Spike Lee, the director of the incisive documentary, “When the Levees Broke,” says he’s considering revisiting the subject of Hurricanes Katrina and its disaster effect on New Orleans.
“I’m going to go back, not just to New Orleans but to other areas affected, because it’s not over,” he said. What the press is not really talking about is the mental state — suicide, self-medication. It’s horrible.” Lee also said that “The Wire,” creator David Simon might be making a feature-length film on the same subject. Lee hopes his recently announced Michael Jordan documentary will debut at Cannes next year. Much to our beef-loving chagrin, Clint Eastwood’s name doesn’t come up once in the interview. [Hollywood Reporter]
Knocking rotund loser movie “critic” Harry Knowles is like fishing with dynamite, but this trenchant little diss from Vulture about the Ain’t It Cool headmaster’s contempt for “The Love Guru,” is so damn hilarious we wished we had thought of it first. The New York magazine blog notes that quality-control Knowles has previously embraced, “Semi-Pro,” “The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas,” “Rambo V,” “Beerfest” and “Speed Racer” which he called “the single greatest trip since the final sequence in Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Amazing. [Vulture]
Judd Apatow recently accepted a Hollywood Reporter award for something or other. The video is surprisingly not that funny. [HRblog]
The Weinstein Co. will put on a stage version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall in 2010. [Variety]
