Atom Egoyan’s new thriller Chloe explores themes of consuming jealousy and passion with a smart European sensibility that puts an exciting spin on the love triangle genre with Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore at the center — their sex scene is a particularly memorable, um, climax. The script was penned by Erin Cressida Wilson, who’s no stranger to sexual kinks. She tackled S&M with aplomb and erotic wit in Secretary, now tackling a subversive story that follows a woman (Julianne Moore) as she hires a prostitute (Amanda Seyfried) to test her husband’s (Liam Neeson) fidelity. As their encounters grow intense, the lines between reality and fantasy blur and unexpected desires are awakened in all three propelling the film to its startling yet inevitable conclusion. We caught up with Seyfried, Moore, and the filmmakers to talk about sex, manipulation and other bedrocks of a good marriage. Click through for the full Q&A. Read More »
We’re impressed by how passionate our readers are about cinematic dance sequences. After reviewing the list of 35 dance numbers that we came up with last week, you took to the comments and let us know about all of the great moments we didn’t include in our roundup. To remedy this, we’re back with 25 more great dance sequences in film, most of them generated by you (thanks, btw). Check out the list after the jump, and see if your favorite made it this time around.
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Today at Flavorpill, we were surprised at how complicated and postmodern children’s literature can be. We discovered the controversy surrounding deceased novelist Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. We snickered at Jeff Beck’s album cover for Emotion & Commotion. We listened to, sang along with, and completely understood the intent of the Unclear Parts of Speech Mixtape. We stumbled upon a website that creates pop culture-centric puzzles, and now we know what we’ll be doing in our spare time. We learned the Thriller dance while sitting at our desks. Speaking of dance, we were informed that we do not have the right to dance at the Jefferson Memorial. We met our cute quota for the day by watching this video of new bear cubs at the Bronx Zoo. And, finally, we were confused by The Westboro Baptist Church‘s plan to picket outside of Twitter’s HQ while tweeting about their picketing. Allegedly, they’re not anti-Twitter, they just think the company should use their canvasing power to spread the word about the evils of sin.
Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and the Tiananmen Square protests, Josh Azzarella is a whiz at altering and erasing history. The artist’s latest project, which was two years in the making, takes on something nearly as significant in pop culture, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. Stripping it of its song and all signs of life — bar the ticket booth attendant at the cinema — Azzarella’s interpretation of the classic offers a landscape that ripe for new fantasies.
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