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Trailer Park: Being Elmo

Documentary about Kevin Clash, the man behind (inside) Sesame Street's Elmo [SHOULDN'T THIS COME WITH A SPOILER ALERT? ED]

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27th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Radiohead TKOL RMX

More Radiohead activity - King Of Limbs remix album TKOL RMX is out on Monday, and they played Lotus Flower and Staircase on SNL this weekend, introduced by Alec Baldwin. Here's the vowel-defying tracklist:

1. Little By Little (Caribou RMX)
2. Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene RMX)
3. Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake RMX)
4. Bloom (Harmonic 313 RMX)
5. Bloom (Mark Pritchard RMX)
6. Feral (Lone RMX)
7. Morning Mr Magpie (Pearson Sound Scavenger RMX)
8. Separator (Four Tet RMX)
9. Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Houseghost RMX)
10. Codex (Illum Sphere RMX)
11. Little By Little (Shed RMX)
12. Give Up The Ghost (Brokenchord RMX)
13. TKOL (Altrice RMX)
14. Bloom (Blawan RMX)
15. Good Evening Mrs Magpie (Modeselektor RMX)
16. Bloom (Object RMX)
17. Bloom (Jamie xx Rework)
18. Separator (Anstam RMX)
19. Lotus Flower (SBTRKT RMX)

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25th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Star Status: Peter Weir

How does Peter Weir rate in the Chimpomatic Star Status Movie Maths Generator?

It's 10 points for a Hit, 5 for a Maybe and 1 for a Miss... No TV movies or shorts, just cinema releases to date.

After re-watching Dead Poet's Society recently, for the first time since its release, I was struggling to think of a non-spectacular film by Australian director Peter Weir.

A quick disclaimer: I haven't personally seen early efforts Three To Go or The Last Wave but IMDB rates them 8.2 and 7.1 - so I've erred on the side of caution (due to their enthusiastic rating) and rated them Hit / Maybe here.

The Way Back (2010) MAYBE
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) HIT
The Truman Show (1998) HIT
Fearless (1993) HIT
Green Card (1990) HIT
Dead Poets Society (1989) HIT
The Mosquito Coast (1986) HIT
Witness (1985) HIT
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) HIT
Gallipoli (1981) HIT
The Last Wave (1977) MAYBE
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) HIT
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) MAYBE
Three to Go (1971) (segment "Michael") HIT

HIT 11
MISS 0 
MAYBE 3 

Another disclaimer: No generosity applied to these ratings, with the possible exception of The Year of Living Dangerously, which is perhaps merely 'good'.

So that's 125 points out of a possible 140.

Peter Weir: you have scored an unbelievable 89.3%

If you dare make a purchase (and, er I think you should), you can do so here, allowing Chimpomatic to profit from his success. Check back soon for more Star Status movie maths. Same Chimp Channel, same Chimp Time...

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23rd Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Terrence Malick breaks cover

The picture above left has served as one of the only publicly available images of reclusive director Terrence Malick for a couple of decades - but last week he popped along to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, with Christian Bale and a camera crew.

Bale must have gotten a hall pass from the still-shooting Batman sequel, as he was swanning around around the festival playing some sort of rockstar type - check out the fascinating video here. It had been announced that Bale was cast in a Malick film, set to shoot in 2012, so this shoot may have only been a test - or just grabbing the opportunity to film at a large event like this - but a possible project could be something based around the life of Jerry Lee Lewis that Malick has been working on, which would tie in with the casting of the much-younger-than-Bale Haley Bennett as the other lead. More pics and info here, here and here.

Probably the most surprising thing about all of this is that Malick still looks exactly like that archive photo, right down to the hat.

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20th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Hard Time(s)

Looks like Fugazi's Brendan Canty and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore have been supplementing their income - both working on (amongst others) the documentary series Hard Time for Nat Geo. Thurston provides narrations, Bredan provides the score...

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15th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Super Pixel Bros

today's "a lot of time on my hands" entry - Super Mario Bros rendered in 64 pixels

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15th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet