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June 19, 2013
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“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
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Hausu (1977)
Great movie, or greatest movie?
Any chance Harrison Ford gets nominated for BSA for Morning Glory? I’ve been finding surprisingly positive reviews around the web. And since everyone’s developed amnesia about Jeremy Renner in The Town…
Saw it for the first time last night (thank you, Netflix and Criterion). I really enjoyed it, though I felt slightly underwhelmed. Perhaps my expectations were a bit too grand. Either way, it’s well worth seeing for those who haven’t. I’m just not sure if I could see myself coming back to it as often as, say, Evil Dead 1 and 2. Certainly a one-of-a-kind experience, though.
The moment Indiana Jones got an earring, Ford’s career took a nosedive off a cliff…unlikely to ever return.
DP –
just watched the Noomi Repace interview – didn’t really learn anything new about Girl with Dragon Tattoo movies – you didn’t even bring up basic plots of any of the movies – but learned more about her other movie Daisy Diamond which was only a few minutes.
Late Night wars back in the news. Vanity Fair has an excerpt of Bill Carter’s upcoming book
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/late-night-wars-excerpt-201012
On the whole, the story is what you think it is. Feckless network executives, Leno not too concerned with his image just wants to keep doing his monologue. Zucker doesn’t want to fucked with. Conan doesn’t like being treated how he was treated. All that, but I was riveted.
hey DP – have you all the new movie releases for December 2010 ? which ones haven’t you seen ?
I just got a Criterion edition bluray of Hausu the other day….gonna be my Halloween movie! Should go down perfectly with a San Francisco Giants SWEEEEEEP. (apologies to Mr. Leydon)
For all the crazy shit that happens in the movie, my fave part is still when the father tells his daughter that Leone liked his music even better than Morricone’s.
Anyone gotten any screeners yet?
quick tv question: Anyone else think Walking Dead is going to set a ratings record for AMC on Sunday?
Considering the amount of promotion since, I don’t know, sometime during the recent season of Mad Men, I think that is a safe bet. I will definitely be watching.
I’m looking forward to The Walking Dead. I hope it’s more interesting than Rubicon.
Looking forward to The Walking Dead too.
AWESOME AWESOME interview with KRISTEN STEWART, the most important person in the universe and sexiest actress and best actress ever, ever, ever in today’s LA TIMES Calendar Section!!!
YEP YEP YEP YEP. RILEYS POWER ALL SHALL BOW.
Plus they interview her LITTLE FRIEND Dakota for some SAGE ADVICE and it’s awesome how they are FRIENDS and SUPPORTIVE OF ONE ANOTHER.
They are like ebony and ivory, like milk and cookies, like the Abbott and Cosetllo of Hotness: Perfectly complementary (notice correct spelling) and FETCHING.
I like how in the interview KRISTEN says some LITTLE WORDS and TALKS and HAS IDEAS. CUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!
LOOK AT HER!
Just saw a DUE DATE spot with a Barry Manilow song (and Downey singing it no less). Brilliant. No one below 35 (45?) will recognize the song, but I think it’s inspired. That kind of obscure thing makes me want to see movies.
The more TV spots I see for Due Date (including last night during the World Series game), the less funny I think it looks. Zach G’s playing Alan again, and all of the road trip shenanigans are obvious and overall pretty dull. It looks really stupid.
The spots for Due Date haven’t made me laugh once. Zach G. is a spaz. Robert Downey Jr is annoyed. 2 hours of that? Pass.
But i didn’t think Hangover was funny, at all. I never understood all the love that movie got.
Any awards screeners, you mean? Yes, a few. Animal Kingdom, Naomi Watts movie I don’t even remember title of, Please Give, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Restrepo.
also ‘solitary man’, ‘city island’ and ‘a film unfinished’…
The Ed Helms song alone was worth it.
They’re more like the Clark and McCullough of hotness.
Old Fuck Cadavra FTW!
I’m with Anghus. “From the director of THE HANGOVER” are the six words that would keep me from seeing a Downey picture.
You guys are nuts. HANGOVER RULES, one of maybe two big comedies of the last couple years (OBSERVE AND REPORT being the other) that felt like REAL MOVIES, actually cinematic and a MOVIE instead of just a parade of jerkoff references from Apatow’s bottom drawer.
That said, Zach G was annoying even BEFORE The Hangover. He HAS done some serious/quality movies (Into the Wild, etc), so much like Jack Black, who is talented as well– WHY DO THEY WANT TO DO COMEDIES????
If I were JACK BLACK, I’d have been happier being in THE FAN and THE JACKAL and I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and ENEMY OF THE STATE working with hot chicks and GUNFIRE, instead of fucking YEAR ONE with Michael Cera. Why DOES ANYONE want to be a COMEDIC ACTOR? It’s telling that the biggest comedy stars/best actors like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey couldn’t WAIT to break free of junky comedies and do some REAL ACTING. Why doesn’t Jack Black or Zach G just make movies with PTA or the Coens or Spike Jonze or Darren Aranofsky, instead of all this dumb COMEDY bullshit?
Whoever is promoting DUE DATE has f-ing RUINED the movie. I swear, there’s 9 different spots- including the Barry Manilow one which looks like a trailer highlight reel- which all show different things. Are we supposed to give a shit at this point? Are we supposed to pay to see a movie that’s been given away in the trailers and then play mental callback/connect the dots and still think it’s funny? Jesus…..irritating.
The Due Date commercials make the Downey Jr. character look more annoying than Galafianakis.