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31 agosto

Big Love

Come on Hollywood. Get this on the big screen. It's one of the most romantic stories I've heard in a long time
 
"A lonely wild male elephant raided a female elephant stable at a circus in eastern India and wooed one of its residents to elope with him, a newspaper report said on Thursday.
 
"The 26-year-old tusker smashed through the tin walls of the circus in Raniganj town of West Bengal state on Wednesday and fell for Savitri, one of the four females in the stable, the Times of India said.
 
"Savitri fled with him and residents later saw the couple roaming around 'much in love', the newspaper said."
 
--posted by Kim
 
 

Friday Night At The Movies

--Rob Zombie's re-make (or, re-tool, re-mix, re-imagine, that sort of thing) of John Carpenter's classic "Halloween" isn't getting many raves (so far). I have yet to see the film, but here's my beef. Shouldn't the picture open closer to Halloween? As in October? The leaves haven't even changed.  
 
--"Balls of Fury"...oh I don't know. I'm thinking "Blades of Glory" is superior but figure skating is actually pretty dramatic, even when you're poking fun at it. And it never pulled out the Asian jokes. What's with that lately?
 
--Hollywood has no soul...or something. Naturally "The Nines" gets mostly good notices.
 
--I like Kevin Bacon, but homeboy is no Charles Bronson. Sorry.
 
--posted by Kim
 
 
30 agosto

Larry Craig, Prick Up Your Ears

When it comes to the Larry Craig scandal, I get it. As in, I see what he was allegedly doing in that airport bathroom.

 

I read the great Joe Orton's diaries, I revere William Friedkin's "Cruising" and Fassbinder's "Fox and His Friends" is a huge favorite. So I see that there's clearly a thrill (a thrill that's not for everyone obviously) involved when conducting such nervy, sometimes dangerous dalliances. 

 

But Craig's conservative stance on homosexuality aside, what was the Senator allegedly thinking? If the allegations are true, had he read/watched the examples I cited above, he might not have found himself in this mess in the first place.

 

Look, Sen. Craig, if you're were trolling, you have to know how all this stuff goes down. And especially as a man in your position. So...the airport lavatory? You can scarcely make an off-color joke in the airport, much less foot tap for sex in the loo.

 

See how much you can learn from watching the right kind of movies?

 

That being said, I think his treatment was unfair and homophobic. If he was looking for some action, who cares? Straight men do this all the time in clubs, at art openings, even in the grocery store.

 

--posted by Kim

 

Here's Leelee!

Baffled by magazines like Egg, Nylon, Urb or Lemon? You're not alone.
 
Movie writer DK Holm attempts to sort out his bewilderment via the newest issue of Lemon which devotes its pages to Stanley Kubrick.
 
 
"As a dinosaur, I don’t really understand these newfangled magazines the kids are putting out. With titles like Plasm or Egg they appear to be a combination of fashion, movies, and rock and roll, which I presume is all that the young think about, though if they do it is obviously with an arch, distanced, wry, hipster, easily bored coffee house stance. Often these magazines are just an excuse for an art director to play around with a bunch of new fonts, with the actual subject matter or content mattering little. But now, the third issue of a new pop art magazine annual called Lemon is out and I really want to understand this genre of magazine because the theme of the issue is all things Kubrick.
 
"Said theme begins with a cover portrait of Leelee Sobieski (who was in Kubrick’s last film, 'Eyes Wide Shut') 'as' Jack Torrance from 'The 'Shining. Inside the mag proper is a multi-media event, even down to the inclusion of a record in flexi-disc form of Gavin Friday doing a new version of A Clockwork Orange’s signature tune, 'Singin’ In The Rain.' At only $8.95 it seems like a pretty good bargain, though you won’t come away learning much new about Kubrick. Malcolm McDowell, who was in Orange, gives an entertaining interview in which he also talks about Heroes and the new Halloween remake, in which he takes the Donald Pleasance role. Leelee Sobieski is also inside the pages in one of those maddening Maxim-style interviews in which the writer keeps pursuing the topic of Miss Sobieski and Milla Jovovich (who stared in competing editions of the Joan of Arc story) in a mud wrestling match."
 
Read the rest of Holm's amusing take here. And, for the record, I like a lot these magazines and am intrigued by the newest issue of Lemon.
 
--posted by Kim
29 agosto

Noir Of The Week: 'Nightfall'

nightfallraybancroft.jpg picture by BrandoBardot

Check out my piece on the hard-to-find Jacques Tourneur noir "Nightfall" at the fantastic Noir of the Week.

Read why it's one of my favorite of the genre

“This is what they call the point of no return my friend.”

Nightfall is a work of striking juxtapositions and tones that by picture end, come off like a wonderfully disarming person—you’re charmed, even a bit disturbed, but you’re not sure what to make of it all. It opens at night, in the neon lit, Los Angeles jungle shimmering with welcoming Hollywood haunts like Miceli’s, Firefly and Musso and Frank and ends within the blinding white snow of the more foreboding Wyoming Wilderness. It pits an older doctor and his much younger, artist friend against two thugs, one an over-eager, violence-lusting psychopath and the other a casual, smarter killer whose relaxed approach borders on the likable. It features a chic fashion show with a modern looking Anne Bancroft as a “mannequin” followed by a cuddly rural bus ride during which the lovers express their romantic feelings after waking up to (decidedly non chic) whiskers. There’s cruel violence committed against good Samaritans mixed with quippy one liners and a surprising amount of dark humor. And did I mention Anne Bancroft falls in love with Aldo Ray? They seem mismatched, but then, perfect together—and their moments are exceptionally romantic. In short, Nightfall is a trip. But a great trip, and a noteworthy addition to noir innovator Jacques Tourneur’s oeuvre (which includes, among other splendid pictures, the horror/noir classics Cat People and  I Walked With a Zombie and his key noir, Out of the Past).

Read the rest of my piece at Noir of the Week.

--posted by Kim

28 agosto

Jim Emerson's Open Letter To Hollywood

 
A critic suffers through a disappointing summer at the movies and decides to do something about it: Write Hollywood and give it some tips for success
 
Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood
666 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood:
 
Don't get defensive. I understand. I know that you are not in the entertainment business. I realize it's much more serious and complicated than that. First and foremost, you are in the content-provider business, supplying product and licensing opportunities for corporate entities much larger than yourself. Next, you are in the risk-management business. Which means that if you fail too spectacularly in public, it's gonna cost you your corner office. You try adhering to tried-and-true formulas, you do all that prerelease focus-group product testing, but it doesn't work.
 
OK, you pretty much suck at your jobs.
 
Read the rest of Emerson's open letter to Hollywood here.
 
--posted by Kim
 
27 agosto

Happy Birthday Tuesday Weld

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite actresses, the luminous Tuesday Weld.
 
 
"I will never, ever stop talking about Tuesday Weld. I love her so much, that as I've said numerous times, it almost hurts. Lord Love a Duck, Wild in the Country, The Cincinnati Kid, Play it as it Lays, Thief and on and on... But my favorite Weld performance? As Sue Ann Stepanek in Pretty Poison. Pretty Poison is the definitive Tuesday Weld movie. Playing the beautiful but deadly high-school majorette to Anthony Perkins twitchy, creepy fire-starter, she is the deliciously deviant underbelly of America's heartland. Where blondes are supposed to be good girls but, in her case, are most definitely not. Made in 1968 and directed by Noel Black, the picture was something of a dud upon release (too sexually disturbing? too strange?) and has achieved cult status ever since. And deservedly so.
 
"With it's violence, pitch black comedy and sexy viciousness (watch Tuesday commit murder and immediately yearn for sex after) the picture is wonderfully subversive and deeply strange. And Weld...she is charming, scary, beautiful and sickly erotic. Need I explain the plot? The manipulation of Perkins (who thought he was doing the manipulating)?  The killing of her mother? The crazy, beautiful, psycho intensity of Weld? No. You really should watch it for yourself. Again, Tuesday, Tuesday. As Tiny Tim sang, 'If only Tuesday Weld would be my wife.'"
 
Ms. Weld turns 64 today.
 
--posted by Kim

Shooting Gallery

--I'm not into this idea at all: A re-make of Robert Wise's "The Day The Earth Stood Still" starring Keanu Reeves and directed by Scott Derickson, helmer behind "The Excorcism of Emily Rose."  Bleh.
 
--If you want people to understand the beauty of nature without ever leaving their house, having "Badlands," "Days of Heaven," "Thin Red Line" and "The New World" director Terrence Malick exec produce your environmental documentary is a good idea.
 
--Military trained, mad Rehesus monkeys vs. a janitor. That's a movie.
 
--posted by Kim

Venice Tells Fanny Ardant To Stay Home

French movie star/ex Truffaut companion Fanny Ardant has been asked to stay away from this year's Venice Film Festival. It doesn't appear that she's been told specifically that she'll be thrown out of the festival if she attends, but Venice is unhappy by a recent magazine interview in which Ardant praised "murderous urban guerrilla movement" The Red Brigade led by Renato Curcio, whom she called her "hero."
 
According to The Guardian:
 
"A front page editorial of the daily Corriere della Sera questioned whether it was 'passionately enthralling to kill innocent people, sow suffering and grief, [and] spread terror'.

"The Red Brigades' most notorious operation was the kidnapping and murder of a former prime minister, Aldo Moro, in 1978. Unlike other late-60s urban guerrilla movements, it remains a living presence.

"A reborn Red Brigades movement has killed two government advisers and a police officer since 1999. Earlier this year, 15 alleged members were arrested.

"Actor-director Michele Placido, who has worked with Ardant, said she was representative of a French cultural elite 'that reads the history of others blinded by passion'."

Ardant's latest picture, Italian-language film "L'Ora Punta" is playing at the festival.

--posted by Kim

For Dignan Alone, I Love Owen Wilson

 
Owen Wilson going to the hospital is alarming but if this report is true, it's incredibly sad. 
 
I'm not reporting further since I don't know the veracity of the story but whatever caused talented writer/actor Wilson to land in the hospital, I hope he gets better soon. 
 
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that for co-creating this and this and this (in addition to other movies and characters), Wilson has made the world a better place to live in.
 
I can't wait to see him in "The Darjeeling Limited."
 
--posted by Kim
22 agosto

Buñuel, She And Others On DVD

I think Sean Axmaker and I have a similar DVD collection. I could be wrong but, based on the pictures he chooses to cover in his terrific DVD column, I can easily envision us being the two people in Amoeba Records fighting over the last used Criterion edition of "Straw Dogs" which is out of print. But then, I'm sure he already has that one (I still have a foreign disc, which is fine, but not Criterion).
 
Anyway...here's Sean's look at Luis Buñuel's "The Milky Way," a movie I'll be running out to purchase (at yes, Amoeba). Writes Sean:
 
"A pair of shaggy modern day pilgrims (Paul Frankeur and Laurent Terzieff, with the fitting names Peter and John) follow the traditional route (the Milky Way) from Paris to the ancient Santiago de Compostela in Spain in Luis Buñuel's surreal road movie. Along the way they wander through a series of religious debates and, briefly, back into medieval times. Think of them as passive hosts of an ecclesiastic skit comedy: theological follies with a surreal slant, where defiantly religious men might die for their beliefs before offering food or shelter to a pair of poor travelers.
 
"The first film in what Buñuel later proclaimed a trilogy of comically surreal satires (along with 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' and 'The Phantom of Liberty') is a cheeky return to some of his favorite themes -- religion and hypocrisy -- but the first film where he really dismantled the conventions of storytelling and rebuilt them in a playfully fractured form: jumping to unrelated flashbacks for a punch line, wandering off with a side character for a spell, dissolving the distance between the past and the present without a comment."
 
 
And read all of his DVD pieces, including "She" Deluxe Edition, the 20th anniversary edition "RoboCop," "The Lives of Others" and more here.
 
--posted by Kim 

How Does It Feel?

I get goosebumps every time I watch this trailer for Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There." 
 
It's not just the song or Cate Blanchett or Charlotte Gainsbourg or the giraffe, it's the entire feel of the thing.
 
As I've said too many times to count, I cannot wait.  

  

--posted by Kim

21 agosto

Ten Of The Best And Five Of The Worst High School Movies

There's a reason Alice Cooper's anthem "School's Out" has left such a lasting impression upon generation after generation. Who's not excited when "school's out for summer"? And especially when, as the song goes, "school's out forever," as they say after high school. A time when dramatic life moments occur, leaving us usually saddled with neurosis well into adulthood, high school is clearly fertile ground for terrific big-screen entertainment.
 
As you'll see here, the high school movie has always been a popular, drama-comedy filled genre. And with the critically heralded, uproarious "Superbad" now released, the genre looks to be getting even better. Judd Apatow (who created "Freaks and Geeks"; if it hadn't been a TV show, it would have been No. 1 on this list) produced the comedy about two friends (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) looking for sex, booze and basically all kinds of new experiences and trouble before they leave for separate colleges the next year. In honor of "Superbad," and to get you ready to get back to class, we've listed our 10 favorite high school movies and five not so favorites. Some are fun, some sad, some masterful and some demented. Like all those nutty, surging hormones we had to endure, they swing wildly and also prove, in some way, that we do need an education. You may want to take notes.
 
10. "Brick" (2005)
Rian Johnson achieved an almost impossible feat with "Brick" -- he created a neo-noir and set in a contemporary California high school with characters gabbing dialogue straight from 1940s crime fiction, and it wasn't ridiculous. A sensational Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Brendan, an outsider high schooler who channels Sam Spade while investigating the mysterious death of his ex-girlfriend (Emilie de Ravin, from "Lost") while his trusty friend The Brain (Matt O'Leary) shares clues and quips. Brendan contends with all sorts of characters, including teenage femmes fatales; bossy, Moose Malloy-ish dumbbell athletes; useless stoners (one he slaps around with Bogart panache spitting out: "Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you"). The greatest creation, however, is Lukas Haas' brilliant sociopathic drug dealer named The Pin, a bug-eyed and quietly menacing cross between Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. The drama, tension and fantasy of high school is astutely observed via the picture's shadowy style and clever one-liners (who wouldn't want to be that quick-witted when a bully puts up his dukes?) and though adults hang in the periphery of the film, you'll never forget a scene involving The Pin, his mom, milk and cookies.
 
9. "My Bodyguard" (1980)
Tony Bill's "My Bodyguard" is better than it has any right to be. Its David and Goliath story is a cookie cutter set for yucks, easy inspiration and a big payoff that, as a critic looking to get quoted might write, leaves the audience cheering. But then it becomes a lot more than the nerdy new kid Clifford (Chris Makepeace) enduring the high school bully (Matt Dillon) who steals his lunch money when the 98-pound weakling hires himself a real Goliath, a moody, brooding hulk named Linderman (Adam Baldwin). In spite of the scary rumors surrounding Linderman (that he raped a teacher and murdered his brother), Clifford seeks out the bad boy, at first to simply make his hellish high school existence endurable. But as the two hang out, he learns more about the so-called school "psycho" -- that the poor kid is gripped with guilt about the accidental death of his brother, his family life is tragic and he's reverted to a shell because his life contains little joy. Both performances are astoundingly touching (especially Baldwin, who manages to be incredibly real, poignant and then actually kind of scary) and the movie works as a darkly sweet ode to all of the freaks and geeks slouching through the hallways, hoping for a real friend.
 
8. "Heathers" (1989)
A startling, darkly funny teen picture, "Heathers" -- starring Winona Ryder and a Jack Nicholson-impersonating Christian Slater -- remains a nice antidote to all those life-positive '80s John Hughes films. Here, the jocks and the snobs, particularly a Nazi-like clique of girls all named Heather, get theirs in creative, incredibly mean style. Heather-ette Ryder (her name is Veronica but she manages to get in with the cool chicks), longs for something more than the "diet coke heads." When new boy Slater swaggers into the lunchroom, she's smitten. The two become a homicidal duo, engaging in a murder spree that looks like a rash of suicides (one involves a cup of Drano). The humor's positively black and the dialogue is priceless: "Heather why do you have to be such a mega bitch?" Answer? "Because I can be."
 
7. "Election" (1999)
This movie isn't just a dead-on satire about the tumultuous, dog-eat-doggedness of high school overachievers (and popular underachievers), it's also a savvy satire about U.S. politics in general. Written and directed by Alexander Payne (before he skewered oldsters in "About Schmidt" and dumpy oenophiles in "Sideways") the brilliant "Election" stars Reese Witherspoon as the hysterically and insanely ambitious Tracy Flick, an A student who is running for class president. She's so earnest and single-minded that the movie could simply revolve around what an unlikable, secretly contemptuous brown-nose she is. But instead it reveals that her archenemy is none other than a likable teacher, Mr. McAllister (Mathew Broderick), who is still upset with her getting his creepy colleague fired for having an affair with the teenager. So, yes, he's not exactly one-note sympathetic either. When he convinces the dim bulb but nice school jock (Chris Klein) to run against Tracy, her world spins out of control when she realizes her hard work means nothing in the face of massive popularity. When the jock's lesbian, anarchistic sister enters the race, the movie becomes an accidental examination of the Bush, Gore and Nader campaign (I'm not saying which character represents any of these candidates). The acerbic, witty and wickedly funny movie only goes to show that life is always like high school.
 
 
 
--posted by Kim
20 agosto

Seven Reasons To Watch 'Superbad'

"Superbad" was number one at the box office and deserves every bit of praise and hype it gets. For a teen sex comedy, it's miles ahead of the usual fare. Here are seven reasons why:
 
1. Smart, clever and hilarious Jonah Hill and Michael Cera are actually guys you'd want to hang out with. 
 
2. The movie refrains from teen pop, drippy emo ballads or anything composed by Green Day and instead uses soul, funk and disco to express the excitable and really, celebratory nature of horny teendom.
 
3. The hilarious side story of the two bored cops making their own rules is truly inspired and oddly touching. They're never the butt of an easy joke.
 
4. No parents. Well, except for Michael Cera's mother's breasts but the picture is almost entirely Charlie Brown in its refreshing lack of parental stereotypes.
 
5. The dialouge is blue but so relaxed and natural it never feels like it's simply there for the sake of shock. This is how smart, dirty minded teens talk. And the Orson Welles riff is a beautiful moment of screen comedy. 
 
6. The sexual humor comes from the mouths of near babes (teenagers) and as such makes a lot more sense in its crudeness or lack of understanding. It's not uttered by the tiresome parade of man-children who have to face life and grow up but still snag the hot girlfriend and blah, blah, blah. Really, the kids in "Superbad" are more intelligent and sweeter than many adults presented in sex comedy.
 
7. Michael Cera actually makes what looks to be a delicious tiramisu and even that is funny.
 
--posted by Kim
 
 
 

He's Only Seventeen

Stating Hollywood doesn't have an original thought in its head is such a tired, easy proclamation (Really? No?!) that people making the statement as some kind of newsflash also appear to lack originality. That being said, sometimes ever-predictable Hollywood still surprises me with just how recycled and lame some of its "ideas" are. So then, wait. On second thought--it's not necessarily a tired proclamation, it simply needs to be said in trickier ways so Hollywood understands.
 
With that, I'll just complain a little here. 
 
Take, for instance,  Zac Efron's first shot at leading mandom. From Coming Soon:
 
"Entertainment Weekly reports that 'High School Musical,' 'Hairspray' and 'High School Musical 2' star Zac Efron has signed for his first leading-man role in New Line's fast-tracked love story, 'Seventeen.'
 
"The magazine says Efron finalized negotiations on Thursday to headline the 'Big'-like comedy-drama in which a 36-year-old man, in need of a major life do-over, wakes up in the body of a studly high school senior (Efron). Efron had been in talks to make the film since February.
The role reunites Zac with 'Hairspray' director Adam Shankman, who is producing (but not directing) along with his sister, Jennifer Gibgot."
 
"Big" like comedy? What about "Freaky Friday," "Vice Versa," or "18 Again"? And then there's "Dream a Little Dream" which has the strange distinction of using the format for the potentially touching scenario involving Jason Robarbs and his quest for perpetual youth via dream experimentation. But it just had to insert that damn Corey Feldman bleacher dance sequence. Still, it sounds more promising than some childhish 30-something living the life of Zac Efron. Is that 36-year-old actually a 12-year-old girl?
 
--posted by Kim 

SuperSexy

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Cinema is so helpful sometimes. And such a tease. Where else can we observe the fantasy, dysfunction and frequently grim reality of the sex act without becoming too involved? Thank goodness nothing has to get “weird” while watching Brando and the butter, the orgasmic abandon of "Betty Blue" or whomever Bond is shagging while doing what comes natural in the darkness of a movie theater—watching.
 
Even more beneficial is how much we’re allowed to laugh at sex, which appears a much needed release given the popularity of sex comedies. A genre that’s been refreshed via Judd Apatow and his massively successful "Knocked Up" (which he wrote and directed) and the hilarious "Superbad" (which he produced); the new sex comedy is the reverse of Joel McCrea's famed movie pitch in "Sullivan’s Travels": It’s the movie that hold’s a mirror up to sex! A true canvas of sexual activity...but with a little thought in it.
 
But which movies were daring sex comedies before the newest spin on the genre? And which ones were smarter, funnier and sexier? And why isn’t there a current screen equivalent to a youngish Warren Beatty? Seriously, why isn’t there? With this in mind, here are (in chronological order) eight great comedies of coitus, Mr. Beatty included. 
 
Read my list of the eight great sex comedies here. And warning, some clips are not safe for work.
 
--posted by Kim
 
17 agosto

No, Donny. These Men Are Cowards

What with living in this age of reality television, tabloid insatiability and fame addiction no matter what one is famous for, I often forget that writer Paddy Chayefsky penned "Network" as a satire. I'm pretty sure Isaiah Washington has forgotten.
 
But after reading Michael Lohan's interview with The New York Observer, I don't think the movie is such the over-the-top-pitch black comedy anymore. Even if it wants to be. As Lindsay's father said:
 
"'At the beginning of the things, I suggested a reality show called 'Living With the Lohans: Over or Starting Over?' he said. 'When Dina served me the divorce papers, I said instead of going trial, why don’t we work this out in an amicable way—just show everyone we could end it the right way, and/or start over the right way. There would have been cameras on us the whole time. It would have guided us in the right way.'
Mr. Lohan thinks such a show would not only be a smash hit—now more than ever—he thinks it might be the only way to restore what once was."
 
And now I'm drifting back to my college courses on existentialism and veering into the territory wherein I believe everything is a black comedy and nothing is real. And that takes me away from Nietzsche and into that troublesome area called nihilism. But I'll drop these thoughts because, as the Dude Lebowski says, "Oh that must be exhausting." 
 
--posted by Kim

Friday Night At The Movies

--Pretty much every critic in North America loves "Superbad" (let's just see how Europeans take it). From The New Yorker to the LA Times, they're showering the rowdy teen romp with loads of love. Slate's Dana Stevens, however, is a lone dissenter as she found the movie neither funny nor endearing. But hey, New York Post's Linda Stasi thought it was so hilarious that "you’ll probably squirt Diet Coke out of your nose within the first 20 minutes." Yeah...gross.
 
--The newest and fourth version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella, "The Invasion" (starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig) is receiving mostly scathing reviews. Which is really a shame since finger pointing. body snatching and human faces on a dog usually never get old. 
 
 
--posted by Kim

Aniston Allows 'Art' To Imitate Life

Oh Ms. Aniston! This is just too painfully meta of you.
 
As I reported earlier (and with much skepticism), a movie adaptation of the "self help/annoying catch phrase" bestseller "He's Just Not That Into You" is in the works starring Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long, Ginnifer Goodwin and Drew Barrymore. Ken Kwapis of "License to Wed" (ugh) is set to direct.
 
And now...Jennifer Aniston is in final negotiations to join the cast. To give Aniston a break, perhaps the film is actually an interesting project and one can't fault her for probably relating to the material. And when an actress truly feels her role that can sometimes elicit powerful, complex performances but...I don't know.
 
That being said, I thought she was impressive in "Friends With Money," "The Break-Up" and "The Good Girl" so perhaps this is what she's destined to do best. 
 
--posted by Kim 
16 agosto

The Cruz Sisters

OK, so I love Penelope Cruz. Not only do I think she's a talented actress who was robbed (robbed!) for not winning the Best Actress Academy Award for her fantastic performance in "Volver" (alright, alright...I really wanted Judi Dench for "Notes on a Scandal"--but Penelope was a close second)...anyway, as I was saying, not only is she super talented but she's gorgeous on top.
 
Alright, so I love Penelope. But this just made me love her even more, this being her sister. Have you seen her sister? Her sister who is not an actress?
 
And can you imagine the lucky boy who grew up as these girl's next-door-neighbor? 
 
I demand a re-make of Bette Davis's "Dead Ringer" directed by Pedro Almodovar and starring these two!
 
And yeah, yeah, yeah I know they're not as old as Bette and they're not twins but...who cares? Sexy psycho sisters as directed by Almodovar? It could better "Bandidas!" 
 
 
 --posted by Kim