Robert Altman couldn’t have known when he directed Short Cuts in 1993 that he was inventing a whole new genre. I don’t know if there’s a name for it – “405 cinema,” perhaps, or “Valleysploitation” – but you know what I’m talking about. It’s the genre that reveals insights into the human condition through intersecting stories set in Los Angeles. Crash, Magnolia, the recent Garden Party – there’s a whole lot of intersecting happening out there in L.A. and there’s soon to be more. Variety reports that “Disturbia scribe Christopher Landon will make his directorial debut with the indie dark comedy Burning Palms, which he penned. What's described as a subversive tale interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.” It’s funny, I lived in L.A. for five years and finally left because there just wasn’t enough intersecting going on for my liking.
Doctor Who may be coming to the big screen, according to new show runner Steven Moffat. The Hollywood Reporter quotes Moffat as saying “It would be good to see it in the cinema so long as it is great and fantastic.” Kind of hard to argue with that, I guess.
And in news someone besides me might care about, Audrey Tautou will star in biopic of Coco Chanel for Warner Bros. Variety reports Coco Avant Chanel “will feature dresses from the Chanel collection. Karl Lagerfeld, art director of the House of Chanel, will supervise the re-creation of costumes and accessories.”
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