Blogging At The Dance
Hey all –
The blog will become a photo space during Sundance. I may do some regular blogging along the way… but for now… photos!!!
April 20, 2024
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Keep them coming. The pictures add something festive to the blog. Appreciate it much. Thank you.
Hey Dave, what movies are you seeing?
seems like they have a better quality of flicks this yr than in yrs past.
Hey Dave, how about an Oscar column or at least a post about it? You do count down from twenty weeks out for the event and then nothing? Paul G got royally shafted.
I think Dave Poland is well advised to ignore this blog utterly until such time as he can institute a registration policy and keep ass-wipes like you and bob from ruining everything. I’ve always gotten the impression that David leans a bit to the right of the political spectrum, based on his headlines on Movie City News, but I’m sure he must still be mortified at the like of you characters representing “conservative thought” around here. Like Peppers, I’m through slinging poo with you morons. If things don’t improve, I’ve got plenty of other places to discuss films besides this convention of village idiots. Have fun with your toys.
gombro give the speeches a rest. ur the worst of the lot here. another guy who can’t discuss a movie. ur the guy arguing over spike lee and u have never seen his films! wowzers
bb, you’re as think as a whale sandwich, you know that sonny boy? Just becasue Gombro hadn’t seen ONE specific Spike Lee film doesn’t mean he wasn’t right to call you on your racist postings about Lee. Go back to eating your mud and molesting your daughter.
now i’m a racist because i think spike lee is a terrible filmmaker. get ur priorities straight jonny angel. hes a hack. the guy couldn’t direct an episode of scrubs. maybe gombro should actually SEE a movie before he defends it. thats all we’re asking here.
You asked “what was the last good review Spike ever got?” and Gomby said: “From Richard Roper for SHE HATE ME.” How is that defending the film? He was just calling you on your lie that Spike Lee hasn’t gotten ANY good reviews since Do the Right Thing.
Sharp as a bowling ball, you are…..
One review out of 90 said it was good? Someone get Lee his Oscar for She Hate Me. Lee is a terrible director who has failed to live up to the early promise he showed with Do The Right Thing. It is a shame.
got some real genuis’ here. 5 people think spike lee is an autuer who can do no wrong and his master piece is she hate me. amazing what kind of kool aid some people drink