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Michael B. Jordan (Wallace in The Wire, Vince Howard in Friday Night Lights)
One great quote among many others from Maxim’s Oral History of The Wire
If ever there were a film that could accurately be described as “balls-out” or “completely nuts,” this would be that film.
Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard at La Brea, looking north at the Beverly oil fields in the middle distance, and on to Hollywood nestled at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1922.
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Animal Man #1-26 by Grant Morrison.
Just finished it. A pretty fantastic piece of metafiction with surprising emotional weight. So cool that DC let Morrison get away with this.
And here, a savvy blogger picked up on the similarities between Animal Man and Cabin in the Woods.
"What if this android [from “Prometheus”] watched “Lawrence of Arabia” over and over? What if he even decided to style his appearance on O’Toole’s? What if he even sometimes used borrowed dialogue? (Cinephiles quickly spotted that a line of David’s which momentously closes the Prometheus trailer—”Big things have small beginnings”—comes from “Lawrence of Arabia.”) Fassbender embraced this fully. “I had ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on a loop in my room throughout filming,” he says. “Jesus, I watched it so many times."
Evidently, David Lean’s masterpiece plays a role in the upcoming Prometheus.
From a GQ piece on Michael Fassbender.
Comic book characters becoming self-aware
loving where this book is going
Earthly Circuits - Isle Cycle
Album of the Year, Every Year
Check out Criterion’s first video between Robert Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson, discussing Babo 73.
New Cannes poster for Lawrence of Arabia’s 50th Anniversary
Coming soon to our YouTube channel… A four episode conversation between Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Downey Sr.
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