BIG 6: High-tech Hitchcock?, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, Remakes, more
Where would Alfred Hitchcock be with today’s technology?
A very Hitchcockian device, mistaken identity. It sets the entire plot in motion. But Hitch couldn’t have made that movie today. Not set in 2011, at least, because what successful businessman leaves the office without his 4G smartphone? Read the full LAT article
Midnight In Paris Star Corey Stoll Attributes Film’s Success To ‘Pleasant’ And ‘Uplifting’ Appeal
“It’s that world, people really relate to, that sort of fantasy,” he continued. “It’s also uplifting. It’s pretty rare to see a movie that’s uplifting in an un-saccharine way. It’s a pleasant hour and a half to spend, I think people respond to it and I think that people are missing that real escape.” Read the full MTV Movies Blog
Scrapbooking Big-Screen Memories
A movie theater can be a magical place, a portal; in the cold, quiet blackness anything is possible. That becomes clear as you pore through the Cinema Treasures site, cinematreasures.org, a riveting compendium of theaters, open or closed, from around the world that can be searched by name, city or ZIP code. Read the NYT article
Bunnies and Stewardesses: Fall TV’s Racy Slant
From the tight uniforms sported by the stewardesses on ABC’s “Pan Am” and the Alphabet Network’s sexy re-commissioned “Charlie’s Angels” crime-fighters, to the fluffy-tailed servers of NBC’s “The Playboy Club,” the fashion trend of the season appears to be flesh, and plenty of it. Read the full The Wrap post
The Rise of Dress-up and the Fall of Pop at MTV’s Video Music Awards
The Britney tribute involved dancers reenacting iconic bits of Britney videos, which some of them surely grew up doing in front of bedroom mirrors: This is the same vision of pop-as–dress-up that Glee thrives on. I can’t much speak on the Brown routine, which I watched, like a horror movie, through splayed fingers, but it involved Wu-Tang, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” trampolines, and wire rigging. Read the full NY Mag article
Why we should give remakes a chance
Remakes are nothing new. We think there are more of them now than ever before, but they’ve always been a part of the film industry dating back to the silent era. Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille remake their own films, for crying out loud. Scorsese, to name just one of the directors on this list, has done remakes and sequels before. Read the full Salon article
THE BIG 6 is a daily collection of film stories and features from around the web. If you have a something to add, leave a comment below.
Get Email Updates
