I don’t read many magazines, watch much tv, listen to much radio or visit many sane websites, so I tend to be out of touch. The rest of you probably already know then about Steven Soderbergh’s project ‘Guerrilla’, starring Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara de la Serna.

The film will tell how in 1964, Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara travelled to New York City to address the United Nations.

It had to happen, I mean the physical similarities are so striking somebody had to cast him as Che.

Pity it won’t be completed till 2008.

Update: it seems this film has a rather odd history… not sure exactly but it seems Terrence Malick was supposed to make a film about Che Guevara starring Del Toro, but he pulled out. Then Soderbergh got involved and seemingly split the film into two projects… this one and one called ‘The Argentine‘. Which also stars Javier Bardem. Two films about Guevara for the price of one with excellent actors.

Bif’s previous post where David Lynch sits on a street corner with a cow led me to look up his forthcoming film: Inland Empire.

It stars Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons and Harry Dean Stanton. Oh and ‘Laura Palmers Mum‘ seems to be in it too. There’s some other great actors in the film too… William H Macy is in it, as is Naomi Watts (or at least her voice),

The plot summary from IMDB goes as follows:

Married actress Nikki (Dern) is offered a role in a motion picture which is to be directed by Kingsley (Irons), Nikki’s co-star is called Devon (Theroux). Nikki’s role is Sue, Devon’s is Billy, but they end up winding into bed with each other. They’re calling each other the names of their characters in the movie. From here on, it is impossible to tell if Nikki is actually Nikki or Sue…

I’m a HUGE Lynch fan, and this plot summary sounds like classic Lynch - and if you’re not sure what classic Lynch is… well just watch the trailer:

No idea what the Irish release date is. I’ll be holding my breath. In the meantime I can enjoy Dumbland.

If you don’t already regularly check out TCAL.net you really should. Todays excellent posts over on TCAL include:

The amazing staining cup - specially designed to stain in a pattern over time.

Henry Rollins Rant on Freedom and the Internet

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer.

All posted by Danger. What a guy.

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