links for 2009-03-05

Oop, and related to the CR Blog post, the actual article, including the first clip, "exotic swearing" and all (no marzipan, though).

Should I be admitting this? I've never made it all the way through Tron without falling asleep (granted, I was under 10 both times). But still.

So crazy it just might work: I'll admit a thin wisp of smoke came out my ears reading this, but it's as plausible as anything I've ever read, and wicked work by the obsessive parties involved.

One more reason why I love Iannucci.

"she had this idea that she wished she'd just be a chair. There's something quite self-deprecating about that. My contribution was to make the transformation slow and painful, 'cause in the book it's just sort of a morph, two or three frames. It's not very much Kafka… I was mostly thinking of the Polanski film 'Repulsion,' this sort of slow deterioration. I wanted the audience to not see it coming that she would become a chair. So it starts with a hole in the chest and there are two slots of wood, but it looks like she has lost her heart." Plus, bits on old soap and Jim Carrey not talking about himself.

The first one I'm gutted to have missed, and man, I'm just now remembering how adorable Lederhosen Lucil/Krista Muir is.