Thankfully the silly hats are gone and her wardrobe is inching slowly towards better. Plus, she seems to be exuding some genuine happiness from her face.
The former pop star is heading on the road this weekend, performing two shows in Florida.
Meanwhile, her recent romance, musician Howie Day, is heading back to rehab!
Here's what you should do this weekend: Go to the Coolidge and see "Day Night Day Night" without reading a single review. Don't even go to the Coolidge's website; they give the game away, too. All you need to know is that the movie's about a young woman (the remarkable Luisa Williams, above) at the end of her emotional rope and what she does about it.
It's also about New York City and about being in the midst of it while feeling completely apart. As a portrait of emotional extremity and the search for grace, it consciously aspires to Falconetti in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" -- an absurdly ambitious target that director Julia Loktev comes close to realizing. (There's also a lot of Bresson whingwhanging around inside this movie.) Some feel "Day Night Day Night" is irresponsible in regards to certain real-world issues, but I beg to differ: Loktev and Williams use the real world merely as a backdrop to an elemental spiritual struggle.
Why am I being so coy? Because "DNDN" works best when you go in knowing nothing and let its initially enigmatic opening scenes crystallize into something very, very dark before the movie even thinks to seek the light. If you've read Wesley's review -- no, I'm not going to link to it -- you already know what I'm talking about, because he blows the mystery, as any reviewer has to. I would have had to, if I hadn't been tapped to cover other movies this week. But because I'm blogging, I'm telling you: Read the reviews after you've come back from the theater.
Brad Pitt has just made a new addition to his tattoo collection.
Last year, the actor got some ink on his lower back, a Sanskrit Buddhist blessing meant to protect his little Maddox. It’s similar to a tattoo that Angelina has on her back.
Now, Papa Pitt is sporting his latest tat – a drawing of the Iceman Otzi.
Also knows a Frozen Fritz and Similaun Man, Otzi is a a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier in the Alps.
The man’s body had tattoos in several spots, as shown in the graphic below.
Brad’s homage to the Iceman must have some special meaning for him.
This trailer for the short film, Missing Pages, by Jerome Olivier, is an example of beautiful horror. Each shot looks to be a gorgeous study of composition, lighting and color, heightened further with elements of slight animation, that leave the viewer a bit uneasy. Mix that with the great build up to violent cuts that Olivier choose for this, and you got one creepy trailer.
Another point that is very impressive when looking at the quality of this trailer is that it is essentially a one man show. Olivier is the man behind the curtain on this one, having written, directed, edited and animated it. It is a great example of how much further this medium can stretch to than just some pretty graphics. I only hope that the film itself is as good as this trailer.
Films that make you think while trying to keep track of dialogue at the same time can be one of two things: frustrating or fulfilling. I loved the premise of Stranger than Fiction. I loved the idea of a character in a film realising he is a character in a novel and that his life is being both narrated and created by the same god, an author who believes in fate and yet controls the destiny of the character she has created.
Transamerica was released in 2005 to general critical acclaim. Felicity Huffman is outstanding as Bree, a transgender woman who discovers she has a son from a one night stand nearly twenty years earlier, implied as her only real sexual experience as a male youth. Bree bails her son out of jail and finds an insecure youth, desperate to be re-united with his father and whose mother commited suicide years earlier. Toby has been abused by his stepfather, earned money through prostitution, has a drug problem and is wary of anyone who seeks to help him, as Bree does by coming to his rescue in New York.
A Mighty Heart - Trailer 1 On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared. Directed by: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan
A Mighty Heart - Trailer 1 On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned. In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared. Directed by: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan
