Looking Closer
Here’s a new TIME Magazine interview with J.K. Rowling. (more…) Read more
Here’s a new TIME Magazine interview with J.K. Rowling. (more…) Read more
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply: Create silence! The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world of today. And even if it were blazoned forth with all the panoply of noise so that it could be heard in the midst of all the other noise, then it would no longer be the Word of God. Therefore... Read more
… and they say: There Will Be Blood. The runner-up is quite a surprise too. Here’s the full list. Read more
Why not Brad Bird? (more…) Read more
News that Brad Pitt is “in talks” to take Heath Ledger’s place in Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life spread quickly this morning. But the real news from Planet Malick was yet to arrive… Thanks to Steven D. Greydanus for alerting me to the most bizarre movie news of the week! Michael O’Brien’s novel Father Elijah… to become a feature film?! Produced by… Ecky Malick, Terrence Malick’s wife?! Read more
Entertainment Weekly asks Guillermo Del Toro if he’s been asked to direct The Hobbit. I’ve heard some rumblings, but nothing official. … I tried my best to read Lord of the Rings, the trilogy. I could not. I could not. They were very dense. And then one day, I bought The Hobbit. I read it and I loved it. So it would be a privilege. Read more
Sharing some of my own concerns about Peter Jackson’s Hobbit project, here are Ross Douthat and Peter Suderman. Read more
In case you missed the earlier announcement, here it is… (more…) Read more
1. I’m Not There – Original Soundtrack What a marvel: a two-disc marathon of Bob Dylan songs covered by excellent artists, and almost every single attempt is a knockout. There have been a lot of bad covers of Dylan songs. Too many. But in a year when Dylan was everywhere — on the big screen, on the radio, and all over Bryan Ferry’s latest record — the soundtrack to Todd Hayne’s inspired new film I’m Not There turns out to... Read more
But who’s going to direct it? Jackson? Del Toro? More questions: Will Holm be Bilbo? Will McKellen be Gandalf? Will Serkis be Gollum? (I ssssuspectsss three “yessssssses,” to those questionsses, my precious.) Most importantly… will it really be The Hobbit, or some huge, epic, dark attempt to match or surpass The Lord of the Rings? Remember folks… The Lord of the Rings is epic mythology. The Hobbit is a children’s story… Isn’t it just a little satisfying to see that... Read more
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