I WANT TO CONGRATULATE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR WINNING THE "YOU DIDN'T WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BECAUSE YOU'RE A WARMONGER AND A CLOWN BUT WE STILL NEED YOU SO HERE'S A HAPPY MEAL AWARD YOU CAN WEAR TO YOUR CABINET CONCUBINE MEETINGS SO YOUR HAREM CAN CLAP LIKE CIRCUS SEALS" MEDAL.
🚨 This is wild. We are talking about actual building blocks of life found on a raw asteroid. Sugars, amino acids and nucleobases sitting out in space tell us that the recipe for life was already everywhere long before Earth formed. This matters more than people think
Last night, while I was looking around the storage room for one of Udo’s starring works, I found a DVD of “Sunshine (2007),” a film I used to love. I had actually bought it. I only remember seeing the movie once at the theater. A hard sci-fi film by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland. Watching it now, you realize the cast was incredibly stacked—even though they weren’t widely known at the time. Cillian Murphy and Benedict Wong from the Danny Boyle troupe; Michelle Yeoh and Hiroyuki Sanada; and Chris Evans and Cliff Curtis before their big break. What a lineup. I love how the first half is an intellectual kind of sci-fi.
Brian De Palma is still sitting in directors jail while half of modern cinema is borrowing his bag. Split screens, voyeurism, l the sense of menace baked into the camera itself. One of the most distinct visual stylists ever & Hollywood just moved on anyway
Celine Song 🤝 Mad Max: Fury Road
With Materialists hitting UK cinemas this week, Empire caught up with writer and director Celine Song.
Of course, we couldn’t leave without asking her about her perfect movie marathon...
There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.
Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.