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The Shining Cuckoo Clock | Dangerous Minds
Amusing clock by artist Chris Dimino:Every hour Jack breaks through the door and the and the famous line ‘Here’s Johnny’ plays followed by the scream of Shelly Duvall.
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Carey Mulligan wants to work with Quentin Tarantino next
Carey Mulligan (the dress was Prada by the way) at the 2010 Oscars ceremony where she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
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Carey Mulligan is Britain's great Oscar hope | The Guardian
Actor nominated for breakthrough role in An Education has already won fistful of awards including a Bafta
Amelia Hill
guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 March 2010 22.13 GMT
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Mulligan has been described as Hollywood's 'new darling'. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
For all those who consider that James Cameron's blue avatars will be the stars of this year's ceremony, more style-savvy observers say the film industry's big night will have only one fairytale princess: Britain's great hope for a best actress Oscar, Carey Mulligan. The 24-year-old, nominated for her breakthrough role in An Education, has already won a fistful of awards, including a Bafta, for her performances, and gained a nickname, Dame Carey, thanks to a manner and tone of voice reminiscent of a young Judi Dench.
- An Education
- Production year: 2009
- Country: UK
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 100 mins
- Directors: Lone Scherfig
- Cast: Alfred Molina, Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosamund Pike
But the actor has also turned heads on the red carpets with her chic pixie cut and quirkyfashion choices. From a ruched red strapless Lanvin at the Screen Actors Guild awards, to inky blue Nina Ricci with a rhinestone headband at the Golden Globes, to the highly patterened Vionnet gown at last week's Baftas, she fits in a tradition of understated high style that started with Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, continued with Kate Winslet's smoking hot Ben De Lisi dress in 2002 and, last year, was exemplified by the glittering former winner Marion Cotillard and her sweeping Gaultier gown.
"Carey is the new darling of Hollywood," says Melanie Bromley, Us Weekly's West Coast bureau chief. "Every designer loves her. She is the girl they all want to dress because she's not afraid to take a risk."
She also knows her own mind. Advised by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour to wear a short gown to tomorrow's ceremony, Mulligan replied: "I was like, 'No, that is so not what I had in my head when I was six years old!'"
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David Lynch's collaboration with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse to get an official release
Danger Mouse's Dark Night of the Soul to see the light of day
The maverick producer's collaboration with Sparklehorse and David Lynch is to be re-released. And this time, the CDs won't be blank ...
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 March 2010 14.51 GMT
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Dark stars ... David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous
Danger Mouse's 2009 album with Sparklehorse, Dark Night of the Soul, is to see an official re-release this summer. And this time, the CDs won't be blank.
Dark Night of the Soul, first issued last summer, was a deluxe package featuring art by David Lynch and musical cameos by Iggy Pop, Black Francis, the Flaming Lips, Julian Casablancas and even the late songwriter Vic Chesnutt. But despite the project's mysterious marketing campaign and its esteemed dramatis personae, something was seriously amiss. Although the music leaked quietly to filesharing networks, physical CDs came with the notice: "For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will."
Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, never explained the legal hurdles facing the album. "[I hope] that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as [I am]," he wrote on the project's (now defunct) website. The only thing he would say was that there were contract issues with EMI.
Speaking to BBC 6 Music this week, Danger Mouse revealed that those troubles are behind him. "The problems of last year are last year, so hopefully [Dark Night of the Soul] will be out in June," he said. His label confirmed this, saying that they are delighted to be working with Danger Mouse again and that a release will follow.
Since The Grey Album, his breakthrough mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z, Danger Mouse has been prolific, launching Gnarls Barkley and Dangerdoom, joining Gorillaz, and working with acts like Beck and the Black Keys. Recently, he has teamed up with the Shins' James Mercer on a project called Broken Bells. "It's really enjoyable music to make," Danger Mouse said. "As long as I can keep doing it, I will. I'm not really interested in too much else right now."
Broken Bells' debut will be released on 9 March.
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Burroughs films, P-Orridge and Thee Majesty in Chicago tonight
Short notice I know, but I only just found out about this event...
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Sam Elliot: Catholics ‘forced film chiefs to scrap Dark Materials trilogy’ | Technoccult
Actor Sam Elliott has accused the Catholic Church of pressurising Hollywood producers to scrap a classic fantasy trilogy.Studio bosses have shelved plans to film the final two instalments of His Dark Materials, despite the success of the first movie, The Golden Compass, two years ago. [...]
Asked what happened to the series, Elliot said: “The Catholic Church happened to The Golden Compass, as far as I’m concerned. It did ‘incredible’ at the box office, taking $380million. Incredible. It took $85million in the States. [...]
A spokesman for New Line Cinema declined to comment.
This London: Catholics ‘forced film chiefs to scrap Dark Materials trilogy’
(Thanks Cat Vincent)
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The 1933 Alice in Wonderland film endorsed by the real Alice
Alice in Wonderland movie from 1933 with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, WC Fields, which Alice herself endorsed
Steve Silberman sez, "Holy Terry Gilliam prototype: The original, trippy 1933 film version of Alice in Wonderland by Norman 'Monkey Business' McLeod, starring Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, and W.C. Fields, now on DVD with a rave from Alice: 'A revolution in cinema history!'"
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But only one can boast the endorsement of the original Alice: the 1933 Paramount "Alice in Wonderland," being released to DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment ($19.98, not rated), the current rights holder. In a Jan. 7, 1934, article in The New York Times, Alice Liddell, quoted under her married name, Mrs. Reginald Hargreaves, expressed admiration for the film that Hollywood had wrought from the story Carroll had invented for her some seven decades before."I am delighted with the film and am now convinced that only through the medium of the talking picture art could this delicious fantasy be faithfully interpreted," she declared, her words possibly burnished by a Paramount publicist. " 'Alice' is a picture which represents a revolution in cinema history!"
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