For SNL’s cold open last night, the New York City Chirrun’s Chorus sang “Silent Night” in memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. I know, isn’t it weird how an invisible wind storm blew all up into our eyes at the same time last night? This was the best part of SNL last night and it was even better than Samuel L. Jackson dropping some kind of f bomb and blurting out “bullshit.” And that’s saying a lot.
The fifth annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking will be handed out next month in New York City, with such inveterate documentarians as Errol Morris (Tabloid), Steve James (The Interrupters) and Kevin Macdonald (Life in a Day) facing off against the upstart likes of Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach), Tristan Patterson (Dragonslayer) and Clio Barnard (The Arbor). But look no further than the Audience Choice Award nominees for the most dynamic, high-stakes clash between old and new.
See if you can spot it in the nominees announced today, on which you can vote at the Cinema Eye Honors site:
· Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)
· The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson)
· Buck (Cindy Meehl)
· Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
· Give Up Tomorrow (Michael Collins)
· The Interrupters (Steve James)
· Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu)
· Project Nim (James Marsh)
· Senna (Asif Kapadia)
· Tabloid (Errol Morris)
Your mileage may vary, but Bieber vs. Herzog seems to me the showdown of the 2011-12 awards season. To be fair, let’s give Jon M. Chu — the swell auteur behind Never Say Never — credit as the nominated filmmaker, but let’s also be honest about the cosmically profound implications of two 3-D films featuring two icons of our day, each reflecting the state of human culture some 30,000 years apart. The earliest known cave drawings versus the slickest statement of modern…
Full Story »Every day, thousands of visitors brave the costumed impersonators of Hollywood Blvd. to ogle the foot and handprints of filmdom’s greatest celebrities, immortalized in cement in front of the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Come November 3, expect that tourist foot traffic to multiply; that’s when Twilight stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner will add their pawprints alongside those of folks like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, and Judy Garland. [Hollywood Life, @ChineseTheatres]
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Being knocked up is really taking Posh Beckham on an emotional ride to foreign places she hardly visits, like external happiness. Posh served her signature plate of bitchface with a side of half-smile at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony for Simon Fuller, the creator of American Idol and the manager of the Spice Girls, in L.A. today. Posh has a reputation as a stone cold disciple of aloofness to uphold, so I’m just going to assume her baby’s fart bubbles floated up to her mouth muscles and pushed them up a bit. It wasn’t intentional!
Or maybe she slightly broke character when she got her daily dose of protein by nibbling on the photographer’s soul through his lens. It’s so much better to nibble on souls than to nibble on food with your mouth. Mouths are for letting out a sigh when your stupid ass assistant brings you the wrong pair of beige 10″ platform stilts! They aren’t for eating!
Here’s more of the Dark Crystal refugee with her son Brooklyn, Simon Fuller, Randy Jackson, JLo and Skeletor at that shit today.
