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Showing posts with label Todd Haynes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Todd Haynes. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
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I have just this second decided that Todd Haynes, director of Safe and Velvet Goldmine and Far From Heaven, is an overrated hack. A hack! A nogoodnik! I was always mildly annoyed that the sex scene between Ewan McGregor and Christian Bale in Goldmine was basically nonexistent, but now that I've heard Ewan McGregor talk about the filming of it I'm positively inflamed!
"I did have a sex scene with Christian Bale, which I did to the best of my ability. C'mon, it was great! I was playing an Iggy Pop-type rock star and we have a shag on top of a rooftop in Kings Cross but they wanted to shoot it from another rooftop. We heard, ‘Action!' so we started to slowly [go at it]. Then it went on and on-we were really going at it…with a reach-around. [Laughs]. Then I thought, I would have cum by now so I went round to Christian's ear and went, ‘I think I would have cum by now. I'm going to have a look.' I looked over and they were packing up the cameras! I think they thought it was a sensitive thing, they should just leave it to us."
(via) How dare you, Todd Haynes. How dare you. I am just going to bite my pillow at you!
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
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I'm sure that each and every one of you are fully aware of Original Series Garbage Pail Kid Adam Bomb, right? He's the kid who's pressing the button and blowing a mushroom cloud out of his head - he's basically the most famous GPK image. Point being, I turned into Adam Bomb when I read the news that MoMA is doing a double-feature this weekend of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. KABOOM. They're doing an entire series on experimental melodramas.
Ali is of course Fassbinder's loose remake of Sirk's film and his most obvious tribute to his favorite fore-bearer in strangely detached soap (see another tribute here); it's also my favorite of RWF's films. I was just complaining the other week that I wanted MoMA to show more Fassbinder - somebody was listening! Thank you, somebody!
The only thing that would make it better would be them making it a straight-up three-way with Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, which is also a remake of Sirk's film and spins his world off into Haynes' beautiful orbit - they are showing FFH, but not until the following Saturday. Looking back through my Fassbinder posts I even see I called out for such a triple-feature way back in 2009! I am the future.
Oh and I should go ahead and note here that MoMA's also starting their Kathryn Bigelow retrospective tomorrow - she'll be there for a Q&A following a screening of her 1982 Fifties biker movie with Willem Dafoe called The Loveless - which'll include screenings of awesomenesses like Near Dark (see my love for that movie here) and Point Break (!!!) and Strange Days, as well as her Jamie Lee Curtis is a sexy rookie cop being hunted movie Blue Steel that I've never seen but always wanted to.
And I should also also note that, as part of the same series that's giving us Sirk and Fassbinder and Haynes Oh My, they're showing John Waters' Pink Flamingos on Sunday. Goddamn, MoMA. Good goddamn.
Oh and I should go ahead and note here that MoMA's also starting their Kathryn Bigelow retrospective tomorrow - she'll be there for a Q&A following a screening of her 1982 Fifties biker movie with Willem Dafoe called The Loveless - which'll include screenings of awesomenesses like Near Dark (see my love for that movie here) and Point Break (!!!) and Strange Days, as well as her Jamie Lee Curtis is a sexy rookie cop being hunted movie Blue Steel that I've never seen but always wanted to.
And I should also also note that, as part of the same series that's giving us Sirk and Fassbinder and Haynes Oh My, they're showing John Waters' Pink Flamingos on Sunday. Goddamn, MoMA. Good goddamn.
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