September 03, 2008
- When the Toronto festival draws nigh, we spend a lot of time at GreenCine Daily scanning for the words "Venice" and "Telluride," hoping to find out what to see and what to skip in Canada. In particular, we spend a good long while with Michael Sicinski's one-of-a-kind preview of the Wavelengths series of experimental films. (And, as we implied previously, we studiously avoid entries that mention Claire Denis so as to approach her films clean. I'm not hearin' nothing.)
- You could always turn to CBS News for such coverage. Take this little article, for starters, about Natalie Portman's directorial debut, a short film that appears in New York, I Love You, a sequel of sorts to Paris, Je t'aime and a prequel to Dubuque, I Like You But Not Like That (2009) and Modesto, You're the Tops Behind Paris, New York, and Frankly Dubuque (2010). In the CBS article, two paragraphs (of eight) are about the color, shape, and density of the items that Portman was wearing and clutching. The article also says that Portman, strangely, showed no interest in talking to this clutch of reporters about her film!
- Don LaFontaine, whose voice can be heard in thousands of movie trailers, has died. Over at Glenn Kenny's blog, Aaron Aradillas has posted some of his favorites. I like the one for the original Friday the 13th, which -- little known fact -- was first shown on a late-spring episode of Sesame Street.
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