Today’s specials:
- Richard Thompson’s first solo album in ages, Front Parlour Ballads, is earning a bunch of raves and a few surprisingly contrary complaints.
- Ho hum… here it comes. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire … the new international trailer. Hmmm. Some very nice effects on display here.
- Al Pacino to star in remake of Rififi, from the director of Sea of Love.
- Pixar blog features tributes to Joe Ranft, who died last week. If you explore this blog further, you’ll also see some truly incredible sand sculptures of The Incredibles.
- Does Brian Flemming really exist? In a few hundred years, I doubt that many will have enough evidence to prove it.
- Roman Polanski and Ben Kingsley dream up Fagin all over again for Oliver Twist.
- The fall movies are coming! Here’s one preview. Here’s another.
Interesting about RT. I am a loyal and devoted follower. I like The Old Kit Bag, but I think I’ve decided that Mock Tudor is my favorite of the last decade. I didn’t love it when it came out, then rediscovered it a couple of years late and became obsessed.
Though nothing beats just hearing him and his guitar perform live. I got to see him here in NJ for Kit Bag. Beeswing brought tears to my eyes to hear it live. He also performed Oops I did It Again and made the song sound good. A true master.
Did you know Alec Guinness’s Fagin make-up was designed by Stuart Freeborn, the man who went on to create Yoda and Jabba the Hutt? 🙂
The Paste review cracked me up. I’m admittedly a Thompson fanatic, but the reviewer totally missed it, complaining of cliches like the phrase “As I went a’ walkin'”. That’s not cliche, laddie, that’s tradition. Made me want to consign him to a lifetime of bad “Danny Boy” covers in the fake Irish pubs that have sprung up all over America.
Actually, the big clue was that we had a man, in a dark room, talking on a phone with his BACK to a window looking into a lighted room. The little details, like the sign over the window, the lamp, the color of the curtain, etc. confirmed it. I could never have guessed the first half-shot in a million years, despite loving “Raising Arizona”. Thanks for the entertainment Jeff!