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Video of the Day 2: Jean-Luc Godard Interviewed, 1964 11/14/2006 4:30:00 PM Lots of new movies are opening this weekend, but let’s not forget about some of the more notable retro titles out there. Film Forum will be re-releasing a new, gorgeous 35mm print of Jean-Luc Godard’s wondrous 1967 classic 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her on Friday. Here’s an interview with Monsieur Godard from his mid-60s heyday. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7519#7519

Why We Heart Diane Lane 11/14/2006 2:30:00 PM ”Diane Lane is very good at sex. I don't mean the sex that most of us have in private, but the kind that actors portray for the benefit of us movie-goers…” That’s the beginning of Tim Geary’s profile/appreciation of Diane Lane in Britain’s Daily Telegraph, so you’d think it would be all about how great Diane Lane lovemaking scenes tend to be in movies. You’d think. But you’d be wrong. (However, let me note for the record that that article needs to be written by somebody, someday.) Geary’s piece, on the other hand, turns out to be an intimate, incisive look at the actress’s career, complete with a fascinating interview in which she recalls that earlier in her life, she was something of a “prude”: ”I barely experienced a quarter of what seems to have been de rigueur for the kids my age. I was too busy working.” It’s enough to make us fall in love with her all over again. Read or Leave Feedback   (1) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7512#7512

The Wide and Wacky World of Bond Henchmen 11/14/2006 1:19:11 PM I should have given a shout-out to Cinematical’s ongoing weeklong tribute to all things 007 in anticipation of the release of Casino Royale, but now’s probably as good a time as any, since today they’re paying tribute to “The Very Weirdest Bond Henchmen.” The list includes Xenia Onatopp, the crazy assassin played by Famke Janssen in GoldenEye (“She's smart, she's sexy, she's got a silly accent -- and she's absolutely deadly ... provided, of course, that you happen to be located directly between her killer thighs.”) and May Day, played by none other than Grace Jones, in A View to a Kill (”a catch-all henchwoman with a variety of talents…even if acting isn't really one of 'em”). And, of course, Jaws, from Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me. Though I’m surprised Lotte Lenya’s crazy evil Rosa Klebb isn’t on this list. Maybe she wasn’t weird enough… Check it out here. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7517#7517

Video of the Day 1: The Road Warrior trailer 11/14/2006 12:15:00 PM So George Miller’s Happy Feet opens this weekend, and as big fans, we at ScreenGrab wish the Mad Max and Babe auteur well. But lest everyone forget what brung him here, here’s the awesome trailer for The Road Warrior. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7514#7514

Beyonce and Eva Get Sapphic for Sofia 11/14/2006 11:00:00 AM Well, we know neither of them likes pants... Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria are planning on playing lesbian lovers in Sofia Coppola’s version of Sarah Water’s drama about Victorian sexual repression, Tipping The Velvet,, about 1890s music hall star Kitty Butler and her lover Nan Astley. “We've had Brokeback Mountain so the time is right for this divine novel to get the same treatment,” Says Beyonce. But we’re more excited about this quote from the ubiquitous unnamed source, who notes, “They weren't at all coy about the sex scenes. In fact they both seemed to think it would be more fun than doing the same work with a man. It's going to be very hot.” Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7511#7511

Morning Deal Report: Departed, Queen As Front Runners? Cage, Chopra Do Sadhu 11/14/2006 10:00:00 AM - The LA Times reports that Babel, The Departed, and The Queen are currently the “front-runners” for the Golden Globe Awards, whatever that means. - Nicolas Cage is planning on starring in the comic book adaptation of The Sadhu, in which he will play “James Jenson, a soldier who travels to India during colonial times and becomes a spiritual warrior.” But here’s the real news: The script will be written by none other than “Spiritual author Deepak Chopra,” who “will pen the script adaptation of the comic, created and written by Chopra's son.” Awww. - Crash producer Cathy Schulman and Number 13 director Chase Palmer will collaborate on an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s historical biography Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World, about Robert FitzRoy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, and the 30-year relationship he developed with his passenger, Charles Darwin. - David Arquette’s directorial debut The Tripper, about “a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer who attacks drugged-out hippies at a rock concert,” has been bought by After Dark Films. - Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig will rewrite and direct the comedy Smooth Operator, about “a CIA agent/debonair ladies man who must train a computer nerd with less than stellar lady skills so that the guy can seduce a female operative.” According to the article, Feig describes it as “a high-tech version of 'Cyrano…or like a 'Hitch'-meets-'Rush Hour.' We were actually thinking maybe it was like a more adult Agent Cody Banks, but never mind. - LA Weekly gets to the heart of Richard Linklater’s latest, Fast Food Nation. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7510#7510

Borat Beaten 11/13/2006 4:30:00 PM Sez the UK's Sun tabloid (take it with a grain of salt, please): "Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego. He approached the man and said: 'I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.' But the bystander didn’t see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face. "The funnyman — known for his Borat catchphrase 'Jagshemash!' — yelled for help but was slugged again and again. He was rescued by actor pal Hugh Laurie who had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen." Well, at least now he can nurse his wounds with a warm money compress. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7500#7500

Video of the Day 2: Jack Palance Gets Pissed 11/13/2006 3:30:00 PM Jack Palance, who died Friday at the ripe old age of 87, might not have been the most accomplished of thespians, but he was amazing in the right parts, and he was one of Hollywood’s great characters. I toyed with the idea of linking to a video of one of his great scenes from Godard’s Contempt, or of his unbelievable turn in Sergio Corbucci’s insane Spaghetti Western, Vamos A Matar, Companeros! -- in which he plays a pot-smoking, wooden-handed heavy whose only friend is a man-eating falcon. But in the end I settled for this – an animation created out of Palance’s real-life audio beatdown of a hapless unnamed reporter. With anyone else, it’d probably be considered disrespectful to link to this. With Jack Palance, on the other hand… Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7481#7481

Redford Talks Nixon 11/13/2006 2:30:00 PM "I had a great suspicion about Nixon…I was told by some press members there was something more to the robbery. There was a lot of cynicism about that Nixon was going to win in a landslide. I followed the paper that summer — I was following it with a steely eye…My initial idea was a little black-and-white movie that would have two unknowns that was simply a film about what these guys did the summer of 1972, not having any clue where the whole thing was going to go." - Robert Redford recalls the circumstances leading up to the production of All the President’s Men. Read or Leave Feedback   (0) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7480#7480

When Mere Armageddon Just Isn’t Enough: More Post-Apocalyptic Films 11/13/2006 1:30:00 PM - Action movie mogul Joel Silver has optioned the upcoming book and video game series Empire, from Chair Entertainment Group and sci-fi author Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game). It will be “an action film revolving around a scenario in the near future where the country has plunged into civil war after the White House is bombed and the president is assassinated. As fighting spreads through major cities, a lone operative being framed for the attacks is driven to find the truth the clear his name.” Sort of a North by Northwest meets Death of a President kinda thing. (For an interview with Card about Empire, go here.) - Dreamers and Casino Royale hottie Eva Green will star in the adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel In the Country of Last Things, “about a postapocalyptic quest set against a backdrop of urban deprivation…The masses are homeless, theft is so rampant it is no longer a crime, and death — by arranging either suicide or assassination — is the only way out. Buildings collapse daily, driving huge numbers of citizens into the streets, where they starve or die of exposure — if they aren’t murdered by other vagrants first.” - Ben Affleck’s next directorial project is now rumored to be a remake of Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut Play Misty for Me, possibly to be produced by Clint himself. Oh wait. That’s merely apocalyptic. Read or Leave Feedback   (1) Permalink : http://www.nerve.com/nerveblog/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e7478#7478

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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.

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Michael Martin

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