“We respect directors in our country.” – M√©lanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus (Inglourious Basterds) We do here too. So much that the list of names you guys suggested outnumber your favorite actors this year. The poll is way too long to have on the main page so click here, or on the sample below, to find it after the cut. ...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
(click to see a book cover as unimaginative as the title) USA Today reports that Michael Crichton has reached out from the grave to distract one of our best directors from more worthy projects: Steven Spielberg is developing a film out of a posthumously published novel by the late Michael Crichton—Pirate Latitudes, an adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica...
MarketSaw has a set of nice scans from Empire‘s Avatar feature, and it’s the first really good look at how well the Avatar’s integrate the facial features of their human counterparts. On another note, Jon Pace reminds us that Roger Ebert was there for Avatar Day, and he was “underwhelmed”: Cameron does, however, make the mistake common...
(click for full size) This gorgeous hand-painted poster for Inglourious Basterds makes me realize that Tarantino has given us the rip-roaring Indy adventure that Lucas and Spielberg failed to deliver with Crystal Skull. (“Aldo Raine and the Avengers of Krystall Nacht”?) I’ll confess I was about to reach my saturation point with the wall-to-wall collection...
