{"id":15213,"date":"2011-11-03T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2011-11-03T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:30:46","slug":"the-moviegoer-egoistic-young-adults-noah-and-other-link-worthy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2011\/11\/the-moviegoer-egoistic-young-adults-noah-and-other-link-worthy-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moviegoer: Egoistic Young Adults, Noah, and Other Link-worthy News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I intended to see The Rum Diary<\/em> (starring Johnny Depp), but those plans fell through\u2014and that may have been a good<\/a> thing. So, instead of a review this week, I thought I\u2019d pass along some interesting movie-related links. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Over at Hollywood Elsewhere,\u00a0Jeffrey Wells<\/a> has some early impressions of Jason Reitman\u2019s upcoming black comedy, Young Adult<\/em>, starring Charlize Theron. Here was my favorite line from Wells:<\/p>\n

[I]t\u2019s darkly funny during the first two-thirds to 75%, and sometimes hilarious;\u00a0 it\u2019s a kind of Jason Voorhees horror film about a raging blind woman, about egotism and myopia and the absolute mania of the self; as I thought about it during the after-party I began to realize it\u2019s more than just a character study or a black comedy, but a cautionary tale about a kind of egoistic Kardashian-like malignancy afoot in the culture right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hoped as much based on the trailer<\/a>. Sign me up!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Courageous<\/em>, there\u2019s been quite a bit of talk in some corners of the blogosphere about \u201cChristian movies.\u201d What exactly that means (?) is for another column, but did you know that: A) Steven Spielberg is considering directing a Warner Bros. film called Gods and Kings<\/a><\/em> about the life of Moses and that B) Black Swan<\/em> director Darren Aronofsky is directing a Noah epic<\/a>?? Here is the trailer<\/a> to Aronofsky\u2019s graphic novel that may provide some stylistic hints for the film. Aronofsky reportedly wants Christian Bale to play the 600-year-old Patriarch. For those keeping tabs, Bale is on pace to be able to say that he starred as Batman, John Connor, Noah, John Rolfe, and Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In not-so-exciting \u201cChristian movie\u201d news,\u00a0Left Behind<\/a><\/em> is back!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with the trajectory of Terrence Malick<\/a>\u2018s film-making career to this point, here is what it looks like:\u00a0Badlands<\/a><\/em> (1973), Days of Heaven<\/a><\/em> (1978),\u00a0The Thin Red Line<\/a><\/em> (1998), The New World<\/a><\/em> (2005), and The Tree of Life<\/a><\/em> (2011). That\u2019s a total of five feature films in close to forty years. So color us Malick fans\u2014and the rest of the film world\u2014surprised when we realized the notoriously reclusive director is not only in post-production on his sixth film (rumored to be titled The Burial<\/a>) <\/em>but also that he\u2019s started filming his seventh (Lawless<\/em>)\u00a0with plans to shoot his eight (Knight of Cups<\/em>) immediately afterward. While Malick\u2019s productivity may be changing, his attraction to top actors apparently hasn\u2019t. The lineup for The Burial<\/em> is perhaps his most impressive since The Thin Red Line<\/em>: Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper, Jessica Chastain, Michael Sheen, and Amanda Peet. Meanwhile, Lawless<\/em> and Knight of Cups<\/em> are both set to star Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett<\/a>. Also joining them for Lawless<\/em> will be Driver<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0Ryan Gosling and The Girl in the David<\/a> Fincher<\/a> Films, Rooney Mara. Those who know me know that I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n

Lastly, in the dark spirit of Halloween week (it\u2019s not too late, people), did you know that Image\u2019s \u201cArts and Faith\u201d forum has a Top 25 Horror Films<\/a> list? My favorite is The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>, but I confess to not having seen many of the films on their list. What\u2019s your favorite horror film?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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