Since I failed to give fabled, violence prone Euro-screen siren Francesca Fiore her due in my new interview with her alter ego, the great Scott Thompson of “Kids in the Hall” fame, the least I can do is salute her here. Here is the lovely and talented Miss Fiore alongside Bruno Puntz Jones (Dave Foley) in a movie parody that would make Elio Petri proud.
I’ve got a Fiore-licious bonus video after the flip.
Another entry in my occasional pairing of dramatically unfunny material (usually a trailer) with something that is, at least, a bit amusing.
No time for extended commentary today, but a picture is worth a thousand words and we’ll start with this misfired trailer for a film with a premise that’s apparently much stronger than the execution. What’s it’s like to be the also-ran band from Dublin, circa 1976? (H/t Deadline)
And now we have a trailer for a 1998 comedy that also takes a backward look at seventies rock. From the dependable writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and director Brian Gibson, here’s “Still Crazy.”
It’s not quite a laugh riot, but I know which movie I want to see, if only for the amazing cast.
One news item that Nikki Finke broke this week was that the long-delayed Jodie Foster film, which she costars in and directs, “The Beaver” looks to be getting a Spring 2011 release date. Confirming the news, Summit released a trailer yesterday, and here it is. To my surprise, this seems to be less of the black comedy I expected, and more of a straightforward psychodrama with some comedic elements.
Of course, the issue here is the film’s star, Mel Gibson, who you may have heard saying a few very impolite things. Of course, the eternal question is will audiences forgive said impoliteness. As Russ Fischer noted, there are some parallels that might help wary audiences over the hump. Who doesn’t love a redemption story? In any case, I think most people who say they’ll never see X star’s movies after X episode of misbehavior, alleged or proven, are people who weren’t fans to begin with. If the movie is something audiences think they’ll like, they’ll show and, though I’m not sure Mel Gibson is a guy I want to have the proverbial beer with anymore, I don’t believe that should be the first criteria for film attendance.
On the other hand, I seriously wouldn’t hold my breath regarding that Oscar qualifying run, at least as far as Gibson is concerned.
That eternal bad-boy of the movies, still no stranger to controversy, turns 80 today. Ignoring the Oscars, and charges that his long-held anti-Zionism is really antisemitism, he remains a figure worth fighting over.
We open our brief salute with the trailer for the upcoming documentary, via Anne Thompson, “Two in the Wave,” the film covers the brief friendship, and long estrangement, between Godard and Francois Truffuat, who was Joe Strummer to Godard’s Johnny Rotten, the Beatles to his Rolling Stones, if you will.
The interviewer’s nightmare is the subject who gives one-word answers to every question, the person who doesn’t really know what to say and who doesn’t like talking. David Hasselhoff is not that interview subject. Our erstwhile TV-meister, Will Harris, interviewed the “Knight Rider”/”Bay Watch” human phenom over at our Bullz-Eye.com mothership, and found out how a perfectly straightforward question could lead to a nearly 1300 word answer, and that was just for starters.
Of course, it’s not like there isn’t anything to talk about as the Hoff, as I understand he is now known, discusses his new reality show with his daughters and his extremely varied career that you probably know more about me than me anyway. It’s amazing how much the man has done, and is doing, aside from “Baywatch, “Knight Rider,” his German musical superstardom, his Comedy Central roast, and a certain unplanned video appearances sans shirt but avec cheeseburger, that I’ve been able to more or less completely ignore for three decades. (He was, however, almost an extra in one of my favorite Roger Corman flicks, the original “Death Race 2000,” so there’s that.) Anyhow, enough of my yammering, you want to read the Hoff’s yammering
Click here to read Will Harris’s interview with the Hoff himself, David Hasselhoff.
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