I’m running a little contest over on idrinkyourmilkshake.com: for a chance to win one of five There Will Be Blood DVDs, grab your camera phone or webcam and upload a video of yourself saying the line that gave the site its name. The video above is the entry by IDYM regular EatHimByHisOwnLight. As a matter [...]
Milkshake Contest
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/20/milkshake-contest/
Paul Thomas Anderson
“You’ve got a serious artist crush,” Marcy remarked — a statement, not a question — when I sent her a link to a gallery of adorably geeky photographs of Paul Thomas Anderson during the Hard Eight period. Guilty as charged: I’ve been rewatching and reassessing and obsessing over all five of PTA’s films, reevaluating Punch-Drunk [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/07/paul-thomas-anderson/
I Milk Your Drinkshake!
Via idrinkyourmilkshake.com, where Blood obsession is still in full swing. Some recent favorites: Incredible revelations: the Peachtree Dance and Henry’s diary are both derived from East of Eden. Eli doesn’t get to bless the well, but he blesses Daniel’s house. More on the Greystone Mansion. Napkinface: “There is no sex.” More. Drinking, eating, smoking in [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/05/i-milk-your-drinkshake/
Berlinale Journal, Day 3
Homewrecking karate teachers, hard-partying Finns, and two thumbs up from Daniel Day-Lewis: I’m having a fine time at the Berlin Film Festival. My latest update, sent from woefully sparse wifi hotspots between marathon screenings and hurried curry sausage meals, covers six more movies: Black Ice, Auge in Auge, Shiver, Gardens of the Night, Chiko, and [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/02/10/berlinale-journal-day-3/
Giant
The promising first half of George Stevens’ Texan epic sets up a tiresome three-and-a-half-hour descent into mediocrity. Displaced northern bride Liz Taylor slowly fades from the center of the story, nouveau riche James Dean is woefully misused, children come and go, and Rock Hudson’s stubborn cattle rancher is granted an improbable redemption. Giant keeps pulling [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/26/giant/
I Drink It Up
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have traveled over half our state to get here this evening. I couldn’t get away sooner because my new site was coming in at idrinkyourmilkshake.com. That site is now flowing at two thousand hits per day, and it’s paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/10/i-drink-it-up/
There Will Be More Blood
Between the noontime press conference at the Waldorf and the Ziegfeld premiere, Monday completely belonged to There Will Be Blood. If celebrity sightings are your thing, I’ve got a few stories for you — but I’d hate to namedrop Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, John Leguziamo, and the kid who played H.W. just for the sake [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/12/12/there-will-be-more-blood/
There Will Be Blood
There will be puns, there will be awards, there will be awesome. Based on Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, Paul Thomas Anderson (whose movies I often failed to appreciate in the past) has made a magnificent epic about the price of the precious resources, liquid and otherwise, that we extract from the ground — and from other [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/11/29/there-will-be-blood/







