The Willem Dafoe Appreciation Mega Post
Because his first film appearance was in The Hunger as Second Phone Booth Youth.
The teeth and the terror, in Wild At Heart.
He was the best Jesus.
And a great conductor.
He threw a cat out of a window, once.
He went fishing with John Lurie and this happened:
In To Live and Die in L.A., he plays the best villain: a tortured, sex-addicted artist turned counterfeiter.
He was Klaus Daimler. Calm, collected, German.
Yet the real thing remains the best thing.
Vagina Dialogue
For a moment, I confused the plots from What Women Want and Dr T and the Women, and I genuinely thought that there was a film where Mel Gibson could hear women’s thoughts while conducting their PAP exam.
I do not miss the early aughts.
Stockard Channing Required
You know how they keep remaking perfectly good movies into TV series? (Fargo, Rosemary’s Baby) How about not touching those and remaking Practical Magic into a TV show because I would watch the shit out of that.
Angela Bassett to direct a Whitney Houston biopic.
The Five Greatest Films About Making Films
Why is it always the best drug & healthy food cults that go wrong?
Don’t.
If you’re thinking to yourself, oh George Clooney made a film about WWII art recoverers and it stars all my favourite actors, including Bill Murray, it must be great, well don’t.
J'ai envie de me partir un Salt ‘n Peppa cover band. On s'appellerait Poivre de Cayenne et on serait anti-police.
Fucky Motherlucker
Sunday Night in TV Land
The scene where Sally catches Don in the act on Mad Men’s season six was MY Red Wedding.
Good Night
Raise your hand if you’re more afraid going to bed in the country than in the city. Thank you, horror films.
Egyptian director Youssef Chahine on civilization. “Do you know how to love? Do you know how to care? This is civilization.”
The longest winter.
Spring roll: today’s lunch and also what I named my belly after I put on tights & a mini skirt this morning.