Another freelancing alert: my debut piece, after all this time, as it were, for Elle.com just went up recently. It's a brief but I hope delightful survey of gender-reversal in film, featuring, among others, Anna Karina sort-of incarnating Richard Stark's tough guy Parker in Godard's Made In USA, a not-quite adaptation of The Jugger that was nonetheless close enough for rock and roll, or rather close enough for Donald Westlake to retain the rights to for a while. It gets more confusing, actually (but I try to clear things up), and begins here. The assignment had any number of attractions, and the timing of its publication does not displease; call me arrogant, but in one sense I see it as a kind of parting gift to Todd Anderman. But the piece can, I hope, be enjoyed without benefit of inside baseball.
UPDATE: And while we're at it, I've also got a review of sorts of Sofia Coppola's very fine Somewhere posted at The Daily Notebook, as it sometimes pleases me to do. Again, enjoy. Catch up after the weekend!
If you haven’t seen it, check out Fumihiko Sori’s “Ichi”, with a young female in place of Shintaro Katsu. Soundtrack by Lisa Gerrard.
Then there’s Kathy Bates playing the Charles Vanel part in the American remake of Les Diaboliques.