As our Labor Day weekend continues, we have a couple of scenes from Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” — watch them in order — covering the ups-and-downs of corporate office pimpery.
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In celebration of the Labor Day holiday weekend, I thought I’d highlight scenes involving the kind of hard work days that might not be appropriate material for your job interviews, depending on the job. Ironically enough, this is definitely NSFW because of some language and unfortunately aimed genetic material.
Jonathan Demme should try his hand at another horror film and should the young ‘uns how you can tell a good story and evoke many emotions, not just fear and disgust.
You hate to see anyone die before their time, but somehow it’s a little extra painful to learn that Robert Schimmel died yesterday as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident. It’s bad enough that he was only 60 years old, but when you consider that he had not only survived a heart attack in 1998 but battled through Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2000 (it eventually went into remission), he’d really earned the chance to enjoy a lot more of his life, too.
Not that everything was completely rosy for the guy: earlier this year, he’d been diagnosed with cirrhosis as a result of a Hepatitis C infection from a blood transfusion that he received while in the Air Force and was on the lookout for a new liver. Still, Robert Schimmel had plenty of life and laughs left in him, so you can’t help but wish he’d had more time at the mike.
Fortunately for us, though, there’s quite a bit of his material available for your viewing pleasure, so here are a few moments to help you remember Robert fondly.
NOTE: All the parts of this special are on YouTube, so be sure to watch the whole thing. It’ll be worth your while.
As the madcap summer movie series ends, just a few items to wrap up the silly season.
* Not silly at all and quite possibly tragic. It appears there was a very serious stunt-related accident on the set of “Transformers 3,” or perhaps it was a not so stunt-related “freak accident,” says Nikki Finke.
* L’affaire Depardieu et Binoche est tres bizarre. (If my French is incorrect and it almost certainly is, please send complaints to the UCLA languages department.)
* The concept art from the canned Pixar film, “Newt,” is beautiful. Maybe someday we’ll get to see the abandoned footage. Their discards are probably at least twice as good as most finished films.
* I have a feeling we’re going to hear a lot about “The Black Swan” through Oscar season. It apparently wowed them in Venice though the thoughtful and quirky cinephile critic emeritus J. Hoberman of Village Voice finds it “borderline risible.” To me, remaking “The Red Shoes” with a dash of Dario Argento and even DePalma (not my favorite) sure sounds pretty cool.
* Christopher Rosen may be a doubter, but I say keep hope alive, Kristen Bell!
* Director Tomas Alfredson, who did such a great job on “Let the Right One In,” is shifting genres from very young vampires to depressive real-world style spooks like George Smiley (Gary Oldman this time ’round) in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” Michael Fassbender, however, left to be a superhero so now Tom Hardy of “Inception” is stepping in. That should work okay, too. (I finally saw “Inception,” by the way, and…I’m too tired to talk about it now, which is sort of how I felt as I was watching it, actually.)
* Is “Hunger Games” really “The Running Man” with teens or more like “Battle Royale” made safe for an American audience? Sam Mendes, Gary Ross and David Slade duke it out to see who’ll realize whatever it is. Interesting to see the name of the talented writer Billy Ray involved here.
* Crocodile Dundee may now roam free in the Outback — I mean the branch of the steakhouse chain in Burbank.
A couple of bits of video that have been making the rounds.
First, via Screenrant a moment from “Let Me In,” director Matt Reeves’ much discussed and increasingly anticipated Americanization of the hugely acclaimed anti-“Twilight” tale of vampiric puppy love, “Let the Right One In.” Based on Reeves’ work on “Cloverfield,” I had my doubts, but this just could be worthy of its predecessor. This one is slightly NSFW because of a shouted f-word.
Of course that’s Richard Jenkins above as “the father” in a clip I personally thought was outstanding — far better than I would have expected from Matt Reeves based on his work in “Cloverfield.” A really nicely calibrated piece of suspense with some strong period feeling.
And here’s Rutger Hauer as the Hobo with the shotgun in what has to be one of the most violent and gruesome trailers I’ve seen. Chalk that up to its roots in a prize winning fan-made “Grindhouse” style trailer. Decidely NSFW and kind of funny in a very grim way. Oddly, it’s actually creepier than the scene from “Let Me In.”
CinemaBlend gets the HT for this and they also have the original “Hobo” trailer that played in some theaters with “Grindhouse.” Personally, I actually like this new one a lot better.
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