bitten tongue.

May
16th

Fri

International Relations as explained by gun-toting tech-heads

Yesterday at our vendor, it was bellyaching over “damned liberal judges.” Today’s bellyaching centered solely on the price of ammunition in the US due to “the war effort.”

But it’s okay because we send “reject arms/last year’s models” to countries like Saudi Arabia while we keep “the really good shit.”

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Mark Wahlberg makes this face at least three times in this three-minute clip from M. Night’s The Happening. Every line reading by Zooey Deschanel and Wahlberg (especially when he talks to the train conductor as he happens to be the only person curious as to why this last train to salvation stopped running) brings to mind a really, really high school bad production of The Miracle Worker.

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May
15th

Thu

Wow. This astounding collection of posters from the Island of Misfit Movies hanging around Cannes blows my mind. And yes, that is Sixth Sense above, and if you click through see the pairing you’ve been waiting for: Kilmer. 50. Guns.

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12-Year-Old Dwight. (via /Film)

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A kids’ film starring Tim Robbins and released by Fox sounds like The Seeker-level of terrible movie. But the visuals of City of Ember borrow heavily from Gilliam, Bill Murray plays the mayor, and the film seems to be twisted and subversive enough to honor kids’ intelligence and become a possibly good (cult) film.

At the very least, Fox marketing knocks another trailer out of the park.

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From Dan, news that footage from Sylvain Chomet’s (of the genius Triplets of Belleville) next gorgeous combination of hand-drawn and CG animation will premiere at Cannes (hopefully in the search for great distribution, fearfully in the search for finishing funds). The film, The Illusionist, is based on a former Jacques Tati idea (rather than a mediocre Ed Norton rewrite) and sounds as wonderfully low-key and disarming as the sly (turd in the shape of Mickey) and loving (each ink line has a heartbeat) Triplets.

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Greatest Movie Idea of All Time

Tom Cruise will play the President of the United States who learns that the nation is actually under the control of a secret society headed by… Denzel Washington. That makes Smokin’ Aces sound like Richard II, in the best way possible.

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Can someone explain the connection between headline and story tidbit, or how Johnboy gets to scoff that link away? (from today’s LAT)

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California is now the first state to allow gay marriages.

nickdouglas:

Not just civil unions! It is rock o’clock!

When a guy who works at one of our vendors came down ranting about “activist judges overturning what we voted for” and how the “great, great, great, great, great, great, great Ronald Reagan wouldn’t let this happen, I was hoping against hope he meant the federal Supreme Court. But this is good too.

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May
14th

Wed

Jon Brion has written the music for Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. While this excites me immensely, I am ironically looking forward to his requisite “explain the movie song” because, if he can manage a song like that from a movie like this, a lifetime of Kudos bars to you, sir.

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Wall*E is roaming Disneyland! (via /Film)

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That’s two “aboots” in one day? Is it Christmas?

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Holy crap, someone from Canada just said “aboot to send that to you” over the tele. Day, made.

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Elizabeth is much better at joeblogging than I.

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May
13th

Tue

I never really understood why everyone thought the crazies in Hollywood were of the super-sized variety, and then I drove past Pleasuring Himself Behind Bus Bench Guy.

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