– Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried and Christine Baranski will help bring the ABBA musical adaptation, “Mama Mia!” to the big screen. It’s a bit of a different beast, but let’s hope this musical-film adaptation isn’t left dangling in the wind like Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe” Beatles musical. Oh wait, maybe it is for the best…
– Speaking of Taymor, you’ve all heard about this Spider-Man Musical, right? Someone stop the bleeding.
– Sam Raimi is open to taking over “The Hobbit” now that the New Line/Peter Jackson imbroglio looks like it’s not getting cleared up anytime soon. What happens to a possible “Spiderman 4”? Without Raimi, Kirsten Dunst’s says she’s not into it.
– Ornette Coleman won a pulitzer prize today. Incidentally he did one of our favorite scores (with Howard Shore); David Cronenberg’s William Burroughs quasi-adaptation, “Naked Lunch.” Good on ’em.
– The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema starts at MOMA from April 18–23, 2007. Bring only the finest lube.
– There’s a great New York Times article on the Robert Altman directed Raymond Chandler adaptation, “The Long Goodbye.” Elliott Gould is such a charming modern gumshoe.
– Criterion’s July schedule is up. They are releasing yet another Jean-Pierre Melville film (“Les Enfants Terrible”) in July, plus films by Tarkovsky and Billy Wilder.
– An interesting take on the failure of Tarantino’s fetishized Grindhouse. (from EW)
Download: Abba – “Intermezzo No. 1” (mp3)
Download: Ornette Coleman – “The Garden of Souls” (mp3)
