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Kim Voynar’s Toronto trauma

I’ve never met Kim Voynar,  but she’s among my favorites as far as internet movie scribblers goes. I like her attitude and perspective and she’s one of the writers I turn to for opinions out of the big festivals.
Even as a stranger I was dismayed to read just now that she took seriously ill at [...]

Have you ever lied about seeing a classic film you haven’t?

According to a new study in the UK, half of all people have lied about seeing a classic movie they haven’t. Have you?

Trailer: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

From Yahoo, here’s a new domestic trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
I only watched a little bit of the beginning because I don’t want to blow the potential magic of the movie, but it looks solid. Reviews so far have been modest, but then Gilliam has always been kind of a divisive [...]

Gilliam says Quixote is go

Empire Magazine cornered quixotic director Terry Gilliam at the UK premiere of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and asked him about his beleaguered project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. According to Gilliam, the money is in place and he has his Don:
We’re up and running again, we’ve rewritten the script and finally got it [...]

Condon’s Richard Pryor bio: Murphy out, Wayans in…maybe

Marlon Wayans is in talks to replace Eddie Murphy as Richard Pryor in Bill Condon’s upcoming biography of the late comedian.