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Sometimes an actor has a great track record, and then lets everyone down with one wrong film. Sometimes a impressive actor like Alan Arkin appears in equally impressive films like "Edward Scisscorhands" and "Little Miss Sunshine," only to also end in up movies like The Jerky Boys. It's confusing and disheartening, and The Rotten Tomatoes Show asks Alan Arkin to explain himself.
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After last week's UN meetings, the Obamas took a photos with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Spanish Prime Minister's family. The daughters dressed like they were preparing for a night out with The Cure.
The Prime Minister has tried to keep his daughters out of the public eye. Despite convincing the state-owned Spanish news agency EFE not to distribute the photos, the images ended up on the front page of several Spanish newspapers.
These first daughters have potential to be the most notable Goths in Spain since the Visigoth conquest of the 7th century. The Goth subculture exists in Spain, as it does in much of the world. Goticos were featured in a 2006 episode of a Spanish news magazine.
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The Gothic family photos have prompted a Facebook group called Las hijas góticas de Zapatero. The group has over 14 thousand fans. And like all great newsworthy images, these pictures have prompted Photoshoppers worldwide to turn this into a meme.
There is the minimalist approach, by dressing the entire party in black, to signify their inner angst.
Then we have a more hardcore version of the Rodriguez Zapatero daughters leading the group in a Satanic sacrificial ritual. Note the US president's commitment to cultural diversity, by symbolically "raising the horns."
Meme-sters have quickly connected the Goths with cinema. In these examples we see references to The Ring, The Shining, Edward Scissorhands and The Exorcist.
The final image shows the entire clan celebrating the commercialism of contemporary Goth culture, alongside pro-heavy metal activists Los Hermanos Alcázar. The 41 year-old twins stand in front of the site of a former Madrid rock venue every night, to commemorate its legacy. They are avidly opposed to the commodification of rock n roll.
Spain has a bright future in darkness.
Learn how to Goth yourself.
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Brett looks at the career of Tim Burton.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett looks at the career of Tim Burton.
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This is a direct upload of the video for the story previously posted on the Movies page under the title, "MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST: Tim Burton at MoMA"
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So you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton exhibit, and it’s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there’s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you can see a MARS ATTACKS stop-motion figure and some test footage shot before Burton decided to go CG; plus the headless horseman figure and the EDWARD SCISSORHANDS outfit and ED WOOD’s angora sweater. Film geek heaven — and a must-have for MMP’s second video podcast.
I pull out my camcorder and power up, and am instantly intercepted by a MoMA PR person, who politely but firmly informs me that practically nothing in the room, save for Edward and Headless and a vitrine with some figures from THE CORPSE BRIDE, can be filmed.
“Including,” she points out, “the angora sweater.”
Okay, I can dig that, for whatever reasons legal or contextual, stuff may be off-limits (fortunately, no such prohibitions existed for the rest of the exhibit, and, as you’ll see in the video, it’s a big durn exhibit). But specifically throwing the barbed wire up around the angora sweater? Really? Is there some sort of legal constraint, or is this humble strip of fluff so iconic of… something… that dissemination of its presence here could completely blow the intent of the exhibit?
So sorry, all you PLAN 9 maniacs. You want to worship at the alter of the angora, you’re just going to have to make a pilgrimage to New York. Happily, once you’ve performed your obeisances, you’ll then have an opportunity to drink deeply of Tim Burton’s mad genius. There are tons of concept work here, drawn by Burton’s own hand, plus a stunning variety of original and heretofore unseen artwork, sculptures and installations created specifically for the exhibit, and a copy of the hard-to-see HANSEL AND GRETEL adaptation that Burton directed for Disney in 1982.
A lot of the film stuff — including concept designs for ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the aborted Burton version of SUPERMAN RETURNS — was not verboten, so you get a taste of it in this podcast, along with a good sampling of original art, some thoughts from the exhibit’s curators on the director’s life and work, and some footage of Burton’s very Tim Burtonesque appearance at the press presentation. Click on the player above to get a look.This is a direct upload of the video for the story previously posted on the Movies... more
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So you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton exhibit, and it’s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there’s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you can see a MARS ATTACKS stop-motion figure and some test footage shot before Burton decided to go CG; plus the headless horseman figure and the EDWARD SCISSORHANDS outfit and ED WOOD’s angora sweater. Film geek heaven — and a must-have for MMP’s second video podcast.
I pull out my camcorder and power up, and am instantly intercepted by a MoMA PR person, who politely but firmly informs me that practically nothing in the room, save for Edward and Headless and a vitrine with some figures from THE CORPSE BRIDE, can be filmed.
“Including,” she points out, “the angora sweater.”
Okay, I can dig that, for whatever reasons legal or contextual, stuff may be off-limits (fortunately, no such prohibitions existed for the rest of the exhibit, and, as you’ll see in the video, it’s a big durn exhibit). But specifically throwing the barbed wire up around the angora sweater? Really? Is there some sort of legal constraint, or is this humble strip of fluff so iconic of… something… that dissemination of its presence here could completely blow the intent of the exhibit?
So sorry, all you PLAN 9 maniacs. You want to worship at the alter of the angora, you’re just going to have to make a pilgrimage to New York. Happily, once you’ve performed your obeisances, you’ll then have an opportunity to drink deeply of Tim Burton’s mad genius. There are tons of concept work here, drawn by Burton’s own hand, plus a stunning variety of original and heretofore unseen artwork, sculptures and installations created specifically for the exhibit, and a copy of the hard-to-see HANSEL AND GRETEL adaptation that Burton directed for Disney in 1982.
A lot of the film stuff — including concept designs for ALICE IN WONDERLAND and the aborted Burton version of SUPERMAN RETURNS — was not verboten, so you get a taste of it in this podcast, along with a good sampling of original art, some thoughts from the exhibit’s curators on the director’s life and work, and some footage of Burton’s very Tim Burtonesque appearance at the press presentation. Click on the player above to get a look.So you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton... more
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