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Video of the Day 3: Crispin Glover on David Letterman, 1987 and 1990 10/27/2006 4:00:00 PM Because Nerve has a great interview with the wonderfully strange Crispin Glover up today, we figured it was time to refresh some memories. This might just be the most legendary late-night interview of all time, when a zonked-out Glover came on Late Night with David Letterman in 1987 and proceeded to go into full meltdown. Though Letterman was most definitely not amused at the time, he, somewhat amazingly, invited Glover back, years later, leading to this much more subdued, yet still totally bizarre, appearance. (Apologies for the bad sound in the second clip.) Read or Leave Feedback   (2) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7180#7180

Superman Sequel A Go 10/27/2006 3:00:00 PM Some time ago, it was reported that WB had set a magic number of $200 million for Superman Returns -- that was the amount of domestic box-office the film had to take in before Warner would officially sign off on a sequel. Now that it has, movie news site IESB.net is reporting that plans for a Supes sequel have been finalized, that the new film will cost "around $140-175 million plus marketing," and that it will feature "more action, tons more action." No word yet on whether it will feature any more easily-marketable gay and/or Christian overtones, although it's entirely possible that Advocate cover story was what put them over the top financially. (Hat tip: Cinematical.) Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7185#7185

Video of the Day 2: Vincent Gallo discusses politics 10/27/2006 2:10:00 PM Taken from an AMC show called “Republicans in Hollywood,” here’s Vincent Gallo talking about why he’s a Republican, and how much he hates those “new, cocky, self-centered, alcohol-addicted, womanizing, flashy, hippie, counter-culture Jets.” Oh, and he wishes he looked more like George Will. Read or Leave Feedback   (1) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7170#7170

Why We Love Contrarians: Hating The Departed, Turning on Kubrick, and the Evils of Plot 10/27/2006 1:00:00 PM “I hate to face the fact, but, after an enormously fulfilling relationship of nearly 30 years, it may be all over for me and Martin Scorsese…[The Departed] seems like another notch on the steadily descending arc of quality and inspiration described by each of his movies since Casino - the last time he managed to take my breath away…The Departed very neatly sums up all his current problems as a director.” - John Patterson in The Guardian “Narrative has been a big poison of cinema. The narrative is not a good thing just to be attached to.” - Babel director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu talks to the AP. (Hat tip: Jeff Wells.) “It occurred to me the other day that I might fucking hate Stanley Kubrick. I've spent 20 years thinking I love him, but now it feels as if his movies are like some cancerous, mean-spirited construction on mankind.” - Behind Enemy Lines (!) director John Moore to The Daily Telegraph. (Hat tip: Ray Pride) “The only thing to emerge from The Prestige with any, er, prestige is The Illusionist” - David Edelstein in New York Magazine. Read or Leave Feedback   (1) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7168#7168

Samuel L. Jackson: Cast Against Type? 10/27/2006 12:05:00 PM Samuel L. Jackson will star in The Cleaner, about “an extremely hygienic man who uses this urge in his professional life as a crime scene cleaner.” Presumably the film will not feature the lines, “Well I'm a mushroom-cloud-layin' motherfucker, motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain I'm Superfly TNT, I'm the Guns of the Navarone. In fact, what the fuck am I doin' in the back? You're the motherfucker should be on brain detail. We're fuckin' switchin' right now!” Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7174#7174

Video of the Day 1: Worst Audition Video Ever 10/27/2006 11:00:00 AM Hats off to Defamer for unearthing this unbelievable 1984 audition video for Full Metal Jacket. Please, please let this thing be for real. We no longer want to imagine a world in which this did not actually happen. Read or Leave Feedback   (1) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7169#7169

Morning Deal Report: Harvey Sticks Up For His "Chicks," Brad Pitt Gives Self a Wedgie, Borat Bid Up 10/27/2006 10:00:00 AM - The Weinstein Co. is pissed that NBC and CW are refusing to run ads for Shut Up and Sing, their new, politically-inflected Dixie Chicks movie, because the ads are critical of President Bush. Ironically, NBC is one of the networks that is running ads for Death of a President. Maybe they think it’s about a mercy killing? - Brad Pitt liked giving himself wedgies on the set of Babel, “sticking out his rear and waddling about like a duck.” He would have done it on Troy, too, if they hadn’t made him wear that damn skirt-thingie. - Sacha Baron Cohen’s next film, about Bruno, yet another of his alter-egos, has sparked a bidding war for the rights. Too bad Bruno was actually the one lame thing on Da Ali G Show. Somebody may have just taken a bath. - The LA Times says Halloween costumes and accessories are now becoming big business for Hollywood studios. Hell, I saw a Pirates of the Caribbean-branded costume the other day for cats. - Rogue Pictures and J.T. Petty are remaking Faces of Death, the fake 1970s documentary claiming to show real-life deaths of humans and animals, which became a cult hit and inspired a whole bunch of sequels, imitators, and black, nihilistic t-shirts. But…”the remake would not be a documentary or a faux-documentary but rather a straightforward feature.” So basically, they’re only keeping the title. - DreamWorks has bought the rights to Hampton Sides’s Blood and Thunder, “an epic-sized story of the 19th century campaign to settle the West and the slaughter of the American Indian tribes that got in the way.” Maybe they can call it Faces of Death? - Will Ferrell is going to star in the basketball comedy Semi-Pro, set during the last days of the American Basketball Association (ABA). It “follows Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the fictional Flint Michigan Tropics. Moon must lead his team on a desperate attempt to make it to the big leagues.” Wackiness ensues. - The Farrelly Brothers are set to direct Allan Loeb’s romantic comedy Baster, based on a short story by Jeffrey Eugenides and “described as a character-driven romantic comedy for the in vitro age.” This could be very, very funny. Or very, very gross. Or both, I guess. - “Indisputably, there has never before been a telling of Jesus' life in which the itinerant preacher has claimed he was born in a manger because discriminatory lodging laws in Bethlehem denied his mother a bed at an inn. And nowhere else has Nicodemus asked his fellow Pharisees, 'Can we believe that this dark-skinned Nazarene is really Him?' But once the revisionist frisson of a black Jesus, not to mention Mary, Joseph and Judas, has worn off, one is stuck with more mundane matters such as story dynamics, visual style and character verisimilitude, much to the misfortune of the audience…” - Variety no like that black Jesus movie Color of the Cross. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7173#7173

Budd Schulberg Remembers Bobby Kennedy 10/26/2006 4:45:00 PM "Sirhan Sirhan [the man convicted of the assassination] ran straight down toward us. For a moment I held him in my arms. His gun was so tiny it looked like a toy but he kept firing it and several people screamed. Sirhan was very small but he felt like a coiled spring and I couldn’t hold him. The other writers tried grabbing him too, but he spun away." - Legendary screenwriter (and novelist) Budd Schulberg, who was there the night RFK was assassinated, remembers the man and the event for The Times of London, on the eve of Bobby's premiere at the London Film Festival. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7160#7160

An Idea Long Overdue 10/26/2006 3:30:00 PM Tomorrow will mark the launch of FantasyMoguls.com, a new entertainment site that promises to give the fantasy sports treatment for movies: Instead of managing a fantasy team, you get to run a Fantasy Movie "Studio" -- drafting movies to add to your slate and then competing in leagues against other players. In some senses, it's a bit like the Hollywood Stock Exchange, I guess. But better. Certainly more competitive. HSX is a bit too pretend-serious -- a game of financial make-believe. I've never been able to get into it because all it does is remind me of all the money someone else is making, somewhere else. On FantasyMoguls.com, the emphasis seems to be on having competitive fun, and the idea of facing off against friends in leagues is a lot more appealing than just reading some kind of imaginary stock portfolio. Also, they vow to have lots of original news and feature content as well. Which sounds very promising. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7158#7158

Video of the Day 2: Chad Vader – Episode 4 10/26/2006 2:14:00 PM A lifetime ago, we featured the first episode of “Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager,” about Darth Vader’s less charismatic, less accomplished brother’s experiences working at Empire Supermarket. The show's been enjoying a pretty great run, and after some delays, Episode 4 recently appeared. Hilarious. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7154#7154

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THIS WEEK'S FILM REVIEWS:

The Darjeeling Limited

Lust, Caution

Feast of Love

LATEST FEATURES:

Sex and Sensibility, by Sarah Hepola

Q&A: Michael Apted

EDITOR:

Peter Smith is the associate editor of Nerve. He's like the lead character of Irwin Shaw's The 80-Yard Run, except less athletic.

THE BLOGGERS:

Kent M. Beeson is a freelance writer living in Seattle with his lovely wife, newborn daughter and cranky cat. He writes the film blog This Can't End Well, as well as co-writing, with Martin McClellan, Spitball!, the world's first screenplay written entirely by blog. He maintains that Jaws is the best movie ever made.

Pazit Cahlon is a Toronto-based writer. Formerly at home in children's TV production, she is now blogging and writing fiction. She is fond of classics and documentaries, and ocasionally, really awful “feel-good” fare. She is also quite enamoured with the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Paul Clark is an aspiring screenwriter and the proprietor of the film-centric blog Silly Hats Only. Paul's cinematic obsession began in high school over a decade ago, and he is always searching for unique cinematic experiences, such as a recent trip to New York City for the U.S. premiere of Jacques Rivette's magnum opus OUT 1. He considers his first viewing of Luis Bunuelâ's BELLE DE JOUR to be better than any sex he's had, although he's always on the lookout for a woman who is willing to challenge this. Paul lives in Columbus, Ohio with his two temperamental guinea pigs.

Bilge Ebiri reviews films for New York magazine, and has written for Time Out New York, Entertainment Weekly, and Popular Science, among others. He lives in Brooklyn and is also the writer and director of the ultra-low-budget indie feature comedy, New Guy. In case you're wondering, his name is pronounced "Bill-guh," and no, his parents weren't into boating.

D. K. Holm lives in Portland, Oregon, contributes to Green Cine Daily and Quick Stop Entertainment, and has published books on Quentin Tarantino, R. Crumb, and Film Soleil.

Phil Nugent lives in New York and is the movie columnist for the world music magazine Global Rhythm. He also contributes regularly to the e-zine The High Hat and maintains the blog The Phil Nugent Experience.

Leonard Pierce is a freelance writer, editor, and publishing industry factotum currently wandering around Texas with no sense of direction. He has written for trade and consumer publications hither and yon, and is a senior editor of the High Hat as well as the sole content provider of the Ludic Log, a mass grave for short humor, and Clown Central Station, a frivolous political blog.

Many people have told Faisal A. Qureshi that his name is a problem. Unfortunately, its those people who have money for the films he'd like to make. A screenwriter, editor and director, he is currently scraping together enough money to do another film, either a feature or a short. When not taking successful legal action against regional screen agencies, Faisal is based in the North of England, scribbling and cutting away or lecturing on filmmaking.

Scott Renshaw is the Arts and Entertainment Editor and film critic for Salt Lake City Weekly. He has contributed reviews, essays and Sundance Film Festival coverage for alternative newsweeklies in several states, and was a founding member of the Online Film Critics Society back in the day when the Web was just for nerds with too much time on their hands (as opposed to today). He currently lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his wife, two kids, a dog and not the slightest interest whatsoever in making a film himself.

When Vadim Rizov isn't wrapping up a Film/English undergrad degree at NYU, he can be found writing for The Reeler and his own, sporadically updated website, Vadim Rizov: Still Not Dead. Vadim has neither impressive credits nor pithy one-liners to insert here. However, his alter-ego Vlad the Impaler wants you to admit that Citizen Kane is overrated and you know it.

Vern is a lone wolf writer from Seattle specializing in the films of badass cinema. He has been stockpiling reviews at his own web site since he got out in 1999, but is better known for contributing to Ain't It Cool News, where he was once challenged to a wrestling match by the subject of a negative review. He is currently finishing his first book of all new material, Seagalogy, an academic analysis of the films of Steven Seagal. Also, he likes Die Hard.

Bryan Whitefield lives on New York City's Lower East Side. Bryan studied film with Stan Brakhage and Suranjan Ganguly where he was introduced to Cassavettes, Kieslowski, Italian Neo-Realism and the smug self-satisfaction of being a film snob. Bryan is also a working screenwriter with one finished script, another in development and a bunch of really good ideas he hasn't written down yet.

Gwynne Watkins is a consulting editor of Nerve and editor of the urban parenting website Babble. She's also a playwright and lyricist. Her most recently produced plays were about Wonderwoman and space pirates, respectively.

Editorial Director:
Michael Martin

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