http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/ Copyright 2008 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:35:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I saw Isbael Coixet's Elegy (Samuel Goldyn, 8.8) twice before it opened -- once at a screening, again at the Aero theatre --and in so doing told myself and two or three friends that I rather liked it, or at... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/postelegy.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/postelegy.php wired Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:35:00 -0800 Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the people.... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/verboten.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/verboten.php wired Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:26:05 -0800 Early yesterday afternoon I sat down with Jordi Molla, a bearded, blue-eyed, remarkably serene Spanish actor who plays a Bolivian commander in Steven Soderbergh's Che. No one in Soderbergh's four-hour-plus epic has any real "movie moments" -- it's a movie... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/jordi_molla.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/jordi_molla.php Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:53:54 -0800 "Mr. [Blankety-blank], we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulder. We're all very well aware of what our orders are... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/easy_one.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/easy_one.php wired Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:35:54 -0800 Both Variety's Robert Koehler and CHUD's Devin Faraci have recently driven out to Claremont to see Religulous, and have today posted poz reviews, Koehler calling it "brilliant" and "incendiary" and Faraci saying that anti-religion barbs aside, it "stacks up really... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/road_to_claremo.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/road_to_claremo.php wired Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:40:34 -0800 I sat down late this afternoon with Alex Holdridge, director-writer of In Search of a Midnight Kiss, and his two stars, Scoot McNairy and Sara Simmonds. Easily the best written, most recognizably "real" younger person's relationship drama I've seen since... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/midnight_kiss_g.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/midnight_kiss_g.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:50:28 -0800 Should I stay or should I go?, asks Jean Arthur's "Bonnie." But Cary Grant's "Jeff" isn't the declarative type, so he suggests a coin flip -- heads you stay, tails you go. He flips the coin. "Heads -- what about... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/gotta_let_me_kn.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/gotta_let_me_kn.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:52:23 -0800 Firstshowing.net's Alex Billington has posted the European (i.e., German subtitled) trailer for Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon (Universal, 12.5). For what it's worth, Frank Langella seems a little more Nixon-like in this than he did in the Broadway play, which required broader... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/frostnixon_peek.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/frostnixon_peek.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:34:15 -0800 Old news, happened five days ago, etc., but let no one say Bill Murray lacks that quietly confident machismo thing -- perhaps churning within (who knows?) but dry, calm, self-amused. Grace under pressure. But whatever happened to jumping on your... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/acknowledging.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/acknowledging.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:11:25 -0800 Yesterday Variety's Anne Thompson did some good spade work in uncovering what really happened between Warner Bros., Tom Cruise and The 28th Amendment. Alluded to by L.A. Times reporter Rachel Abramowitz, yes, but not as specifically as Thompson explains. What... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/gaps_filled_in.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/gaps_filled_in.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:48:48 -0800 Those Robert Harris-supervised restorations of The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II will be shown theatrically starting on 9.12 at New York's Film Forum, with concurrent bookings in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It's all a plug for the 9.23... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/take_the_cannol.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/take_the_cannol.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:18:57 -0800 "Two nights ago, Fox News aired the first of two presidential candidate documentaries called 'Character and Conduct.' First up [was] Barack Obama, whose documentary pretends really hard that it's not full of stereotypes and insinuations. Couldn't stomach it Monday evening?... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/60_seconds_flat.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/60_seconds_flat.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:33:31 -0800 http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/hes_got_it.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/hes_got_it.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:54:52 -0800 The people who will make Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney, 10.3) a hit when it opens are are not "bad," but their support of this film, which I see as a metaphor for the shopping-mall plasticity and icky phoniness that has... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/chihuahua_cloud.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/chihuahua_cloud.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:14:45 -0800 It certainly is exciting trying to calculate if Tropic Thunder will hold on to its #1 slot this weekend minus the Beijing Olympics competition, or whether Jason Statham's Death Race, which no one with a smidgen of taste, education or... http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/down_to_it.php http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/down_to_it.php wired Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:02:02 -0800