April 2010
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Walking + Talking: One of the Best Films on Female...
When I saw Nicole Holofcener’s debut film, Walking and Talking, on a Thursday matinee in Cambridge, my best friend and I the only people the theater, I had no idea that I was staring into my future. The film proved to be eerily prescient about my life. But I couldn’t know it at the time. I was 15 - things had barely begun. Boys were a concept and a source of bad poetry. Films...
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Sibel Kekilli
(via the Film Experience) Here’s Christoph Waltz giving actress Sibel Kekilli a German Oscar for her role in When We Leave (which is, actually, now playing at Tribeca). She made her debut in the amazing, soul-searing film Head-On. Since The Girlfriend Experience played Tribeca last year, I had the wonderful experience of writing as many articles on porn stars on film as I could, for the...
Natasha VC: Big dumb face →
Hey guys. I just wanted to share an AH-HAH observation I had about FAMOUS PEOPLE. Famous people in movies, that is. I have interviewed some of these people and the thing that usually strikes me about them is how big their faces are. You don’t see this as much in theater folk or the muscian kind…
EXHIBIT A (and part of the reason she works so well in her Oscar-nominated role…):
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Be Your Own Pet sounding a little...
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On Breaking Bad
I just finished Season 2 of Breaking Bad. I think the show is wonderful. And one thing I like in particular is its satisfactory plotting. (Because when it comes to Matt Weiner, I don’t get that feeling at all…) Even when it’s an episode about Walt and a water-pump, it ends with a crushing moment. There’s something creepy, real, and awfully unsettling about the show. And...
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Movies I can't afford to see
Thanks to having to pay taxes on a really terrible HR department’s screaming ineptitude, after barely making a living wage: LITTLE FOCKERS (in 3-D, I bet). No more De Niro films in the theater ever again!
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The Draper/McNulty/White Conundrum
natashavc:
The elements of your personality that make you good at your job make you bad at everything else.
This is the character thesis of all the leading men. I’m a sucker for it.
That’s there for sure, but isn’t it also sort of, like, how modern existence makes the ultimate modern man a sociopath? Every compelling cable show of the past ten years has pretty much been a study...
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The Thermals...
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Things I Ate That I Love: Elephant Power →
I am at Kripalu, a nonprofit yoga retreat center and school in the Berkshires, and there are obviously a million and two amazingly Salad For Breakfast things going on around me at any given moment. A workshop on shamanism and a worshop on “creating transformative workshops” are just two of the…
OMG, M.C. Yogi. That sounds…apropro for the place. I went to Kripalu two or three...
LA-ers
Hey internet - my BFF is going to be out in Los Angeles “taking meetings” the last week of April, and will likely be moving there from London, England. She is somewhat daunted. If anyone has any advice/wisdom regarding neighborhoods and sublets and BBQ joints, would you send me an email at Elisabeth (Period) Donnelly at gmail? It would be much appreciated and you could make a friend...
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Orange is the New Black
So yesterday, spurred on by curiosity (and that pitch perfect Marie Claire snippet from the book…that ends just as she’s going to prison!) I perused Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black, about her year in a prison in Danbury. The funny thing about the book is that Kerman got busted for drug muling-at-24, but she had to wait six years after initially getting busted about ten...
