middle cyclones and other references
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Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
I think one of you must have put this on a mix that I downloaded at some point because I was able to put it on...
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Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Scott Widak has Down syndrome and is terminally ill with liver disease, and he loves to receive mail. So his...
“I think we keep ourselves afloat. If things happen in the press that are hard to deal with or you give in to that awful temptation to occasionally Google yourself and be mortified at what people can write about you. It’s hard to ignore it. Keira will phone me up. She’s like, ‘I’m thinking about doing it.’ I’m like, ‘I am, too, but don’t do it.’ And we’ll kind of talk each other out of it. We talk about what you talk about with any girlfriend, just what’s going on in your life,” says Sienna. “She gives me good advice and hopefully vice versa.”
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Procrastination Theatre: January 19, 2012
This was honestly a bizarre movie-watching experience, especially if you’ve seen any other Cronenberg movie ever. It was just - really inconsequential. And I am fully willing to appreciate intellectual conversation, it’s just that it didn’t actually seem to capture the complexity of the issues as much as it could have, and as much as normally Cronenberg is capable of. I mean - Freud is a lot more than talking about sex incessantly, which you sort of see but not really. So much of the film felt goofy - like Jung’s “I”m back” and Freud’s constant phallic cigar and the way they talked about dreams. There just wasn’t that much at stake - you caught glimmers of it, like when Sabine and Freud discussed the climate of anti-Semitism, and in Michael Fassbender’s whole general performance - but it was vague and loosely formed. Like, my friend fell asleep next to me during it. The only thing that has any life to it is actually Keira Knightley’s performance, which I thought was absolute perfection. Honestly, haters can just shut it, because that was a fearless, seamless performance. She became something completely different to me. That performance to me indescribably defines the difference between true acting, which sometimes has to be intense, and painful overacting, which is what Natalie Portman did in Black Swan.
And I mean, Michael Fassbender also does a fine acting job, but precisely because Jung has to be an absence in the film. It’s weird to see him so restrained and hollow - he does it perfectly, but it leaves the movie empty too. I have a theory, which is basically that because Cronenberg made a movie about something he was interested in and might even be passionate about, he had no chance. The hardest things to talk about are those you care about. And the way he characterized Jung and Freud felt so intimately goofy, like how the Boyfriend and I joke about theorists and authors.
I think that it would be great in the media if we saw a wider range of women - of all ages, of all shapes and sizes. I don’t necessarily think that all women should be all bigger or all smaller or all anything, I think variety is very beautiful. Luckily, or not luckily, I’ve never had to try and lose weight, umm - I would love to have tits! I’m never going to get them! I would love to have Monica Bellucci’s figure, I’m never going to get it. So I am just going to have to make the best of what I’ve got.
Word to the word. I mean, people beat Keira up all the time for supposedly having an eating disorder, which I think is revolting, because if you ask me, Christina Hendricks is far more likely to have some sort of eating disorder. Girl has not always looked like that. Let’s just embrace range, because embracing full-figured women exclusively is not a “progressive” standpoint.
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Keira Knightley | “A Dangerous Method” London Film Festival Première (2011)
Girlfriend, GTFO with that dress! And yes, I have enough affection for Keira Knightley that a “girlfriend” seemed necessary.
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I’m at work and I’d like to not have the Fassbender/Knightley spanking scene be on my Dashboard every five seconds.
“Then I met Matthew and we clicked immediately. I love him because he’s a big guy which is actually quite rare on screen today. Filmmakers tend to go for that slightly more androgynous look these days, which is lovely, but one of the most romantic things in the world is a manly man, particularly when, like Matthew, he’s intensely vulnerable as well. Matthew plays Darcy in a way I’ve never seen before, with huge vulnerability”.
(Keira Knightley)
Amen, Keira. Nothing makes me happier than the return of the Don Draper-sized man in contemporary pop culture.
Keira practicing the dance scenes with the choreographer.
When I’m settled and have my sewing machine, you better believe that I am going to sew a Regency era dress and go as Elizabeth Bennett for Halloween. Or just as a Tuesday thing.
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So, okay, I’m very excited for this, although it really does increase my Dr. Zhivago to-do list, which is as follows:
1. Find a second-hand copy of Dr. Zhivago and read it. For some reason I’ve been set on it being second-hand. I may have to relinquish that goal.
2. Watch the version with Julie Christie.
3. All in time to watch the new version and have annoying loud opinions about it that nonetheless involve loving Keira Knightley.
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You’re completely right, Mia. I love this. I will now see this movie just to ogle the wardrobe.
Vanity Fair, December (US)
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Auto-reblog. This movie is as stylistically/formally smart as the book.
Atonement
