Sunday Clip Show
• I like the trailer for The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky's upcoming film. Aronofsky actually turned the story into a graphic novel when he knew the entire tale wouldn't fit in one film. Writer-director Richard Kelly is taking a similar approach to Southland Tales; the film will technically be the final three installments of a six-part story, with the first three parts being released as graphic novels.
• The Washington Post has canned Ben Domenech, a conservative blooger and generally unstable little guy who plagiarized in his writings. Granted, his calling Coretta Scott King a Communist maybe wasn't the best way to ensure a long-term career with WaPo. The idiot's blog didn't make it a week. Good riddance.
• It's almost too good to be true, that the Fox News jokes everyone's been making turn out to be so sadly accurate. Omitted from the rider: the crushed-up bones of unwed mothers, which Cheney alternately snorts like coke or gobbles up like Pixy Stix.
• The fact that someone took the time to put this timeline together is both awe-inspirinrg and more than a little sad, since they actually went to the effort to include Alien vs. Predator. It's an interesting idea, to try and create some fictional chart wherein many, if not all, movies co-exist, but the repeated phrase "Predators arrive for their ritual feasting on xenomorphs" pretty much ruins the whole thing.
• I'm looking forward to this.
• Although Bogdanovich's tone occasionally veers into bitter old man area, making him sound like a grizzled prospector railing against the onslaught of horseless carriages, and his wobbly thesis is all but obliterated by the straight-out-of-left-field closing line, he still makes some good points about the necessity of viewing films on a large screen.
• Go ahead. Test yourself. And also here. And, of course, here.
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