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    KarinaKarina Todd Solondz Casts Pee Wee, Oma ...
    by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog
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    "It’s been almost a year since we heard word on Todd Solondz’s long awaited follow-up to Palindromes. The last we heard, the project was still called Life During Wartime, and it was pitched as a sort-of sequel to Solondz’s two most popular films. Paul “Pee Wee” Ruebens confirmed at the time that the script involved “characters from Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness whose paths converge. It’s all different people playing the same roles [from] those movies.” With little else to go on, we tried to guess which Solondzverse character would be assigned to Ruebens, and concluded: “Given Reubens’ personal history, the Dylan Baker character is probably the most obvious, but I think the Jon Lovitz character might be more interesting.” There’s finally new news about the project today, and it looks like we guessed right! On indieWIRE and on his [More]
    SpoutBlogSpoutBlog Todd Solondz Casts Pee Wee, Oma ...
    by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com
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    "It’s been almost a year since we heard word on Todd Solondz’s long awaited follow-up to Palindromes. The last we heard, the project was still called Life During Wartime, and it was pitched as a sort-of sequel to Solondz’s two most popular films. Paul “Pee Wee” Ruebens confirmed at the time that the script involved “characters from Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness whose paths converge. It’s all different people playing the same roles [from] those movies.” With little else to go on, we tried to guess which Solondzverse character would be assigned to Ruebens, and concluded: “Given Reubens’ personal history, the Dylan Baker character is probably the most obvious, but I think the Jon Lovitz character might be more interesting.” There’s finally new news about the project today, and it looks like we guessed right! On indieWIRE and on his [More]
    joem18bjoem18b The Year My Parents Went On Vac ...
    by joem18b in joem18b Blog
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    "O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)***** SPOILERS *****The Year My Parents Went On Vaction tells the story of a pre-teen boy in São Paulo, Brazil, separated from his parents during a military coup in 1970. As the army takes over, the country is distracted in part by Brazil's successes in the World Cup of that year (sort of like following the pennant race or NFL football in the U.S. as the country's financial system implodes). The movie is pleasant, never dull, well shot, with a delicate score that adds to the feelings of sadness and loss inherent in the plot (the director threw out the first score written for the movie; Beto Villares then did it over and got it right).TYMPWOV begins with a mother and father taking their son to grandfather's house in São Paulo. The three are riding in a VW bug, '65 or earlier. A Brazilian friend suggests that for verisimilitude, they should have been in a Renault or Citroen, because the bug was the inexpensive ... " [More]
    SpoutBlogSpoutBlog 10 Best Masturbation Scenes
    by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com
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    "Andrew Sarris may be one of the most influential American film critics, but here’s a claim, located within his recent review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss, that may not hold up to some of his better-remembered theories: “Even when we confront 40-year-old virgins of either gender, movies refuse to show them compensating for the lack of a sexual partner. There is lasting shame involved in this spectacle.” Not to ever, ever profess superiority over Sarris, but I’ve nonetheless compiled today’s list as a way of proving the man wrong. There are actually tons and tons of masturbation scenes found in non-porn movies, from the low brow to the high brow, from as indirect as the boy wizard playing with his wand under the covers in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to as direct as the non-simulated masturbation in Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs and John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (which would probably feature my #1 pick, from the sound of it, if I ev " [More]
    RisseladaRisselada movie year countdown #12 - 1995 ...
    by Risselada in Risselada Blog
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    "This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entryWelcome to the DollhouseThis is the second movie year countdown movie in a row that was suggested to me by Andy. However I already had my eye on this movie since I had thoroughly enjoyed Todd Solondz's Happiness. However my eye was on one of his other movies before this one. Something about the fact that the main character was an adolescent girl made me think i just wouldn't connect. I was way wrong.I watched this one with Adam who said something like, "this movie is like Napoleon Dynamite if it were more realistic and more funny." He might have also said something about and if it were a lot more sad and painful to watch too, but that might have been implied. Of course Welcome to the Dollhouse came out almost ten years before Napoleon Dynamite too.I find this m " [More]
    quintquint Moroccan Pretty Woman
    by quint in An inordinate number of peppers
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    "Here's my confession. I'm a sucker for all things Moroccan. I came to love Morocco via the stories of Paul Bowles. I once spilled a cup of coffee on the Paul Bowles shelf in a bookstore and got them all cheap, cheap. I love Paul Bowles. Herzog should do a Paul Bowles story. I love Moroccan music, especially the music of the Gnawa. I saw Hassan Hakmoun, one of it's finest touring practitioners (in my opinion) tear it up with some jazz musicians in Detroit last weekend. It was frikkin awesome. I'm not so much a fan of Burroughs' Morocco. I like stories about Aicha Kandisha, the succubus who lures unwary men to their demise in her bed. The men who become enslaved to her and work her will. It is very interesting to me to suppose a culture steeped in magic. I think the Morocco I dream of is perhaps still there. It is beneath everything the West can scrubbed off that scrap of desert. I wanted to see this right off and I'm glad I did. Although, i have to say, it ... " [More]
 
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