Don’t buy my take on Death Proof? Well, Keith Uhlich (Tarantino fan, perhaps overly much so IMO) and Matt Zoller Seitz (Tarantino skeptic, and more grounded) of The House Next Door have posted a long and wide-ranging conversation on Tarantino’s oeuvre, including Death Proof, that, like most of HND’s content, is well-worth-perusing, no matter where you come down on QT.
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The Wicker Boy.
Via Ed Rants and The House Next Door, some wag has distilled the essence of Neil LaBute’s lousy Wicker Man remake into two minutes of sheer ridiculousness. I kinda wish I had seen it like this.
The Art of Monologuing.
No, not in that Incredibles way. The House Next Door, an excellent film/television blog I routinely check after every new episode of The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, and Doctor Who, has sparked a fun conversation about choice movie monologues (somewhat akin to the list here.)
When the Thunder Rolls.
Over at The House Next Door, always an excellent destination for quality film and television commentary, Andrew Dignan eloquently dissects the various credit sequences for The Wire, and even show creator David Simon comes by to say a word.
Sold under Sin.
“The closing shot of last night’s ‘Deadwood’ episode was never meant as a series-ender. But that’s what it was, and for a number of reasons, it was both appropriate and troubling: Ian McShane’s Al Swearengen kneeling on the floor of his office, cleaning up a bloodstain.” Notwithstanding two stopgap two-hour movies (bleah), Deadwood rides off into the sunset, joining Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, Freaks & Geeks, Farscape, and countless others in that graveyard on the hill for shows done in before their time. (I actually haven’t caught the last episode yet, being here in Hawaii, but chose not to avoid the spoilers nonetheless.) “From the odd quirks of its language to the vivid scrappiness of its setting to the undeniable soul at its core, there will never be another place quite like Deadwood.” Happy trails, [expletive deleted].
Earth-2.
By way of Chris at DYFL, a guest blogger at Matt Zoller Seitz’s House Next Door offers a detailed comparison of the various cuts of The New World, which — as with Chris — is my favorite movie of the year thus far (despite it coming out in 2005…funny, that.)
World in his Eyes.
“I saw one of the greatest films of my life not so long ago, and I’ve now seen it four times. For me it’s one of those movies above everything in the Oscars, and there were some great movies, but it was in a class by itself, way above all of it, and that was ‘The New World,’ Terrence Malick’s movie…I don’t know why it completely disappeared. In 10 years it will be a classic and everybody will say, ‘That was the movie that mattered in 2005.'” By way of Matt Zoller Seitz, Wings of Desire and Until the End of the World director Wim Wenders absolutely adores The New World.