Steady Diet of Film

Link round up:

+Montgomery Clift Blog-a-Thon...?  Brilliant. [Film Experience]
+Shakira will perform at the CineVegas film festival! [CVFF]
+31 Days of Horror! [NotComing]
+Hollywood says no to gays, television: yes! [EntertainmentWeekly]

Link round up:

+Simpsons film references, a round up. [JoeyDeVilla]
+Southland Tales trailer finally available.  And "wtf" is redefined. [Yahoo]
+Oscar rules for documentary category changes, again. [Spout]
+Filipino-American community mobilizing against Disney after disparaging comments on the Desperate Housewives premiere. [SFist]
+Roundtable of Hollywood lady execs. [Salon]

Link round up:

+Belle du Jour is now a television series in the UK! [Guardian]
+New Orleans Film Festival returns after its post-Katrina hiatus. [Time-Picayune]
+Richard Kelly's once doomed Southland Tales makes a smash at secret screening. [Twitch]
+Could Dragon Wars be the olive branch that could save us all from nuclear war? [AFP]
+Ken Burns WW2 doc is really freaking long. [DetroitFP]
+MTV-produced doc on human trafficking and slavery premieres in China... ironically? [SO San Diego]
+Good Luck Chuck is so bad it offends even barely cognizant Dane Cook fans. [WND]
+Wes Anderson makes a student film. [LATimes]

Link round up:

+Charlotte Rampling and I agree, Under the Sand is the best! [EntertainmentWeekly]
+Charlotte Gainsbourg, we love you!  Get well soon.  [Yahoo]
+Ousmane Sembene, we still miss him. [Phoenix]
+Babel star Rinko Kikuchi passed away this week. [SFGate]
+Adam Kempenaar departs Filmspotting podcast. [FilmSpotting]
+Cruising, the Larry Craig biopic gets a new life. Also, Al Pacino does poppers! [IFCNews]

Link round up:

+New magazine for women in the film industry, Traction! [Traction]
+Bollywood gets sued over Hitch. [HollywoodToday]
+In defense of Spaghetti Westerns. [Guardian]
+Francis Ford Coppola is buying up the Brazillian countryside! [SkyNews]
+iTunes is "suffocating" NBC, no more eps of the Office for your iPod. [CNet]
+Edinburgh Festival has many lady directors, none of which are making "women's pictures". [Guardian]
+Spike Lee sits on jury of Italy-based online film festival, Babelgum. [CPG]
+Ad Age to Starbucks: Stop "Raising Awareness" and start recycling your cups! [AdAge]

Link round up:

+Disney cuts off Ebert & Roeper's thumbs! [AICN]
+"Impressionistic" Larry Flynt doc having difficulty finding distribution.  [Reuters]
+As is the one about the history of vibrators. [Gizmodo]
+HD vs. Blu Ray tears Transformers 2 apart. Or not, whatever. [CHUD/HotBlog]
+The tribulations for festival start-ups makes us wish there was a sympathy emoticon. [NYT]
+Uh oh!  Ang Lee's latest film Lust, Caution has been rated NC-17. I'm guessing based solely on the title.  Prudes!  [AwardsDaily]

Link round up:

+James Wolcott gives crappy, crappy Californication a much needed reality check. [VanityFair]
+Netflix's Red Envelope CCO honored at Woodstock FF. [PoughkeepsieJourno]
+Blockbuster buys MovieLink, brilliant and desperate? [Spout]
+Netflix's Watch Now DRM iz hacked! [SlashDot]
+Nerds pay a bunch of money for crap. [HotBlog]
+Julie Delpy to Ron Howard: Merry Dissmas! [MTVMovieBlog]
+Clive Owen will not sleep with me, "loves wife". [People]
+Some men channel mid-life crisis into mentoring young film students. [CNN]
+Ken Burns controversial WWII doc cost $13M to produce? [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Link round up:

+OHNOES! PT Anderson is a theater-talker and his wife takes calls on her cell during movies!!  [Defamer]
+ Color analysis for top-grossing films broken down by MPAA ratings.  I love nerds. [UnderConsideration]
+New Resident Evil video game, brought to you by the KKK..? [Radosh]
+Grindhouse dvd will be split into two seperate releases. Angering the 12 people who saw it in theaters. [ONTD]
+Why is Quentin Tarantino so dvd-lazy?  [NotANewsItem]
+Women's Impact 2007 report. [Variety]
+Chat with Roger Ebert! [BVEntertainment]

Link round up:

+28 Weeks Later sequel might not suck? [MTVblog]
+IFC sorta forget what I-F-C stands for. [Variety]
+BoxOfficeMojo now a paysite.  Expect bloggers to stop caring about box office numbers.
+Madonna working on a documentary about Malawi. [MadonnaDisco]
+Gloria Steinem disses action movies, Cinematical cries like a little girl. [HuffPo/AOL]
+Ramones school of film-making. [Guardian]
+"Dick in a Box" nominated for an Emmy. [Emmys]
+Website photoshops makeovers of normalcy onto skinny celebs.  [PlanetHiltron]

Link round up:

+1000 Films to see before you die, annotated by British people! [Guardian]

+Editor extraordinaire Walter Murch discusses Copernicus and the Pantheon. [BldgBlog]

+Filmbrain editor debuts dvd label with festival favorite LOL. [Benton]

+PG-13 pictures of Lindsay Lohan's new schlock thriller I Know Who Killed Me leak to interwebs.  [IGN]

+Wolf "I'm not even good looking" Blitzer nearly brought to tears during Michael Moore iview. [YouTube]

+New Danny Boyle film Sunshine fails to bring meaning to critics' lives. [DailyGC]

+Piracy is making Eli Roth suck at life. [CHUD]