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At Criterion, Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) gives his top 10 titles:
Singer-songwriter and occasional film actor Will Oldham has released eighteen albums, appeared in such films as Matewan (1987), Junebug (2005), Old Joy (2006), and Wendy and Lucy (2008), and teamed with David Byrne to compose the score for This Must Be the Place (2011), directed by Paolo Sorrentino. His album, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues, released under the name, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, came out in the fall of 2014. Of his Top 10 (or fifteen, as it turns out), Oldham says, “The following are personal recollections and thoughts, because that’s all I have in regards to these things.”
Cinema Guild have acquired Horse Money, the best film we saw at TIFF.
Watch a Tim and Eric-directed GE commercial starring Jeff Goldblum:
At Pajiba, Dustin Rowles on how it’s impossible to believe Kevin Smith‘s hype:
Kevin Smith creates his own hype, and he never manages to live up to it anymore. I say this as a fan of Smith who has listened to way too many of his podcasts: He’s absolutely full of shit. You should listen to a few of these podcasts. He’s a slick, name-dropping salesman who deftly mixes self-deprecation with profanity and makes us feel like he’s one of us, that he’s this incredible innovator, that he’s ahead of curve, and that he can marshal a substantial social media following into box-office success. It’s all bullshit, and he sold us a huge fucking lemon in Tusk — a movie I got excited about based on his promotion — and now he’s trying to make lemonade out of the lemon peel.