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They had a special screening like that on campus here last week, and I missed it, because I'm out of it. We got Sorkin, but we didn't get Timberlake or backup Michael Cera.
The Sorkin money quote in the student newspaper:
“There’s this narcissistic part of social networking,” Sorkin said. “This, ‘I’m doing something and I need to tell everybody that I’m doing it right now’.”
Jess, if you touch Timberlake, I'll be jealous. No one is more shocked than I am about that.
One day I want to do a wheel-and-talk with him.
Salon has an article about OK Go's latest video and the author proposes that they could save the movie musical. Interesting premise and thesis of the article, but OK Go's video is really awesome.
I am not a dog owner, but I marvel at how much time and training was involved to do this choreography:
Salon article:
Oh wow! That was awesome! In the actually filled with awe way!
I was filled with AWWWWWWWW.
That choreographer must really love dogs to have come up with everything they can do that is cool to watch. I loved how it sometimes looked like the men were looking for cues from their trainers.
...was there a goat?
I'm currently watching and Tivoing Altman's whackadoo rarity Brewster McCloud off TCM.
I watched this on late night commercial TV some years back - probably home from college after I'd seen Harold and Maude.
I recognized Margaret Hamilton in the opening just from her voice.
Bud Cort is awesomely Bud Cort-like. He is a singular cinematic presence, but he seems to presage a whole universe of gloomy/charming indie rock boys.
Sally Kellerman never looked better. Shelley Duvall makes her debut here and is quirky cute.
Songs written by John Phillips, and a few sung by Merry Clayton (the singer on the Stones' "Gimme Shelter").
This movie was picked by guest programmer Bill Hader, who also picked the lesser-known Billy Wilder film Five Graves to Cairo.
What three movies would you pick if you were guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies?
I'm tivoing Brewster McCloud, which I've never seen. But I'm still up, for some reason, too.
My three movies as guest programmer for TCM would be: F For Fake, Los Angeles Plays Itself, and The World Of Apu (the last because it is sadly unavailable on DVD in this country).
It's odd, I'm looking through reviews of Brewster McCloud (and there are a bunch of newish ones since it just debuted on DVD via Warner Archives) and they all emphasize how strange and weird it is.
Which, it's not particularly, if you know anything about theater (like, I don't "Rhinocerous" or "Tooth of Crime" or "Travesties.") or any three episode run of Arrested Development.
And certainly by the standards of early seventies film it's not so astonishingly outre.
It's just a bit whacky, and a bit easy with the metaphor. It parodies Bullit for chrissake, how hard can it be to follow?
Sure Sally Kellerman has scars where her wings used to be, but c'mon Wings of Desire, and Kevin Smith already covered that. Not to mention Constantine.