GreenCine Daily has an interview today with Graham Leggat, new Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society. all the talk of a new film center has me wriggling with excitement.

http://snakeburger.ytmnd.com/

Plot summary for Spider-Man 3. Nothing we didn't already know or guess. Don't click if you don't want spoilers. (via I Watch Stuff!)

somehow i missed the snakes on a plane meme, but now i'm caught up with a vengeance. i want to draw attention to one of the great quotes of entertainment history:

At some point, the film's working title was altered to Pacific Air Flight 121, to the consternation of many. In August 2005, a perturbed Samuel L. Jackson told an interviewer, "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title."

also i would like to highlight this wonderful poem from snakes on a blog:

Roses are red
sugar is cane
who puts snakes
on this motherfucking plane?!?!?!?!?!
by Snakes in Europe

Filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Daniel Clowes are teaming up on Gondry's upcoming film, Master of Space and Time, based on the novel by Rudy Rucker and set to star Jack Black. Clowes will pen the script.

The Top Ten Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed (thanks Sonia)

reuters reports on the new harry potter and narnia movies. i hope prince caspian is better than the first narnia movie, which was a bit of a let down, i thought. i want gritty realism!

I Watch Stuff! reports that Christopher Nolan is making a film version of The Prestige, an excellent novel about rival magicians in Victorian England, played in the film by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. hey, this time i actually read the book before they made the movie!

apparently nick cave wrote a movie. how'd i miss that one and have to find out about it from reuters? if you read and the ass saw the angel then you're as excited as me for this flick. now taking bets on where it plays in SF. i say the lumiere, or the bridge if we're lucky.

UPDATE: a buddy who works for Landmark says:

Landmark has picked it up and we will be showing it in a few cities starting in May. We'll probably have a run here, most likely on the next Lumiere/Opera Plaza calendar.

Dungeon Siege teaser trailer

[09:36] jason statham can make poop taste like chocolate, but ray liotta is
[09:36] acting on a first grade level in this trailer

sweet!

still not convinced

the Pacific Film Archive is running a Studio Ghibli program in June. i've always wanted to see Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and of course i won't miss the new Howl's Moving Castle. i'm not much of an anime fan really, but ever since catching Spirited Away at the San Francisco Film Festival a few years back, i go out of my way for these opportunities to see Miyazaki's work on the big screen.

just found the first teaser for the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. yeah!! i love that i live in a time where the geeks of my generation have the money and the technology to make the books we grew up with into movies. i'm so fired up for this!

the SF Int'l Film Festival kicks off in a couple weeks. i haven't been since (i think) 2002, so i'm very much looking forward to it, though i can still do without the big messy dump of a venue the Kabuki is.

my schedule:

4/21 7pm The Ax
4/25 7.15pm 5x2
4/26 7pm November
4/26 9.15pm Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4/29 6.30pm Duck Season
5/1 9pm Me and You and Everyone We Know
5/3 12.45pm Izo
5/5 7pm The Dying Gaul

update: turns out that a couple of those films weren't eligible for my CineVouchers. they happened to be the two that i was most excited about. ah well. SFIFF is always a hit-or-miss proposition. that's sort of its appeal. you have absolutely no idea which films are going to stick with you and those which will have you snoozing within 20 minutes.