I’m at work right now (holiday pay FTW!), looking forward to dinner at my boss and her partner’s house during break.

Until then, I leave you this, via Down with the Demiurge:

Yeah, turkey day! Gobble, gobble, gobble! Macys Parade! Lets all gather around the table and give thanks before shoving our faces with food ’til our stomachs explode! Yay!

In reality we…. well you–’cause I’m not–are celebrating the bloody massacre of hundreds of Native Americans at the hands of the evil Pilgrims! Yay!

Don’t believe me? Here’s my pre-teen eternal crush Wednesday Adams, as embodied by the amazing Christina Ricci (how I hated David Krumholtz for he got to kiss her in the movie!), explaining it all in harrowing details and staging a rightful revenge fantasy.

Take that Pilgrims!

Hands down my favorite scene/sequence in the movie, which is a complete American classic.

.cousin reginald catches the thanksgiving turkey painted by norman rockwell.

.thanksgiving day, nov. 28, 1986 read by william s. burroughs directed by gus van sant.

.rayman raving rabbids bunnies very useful scientific facts : bunnies can’t cook turkey spot.

.the thanksgiving visitor written and narrated by truman capote starring geraldine page and michaeal kearney.adapted for sell-a-vision by eleanor perry with capote.directed by frank perry.

.joaquin phoenix thanksgiving peta ad reminds us holidays can be murder on turkeys.

.johnny cash sings thanksgiving prayer on dr. quinn, medicine woman.

.a charlie brown thanksgiving.though it’s the great pumpkin, charlie brown is my favourite.

.that idaho-born sweat potato sarah palin.may your wretched body return to the dirt quite soon.

.thanksgiving trailer directed by eli roth.

.jibjab presents thanksgiving cranberry slaughter.

.christina ricci as wednesday addams telling it like it is.burroughs would be proud.

Aus der albernen Tourbuswette, wer wohl zuerst die Schauspielerin Christina Ricci aufgrund seiner Wortgewandtheit in die Kiste bekommt, entstand 2002 das spontane Albumprojekt Felt: A Tribute To Christina Ricci. Murs aus dem Kreis der Living Legends und Slug von Atmosphere waren die beiden Akteure, die sich dieser Herausforderung stellten – zu Gesicht bekam Christina am Ende jedoch keiner. Auf ging es also mit dem nächsten Wortgefecht um die Gunst eines Hollywood-Starlets: Felt 2 und das Tribut an Lenny Kravitz’ Ex, Lisa Bonet, war geboren. Mit einer Hommage an Rosie Perez geht die Kultserie nun in die dritte Runde. Diesmal hat sich kein Geringerer als Aesop Rock vom Definitive Jux Label den Produktionen angenommen. Nachdem mit dem Opener Protagonists besonders DJ Big Wiz durch erquickende Cuts auf sich aufmerksam macht, treibt Rock die zwei reimenden Wettstreiter anschließend mit seinem komplexen Bassmonstrum Felt Chewed Up zu ersten Höchstleistungen an. Abstrakt, verschachtelt oder einfach nur grotesk, lässt sich ein Zugang zu Aesop Rocks vielschichtigen Beats meist erst nach mehrfachen Hörgängen erschließen. Like You, bei dem Aesop die Hookline gleich selbst einrappt, schmiegt sich mit sehr eingängigem Thema hingegen direkt ins Ohr. Anders als die Vorgängeralben, die Ant und The Grouch produziert haben, trägt die Rosie Perez Widmung eine weitaus finsterere Handschrift, wie die düster komponierten Tracks Permanent Standby oder Ghost Dance Deluxe verdeutlichen. Mit brachialen Bässen sorgt Aes für mächtig viel Druck und ergänzt das bestens miteinander eingestimmte Felt-Team perfekt. Im Back-to-back sorgen Murs und Slug für ein ausgewogenes Zusammenspiel an Rapzeilen und überzeugen einmal mehr mit Wortwitz und ausgefeilten Lyrics. Neben ihrem Faible für weibliche B-Promis der amerikanischen Filmlandschaft, zollt das Independent-Rap-Duo auch Respekt an seine musikalischen Wegbereiter wie EPMD oder Run DMC. So liefern sie mit We Have You Surrounded einen postmodernen Ansatz einer Neuinterpretation des Klassikers Sucker MC’s. Murs und Slug in bestechender Form, unergründliche Beats von Aesop Rock und jede Menge Scratcheinlagen von Big Wiz machen Felt 3 zu einem innovativem Gesamtkunstwerk. Für den Fall, dass es diesmal mit Rosie wieder nicht klappen sollte, hat Slug vorsorglich einen vierten Teil von Felt angekündigt, bei dem bereits das in Hollywood-Kreisen umtriebige Callgirl Heidi Fleiss in der engeren Auswahl steht.

Andreas Margara (18. November 2009)

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What?

Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror…

Where?

My hotel room in Fuerteventura

With?

Technically with the girlfriend, but she was asleep.

Why?

It was a movie that completely passed me by on its initial release…and DVD release…and every time it was on TV. So I figure I should give it a shout, no doubt it will be filled with the typical Burton-isms but you can usually rely in Depp putting in a decent performance.

Worth It?

Well it took up 100 minutes of dead time, and I don’t remember not liking it whilst watching it. Yet, it wasn’t what I would call memorable, to the point that I finished watching it about 40 minutes ago and I’ve already forgotten a lot of it.

As usual, Depp was pretty good albeit restrained, and the rest of the cast didn’t do a bad job. Apart from Casper Van Dien, but then I can’t blame him too much considering he lacks any acting ability anyway.

The gore was good, Walken was great, and the film was fairly forgettable. Definitely a Sunday afternoon post-roast movie.

6/10

Speed Racer è un adattamento cinematografico statunitense del 2008 di un cartone giapponese del 1960 con lo stesso nome. Il film è scritto e diretto dai fratelli Wachowski.

Leggi altre notizie su: | Andy Wachowski | Larry Wachowski | Emile Hirsch | Christina Ricci | Susan Sarandon | Matthew Fox

Pénélope

Pénélope nait dans une famille aristocratique sur laquelle plane une malédiction. L’arrière-arrière-grand-père ayant fauté avec une domestique mais ayant épousé une fille de bonne famille, la mère de la jeune abandonnée, une sorcière, a jeté un sort sur la première fille qui naitrait dans cette famille. Pénélope vient doncau monde avec un nez et des oreilles de cochon. Pour briser la malédiction, il faut qu’elle soit aimer de quelqu’un de son rang. En attendant, ses parents la cache et arrivé à l’âge adulte, tentent de la marier. Mais ce n’est pas facile de trouver un mari quand on effraie les prétendants… Elle fait la rencontre de Max, envoyé là par un journaliste qui recherche le scoop, et décide de sortir de sa prison dorée et de découvrir le monde qui l’entoure.

J’ai tout d’abord voulu voir le film car j’ai trouvé que l’affiche était très belle et annonçait un univers bien particulier, féérique  (un peu comme celle du Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain) mais j’avoue que j’ai été un peu déçue. L’histoire est très sympathique mais il manque un petit quelque chose qui aurait pu faire toute la différence et faire basculer ce film dans un monde un peu plus merveilleux. Malgré tout c’est un très joli conte de fées moderne, un peu pétri de bons sentiments et un peu formaté à l’américaine avec une jolie morale à la fin. Malgré tout, c’est une jolie morale sur la tolérance, la différence et l’acceptation de soi. Un film empreint de légèreté devant lequel on passe un bon moment. Mais je pense que le sujet aurait pu être mieux exploité.

L’esthétique du film est vraiment très réussi en particulier la chambre de Pénélope, qui crée un univers fantastique, poétique et féérique, à l’image de l’héroïne. Le personnage est magnifiquement interprété par Christina Ricci, une habituée des univers fantastiques (La famille Adams, Sleepy Hollow..) qui campe une héroïne extrêmement sympathique, une jeune fille qui veut sortit du giron maternel et voler de ses propres ailes : on est séduit et on s’attache à son histoire.

Ce film séduira les petits comme les grands et mettra du bonheur et de la légèreté dans notre grisaille hivernale!

Pénélope

Année de production: 2006

Pays de production : Etats-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne

Réalisateur : Mark Palansky

Acteurs : Christina Ricci (Penelope), James McAvoy (Max) , Catherine O’Hara (Jessica Wilhern), Reese Witherspoon (Annie),
Simon Woods (Edward), Richard E.Grant (Franklin Wilhern),Peter Dinklage (Lemon)

Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 period horror film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the film stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Sir Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Richard Griffiths and Christopher Walken. The story centers on police constable Ichabod Crane sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman. The style and themes of the story take inspirations from the late Hammer Film Productions.

Sleepy Hollow had been in development since 1994 and was originally intended to be directed by Kevin Yagher. The film labored into development far enough for Burton, who had unsuccessfully worked on Superman Lives, to direct. The majority of the filming took place in England where the crew built an entire soundstage. Sleepy Hollow would be released with box office success and critical acclaim, grossing roughly $206 million worldwide and scoring a 73 percent approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Trivia:

• The scene where Ichabod Crane crosses the covered bridge and hears the frogs underneath croaking “Ichabod” and “Headless Horseman” is a tribute to Disney’s 1958 animated version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958) (featured in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)), in which Ichabod Crane, crossing a bridge, hears the frogs croaking the same words. Director Tim Burton, a former Disney animator, has cited the Disney version of the tale as his main inspiration for the look and style of his film. The scene of Ichabod Crane riding the Horseman’s horse backwards is also taken from the earlier film.
• Christopher Walken, who plays the Headless Horseman, played a schoolteacher in The Dead Zone (1983), in the beginning of which he tells his class to read “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

Johnny Depp

• The town Sleepy Hollow was created from the ground up in three months. At the time of filming, it was the largest set built in England and was put up in record time. The last set that held this record was built for Billy Elliot (2000).
• The Western Wood was built on a sound-stage so everything, the weather, light, could be controlled.
• The Windmill was too large to be constructed on a sound-stage because it was over five stories high. The sails alone weighed over 2 tons.
• The final chase sequence on the coach in the Western Wood took three weeks to film.
• The Horseman’s horse is named Daredevil, the same name of Brom Bones’ (Brom Van Brunt’s) horse in Irving’s original short story; the horse was purchased in Seville, Spain.
• Christopher Walken’s character has no speaking lines, aside from a couple of “HAA”s to his horse and “shhhh.”
• Director Trademark: [Tim Burton] [scarecrows]
• This was originally to be a Kevin Yagher directorial project. Tim Burton later took over the project, with Kevin Yagher remaining on with co-producing credits among others.

Christina Ricci

• The dress worn by Katrina Anne Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) in the last shot of the movie has the same pattern as Michael Keaton’s outfit in the climactic scene of Beetle Juice (1988) also directed by Tim Burton.
• Tim Burton and the crew of the movie built the small town Sleepy Hollow complete with rooms, floors, and stairs. The town was dismantled after filming was completed.
• Historically, Ichabod Crane was a very unattractive man. Johnny Depp wanted to add prosthetics to his face to make himself look ugly, but Tim Burton wanted to base the character on Crane’s more unattractive personality traits – his reported squeamishness and eccentricity.
• According to Tim Burton, the opening shots of Peter Van Garrett were shot by Conrad L. Hall, who was a friend of the film’s director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki.
• Star Johnny Depp adopted Goldeneye, the horse that played Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane’s horse in the film, when he heard it was going to be put down.
• While Tim Burton admired Andrew Kevin Walker’s original script, he hired the famed playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard as script doctor. Stoppard did an uncredited re-write to tone down the violence of Walker’s script.
• Ichabod Crane faints six times in the movie.
• At the start of filming the three-way axe battle with Ray Park, Johnny Depp and Casper Van Dien, Casper Van Dien broke the index finger of his left hand. Although extremely painful, he carried on without telling anyone as he didn’t want his part cut short.
• Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel were, reportedly, real people
• Winona Ryder was offered the role of Katrina Van Tassel, but turned it down.
• A mechanical horse, an updated model of one used in earlier films, was used for studio shots. The mechanical horse was originally developed for riding scenes with Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944).
• Johnny Depp did all of his own stunts for the final scene where he is dragged by the horse – he had bullet-proof clothing underneath his wardrobe.
• This film features three sith lords from the Star Wars prequels, Ray Park (Darth Maul), Christopher Lee (Count Dooku ) and Ian McDiarmid (Darth Sidious).
• During the last scene Ichabod, during his explanation to Katrina and Young Masbeth of how easy New York is to navigate, says, “The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down.” This is a line from the song “New York, New York” which is featured in the movie On the Town (1949).
• Casper Van Dien in real life is related to the Van Tassels (Christina Ricci’s character’s family; she is his love interest in the film).
• Casper Van Dien gained 30 pounds for his role of Brom.
• The production notes on the DVD reveal that Johnny Depp based his characterization on the late Roddy McDowall (Fright Night (1985)), Angela Lansbury (The Mirror Crack’d (1980)) and Basil Rathbone (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) and others).
• Liam Neeson, Brad Pitt and Daniel Day-Lewis were all considered for the role of Ichabod Crane.
• Marlon Brando was sought as The Hessian Horseman.
• Although the headless horsemen in the books and fairy tales is physically not allowed to cross the bridge, as it is known as a safe haven for the characters, in this version he can cross it freely.
• Michael Gough came out of retirement to play Notary Hardenbrook.
• Although Tim Burton claims the windmill scene was a reference to Frankenstein (1931), which he lovingly quoted in Frankenweenie (1984), a stronger link can be made to Will Hay’s Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937) which also featured a windmill but not a headless horseman.
• This was the very last movie produced on laserdisc anywhere in the world.
• During the promotional interviews for the film, Johnny Depp gave Sir Michael Gambon the ‘task’ of mentioning Claudia Schiffer’s knickers in every press interview. According to Gambon, when interviewed on BBC “Top Gear” (1978), he succeeded easily. Mind you, Gambon admitted that he lies in all interviews, so this may not be true after all!
• Johnny Depp reportedly has never seen the film because he didn’t like the way he acted in the film.
• The gown of patterned gray muslin worn by Jessica Oyelowo (Sarah) is the same costume worn by Billie Piper (Fanny Price) during the play rehearsal scene in Mansfield Park (2007) (TV), and by Thandie Newton (Sally Hemings) in Jefferson in Paris (1995). Sally’s gown is made from the fabric selected by Thomas Jefferson and Mrs. Cosway.
• The last live action film of Michael Gough.
• Johnny Depp initially wanted to play the character with a long prosthetic snipe nose, huge ears and elongated fingers, although his suggestions were turned down by Paramount Pictures as they felt the design to be too outrageous.
• The cast and crew often said “The feeling one had walking around Sleepy Hollow’s sets, and in particular the town at Lime Tree, was almost as if you were walking around the inside of [Tim] Burton’s head.”
• In the novel, the Headless Horseman was a man who lost his head from a cannon blast in an unknown battle of the American Revolutionary War.
• This is the first adaption of Sleepy Hallow that doesn’t involve the actor of the headless horseman having to conceal their head in the cloak. Rather, to fit with the technology, the head of the actor is replaced with a blue screen mask and a CGI collar to match the flow of the robe.

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If you haven’t already, you should check out this post by T. aka Ricky Raw, in which he skewers the recent “poverty porn” flick Precious. This passage struck me in particular:

I watched it in a predominately black theatre, and many of the scenes the audience was laughing or cheering at were disturbingly inappropriate, and much of that seemed deliberate based on how over-the-top the subject matter was presented.

Has anyone else noticed this trend of people laughing or cheering at movie scenes that are supposed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable? Two years ago, I saw Black Snake Moan, a film in the same exploitative vein as Precious, only focused on poor rural whites as opposed to poor blacks. During one pivotal scene in which the main character, played by Christina Ricci, physically assaults her mother with a shovel, some asshole two rows behind me was hollering hysterically through the whole thing. It was just one jerkoff, though, so I forgot about it at the time.

It happened again when I saw Watchmen, where a good third of the audience was driven to hysterics and cheering during the scene in which the Comedian attempts to rape the Silk Spectre. The film was already making me nauseous (the only movie that had ever done that to me), and watching the audience cheering on rape, violence, and brutality almost made me walk out out of sheer anger and disgust. I frankly wanted to take every single one of those faux-macho, hairy-palmed comic book geekazoids out in the backyard and beat the shit out of them, given them the beating their fathers should have given them. I managed to sit through the rest of Watchmen without starting any fights, but the dark, nihilistic gestalt of the film combined with the sick audience reaction put me in a deep depression. I spent the rest of that night in a dejected mood, drinking bourbon and watching Nostalgia Critic videos.

Has anyone else seen this phenomenon and been similarly repulsed?

I. Love. It.

Via The Fugdams Family.

The stars came out for the free food and drink at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) New 30th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles, California.

Not shockingly unique or anything, but pretty and classic. The color makes it.

Angelina Jolie in Armani Privé

She looks a little healthier than she has in recent months. The dress is okay. Her style philosophy seems to be “If I’ve got a face like this, why go overboard on the dress?”

Chloë Sevigny

Miu Miu Spring 2010 Collection
Model: Amanda Norgaard

We love the shoes but we only like the top part of the dress. It’s weird around the waist.

Christina Ricci

Prada Spring 2010 Collection [Modified version]
Model: Sharon Kavjian

The dress is gorgeous from the front, but the back of it looks like she got caught in some drapes or something.

Daisy Fuentes

Gustavo Cadile Spring 2009 Collection

High-end prom dress.

Eva Mendes in Miu Miu spring 2010

Do not like whatever that is in her hair, but we like the dress quite a bit. Oh sure, the bodice looks a bit heavy and overworked, but the overall effect is striking and different. And her eyebrows are too close together. Fire your waxer.

Gwen Stefani

Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2010 Collection
Model: Chanel Iman

RUINED IT. She should be hauled off to fashion jail with no chance for parole.

Jessica Alba in Prada Spring 2010

This induces the same reaction we always have when we see her: one big yawn.

Kate Bosworth

Proenza Schouler Spring 2010 Collection
Model: Carmen Kass

The dress is okay (kind of weirdly shapeless, though), but what is UP with that hair? No excuse.

Marisa Tomei in vintage Jean Desses

We don’t know… it’s cute and all, but she looks like she’s attending her kid’s First Holy Communion in 1960.

Shirley Manson

Marchesa Spring 2010 Collection
Model: Carolyn

We kinda like. There’s a bit too much at the bottom and the split sleeves are a bit too voluminous, but the rest of it we like.

Rachel Zoe in vintage Pucci

We like it. Striking and bold. We’re not even going to mention the state of her body because EVERYONE mentions that.

Zoe Saldana

Marchesa Fall 2009 Collection
Model: Jules Mordovets

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Stars attended the MOCA NEW 30th anniversary gala held at MOCA on November 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Everyone looked for elegant for this artistic and cultural occassion! Hit “Read More” to view the rest of the pics!

November 15, 2009

Such a great weekend.  Lisa’s party was so lovely.  Her book is beautiful, the hardback and the paperback with its French flaps.  Her poetry is lyrical and imaginative.  The chocolate room was as romantic as a weekend in Paris.  It was delicate and eggs with chocolate, truffles and cupcakes.  It was the like the inside of the kind of room you wanted to go into as a child but you weren’t allowed.  But here, you were.  Allowed.  In.  Invited.  A room you could walk into like entering a perfect egg. I loved this party.  It was amazing. 

 Today I recovered a bit and spent time with my daughter who was visiting with her girlfriend.  They were painting a room green.  We don’t have a style or a reason for anything in our house, but there was a paint sale on green and it matched the green scarf I often wear when I go by that room.  I feel pretty good about that room being green.  We maybe will put a green candle in there.  Hopefully there will be a sale on green candles.  Problem is we have two writers staying with us and that room is not ready, so one will stay in my writing room and one in the sun room.  Awkward.  On the couch.  We’ll apologize. 

 We’re thinking about prescription drug use and its overuse because we’re watching this movie Prozac Nation about these kids at Harvard.  Harvard, how does anyone get privileged enough to go there?  I don’t even know.  Great Lou Reed music and Christina Ricci and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are so beautiful and ardent. 

 It’s very hard for me to understand depression.  Elizabeth Wurtzell went to Harvard Sylvia Plath to Smith.  They were very fortunate in many ways, yet they were clinically depressed.  Being depressed doesn’t have a lot to do with how lucky you’ve been, it has to do with how you feel.  Elizabeth Wurtzell was fired for plagiarism from the Dallas Morning News and she failed the bar exam, that’s the bad thing about being famous, all this stuff is on the internet. I like that Wikipedia says that she had a history of therapy and suicide attempts.  I like how those two got wrapped up together. 

 A lot of people that I know are in therapy.  My mother-in-law told me once when I had tried therapy for a few short weeks, not to tell anyone.  Then I quit that therapy.  It was a short lived thing, but as I said I’ve only been in therapy maybe 6 weeks of my whole life, but most people I know have been in therapy for years and years.  They aren’t well even now, but they continue.  Here is the thing with long term therapy.  Like plastic surgery, if I saw someone with plastic surgery who looked 40 but was actually 70, I would think, sure, I’ll try it.  But that hasn’t happened. 

 My friends in years of therapy don’t seem any healthier than I do.  Well, that isn’t really saying much.  This is such a sad movie.  It’s a movie about a very mean person, it makes me want to read the book.  In the movie, the narrator seems completely cruel to her friends, to her mother, to her boyfriend; she is so horribly self absorbed that you cannot like anything about her, you cannot feel sorry for her.  The narrator takes Prozac, although it hasn’t been clearly determined to the audience that she is really depressed.  She just seems like  a person with no conscience; she’s just mean.  I know people like this, there’s someone at my work like that.  I assume most people have someone at their work who is mean for no reason.

 In 2005 27 million Americans were using antidepressants according to USA Today.  The idea according to the movie is that the Prozac covers up your problems so that you don’t have to deal with them.  What exactly do Americans have to be so depressed about, you might ask?  We are the richest nation on earth, and yet, we take the most anti-depressants.  I wouldn’t want to be a therapist, or a psychiatrist and decide if people should be taking drugs or not.  Some people need antidepressants.  Absolutely.  But as a nation, do 27 million of us need them?  I don’t know.  Hard to say.  This was one slow movie, like watching a caterpillar become a butterfly.  It felt like it took all summer, but in the end there really wasn’t a butterfly.  Our narrator was still mean, but she was a mean writer.  And, in my particular profession as an editor, it isn’t like I’ve never had a chance to meet one of them.  But, at least she’s honest.

 Tomorrow our event at the Geffen Playhouse.  It’s going to be great.  I look forward to seeing you there.   Marc Acito, Annie La Ganga and Lionel Rolfe reading and discussing their work in one of the most beautiful spaces in Los Angeles.

November 14, 2009: Christina Ricci and new boyfriend Curtis Buchanan leave the Sunset Towers for the after-party of the MOCA New 30th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles, California.

Video by Rick Williams

There is nothing I love more than introducing people to the Hollywood gems that they somehow missed while growing up. Today, it was Heathers (1989). As I basked in the artistic genius of Winona Ryder I realized that her once over exposed face has been missing from tabloids and from mainstream movies for years.

Sure, this could be because studios are still cautious about hiring a shoplifter to promote their work, but bitch please that was way back in 2001. The world was a different place and she was still young and impressionable. It’s hard to pay for things when you are used to getting them for free.

Winona has been in the public eye since her early teens in the late ‘80s with movies like Lucas (1986) and Edward Scissorhands (1990); typically playing angsty teens, wannabe nuns, and sexually deviant liars. For the best of Winona I suggest you witness her genius in Mermaids (1990) with Christina Ricci and the great Cher. In Mermaids, Ryder wants to be a nun in order to depress her mother, unfortunately she is Jewish and fighting a colossal infatuation for Michael Schoeffling, better known to girls as Jake Ryan of Sixteen Candles(1984).

Currently Ryder is planning a comeback. She is scheduled to star in Black Swan (2009) currently in pre-production. Lord knows A Scanner Darkly (2006) did nothing but bury her career even deeper into its grave.

Winona, I miss the way you read your diary entries out loud, how you constantly critique “the Man” and your use of the five finger discount.

Winona Ryder, I miss your face- Shassie

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A young woman caught between life and death… and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her alive

Una nueva comedia romántica que nos ofrece
IFC Films, The Weinstein Company, Stone Village Pictures

Con Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Reese Witherspoon, Catherine O’Hara

Cartelera

A causa de una maldición familiar, la heredera de una aristocrática familia nació con una nariz de cerdo, y la única solución para romper dicha maldición era que Penelope encontrara a alguien de su misma condición social que sea su verdadero amor. Los padres de Penelope se dedican entonces a buscarle marido. Regularmente se presentan numerosos candidatos atraídos por la cuantiosa dote de Penelope, pero que terminan huyendo luego de ver su rostro animal. Hasta que llega un joven que no sale corriendo, sin embargo, Max no es lo que pretender ser: ha sido pagado por un periodista y un ex-pretendiente para sacarle una foto para publicarla en un periódico. Y cuando Max y Penelope se conocen, sus vidas cambian para siempre, aunque no de la forma esperada…

Un film del 2009, regia di Adam Davidson, con Christina Ricci / Anjelica Huston / Justin Bartha. Prodotto da ()

Drammatico

Una famiglia disfunzionale viene sconvolta dall’arrivo della fidanzata di uno dei figli che si trasferisce in casa e pian piano spinge i suoi nuovi coinquilini a tornare a vivere.

PENELOPE

“What make us different make us beautifl”

Por generaciones la familia Wilhern ha cargado con una terrible maldicion y ahora con el nacimiento de la primogenita de Franklikn y Jessica se hara hasta lo imposible por tratar de romper la maldicion, así que Penelope desde debe encontrar a alguien de su linaje que la acepte. Ella es una chica que seria el deseo de cualquier hombre, solo que la maldicion es un gran problema pues hasta ahora todo el mundo tiene miedo de su nariz de cerdo. Habra alguien en el mundo que la acepte tal cual es y pueda romper esta terrible maldicion?

FICHA TECNICA

Director: Mark Palansky

Protagonista: Christina Ricci

Fecha: 1 | Febrero | 2008

Pais: Reino Unido

Penelope Wallper

Bueno pues es el tiempo familiar de este post y hora de presentarles esta pelicula que en lo personal no ha sido de mucho agrado debido a que no es mi estilo, sin embargo por amor al arte la he visto de principio a fin. Les comento que esta pelicula no presenta nada nuevo, es como si fuera un pelicula de Disney, ya saben, primero lo malo, luego el principe, luego la lucha por estar juntos y por ultimo el infaltable “y vivieron felices para siempre” agregando a todo esto la moraleja, que creo yo que es lo unico rescatable de la pelicula. No se puede realizar una critica seria de la pelicula debido a que es algo hecho para los niños y aunque le hayan puesto todas las ganas del mundo al realizarla, desde el guion todo es color blanco y negro, califico a esta pelicula de maso y pues si conviven con pequeños en casa, no estaria mal ponerles esta pelicula para que se esten quietos un rato.