I utterly love Werner Herzog. There's really just no two ways around it. I'm also pretty certain that this is the first book I ever read the whole text of out loud to my mother, which she claims happened when I was 2. via coilhouse magazine

It's Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Fourth: The Hitchcock Blonde. Continue reading

This project was interrupted by the tragic death of Lee Alexander McQueen. He's one of the most important fashion figures in my lifetime. He was BFF to my most perfect muse & inspiration, Isabella Blow. She discovered* him at fashion college, bought his entire senior thesis. Her eye and aesthetic brought many of the great designers of the last few decades to prominence; she described herself as the fashion industry's… Continue reading

It's Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling.com, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Number 2: Laura Hunt. Continue reading

Are there any words that remind you so strongly of a particular context that you just simply can't bring yourself to use them seriously? Continue reading

created by Ub Iwerks; directed by Walt Disney Continue reading

Baking the Star Wars Cake

This labor of love is also a result of my love for smittenkitchen.com. The cake is Deb's Best Birthday Cake. It is filled with her Mango Curd and frosted with her Swiss Buttercream, the instructions for which include the directive, "Patience, young Jedis." As per her brilliant layer cake tips, I made the mango curd and… Continue reading

This animated piece is really gorgeous, a little Moulin Rouge-y, a little Doctor Seuss-y, a little bad slam-poetry-y, but you should all know by now that I could all sit around staring at purty images and listening to just about anything come out of Nick Cave's mouth and be delighted. Continue reading

I have been waiting years for this movie. Because I'm a Gilliam-obsessive, and because Tom Waits plays the Devil. Heath Ledger died in the middle of filming it, but because it takes place across multiple dimensions or otherworldly realms—and because his character wears a mask each time he travels between them—Gilliam was able to cast a different actor in the role of Tony in each world. And he managed… Continue reading

"I respect criticism, but I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me." _QT "But critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.“ _SK… Continue reading

I'm pretty sure I'll never like (or have any desire to watch) any movie branded with the handwritten building-block font. By which I mean: Juno, Nick & Norah, Away We Go, etc. In terms of dull ubiquity, it's the (wannabe)indie-(wannabe)cool version of Papyrus. It's the typographical equivalent of the MPDG. Continue reading

This looks like it's going to be a great summer for sci-fi. Or maybe it's just that I read io9.com waaaay more than, like, Entertainment Weekly. Continue reading

Because he's totally not Vader; he's Old Man Potter grumpface, all that whippersnapper Bailey's Savings and Loan is nothing but a miserable little socialist scam! Continue reading

I just found out that my boyfriend's sister's wedding, which we attended together last June, won Special Events Magazine's Best Event of the Year, and netted the event planner a Gala Award. Continue reading

Ohhhh...pretty! (Some favorites from the much-larger "I Can Read Movies" series by spacesick.) Continue reading

So, here's where we've been and here's what's left. Happy red-carpet watching! Continue reading

The last time I took on the Oscars, I defined art direction as the extent to which the world of the film engulfs the viewer and becomes an essential character in the filmic narrative. Conversely, I'd say cinematography is about capturing that, about how "pretty" the movie is: the representation of the thing versus the thing itself. Continue reading

So, last Friday my friend Emmet came over to watch the premiere of Dollhouse. And can I just say—SOOOO GOOD!! God, I forgot how fantastic it is to have fresh Joss on television. There are just some things that every season of Buffy on DVD can't fulfill. I mean, I grew up with Buffy: she was a year ahead of me in high school. Continue reading

(the third in a series—see intro post for details)I'm bored and left cold by this entire roundup. If Kate Winslet had been nominated for Revolutionary Road, we could all congratulate her and be done with it. And I'm on the record as disliking Kate Winslet.First up, though, is Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married. She's the only one of those Disney-minted girls that actually… Continue reading

Maybe I should subtitle this: "The Canonization of Heath Ledger." It's not quite fair. If he were alive, I think he'd still be nominated. I think he'd still probably win. He gave one of the most objectively mind-blowing, history-of-cinema-altering, entirely revelatory performances ever delivered, and did so in a big-budget popcorn summer blockbuster action movie. Continue reading