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Lesbian Hooks as Cannes Cooks: SpoutBlog Week In Review
Enter our Presidential Zombie Photoshop Contest! And if you need inspiration, watch the brilliant Aussie zombie short I Love Sarah Jane. Karina in Cannes: Follow her here. Also: Black Downey Jr. Billboards; Damme on Van Damme; THINKfilm’s Cannes do; Waltz With Bashir trailer; Sex on the way to Cannes. The “controversial” lesbian kiss revealed: Vicky Cristina Barcelona […]

• Enter our Presidential Zombie Photoshop Contest! And if you need inspiration, watch the brilliant Aussie zombie short I Love Sarah Jane.
• Karina in Cannes: Follow her here. Also: Black Downey Jr. Billboards; Damme on Van Damme; THINKfilm’s Cannes do; Waltz With Bashir trailer; Sex on the way to Cannes.
• The “controversial” lesbian kiss revealed: Vicky Cristina Barcelona trailer and sexy screencap.
• 5 Reasons Brad Pitt Should Play Thor.
• 5 Reasons Why Speed Racer’s Failure is Bad For Movies. By the way, it’s failure was bigger than initially announced.
• Louise Brooks, still sexy at 78 in ‘84.
• Roger Corman, worthy of a doc in ‘08.
• The Angelika Film Center whores itself for Sex (and the City: The Movie).
• On the podcast: interviewing internet-famous filmmakers.
• Downfall is a huge hit with YouTube spoofers.
• Why not let Uwe Boll make a GTA movie? At the end of the day (and word), he might be the most awesome filmmaker ever.
• Cronenberg’s remaking Timecrimes (and Herzog’s remaking Bad Lieutenant).
• Jessica Alba + Charlie Chaplin = more feminist film theory.
• Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic may be the Rocky Horror of political satire.
• Fear and Loathing in Cinevegas: the most psychedelic film festival promo ever?
• Karina professes her love for Jennifer Jones, whose tribute she’ll be missing.
• Who’s that blue guy in the Magneto movie?
• What’s that iPod doing in Wall-E?
• How’s the twist in The Happening?
• Steven Boone watches The Bank Job at a halfway house.
• Indiana Jones = bad archaeologist; Nazis = good archaeologists.
• Robert Rauschenberg, R.I.P.

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Robert Rauschenberg, Dead at 83
Robert Rauschenberg, one of the last great post-war American artists still standing as of yesterday, has died at the age of 83. The New York Times has a four page obit. Above, in unlabeled footage from a documentary (if you recognize the film, let us know in the comments), Rauschenberg describes the making of his […]

Robert Rauschenberg, one of the last great post-war American artists still standing as of yesterday, has died at the age of 83. The New York Times has a four page obit. Above, in unlabeled footage from a documentary (if you recognize the film, let us know in the comments), Rauschenberg describes the making of his famous Erased DeKooning.

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Jessica Alba and the Female Gaze
You’ve been looking at Jessica Alba for years. Now it’s her turn to look back.

If there’s one actress working today who best reinforces the theories of Lauren Mulvey, it’s Jessica Alba. And she encourages the male gaze by maintaining a career centered on playing eye candy, whether she’s having her skirt ripped off to expose her underwear (Good Luck Chuck), spending the majority of a film wearing a bikini (Into the Blue), playing a stripper (Sin City), being used to invoke jealousy (Meet Bill) or invoking erectile gags out of Mike Myers (The Love Guru). Perhaps someone should write a lengthy article on the myriad ways in which Alba relates to feminist film theory. I think her role as Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four movies and her blind character from The Eye (who identifies herself with the dead woman whose eyes she acquires) can each inspire a few interesting theses.

Obviously Alba is aware of the male gaze and may in fact be controlling it. It’s possible even that her participation in the online staring contest at ibeatyou.com is a matter of ironic reflexivity. Watch the clip of her first-place-winning stare and you’ll understand what I mean. It’s like she’s welcoming our lustful eye and then seemingly returning the gaze, hypnotizing us into thinking she desires us, too. Certainly there are a number of men out there becoming simultaneously turned on and disturbed by this video. And hopefully there are some feminist critics taking notes on it as well.

[via The Superficial]

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