MCN Blogs
David Poland

By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

Posted Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 - 11 Comments »

Hate To Even Mention Him…

But a friend inspired me to reflect on Jeffrey Wells for a moment and with Sundance just a few weeks away, I was inspired to dig up WellsDance.

11 Comments »

11 Responses to “Hate To Even Mention Him…”

  1. PandaBear says:
    December 28, 2005 at 1:25 pm

    That’s great. Now you just need pictures of his kids.

  2. RoepersGottaGo says:
    December 28, 2005 at 1:28 pm

    Forget Wells. How about Andrew Sarris putting Sin City in his top 10? He must have a thing for Jessica…

  3. Rufus Masters says:
    December 28, 2005 at 1:43 pm

    Sin City in a Top 10? Of Frank Miller novels?

  4. Mark Ziegler says:
    December 28, 2005 at 2:09 pm

    Just for that Wells is going to write another column on how good Munich is yet how much he hates it. Get ready.

  5. Crow T Robot says:
    December 28, 2005 at 2:13 pm

    Hilarious. David Poland you are the Samantha Bee of Oscar bloggers.

  6. Mongoose says:
    December 28, 2005 at 3:33 pm

    You gotta love Jeff Wells – that’s some great stuff.

  7. joefitz84 says:
    December 28, 2005 at 3:50 pm

    If this whole writing thing doesn’t work out for him he definately has a career in photography lined up and ready to go.

  8. DanYuma says:
    December 28, 2005 at 7:30 pm

    Heh, oldie but a goodie. I haven’t been able to read any of Wells’ more photo-clogged entries without remembering that.

  9. Geoff says:
    December 29, 2005 at 6:14 am

    Very funny stuff, Dave.
    Jeffrey Wells is about as pretentious as they get. He is still fun to read, at times, but the photo stuff on his column reminds me of all these boutique shops and restaurants you walk into, around the city, that put up framed signed photos of C-list celebrities on their walls to show how hip they are.
    “Frankie’s Pizza doesn’t suck!!!!
    Love,
    Hank the Angry Dwarf from the Howard Stern Show.”

  10. palmtree says:
    December 29, 2005 at 10:45 am

    I missed it the first time around so thanks!

  11. quizkid82 says:
    January 1, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Check out this beautiful expression of holiday cheer from the top of WIRED this morning:
    “Oh, yeah…I might as well say ‘Happy New Year’ to everyone. A lot of people said this to me last night, and I said it right back. And as far as it went, I meant it.”
    Oh, Jeff, you warm my heart.

Leave a Reply

The Hot Blog

Comments Most Recent Archives

Quote Unquotesee all »

“I don’t really think, Sean, that you need to know about my various sexual liaisons. Or that anyone else needs to. I did write about them. I filled a hundred pages of Moleskine notebooks with my one-night stands, my affairs. But I decided they didn’t belong in a professional memoir. First of all, these are real people we’re talking about. Many of them were enjoyable. Some were abject failures. My wife said to me when she read the pages, ‘Of what purpose is this in a memoir? Of what purpose is this other than to titillate?’ The point is, I never see them. It’s because I have nothing in common with them, frankly. And probably didn’t at the time. I could not provide a sensible reason why I married these women. The thing is, in the case of my marriages, it takes two people to fuck up a marriage. It wasn’t simply the fault of these women that I lost interest in them and realised they were insignificant relationships. Which is how I look at them right now–as being insignificant. I see them as blips.”
~ William Friedkin On Cutting Interviewers Off At The Sass

“I have to imagine from Mr. Spielberg’s point of view, the paradigm shift in the 1970s was just the new “normal,” a “halcyon era” from which we are straying in the 21st century–because theatrical exhibition is tenuous (as it has been since the 1940s), the home video market has dried up and people are watching pirated movies on their phone. Spielberg’s coming-of-age era was for him the halcyon period that the 21st century “implosion” will cause to go “crashing into the ground.” But he is wrong. The market for movies is actually diverse and highly segmented–although from the top-down movie industry vantage point and media punditry you would not think this to be true.  Would we really mourn for Mr. Spielberg or ourselves if Lincoln would have been made for cable or had played on public television?  Is it bad for humanity that cable television is creating wonderful, resonant stories in long-form series that people want to watch at home on TV (or streamed onto their computer)? I don’t think so, but it is a paradigm shift and it might affect people’s theatrical moviegoing habits. Televisions in people’s homes have had that effect for seven decades–it is not a new phenomenon. As Art House cinema impresarios we need to focus on what WE can do at our theaters and in our communities. It is not productive for us to fret over what pundits say or about what well-meaning filmmakers like the Stevens–Spielberg and Soderbergh–say. We should fret about what we can do in our communities. What we can do to support filmmakers.”
~ From A Response By Russ Collins, CEO, Michigan Theater–Ann Arbor And Director, Art House Convergence, To Mr. Spielberg