• Bookmarks for June 18-25

    • A Heartfelt Obituary for Canadian indie actress Tracy Wright
      (Tracy Wright died June 22 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.) “Canada’s never been one for respecting artists, especially women over 30. It was hard to watch Tracy getting older. Older, ha! She was in her 40s. But year by year it was harder for her to find good work, despite being the best of the best. At times she seemed at a loss as to what to do. Of course, she was a brilliant actor and should have been acting constantly.”
    • Anton Corbijn photoblogs The American
      Title says it all, enjoy some great behind the scenes photography by a great photographer.
    • How Does Inception’s Overly Detailed Chalkboard Compare to Other Overly Detailed Chalkboards?
      The Vulture gives a list of ‘overblown chalk board’ scenes in Movies and unforgivably leaves out A SERIOUS MAN. WTF? Either way, it’s an unconventional topic around a list, that gets at one of those amusing movie cliches. Who draws these damn things and how long does it take?
    • MUBI on “The Illusionist”
      “In the end, this is a Chomet film, as it had to be. Fans of Chomet will love it, and fans of both Chomet and Tati (which I confess to being) will really love it. Those who were able to resist the charm of Chomet’s previous feature may not be so pleased, although the new film represents an advance in terms of use of colour: The Triplets of Belleville achieved its nostalgic feel partly by useing a restricted palette of mucus-hues intended to evoke sepia-tone, whereas The Illusionist is as radiantly rich as Tati’s own movies, without losing any sense of period.”
    • Film Freak Central Interviews Vincenzo Natali
      “Indeed, anyone who’s seen the trailers for Natali’s latest, the Frankenstein-ian family drama Splice, is certain to be surprised by what the final product has in store. You didn’t see that one comin’, did ya? I know I didn’t. Natali’s career has taken an appropriately unpredictable trajectory: he began work as a storyboard artist for Saturday morning cartoons and later went on to direct a popular little sci-fi/horror picture called Cube. In between the low-budget flicks that followed, he helmed a segment of the anthology film Paris, je t’aime, as well as a documentary about Terry Gilliam for the Tideland DVD.”
    • Indie Wire Interviews Tilda Swinton (Video)
      “Tilda Swinton is a brainy actress who swings easily from passion indie projects (The Deep End, Julia and the upcoming I Am Love) to studio fare, from arch-villains to objects of desire, and from mother in the Scottish highlands to glamourous globe-trotting movie star. ”

     

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