
BY KELLY CONABOY |
Kelly's Curated Internet: 'Napoleon Dynamite' Turns 10, A 'Boyhood' Missed Connection, and Larry David's Broadway Debut

This week on the 'net, we learned that Carrie Brownstein will complete an unfinished Nora Ephron project, we celebrated Napoleon Dynamite’s tenth anniversary—as well as the Blair Witch Project’s 15th—and visited the Greenwich Village apartment that inspired Rear Window. Plus a whole lot more! Let’s dive right in, shall we?
- Hey, did you happen to miss the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival's dates and submission deadlines? They were announced this week! Check them out here, and--while you're at it--check out Ron Howard's advice to filmmakers.
- It was announced this week that Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein is going to complete Nora Ephron's unfinished Lost in Austen screenplay. The screenplay is based on a U.K. television series in which a Brooklyn woman is transported to the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
- "Every second of your lived experience represents new connections among the roughly 86 billion neurons packed inside your brain. Children, then, can become literally incapable of thinking and feeling the way their grandparents did. A slower, less harried way of thinking may be on the verge of extinction." Michael Harris for Wired on how the Internet's omnipotence is affecting the way kids learn to interact with the world.
- "You Farted During Boyhood”: FilmDrunk shares a particularly memorable Boyhood missed connection.
- Larry David is going to make his Broadway debut in a comedic play about "a death in a family," which he started writing last summer. He spoke to Patrick Healy about it for the New York Times.
- "The unfixable enigma of Twin Peaks."
- It has been ten years since Napoleon Dynamite was released, which is absolutely insane. Kyle Buchanan wrote a piece for Vulture to celebrate its anniversary.
Celebrating 10 sweet years of #napoleondynamite with @hederjon @tinamajorino @HaylieDuff and @EfrenRamirez. pic.twitter.com/vhdSCY3zez
— Stephanie Kahan (@SMUSteffyLou) July 14, 2014
- Reflecting on the James Brown biopic Get on Up, here's Grantland with three steps to improving movies about the lives of musicians.
- This week, Kate Losse wrote for Model View Culture about why efforts to bring women into tech will fail as long as their work is thought of as less valuable. (h/t MediaREDEF)
- "As they respond to the rapid change in viewing habits, Nickelodeon and other children’s television networks are seeking the right balance of programming for traditional and digital screens." Emily Steel on Nickelodeon’s digital generation.
- Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff wrote this week about how The Blair Witch Project--which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary--changed the face of horror.
- "It’s a film of purposeful and often brave excess, one that makes a core virtue of going too far, of pushing scenes and moments past their breaking point. Boogie Nights is perfect. Magnolia is ragingly, deliberately imperfect, a raw and ragged film that’s all the more powerful for its visible seams." Nathan Rabin wrote about "the beautiful imperfection of Magnolia" for The Dissolve.
- Spurred by the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Mike Ryan wrote for ScreenCrush about his exhaustion with cinema's "I need your blood" trope.
- "Inside the real Greenwich Village apartment that inspired Rear Window"
- This week I'll leave you with Ben Burtt, Star Wars' sound designer, talking about the process of creating voices for R2D2 and Chewbacca. Of Chewbacca's, he says, "It's a voice which is manufactured completely out of animal sounds, principally bears." (h/t MediaREDEF)