Hiya

Just a brief update tonight.

Jeff Wells comments on Dave Polands Closer comments from earlier today. This is what Jeff had to say.

MCN columnist David Poland’s recent take on the presumed potency of Mike Nichols’ potentially Oscar-worthy Closer (Columbia, 12.3) has been, I have to admit, one of his more astute calls. The fact that it’s said to play “a little cold” is an indication, he believes, that producers of other presumed Oscar-calibre films are a bit scared of it. “When people start lining up to smear a film this early, that film has some power,” he wrote earlier this week. “And that is why bad buzz can be a good sign.” My own view is that the Patrick Marber play it’s based upon is a little bit cold (i.e., it reads that way), but it’s also a devastating, well-cut diamond. The Godfather, Part II is a little bit cold also, but if Francis Coppola had warmed it up he would have totally screwed it up.

And Mista sent a heads up that Zach commented on the Garden State DVD in his blog.

“You can officially pre-order the Garden State DVD on Amazon.com. It’s scheduled to come out on 12/28. But I’m trying to get in moved up a little bit, so we’ll see. It’s got tons of really cool extras, commentary from me, Nat, the cinematographer, the production designer and the editor. It’s got about 1/2 hours worth of cut out scenes and bloopers and a behind the scenes documentary. I’m a DVD junkie, so it’s a DVD designed by a DVD junkie for DVD junkies.”

That’s it for now.