I finally caught up with the anthology film, “New York, I Love You”. After it was finished I considered writing that fact on my hand because I already felt the few stand out moments fading away in the rear view mirror.

To be fair, for a moment, I probably disliked as many NYILY shorts as I did with Paris Je T’aime. What was missing was at least a handful of really great shorts, but with NYILY I felt most of them fell into a very safe an uninspiring “well that was…OK” camp.

I may be wrong but I get the impression that the producers really tried to reign in the filmmakers, to make the stories much more uniform in the hope that it plays more like a normal feature film. To “help” this they use little epilogue moments from previous shorts as a segue between two other shorts.

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Spoonbat linked to this Showbiz report that had Natalie commenting on the Sean Penn rumours. I thought it was quite a big deal until I saw that the quote came from the Marie Claire interview…and interview that I had read at the time, but somehow managed to completely skip over that section. To be fair, when new interviews are published I pretty much just skim the text for my name and the word “boobs”.

In any case, if anyone else missed it, Natalie’s comments about Sean Penn are after the jump.

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