Well4non B-List onscreen/denton-nonsociety_bloggers/daughter of hollywood royalty/(real-aspirant)indie filmmaker’ or those lacking the connection smarts to get to Sundance, Karina Longworth is the blogger to follow for vicarious filmic festival insights; 4starters it’s 2 female made movies Karina has her wordpress aimed at (sad such classifications still needed but mo fem made mo better); You Won’t Miss Me, the “story of Shelly Brown (Schnabel), a 23-year-old aspiring actress who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital. Set mainly in a disappearing downtown New York of divey flats and druggy marginality, the film follows Shelly from the endless parties where she drifts between uneasy role-playing to outright social defiance, to a number of auditions for directors who seem to see the world through as oblique a lens as our damaged heroine. Employing five different shooting formats from Flip video to Super 8 film, and strung together with Schnabel’s extraordinarily intimate voiceover confessional, Miss Me trades traditional narrative structure for something more akin to a visual diary.”

Anti-Apatow Mike Leigh School of Filmmaking

The next anti-Judd Apatow Zac-Miri Porno film (the third to be sold this Sundance) is the “bros will be bros” “not too mumblecoreish.” Humpday here’s a bangin_para from Karina - “This scenario may sound like prime grist for the Judd Apatow factory, and as far as it’s hilariously raunchy and also sincere and bittersweet, it is. But there are two things that set Humpday apart. Shelton shot the film without a formal script, putting her actors through extensive character work and improvisation, and finding her narrative documentary-style in the editing room. And unlike Knocked Up, which teaches that any dude who doesn’t willingly, totally submit to domestication is both a moron and a cad, Humpday treats adult relationships as the complex beasts that they are, and asks open-ended questions about the extent to which we can and/or should give up all the things we are in order to be with the person we want to be with. Humpday is as much about the realities of maintaining a relationship past the initial romance as it is about the reignited bromance.”

While on 2009 gender polemic, last nite I checked out HBO’s Big Love season 3 premiere, and it was dark enough in parts to be a creeper I’ll prob keep watching, via Vulture : “The swinging dick isn’t cloaked behind some intricately patterned loin cloth of brilliant dialogue or digs at patriarchy: It’s free ballin’. But it’s balanced, too, by time lavished on the women’s concerns at home. (It’s all those children, thankfully, whose perspectives we’re spared.) With this premiere, we dive deep into season three, and even deeper into this gender-polarized world, from Anna, whom “we want to formally date,” to matriarch Barb, secretly confronting cancer. Naturally, though, the dicks keep swinging.” Or if u want more trashy, follow east coast Whitney on latest ep of The City, which is much better than The Hills all said.

Click to watch Toast eating Headband Wearing Whitney in The City

While on Season Premieres : OMG there is a new Fringe episode out (ere reg’req’d), plus Lost is back tomorrow, supposed to be a gr8 ep, NY-Mag’s Vulture ave the ‘what internet obsessives are saying’ links, and TV squad have the juice : “The island moved back in time. Most reports say in the 70s, due to on-set reports where we see Dharma at its beginning: Othersville is in full bloom, there is a processing center to welcome new recruits, etc + Jack and Ben try to reunite the Oceanic 6 in order to return to the island. They will make it to the island but will have to return in separate groups because of some complications. It looks like they will try to blend in with the fresh Dharma folks, as some people spotted Jack and Hurley wearing Dharma tan jumpsuits. When the O6 return to the island, they will be reunited with at least some of the people who were left behind, as set reports claim to have seen Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer and Jin in scenes together.”

Watching Tonite : Doubt, which some have said is best film of year, well after Slumdog, but many also havent, so we’ll see. For more Trash Value click link to watch Nick + Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

Classic line of TV for this week : Gossip Girl S2E16 - Goes to Blair Waldorf after principal puts on her Yale acceptance;

Blair’s Cleaner : “Is it war miss blair ?”

Blair : “Yes. but this one will be different. i need to wait for my moment, then im going black ops; off the radar. no accountability. i swear im goin win.”