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08.13.08 by Widge @ 8:09 pm So I went to go find the "Why do you say you feel...trapped in a man's body?" bit and stumbled across the whole film. So how can I not post it? Be aware there are ads in this, but hey, it's Raising Arizona. Beats the hell out of watching a crappy quality version split up into ten pieces, eh? P.S. Where's my Criterion edition, Coens? I demand a three-disc uber mongo edition. Categorized as: Movies
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08.13.08 by Widge @ 2:31 am  George Furth, character actor and playwright, has died at age 75. Cause of death is unreported at the moment. The playwright portion of his career I knew about, of course, but just never connected (for some odd reason) Furth the actor (who played Van Johnson in Blazzing Saddles and Woodcock in Butch Cassidy) with Furth the playwright. Furth did three collaborations with Sondheim, the most successful of which was Company. We did a round-up of "Not Getting Married Today" previously. Thanks for everything, George. Categorized as: Movies
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08.10.08 by Widge @ 4:18 am io9 clues us into another Bollywood super-hero movie, to tide us over until Shah Rukh Khan does his Spider-Man bit. I have no idea from watching this trailer WTF is happening but I do know that there will be singing and swordplay and great CG. Plus Eros are the same people who brought you the amazing Devdas. So potential suck factor is extremely low. Here's the trailer. More after the break. Categorized as: Movies
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08.09.08 by Widge @ 11:30 am  Bernie Mac passed away today due to complications from his bout with pneumonia. "I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy. I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about." You made us laugh a helluva lot, Bernie. Thanks for everything. Categorized as: Movies
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08.09.08 by Widge @ 3:00 am No, I'm not kidding. I had no idea this was going on until I saw this article in Variety talking about how movies are being translated to Broadway and now they're being translated to the opera stage. And of course, what better way to blow my mind than to tell me that Howard Shore has turned David Cronenberg's The Fly into an opera. And then asked Cronenberg to direct it. With a libretto by David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). And was conducted at its premiere last month by Plácido Domingo. I'll give you a moment to staple your brain back together. Stuck in my head was this concept of a tenor singing "HELP MEEEEEEE" in falsetto Italian. So I had to start finding out more. Here's Howard Shore, composer, talking about how he came up with the notion of making this an opera. Quality's terrible, but it's the best I could find embeddable. You get to see the chambers, plus somebody rehearsing in a harness running around I would guess in what's Fly-Mode. More videos and stuff after the break. Categorized as: Movies
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