bunch'o'links

[the_grynne]

- "Call me Ishmael.": 100 best first lines according to the American Book Review.

- You can watch the American trailer and download the soundtrack for critically acclaimed Korean film Sympathy for Lady Vengence at Twitch.

- Vin Diesel with be starring in Babylon A.D., a sci-fi action thriller written and directed by Matthieu Kassovitz (Munich). (

Comments

[so_spiffed]

Did Kaufman actually call it "Brokback Mountain" or is that all you? ;)

[the_grynne]

That was him. :) I didn't even notice when I copied and pasted.

[so_spiffed]

Well. I certainly can't take anything he says seriously, now.

[the_grynne]

Hah. Now I know you never take anything I say seriously.

[the_grynne]

With you about the pretties. An issue of VF in Australia, arrived by air freight, is hideously expensive, but sometimes just too pretty too resist. Of course, there's practically nothing readable in the entire magazine. *scowls*

[fan_elune]

- I feel so geeky over every first line I know, and so ignorant over the (more numerous) first lines I don't. Thanks for the link!

- Matthieu Kassovitz directing Vin Diesel in a sci-fi action thriller? Might I hope for something as good as Pitch Black? Vin, remind me why I like you! Matthieu, don't disappoint! (Also, Babylon brings Carnivàle to mind.)

- Can't bother with DVC either. Unless I knew Paul was in that little clip, which I don't, hence... can't bother. (*shakes fist at Paul* Two movies in a year I wouldn't watch if not for him. Two!)

[the_grynne]

I've never seen anything Matthieu has directed. Is he good? I'm inclined to be optimistic about Babylon in any case. Until I'm not, that is. *g*

[the_grynne]

CHUD: "Based on the cult French novel Babylon Babies, the “extrapolationist” story takes place in a dystopian future of cyborgs and Serbian mobsters. Diesel will play a lone-wolf war veteran who gets hired to escort a schizophrenic woman (who also happens to be pregnant with a "genetically modified messiah") from Russia to Canada, only to discover there’s a lot more to her than he initially thought (as in: the end of the world). So I guess it’s sort of like a more existential version of Cyborg 2."

[fan_elune]

Hmm. Potentially catastrophic, and potentially brilliant.

I've only ever seen La Haine and Les Rivières Pourpres (...the Crimson Rivers, I think, was how it was translated?), which I both very much enjoyed, even though the Rivers... well, there was an issue with the script, really. But the directing was brill. As for La Haine, it's pretty much THE movie you want to watch about young French suburban kids. ...gods I haven't seen it in ages. Anyway. Matthieu can be very good. I can only hope he will be, again.