A nice overview of superbly unclassifiable character actor Alan Cumming.  Personally, I thought he was an absolute blast in Julie Taymor’s TITUS, but he is most famous (stateside) for either X2’s The night crawler (the best stand-alone action sequence in the trilogy) or as the surprisingly memorable pen-clicking Bond villain in Goldeneye.  (I still somehow forgive the fact that he managed to find his way into the DTV-level crap like Son of The Mask, Flintstones Rock Vegas, Garfield and Spy Kids.)

From Guardian
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2138565,00.html

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Oh, and the old “Post Yer Interesting Articles Here Thread is here:  http://twitchfilm.net/forum/index.php?topic=252.0

I’ve been meaning to pick up David Mamet’s screenwriter vs. the hollywood system book/rant/manifesto “Bambi Vs. Godzilla” for some time now, and The New Scotsman’s article on it (the books been out for half a year now), just reminded me:  http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=1175772007

Some fun pull quotes from the book-

“The very vacuousness of these films is reassuring.  These filmed extravaganzas and undramatic dramas send the message that “you are a member of a country, a part of a system capable of wasting $200 million on an hour and a half of garbage. You must be somebody.”

“We may note further that the executive, in forming a lay and random group into a committee supposedly capable of forecasting dramatic success, indicts, and in fact unsays, his protestation of his own possession of superior financial or mercantile powers.”

Well.  Just talking books in the last Twitch-O-Meter, the Confederacy of Dunces novel to film came up.  Someone mentioned that it had been trying to get made for decades, and co-incidentally, Cracked.com posted a list of “Most Awesome Movies That will never get made” and CoD tops it.  Rest of the projects (some of debatable quality) are here:

http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2304

Not really an article, but still pretty interesting… http://miotd.com/.  That is, if you’re looking for photos of giant mecha for desktop pictures.

Wired’s review of Postal
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/08/having-a-boll-s.html

The inevitable conversation with Uwe Boll:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/08/you-dumb-fck-uw.html

While I heartily enjoy the Onion A.V. Club on a regular basis, I really become addicted to Nathan Rabin’s MY YEAR OF FLOPS series which he is well over half-way at this point.  The one he popped up today on PENNIES FROM HEAVEN is writing at its most sublime!  In fact nearly every entry in the series is serio-comic writing that is to be aspired to!

MY YEAR OF FLOPS @ The A.V. Club

Talented Bastard! 

I just found this website with downloadable manga, some of which haven’t got an official English language release (yet)

http://omanga.net/?type=proj&cid=biomega

the English language release of Blame! will finally be completed at the end of this year. Each episode has blown me away so far (pun intended ) This website features some of the other amazing works of Tsutomu Nihei like Blame! prequels Noise and Biomega and a sequel called Net Sphere Engineer. I just can’t wait anymore years until Tokyo Pop might release them some day So I started a few downloads just now… Everybody else, if you haven’t already done so, buy the Blame! series. you won’t be sorry

Time Magazine has a big bloody heart-on for Collin Geddes and Midnight Madness.

Read it here:  http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1661430,00.html

No mention of extreme party atmo of that last screening.  Crowd was extra excitable this year.  What a closer of a film.

“The scene where Max, his dog, and the Professor all eat dog food really stuck out in my mind the first time I saw The Road Warrior. Not only is the image of Max forking ounces of Alpo into his mouth undeniably badass, but the fact that he seems to enjoy doing it—and the fact that the Professor is extremely, extremely eager to get the can of dog food from Max’s dog—tells you a hell of a lot about the world they live in.”

MOST entertaining “THE ROAD WARRIOR” review ever:  http://www.doubleviking.com/real-men-love-the-road-warrior-6768-p.html

Aint-it-cool-news has some pictures of “Splice”, and this is one of them:

Interesting to say the least, the rest are to be found in this article:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34683

That’s already on the main site!  http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/afm-del-toro-natali-polley-brody-here-comes-splice/

I know, but I had never seen those pictures.

They had been removed almost immediately because of some “cease & desist” letter.
Now they are suddenly allowed again, so today was the first time I saw them.

Besides, the aicn-article has more pictures, basically copying the flyer page by page, text and all. One of the new pictures is a VERY alluring shot of the creature lying down in adult form, striking a pose.

http://www.filmgrotto.com has them all.

Kurt Halfyard - November 6, 2007, 11:54am

http://www.filmgrotto.com has them all.

I beg to differ. 
This is half of the picture I’m talking about…

Close-up of that face:

Looks a bit like the girl from the playstation-2 adverts, years ago.

Crispin Glover - Hero of the Marginalized!

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-et-glover15nov15,0,312606.story

Don’t know how ‘fresh’ this tidbit is, but the BFI have opened up their interview archives.

600 recorded interviews eveyone from John Boorman to Anna Karina to Tom Baker.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/