![The Cinemascope Spectacular of Books
“It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made,” Stanley Kubrick wrote to an associate in October 1971. Wily chess master that he was, the director rarely resorted to bombast. But in his third attempt to make Napoleon—a film that, according to his widow, Christiane Kubrick, “swallowed [him] up” like no other—he was willing to make an exception.](http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku2tcj7HKt1qzpt5vo1_500.jpg)
The Cinemascope Spectacular of Books
“It’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made,” Stanley Kubrick wrote to an associate in October 1971. Wily chess master that he was, the director rarely resorted to bombast. But in his third attempt to make Napoleon—a film that, according to his widow, Christiane Kubrick, “swallowed [him] up” like no other—he was willing to make an exception.
///DH: In other “Wild Things Marketing-Watch” news, Spike Jonze has a 240-page peice of oversize ephemera for sale. Bit soon no? I think there should be a decade minimum before you can start capitalizing on nostalgia.
Cabin Boy (1994 - Burton/Resnik)
“He’s Setting Sail On The High Seas… Without A Rudder, A Compass, Or A Clue”
///DH: Every generation has a coming-of-age film that captures the zeitgeist of what it means to be young at a particular moment. If you were a pre-teen in early 90s, Cabin Boy was your Stand By Me.
Also, I think it deserves the I ♥ HOTDOGS treatment.
Takeshis’ (2005, Kitano)
Mortensen: One can certainly make the case that the speculation and voting processes are largely influenced, if not driven, by public relations efforts. Therefore making the whole thing to some degree a chaotic and sometimes distracting game of chance based on the marketing of the ephemeral popularity of any given movie or individual. However, I freely admit that it was very flattering and that I felt a very real sense of satisfaction as an actor when I had the experience of being nominated for my work in Eastern Promises, because I knew that at least some of my peers had singled out Cronenberg’s movie and my efforts in it.
///DH: Viggo is the man.
So I never saw Where The Wild Things Are. The massive “social media” marketing push and the trailers really made it feel like actually seeing the film would just be an anti-climax and a disappointment. Thoughts?
Michael Kenneth Williams’s High-Wire Act
In person, Williams’s trademark facial scar is surprisingly less jarring. He got it during a fight outside a Jamaica Avenue bar on his 25th birthday. At the time, he says, “I thought I was gonna die soon.” He had recently been arrested twice for grand theft auto. “My mother had taken out extra life insurance. She was like, ‘You ain’t gonna stick me with no bill, you feel me?’ ” That night in the hospital, half-conscious, he fought off nurses attempting to stitch him up, repeatedly demanding a plastic surgeon until he got one. Soon after the injury healed, he began booking modeling and music-video jobs.
Nic Cage just needs to make one “Port of Call” for every 10 “Bangkok Dangerous“‘s and he’s as good as gold.
I’m watching this right now. It’s great - a stirring exposé on things with two heads.
Breaking the Waves (1996/Von Trier)
Chapter/Soundtrack interludes. The film is a must-see if you haven’t.
