Up-n-coming.

"Little Children is the first American masterpiece of 2006," announces David Poland at Movie City News. "We'll be chewing on this one for a long time to come." Also: Quick takes on Infamous, The Last King of Scotland and The US vs John Lennon.

Eugene Hernandez blogs from Telluride with a note on Little Children: "Anchored by a striking performance from Kate Winslet, the film drew consderable applause at a surprise screening this afternoon, yet hours later a number of attendees were still debating the movie." Eugene's also seen Fur, by the way: "For now, I'll call the film a strange and creepy love story, with whiffs of Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast." More on that one from Anne Thompson.

Updated through 9/3.

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost "turned the West Memphis Three into cult icons," writes Annette Stark in a cover story for the LA CityBeat. "The follow-up, Revelations... highlights the earliest efforts of a now-worldwide network of WM3 supporters, led in the beginning by three Los Angeles advocates from the film industry: Kathy Bakken, Burk Sauls, and Grove Pashley. And interest in the case is still growing. Sinofsky and Berlinger's Paradise Lost 3 is slated for release sometime this year and Dimension Films plans to release a film in 2007, which will be based on the book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Arkansas-based investigative journalist Mara Leveritt."

At Twitch, Todd has news on Wisit Sasanatieng's Armful. More from Grady Hendrix.

Andy Greene, blogging for Rolling Stone, has found snaps of Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan. The film, of course, is Todd Haynes's I'm Not There. Via Sheigh at the Risky Biz Blog.

gRadyB snaps a few shots on the set of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. Via Brendon Connelly.

At Cinematical, Scott Weinberg's found news that Ken Bowser, who made a doc based on Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and screenwriter Dean Craig have acquired the rights to adapt Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures as a narrative feature. The Reeler has a few casting suggestions. If any actors would dare to take on the roles of Harvey Weinstein and Robert Redford, that is. Eugene Hernandez suggests Paul Giamatti for Bingham Ray. You wonder what Spike Jonze might do with a project like this.

The BBC reports that Peter Jackson has plans to produce a remake the WWII film, The Dam Busters. David Austin has more at Cinema Strikes Back.

For the Los Angeles Times, Tina Daunt talks with Maggie Gyllenhaal, mostly about Sherrybaby, but there's a bit on Stranger Than Fiction in there, too. Also, Mary McNamara has a Hollywoodland tie-in profile of Ben Affleck and Deborah Netburn wonders if there'll be an audience for Indy 4. Right.

Both the Telegraph's David Gritten and the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone talk with Helen Mirren about playing The Queen.

That Jude Law was actually pissed off by Chris Rock's Oscar riff on him and remains pissed off to this day speaks volumes about the movie business. At any rate, Craig Modderno notes for the New York Times that he'll be in three films this season: All the King's Men, Breaking and Entering and The Holiday.

Solace in Cinema offers ten films to look forward to.

Hanns-Georg Rodek talks with Tom Tykwer about Perfume in Die Welt (and in German).

Update, 9/3: Cinematical's Kim Voynar has seen Little Children at Telluride: "At its heart, this is a story about the way we judge others, the way others judge us, and the way we judge ourselves.... Little Children makes us look more deeply into our own lives and ponder what's really going on under the surface. And that - the ability to reflect life back at the viewer - is filmmaking at its best."

Posted by dwhudson at September 2, 2006 2:47 PM