WEIRDLAND

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Cinema Weirdos

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie in "Donnie Darko" (2001).
Jake Gyllenhaal as Holden Worther in "The Good Girl" (2002).

Zooey Deschanel as Cheryl in "The Good Girl" (2002).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt during "Brick"´s shooting (2005).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Neil McCormick in "Mysterious Skin" (2004).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Chris Pratt in "The Lookout" (2007).
Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby in "Memento" (2000).
Edward Norton as "The Narrator" in "Fight Club" (1999).
Robert de Niro as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" (1976).
Parker Posey as Libby Mae Brown in "Waiting for Guffman" (1996).
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra Geller in "eXistenZ" (1999).
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho" (2000).

Selma Blair as Shawn Holloway in "Kill me later" (2001).
Jennifer Connelly as Kathy Nicolo in "House of Sand and Fog" (2003).Jennifer Connelly as Marion Silver in "Requiem for a Dream" (2000).
Reese Witherspoon as Vanessa Lutz in "Freeway" (1996).


Kirsten Dunst as Lux Lisbon in "The Virgin Suicides" (1999).
Kirsten Dunst as Claire Colburn in "Elizabethtown" (2005).
Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in "American Beauty" (1999).
Kevin Spacey as Prot in "K-PAX" (2001).
Kevin Spacey as Albert T. Fitzgerald in "The United States of Leland" (2003).
Clive Owen as Larry in "Closer" (2004).
Patrick Fugit as Zia in "Wristcutters: a love story" (2006).
Ryan Gosling as Leland P. Fitzgerald in "The United States of Leland" (2003).

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway in "Secretary" (2002).

Monday, March 26, 2007

Snow White & other princesses

Jennifer Aniston as Snow White in a wax figure.
Elizabeth MacGovern in "Faerie Tale Theatre" (1984).
Dita Von Teese wearing a sorta Snow White outfit.

Anne Hathaway as a princess in "Ella Enchanted" (2004).

Michelle Trachtenberg as Snow White in Halloween.

Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella.
Shalom Harlow posing as an erotic Snow White.
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"Secretary" beats you black and blue in all the right places, and leaves you grinning from ear to ear with its unexpected fairytale resolution.

In their adaptation of Mary Gaitskill's short story, screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson and director Steven Shainberg wisely scrap the author's lumbering "pity me" posturing in favor of something more lighthearted and colorful -- a giddy bruise, if such a thing is possible. After a stint in the mental hospital, Lee signs up for vocational school, where she discovers a hidden talent as a hunt-and-peck typist. She answers an ad for a secretary, and when this frazzled wreck arrives at the baroque law offices of E. Edward Grey during a raging storm wearing a plastic mackintosh, she's Little Red Riding Hood. Her boss (James Spader), with his menacing whisper and low growl, is the Big Bad Wolf.
(Okay, we get it, she's Snow White in search of Prince Charming.) But Shainberg coaxes marvelous performances out of Gyllenhaal and Spader, whose cat-and-mouse courtship and sparkling chemistry is the main reason why "Secretary" grows on you. Some people won't buy a doe-eyed love story sown from the seeds of sadomasochism that ends in giddiness, but there's an exhilaration in Gyllenhaal and Spader finding each other in the dark." Source: www.Indiewire.com

Kirsten Dunst as a fantasy queen.

A Must Buy

"This movie was by far my favorite of 2006. In my undignified opinion it was perfectly executed. It brought a fascinating part of history to life in a medium that was accessible and understandable to a wide audience. I have always been fascinated by the extraordinary life of Marie Antoinette and I was so pleased to see Sophia Coppola bring this movie to life.
Kirsten Dunst did a fantastic job, and the costumes were gorgeous (It won the Oscar!) I am actually such a fan of this movie that I befriended it on MySpace! This is a must buy."
Source: http://dandybeauty.com

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Holden and Sam

Jake Gyllenhaal as Holden, in the deleted scene "You can do it, Holden" from "The Good Girl" (2002).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Sam, in the final segment of "Havoc" (2005).