I love the new Dragon Tattoo DVD disc idea which has “buyers confused.” The roll out for Dragon Tattoo was the most exciting thing that happened to film marketing last year. Ideas in Hollywood feel recycled, focused-grouped, generic and way too familiar. For the most part, we here in America have mostly been conditioned, Pavlov’s doggie style, to...
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It’s one of the weirdest marks of last year that, with nine Best Picture nominees and a few of them beyond broken, that the Oscars could not find a spot for Dragon Tattoo, though it did become only the second film since 1968 to win editing only. There won’t be many things people remember from 2011. The Oscar films feel, even now, mostly irrelevant. But...
A few movie-writers have kicked over a hornet’s nest this week by spreading the impression that Rooney Mara wasn’t showing enough enthusiasm and deference to suit them. The perception seeped out like black mold, aggravating the fungus allergies the Twitterverse, so before long the strings of snot were blown far and wide. Once a story like that takes hold, it’s not...
Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig cover the current issue of Film Comment. Not sure how long it’s been on newsstands but today is the first I’ve seen it. Inside, Amy Taubin talks about those rarest of movie heroines, “dauntless women who take no prisoners” (and namechecks Sasha Stone as one of those rarest of movie journalist, dauntless women who take...
Here is something you don’t come across every day. As we head into an Oscar season that is mostly going to be, once again, about white male protagonists it was refreshing to come across this site, Confessions of a Female Filmmaker and her review of The Dragon Tattoo. Nicole Davis is a 23 year old filmmaker who has wanted to be a director since she was...