This blog entry has been entirely plagiarized from the NY Times

Before we get to another note about Mr. Guy Maddin (See below), first let me mention that this shall be a short and sweet blog entry today -- as David Hudson is dealing with an apartment move, and specifically with Deutsche Telekom's sluggish internet installation methods, while I'm furiously trying to finish some new "primers" for GreenCine.com before the Memorial Day weekend hits. Excuses, excuses...

Speaking of excuses, The Onion has some amusing ideas as to what else reporter Jayson Blair may have been up to amidst the recent scandal. I also find it appropriately ironic that The Onion is sponsored by the New York Times. Whee!

The BBC reports that Oliver Stone's new Alexander the Great epic, featuring Leonardo di Craprio as the title titan, has ceased filming in Morocco, after Friday's bombing in Casablanca. Producer Dino De Laurentiis didn't want to risk endangering the cast and crew any further, and has shifted the production to Australia. Why did it take them this long to think North Africa might be unsafe? Wolfgang Peterson pulled his Troy production out of Morocco a full month earlier after similar concerns arose, and moved the shooting to Malta, Mexico and London... Brad Pitt as a trojan [insert joke here].

Also in the BBC, Nev Pierce has a quickie column featuring David Carradine on on the topic of QT's upcoming Kill Bill. Carradine describes Uma Thurman's group of assassins in the film as "sort of like a bad Charlie's Angels" -- which sounds redundant but never mind. A trailer for Kill Bill is fun, if you have QuickTime 5. And if you really want to geek out, a leetle bit film-geeky web site called The Tuesday Night Film Club has taken it upon themselves to review the Kill Bill script.

(we wear) Short shorts:

IndieWire thinks that Vincent Gallo has officially gone off the deep end (I thought that happened a long time ago?) with his new directorial effort The Brown Bunny, calling it "one of the most profoundly egomaniacal and obnoxious films in the history of American independent cinema." It was apparently roundly booed at Cannes, but then, it wouldn't be alone with that honor now would it? Cheryl Tiegs is in it! What more does IndieWire want for godsakes?

Speaking of self-indulgent, also in IndieWire is an interview with Matthew Barney, who talks about the final installment of his Cremaster trilogy (which is actually 5 films, but never mind). Those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area will have the chance to view all 5 films, screened in the order they were filmed, not in the order they were numbered (but never mind), at the Castro Theater. Screening start tonight, Friday and run through June 4.

But speaking of the Castro, as for me, I'm more looking forward to Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, which arrives there after the Cremaster departs, and looks extremely cool and grandly guignol.



Posted by cphillips at May 23, 2003 11:42 AM