but our attempts at communication were... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/same_same.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/same_same.php wired Thu, 15 May 2008 03:59:40 -0800 Variety's Justin Chang has joined the growing throng of Blindness panners. "The personal and mass chaos that would result if the human race lost its sense of vision is conveyed with diminished impact and an excess of stylish tics in... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/blindside.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/blindside.php wired Wed, 14 May 2008 16:16:00 -0800 The timing of John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama, which I heard about 90 minutes ago, is, I admit, a stroke of good timing. It blows Obama's West Virginia loss (downmarket racist rubes realizing it's now or never to try... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/edwards_finally.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/edwards_finally.php wired Wed, 14 May 2008 15:37:49 -0800 "Somehow we are locked at the hip to Hillary Clinton, who won't stop her manic tarantella until her party whirls into ruins, like the run-amuck carousel in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. [Her] campaigning has come to: a monotonous... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/malicious_whirl.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/05/malicious_whirl.php wired Wed, 14 May 2008 11:53:17 -0800