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Since this is Parker Posey Week here on the blog, I'd like to talk about her new movie, The Eye, also starring Jessica Alba, who was in Sin City, which also starred Clive Owen (see how that works).

Blind since childhood, Sydney Wells, a beautiful young concert violinist (played by Jessica Alba) undergoes a corneal transplant in both eyes, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have. With the help of ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Nivola Alessandro) and her older sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney learns to adjust to her new 'sight'. But then she begins to see things -- freaky things. Is this a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real?

As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.

This movie is a remake (as is everthing coming out of Hollywood lately), but I haven't seen the original and I have to admit, the story has me intrigued. But what really caught my attention was the poster. There are so many bad ones out there nowadays and this one is very clever and creepy. I'd love to have a book cover like this.

The Eye trailer:

Labels: Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, The Eye

"I'll always have a place at the Dairy Queen."

Continuing Parker Posey Week, here are my favorite Parker roles:

1. No contest. My favorite has got to be Darla Marks, Dazed and Confused. "What are you looking at? Wipe that face off your head, bitch." Tee!

2. Libby Mae Brown in Waiting for Guffman. "My aunt brought out her atlas that I look at a lot. This big blue book and opened up to New York and it's an island, is really what it is. It's this island full of people of different colors and different ideas and I can't- It sounds like a lot of fun to me. You know, we don't see much of that in Blaine. I'd like to maybe meet some guys, some Italian guys, you know... watch TV and stuff."

3. The neurotic Meg Swan in Best in Show. "We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other."

4. Jo Malone in The Daytrippers.

5. Dorleen in Will and Grace.

6. Judy Adams in The Anniversary Party.

7. Mary in Party Girl. "I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills. "

8. Jinger Heath in Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay.

9. Sissy Knox in A Mighty Wind.

10. Tess Shelby in As The World Turns