Friday, January 28, 2011

Pop Culture Round Up: January 15 - January 28, 2011

Getting GG with it :: Film :: VUE Weekly
I initially though this was about the GGs (the literary award kind), but it turns out to be about filmmaking. Cool!

Maisonneuve | Portraits of a Changing Paris 
Largely because I just went there.

Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
I couldn't agree more.  

Vulture Critics’ Poll: What’s the Worst Movie of 2010? -- Vulture
The best part is the individual ballots where you find outliers, often movies that are ignored or even well regarded, but one critic just hated.

Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages | Culture | The Guardian

Directors: Directors on directing - latimes.com

Roger Ebert: Film Criticism Is Dying? Not Online - WSJ.com 
What can I say? This is a perpetual concern of mine.

When it comes to humour, we live in funny times - The Globe and Mail

Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish's How To Write a Sentence. - By Adam Haslett - Slate Magazine

The strange trajectory of Hollywood movies: Fizzling in U.S. but skyrocketing overseas | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times 
"But he's big in Japan!"

BoyGirls who like GirlBoys :: Film :: VUE Weekly
Underrepresented.

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