Friday, October 18, 2024
Keep Running Up That Pace
Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho Wait What
And yet! Luca himself has come to test me today! Because Deadline is reporting that Luca himself is working on remaking one of my absolute favorite movies of all time, one I love way more than I ever loved the original Suspiria -- specifically he's thinking about making a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho, which I am sure you are all aware Mary Harron turned into a horror comedy masterpiece in the year 2000 with Christian Bale. For god's sake I just posted a gif from that movie less than 24 hours ago!
And I have no doubt that Luca gets all of that -- Steven Soderbergh's favorite screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, who Deadline says is working on the new script, I'm far more dubious about. Which isn't to say I haven't liked many of Burns' scripts -- he wrote The Informant! for god's sake. But perspective is everything, especially with material this questionable, and it'd be very very very easy to slide off the mark with this. It's honestly a miracle that Harron's movie got made and ended up the way it did -- one I wonder at anew every time I think about the movie. Which is quite often here 20+ years on!
And I say all of this with Luca's new film Queer very much at the front of my brain -- I reviewed that yesterday and it's as good as anything Luca has ever made. The man is killing it right now. I should not doubt in Luca. He's proven that time and time again. And the man can direct some horror! And I should also keep in mind that Luca attaches his name to a thousand projects that never get made, so maybe this will go the way of his Brideshead Revisited or his Lord of the Flies movies. Or maybe he'll make a movie of the musical! I love the American Psycho musical!
I am just... listen, in the Deadline article the head of Lionsgate is quoted saying they're thrilled to have a filmmaker like Luca coming on board this "potent and classic IP" and I know that quoite isn't Luca's fault and he would never put it that way but that dude needs to read the room. "Classic IP" rings all of the alarm bells of terror. So..... thoughts???? Help me out here, people. I am bewildered.
It's Blitz!
Let's Spread Some Rumours
Today's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...
Barry Keoghan Six Times
I cannot believe all I’ve seen have been mixed reactions to this movie— I fucking LOVED it. BIRD is top tier Andrea Arnold, funny and observant and surprisingly sweet with what might be my absolute favorite scene of the year pic.twitter.com/8DfcdOTw5U
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) October 16, 2024
Good Morning, World
How nice of Synonyms and We Are Who We Are actor (and dancer) (and MNPP fave) Tom Mercier to grace our morning with an NYC-themed dance routine (via) -- I knew he was in town and man alive do I wish I'd stumbled on this happening.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Drew Starkey Two Times
Queer is Here (Well My Review Anyway)
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
Dr. Cukrowicz : Nature is not madein the image of man's compassion.
Montgomery Clift was born 104 years ago today.
Good Morning, World
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Run This Way, Man
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Margaret (2011)
Emily: This isn't an opera! And we are not allsupporting characters to the drama of your amazing life!
Oh god, Margaret is so perfect! Perfect movie. Exquisite movie. Love Margaret so so much. On that note a happy 62 to Kenneth Lonergan! Please make another movie soon! It's been eight years since Manchester-by-the-Sea! I know J. Cameron has been bringing in the big bucks thanks to Succession but we're growing impatient, my man.
Good Morning, World
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Fight Club (1999)
Tyler Durden: Warning -- If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.