LINKS
Not much this week, mostly Miramax related stuffs.
Disney closed down the mini mega studio Miramax this week, sad news indeed for any film fan especially those who grew up with their films basically forming the background of their life (Red and myself in particular) here is a lookback by the Guardian and also one by Eye Weekly and a even further lookback to the first day of the first film at EW.com. RIP Miramax. Like to think something will appear from either of us, but dont count on it. soz.
Back to Sundance which draws to a close this weekend, heres a look at whats been happening.
Empire magazine have announced the results of their poll which counts down the top 50 worst films this week. how many have you seen? i have only seen 8. Im particularly happy that The Sweetest Thing features, as i thought it was horrible but my girlfriend thinks it rocks. i feel somehow vindicated.
(Red here, the list has some worthy shite on it but as always when the public vote for stuff it has too many recent films and it's a bit too populist. Spiderman 3 and Transformers 2 are indeed dreadful but do they genuinely belong on this list? The problem is most people haven't really seen truly terrible cinema of the level of Roger Corman or Coleman Francis so their films don't appear. Corman could fill the list himself! Plan 9, The Room and the Uwe Boll films are of this level I'm talking about but they are only the popular peak of awful cinema. Batman and Robin at number 1 though might be the best shout of the whole thing.)
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Edge Of Darkness out this week sees a return to the big screen of Mel Gibson, here is a look at the projects he could have made his return with however, all totally serious.
TRAILERS
Zoe Saldana is my burd du jour and the trailer for The Losers which shows her in hot pants at some point is here. Also a trailer for Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe together again in Robin Hood and lastly Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps which is a silly title but still a good short trailer.
ON RUUD'S TV THIS PAST WEEK
The Bands Visit which was a funny wee Isreali film about a Egyptian band lost in Isreal.
The tail end of the Lost season 5 in preperation for the final season starting this week!
and I have started reading a book called Fake! by Clifford Irving which is the biography of a famour art forger called Elmyr De Hory, which in turn is the subject of a Orson Welles doco from 1974 called F for Fake actually. The author himself actually went to prison for forging letters to write a autobiography of Howard Hawks which ended up being a hoax. This actually led to another film, The Hoax in 2007 starring Richard Gere as Irving. Funny how things work, i just saw the book sitting and thought it look interesting, never knew anything about it. Click on both the author and the subjects names to read their Wikipedia entries. Very interesting.
Red here with a wee video that Empire linked to via their Twitter. Some bloke made this jaunty wee tune out of music, speech and sound effects from Up:
If you don't smile after that then I just give up...
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