WEIRDLAND

Ad Sense

Friday, November 23, 2007

With Reese or alone

Jake walking alone in Beverly Hills, on 13th November, 2007.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Rai tv interview

Watch this conference at the Festa del Cinema di Roma 2007 about "Rendition", with Gavin Hood, Jake and Reese Witherspoon: at the Rai.tv

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!

I WISH YOU A HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO MY U.S. WEIRDOS READERS, HAPPY TURKEY!

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Friday, November 16, 2007

On the cover of "Esquire"

"The new December Esquire came out yesterday (or the day before), with six actors being celebrated on the cover for having given the mag's choices for "Performances of the Year." Denzel Washington in American Gangster, Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, Robert Downey in Zodiac, Emile Hirsch in Into The Wild and Jake Gyllenhaal in...Rendition?

It's not that Gyllenhaal plays his Egypt-based CIA guy badly or ineffectively, but that Egypt-based CIA guy is written as such a revoltingly passive wuss. As Esquire's Mike D'Angelo points out, Gyllenhaal "spends much of Rendition standing in the corner of a dark room, watching as some poor soul gets beaten, doused and fried...it's a near-silent performance."

For me, Gyllenhaal's inactivity is infuriating. He's not just a guy doing nothing, but an emblem of do-nothing types the world over. Two thirds of the way through a screening of Rendition at the Toronto Film Festival I leaned over to a friend sitting next to me and said, motioning at Gyllenhaal, "Is he going to do anything or what?"

Gyllenhaal's guy finally makes a move at the very end, yes, but it comes way, way too late".
Source: Hollywood-elsewhere.com