BIG 6: Emotional superheroes, Creative Emmys, RIP Cliff, more
Superheroes Have Feelings, Too – Why Hollywood Should Show Them
After all, Batman can’t walk around Gotham beating up bankers just on principal. So how do our heroes fit into this world of moralistic grey? Easy, they don’t. Maybe that is why the new slew of Hollywood superhero films have left us feeling, well, not so super. It’s as if we have become desensitized to the violence and gore washing over us, so maybe the only avenue left to explore is toward the within. Read the full The Wrap post
The Creative Arts Emmys: The Hard Work Of Television Gets Its Due
Honestly, the more cinematic television becomes, the more it competes with film, the more important these people are. Television was, for quite a while, largely very cheap-looking. There were always exceptions, of course — there was often a higher standard for period pieces, glamor projects, and marquee events like the big broadcast miniseries that have largely gone out of fashion. Read the full NPR article
Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88
Robertson, who also played a real-life role as the whistle-blower in the check-forging scandal of then-Columbia Pictures President David Begelman that rocked Hollywood in the late 1970s, died at Stony Brook University Medical Center on Long Island, according to Evelyn Christel, his longtime personal secretary. His family said he died of natural causes. Read the full LA Times article
Why I’m swinging a lightsaber in my home town cinema
I decided it might be a bit pompous to pose with just an attribute of my newspaper career, so I also brought my daughter’s toy lightsaber. The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, you see, and when I was a child here, the original Star Wars came out. Read the Guardian article
Tom Tykwer: Chances Are Good for a Tangent
The film also grew out of a desire to portray the complications of coupledom. “Nine out of 10 movies show people falling in love, which gives you more thrilling moments potentially,” Mr. Tykwer said. “But I was interested in relationships that are trying to make it work. It can be exciting to have a shared history, and yet you face the inevitable problems when sexual desire fades and when the curiosity gene isn’t satisfied anymore.” Read the full NY Times article
Oscarwatch: On Genre Movies
Coming up next, genre movies include Steven Soderbergh’s terrifying and well directed Contagion, Drive (which is an artful genre movie), Straw Dogs, Moneyball, The Thing, Anonymous, Twilight Breaking Dawn, Hugo, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mission Impossible. How many of them would choose Harry Potter as their number one choice? And you have to give props to Bridesmaids too – a film that succeeds with an all-female cast (hardly ever happens) and on word of mouth alone, really. The Academy will never be cool enough to nominate a film like Bridesmaids for Best Picture, however. Read the full Awards Daily post
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