Thanks to Adam Walter for discovering news about the next project from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco)… Jane Austen’s Winchester Races!
Walter also links to The Wall Street Journal‘s review of the new novel by Mark Helprin.
Because of these fine discoveries, I’ll show mercy to Mr. Walter and skip mentioning that I ever saw him carrying a stack of the Left Behind novels around.
(Okay, he works at a bookstore. He was just shelving them.)
Or maybe I was hiding them.
“The Squid and the Whale” looks quite realistic… and quite disturbing, especially considering the very distracting Paquin/Daniels angle and their past acting history together! Just the trailer shot of them kissing is enough to completely creep me out… Regardless, I wonder what kind of impact the movie will have – will people extrapolate the same lessons from it that you do?
I’ve been surprised, actually, at the way mainstream critics are observing the film’s “raw, honest” approach to the consequences of divorce and the selfishness of the characters. You would almost think that they accept this as a given, which is strange considering the way they praise so many other films that champion infidelity as an act of liberation from some tired and confining institution.