Aww, look! Michel Piccoli, playing an old artist in Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse, is petting a kitty! That’s so CUTE. Almost as cute as this week’s batch of adorable little links:
- In case you haven’t yet, please read the announcement for Pussy Goes Grrr’s Juxtaposition Blogathon. We’re still eagerly seeking bloggers of all kinds to participate! Feel free to email/comment with questions, too.
- The Guardian‘s Stephen Thrower wrote an astonishingly good article on horror movie music. If you like horror movies, music, life, or fun, you owe it to yourself to read that article.
- Another horror-flavored article from The Guardian: has David Lynch (silently) retired? Dear lord, I hope not.
- Matt Zoller Seitz asks, “Why aren’t these actors famous?” (I could not agree more about Philip Baker Hall.) He also has a list of “ten underrated actresses we’d watch in anything.” Anna Faris FTW!
- Kent Jones’ appreciation of Robert Ryan is an absolutely mesmerizing must-read.
- In honor of Criterion’s forthcoming Blu-Ray/DVD release, Haden Guest writes “The Killing: Kubrick’s Clockwork.”
- If you’re like me, you love robots. Therefore, if you’re like me, you should look at “Where’s WALL-E?“, a panorama of pop culture robots past and present.
- This really is a fantastic, creative wedding invitation. (And the long-distance relationship story is something I sympathize with intensely.)
- Kudos to Nathan Donarum for linking to this list of “Worst Excuses Made for ‘Bad’ Movies.” It is hilarious, and you’ve probably heard most or all of these in the past.
- From Popshifter editor Less Lee Moore, here’s “The Monstrous Feminist,” about female horror fandom and loving movies like Inside and The Descent. (Sound familiar?)
Search term of the week: “pragncy pussy.” That is some inventive misspelling. How girl get pragnt, anyway?
Ash
Alice
Thanks for the repost!!
No problem; it’s a great article. Thank YOU for taking on a topic so near & dear to our hearts, linking to that ridiculous iVillage article, and making a Barbara Creed reference, too!
Adding you to our Blogroll now!
love the warning at the top of Guardian story on horror music:
“Please note: some of the links in this article point to gory or graphic horror movie scenes”
Quick Q – why is the article “astonishingly good?” Stephen Thrower was in Coil and wrote the gnarly FAB press book on Fulci “Beyond Terror” among other things.
I’d be astonished if he wrote a piece on horror music and it wasn’t great.
I meant “astonishingly good” in terms of the articles on horror and music that are generally published in the mainstream media. The Guardian tends toward a higher quality standard than most papers, but even for them, Thrower’s article was impressive.
That said, I also had no idea who he was, so thanks for enlightening me! Anyone who’s collaborated with Clive Barker AND Derek Jarman automatically gets my interest.
i was taking Mr. Donarum seriously up until the moment he mentioned Hanna being his favorite film of the year. how he can afford to rip into bad plots/structure/what-have-you yet champion that microwaved cliche-accumulating go-absolutely-fucking-nowhere flick from the 90’s i will never know
Sorry for the confusion—Nathan Donarum actually linked to the article from Twitter; Brad Brevet was the Rope of Silicon writer and Hanna fan who wrote the top ten list.
As for Hanna itself, I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard mixed reviews. If it is as bad as you say (which is perfectly possible; it didn’t look too remarkable), I guess we can chalk it up to personal idiosyncrasy since Mr. Brevet seems to have fairly good taste and movie smarts otherwise.
Alas, sometimes it happens that otherwise sharp people can wholeheartedly love really bad movies.
I also loved that article about horror movie music. The writer described the music so well. It was kind of mesmerizing. I ended up searching for YouTube clips to hear everything, because I haven’t seen many (any?)giallos.