HAPPY BELATED 27th BIRTHDAY, NORA ZEHETNER!!
Nora, you know you will be our particular noir princess, the femme-fatale of our most inconfesable dreams forever, I wish you all the best!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Holden Caulfield, Donnie Darko, Juno
"A boy can't deal with real people, so instead he befriends a giant, grotesque rabbit".
"Donnie hardly recognizes himself: Plagued by fits of sleepwalking and vivid hallucinations of a six-foot metallic rabbit with monstrous teeth, he feels totally out of control, unable to decipher what is real. Panicked by the world around him and terrified of being alone, he finds himself unable to connect with other people. [...] A contemporary Holden Caulfield, he alternates between kindness and cruelty, boldness and fear, hope and despair. The film never sugarcoats its protagonist's failings, and Gyllenhaal doesn't sweeten the portrait, revealing a rebellious teenager so rude to his mother, we cringe".
Source: www.clevescene.com
"Juno has become a bona fide phenomenon — a rare cultural touchstone for millions of young female moviegoers".
"Girls haven't had that sort of character before. We don't have our Catcher in the Rye" -Ellen Page. Source: www.ew.com
"Jason Reitman's Juno is a gem. It does for film what J D Salinger's Catcher In The Rye did for literature back in the late Fifties. Both are vivid portraits of adolescents: the former a girl, Juno MacGuff, superbly played by Ellen Page, the latter a boy, Holden Caulfield. Both are highly critical of the society in which they live and have trouble fitting in with the accepted activities of their peers and elders". 
"She's also keen on Bleeker (Michael Cera), a fellow student in her class who is a bit of a misfit. He's highly intelligent, makes an effort to join in with the jocks on their sporting activities, but doesn't appear to have any close friends amongst them".
Source: www.afca.org.au.
"Juno’s character is the most interesting thing about the movie. She is written as a feminine Holden Caulfield; highly pessimistic of the world around her and critical of a number of things. For the most part, she is an outcast at her school but by her own will and at the same time, to paraphrase her, she is the nerdy dream girl of a jock or two". Source: jackasscritics.com
"Think Holden Caulfield, only female and pregnant. That’s Juno MacGuff". Source: www.kansascity.com
"According to the scooper, the film will largely focus on the relationship between the titular Jennifer, a high-school sex bomb and all around homecoming queen type who is also possessed by satanic forces -- there's a real 80s vibe, apparently -- and her best friend, called Needy. Needy slowly starts to realize that something is seriously wrong with Jennifer, since the boys she goes out with don't come back. But enough about the story -- what's the critique? According to the source, the script is an "oddly-paced, slightly incoherent horror comedy. This is trying too hard to be some genre-smashing cult hit like Donnie Darko..." Source: www.cinematical.com
"Donnie hardly recognizes himself: Plagued by fits of sleepwalking and vivid hallucinations of a six-foot metallic rabbit with monstrous teeth, he feels totally out of control, unable to decipher what is real. Panicked by the world around him and terrified of being alone, he finds himself unable to connect with other people. [...] A contemporary Holden Caulfield, he alternates between kindness and cruelty, boldness and fear, hope and despair. The film never sugarcoats its protagonist's failings, and Gyllenhaal doesn't sweeten the portrait, revealing a rebellious teenager so rude to his mother, we cringe". Source: www.clevescene.com
"Juno has become a bona fide phenomenon — a rare cultural touchstone for millions of young female moviegoers".
"Girls haven't had that sort of character before. We don't have our Catcher in the Rye" -Ellen Page. Source: www.ew.com
"Jason Reitman's Juno is a gem. It does for film what J D Salinger's Catcher In The Rye did for literature back in the late Fifties. Both are vivid portraits of adolescents: the former a girl, Juno MacGuff, superbly played by Ellen Page, the latter a boy, Holden Caulfield. Both are highly critical of the society in which they live and have trouble fitting in with the accepted activities of their peers and elders". 
"She's also keen on Bleeker (Michael Cera), a fellow student in her class who is a bit of a misfit. He's highly intelligent, makes an effort to join in with the jocks on their sporting activities, but doesn't appear to have any close friends amongst them". Source: www.afca.org.au.
"Juno’s character is the most interesting thing about the movie. She is written as a feminine Holden Caulfield; highly pessimistic of the world around her and critical of a number of things. For the most part, she is an outcast at her school but by her own will and at the same time, to paraphrase her, she is the nerdy dream girl of a jock or two". Source: jackasscritics.com
"Think Holden Caulfield, only female and pregnant. That’s Juno MacGuff". Source: www.kansascity.com
"According to the scooper, the film will largely focus on the relationship between the titular Jennifer, a high-school sex bomb and all around homecoming queen type who is also possessed by satanic forces -- there's a real 80s vibe, apparently -- and her best friend, called Needy. Needy slowly starts to realize that something is seriously wrong with Jennifer, since the boys she goes out with don't come back. But enough about the story -- what's the critique? According to the source, the script is an "oddly-paced, slightly incoherent horror comedy. This is trying too hard to be some genre-smashing cult hit like Donnie Darko..." Source: www.cinematical.com
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Female Outcasts
"I say we just grow up, be adults, and die" - Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder).
Veronica Sawyer: You're a rebel? You think you're a rebel? You're not a rebel you're fucking psychotic! -"Heathers" (1989).
"Lux Lisbon, one of the five self-doomed sisters whose lissome dance toward extinction is the subject of Sofia Coppola's first movie (and of Jeffrey Eugenides's first novel, on which it is based), is first glimpsed in the act of finishing a red Popsicle. As played -- incarnated might be a better word -- by Kirsten Dunst, Lux is at once a blond icon of girlish suburban innocence and an emblem of womanly eroticism. Like Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's ''Lolita,'' with her lollipop and her heart-shaped sunglasses, Ms. Dunst turns Lux's every glance and gesture into an ambiguous provocation". Source: movies.nytimes.com
Lux Lisbon: I can't breath in here.Mrs Lisbon: Lu, you are safe, in here.
"The Virgin Suicides" (1999).
"Maybe Enid Coleslaw - the cynical brat of the movement's lodestone film, Ghost World - sums up our geek girl's philosophy best. When she describes the film's socially inept record-collecting dork, Seymour, it's like a motto for the movement:
"I kind of like him. He's the exact opposite of everything I really hate. In a way, he's such a clueless dork, he's almost kind of cool." Source: www.theage.com.au
Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again. -"Ghost World" (2001).
Enid: I'm taking a remedial high school art class for fuck-ups and retards. 
(Brad Renfro, Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson)Enid: Josh, he's nobody's boyfriend, he's just this guy that Becky and I like to torture.
See the parallels between Becky (Enid's friend -Scarlett Johansson) and Juno's cheerleder friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby): 
and also between the quirky male characters Josh (Brad Renfro) and Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera):
Josh: This guy has every reason to freak out. This is a pretty fucked up thing to do to somebody.Enid: I think Josh is becoming too mature for us.
Bleeker: You're being really immature... You have no reason to be mad at me, I mean, you broke my heart. I should be royally ticked off at you. I should be really cheesed off, I shouldn't want to talk to you anymore. 
Juno MacGuff: He said her house smells like soup.Leah: Oh my god it does! I was there like four years ago for her birthday party. It's like Lipton landing!
Juno MacGuff: Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom. I can think of so many cooler things to do that night. Like, you know what Bleek? I might pummus my feet, uh, I might go to Bren's Unitarian Church, maybe get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice, you know? Cause all those things, would be exponentially cooler than going to prom with you.
Juno MacGuff: You're, like, the coolest person I've ever met, and you don't even have to try, you know. -Ellen Page in "Juno" (2007).
Deb (Tina Majorino): Kay, hold still right there. Now, just imagine you're weightless, in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little seahorses.
Deb: Um, hello. Would you like to look like this?Napoleon Dynamite: This is a girl.
Deb: Because for a limited time only, Glamour Shots by Deb are 75% off. -"Napoleon Dynamite" (2004).
"I’m afraid the backlash against things like Juno or the fucking Decemberists is causing people to abandon the ideals we’ve all grown up with, possibly just for the sake of being contrarians" -Mike Conklin.
Source: the1magazine.com
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Michael Cera Video
I really like Michael Cera. I'm revisiting some of his old episodes in the TV sitcom "Arrested Development" and I'm pleasantly surprised of his comedic talent and intuitiveness. He's my geek-crush, weirdos, his awkward smile makes him sweet, unassuming and even naïve, but however keeping at the same time a mysterious gaze beyond his years.
Monday, February 11, 2008
BAFTA'S 2008
Javier Bardem.
Daniel Day-Lewis.
Marion Cotillard.
Keira Knightley.
Julie Christie.
James McAvoy.
Tilda Swinton.
Eva Green.
Kate Hudson.2008's Orange British Academy Film Awards
(List of winners):
Best Film - Atonement
Best British Film - This Is England
The Carl Foreman Award - Matt Greenhalgh (Control)
Director - Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)
Best Original Screenplay - Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Film Not in the English Language - The Lives of Others
Best Animated Film - Ratatouille
Leading Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Leading Actress - Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)
Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Music - La Vie En Rose
Cinematography - No Country For Old Men
Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum
Production Design - Atonement
Costume Design - La Vie En Rose
Sound - The Bourne Ultimatum
Special Visual Effects - The Golden Compass
Make Up & Hair - La Vie En Rose
Short Animation - The Pearce Sisters
Short Film - Dog Altogether
Orange Rising Star Award - Shia LaBeouf.
Aaaaawwww picture
This should rehab Kirsten's mood "ipso facto". Picture courtesy by Iheartjake.com, by Mario Testino from 'Let Me In' Book.
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