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Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque

via Stereogum

There's a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque, coming out in January! I love Gainsbourg and find him endlessly fascinating, so this is exciting, and the trailer looks great.

Jaguar Shark

I was reading an article about Auguste Piccard and the Mariana trench this morning, and it made me want to watch the Jaguar Shark scene from The Life Aquatic. I love this scene.

Hollywood's Jewish Avenger

"Holocaust movies always have Jews as victims," he said, plainly exasperated by Hollywood's lack of imagination. "We've seen that story before. I want to see something different. Let's see Germans that are scared of Jews. Let's not have everything build up to a big misery, let's actually take the fun of action-movie cinema and apply it to this situation."

via www.theatlantic.com

Quentin Tarantino, talking about Inglourious Basterds. I want to see this movie.

Daddy's fighting again!

via www.youtube.com

I was looking for the final scenes of only Godfather part II, but this--the final scenes of part I, followed by the final scenes of part II--isn't a bad juxtaposition, and it's certainly got everything I wanted to see.

If I were an actor, and I had to get all sad on cue, this is one of the things that I'd think about.

Candy Colored Clown

This "In Dreams"-centric edit of "Blue Velvet" scenes is so incredibly awesome:

I could watch this all day.

Serious

A great quote from James Surowiecki on the Oscar nominations:

The funny thing, though, is that Hazlett's broader point, about the Oscar voters foolishly ignoring popular films this year, is right--though not for the reasons she thinks. There's no doubt, after all, that the most popular film of the year, "Wall-E," was also among the best, yet it went unnominated for Best Picture. And one could similarly make a case for Christopher Nolan's excellent if flawed "Dark Knight," which was a huge box-office smash. The problem with the Oscar voters isn't that they love small, independent films like "Frozen River" too much. The problem is that they think tasteful, middlebrow dramas like "The Reader" are necessarily more artistic or serious than a movie like "Wall-E." This year, at least, the Oscar voters should have more paid more attention to what ordinary people liked, not because it would have made for great television, but because it would have made for better nominations.

Granted, I saw very few new movies in 2008, but I did see both "The Dark Knight" and "Wall-E", and they'd certainly be on my list.

Little Man meets Forrest Gump?

My favorite quote of 2009, so far, from this review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via David):

With his head digitally placed on various bodies, Pitt displays less character than did Marlon Wayans' CGI tour-de-force in Little Man--which hilariously said more about man's stages of life.

Look: I've seen Little Man, and calling anything about it a tour-de-force is absolutely ridiculous, because that's one of the stupidest, creepiest movies I've ever seen.

AND YET, I totally agree with this quote.

Call it

I'm watching No Country for Old Men for the third or fourth time tonight, and damn is it an incredible movie. And this scene, well:

Brando

I loved this quote from the recent New Yorker article about Marlon Brando (sadly, not online), about Brando's attempts to reconnect with himself/his family in the 80s (emphasis mine):

At home in Beverly Hills, he saw a psychiatrist several times a week, slowly learning to "be the child I never had a chance to be." At the same time, divorced again and the father of nine (by his own count; the actual number is uncertain), he was trying "to get to know my children better." The efforts involved in these two ventures--becoming a child, becoming a father--were rarely compatible.

The many uses of carrots

"Shoot 'em Up" may be the best movie I've seen this year (yes, the movie's from 2007, but I only watched it tonight)!

From Ebert, who gave it 3 and 1/2 stars:

I don't need a lot of research to be confident in stating that never before have I seen a movie open with the hero delivering a baby during a gun battle, severing the umbilical cord with a gunshot, and then killing a villain by penetrating his brain with a raw carrot.

Totally ridiculous, and yet utterly wonderful.