Hot rumor of the day is that Lars Von Trier's controversial movie Antichrist, which caused the biggest ripples at Cannes this year, will be made into a PC-only videogame. Yes, the same Antichrist which features onscreen genital mutilation, said genitals belonging to one Willem Dafoe, and aforementioned mutilation occurring courtesy of Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Wii jokes are so obvious that they were stale even before they wrote themselves.
I thought Von Trier didn't like animation. Do videogames not count?
I may need to reinstall VMWare Fusion just to give this a whirl.
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Court jester of the art world Banksy gets a legal exhibit at a museum in Bristol. You can see peruse a few of the pics. Always amusing.
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NYTimes Magazine profile of Rafael Nadal.
“Every tennis lover would like, someday, to play like Federer,” Philippe Bouin told me. “But every man wants to be Rafael Nadal. Which is different.”
This profile was written before Nadal officially withdrew from Wimbledon, but that fits with its thesis which wonders if Nadal's style of play will cause him to break down physically. Very sad for the sport that he won't be there. Tennis needs Federer to face his foil.
Posted by eugene at June 19, 2009 12:11 PM