By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Link Dump: 'The Week That Wasn't' Edition
Wherein the editor rubs his eyes and begs your forgiveness for everything he is not and can never be. Or at least for not playing close enough attention to these news nuggets when they were actually news:
–James Gray inches ever closer to ownership of New York’s all-time crime-cinema pathology with his next project, the undercover-journalist saga Alphabet City. Gray, who just wrapped the mob flick We Own the Night for 2929 Entertainment, will rewrite Steven Knight’s script (based on his novel) and shoot next spring for the Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures.
–Speaking of journalists, Roger Friedman is a bad one.
–The Tribeca Film Festival announced Thursday that it will partner with the brand-new RomaCinemaFest for a film-exchange program at its debut in October. Next spring, we get a slate of premieres from Rome. This is an incalculably shrewd move: I hear Italian cheese importing is huge in these parts.
–Matt Dillon was at his monosyllabic best a week ago at Lincoln Center, where the Film Society’s Young Friends of Film screened Factotum and welcomed him for a Q&A. A few displeased fans told Page Six “he didn’t even say ‘thank you'” for individual praise that followed the screening. Take it from someone who knows: Matt Dillon can only love one man. Drink your $60 wine and shut up.
–Holy shit: I guess Lou Diamond Phillips can get arrested in Hollywood after all.
–The lovely folks over at the upstart blog Blank Screen direct us to Home Movie Day, a national event enjoying its New York incarnation Saturday, Aug. 12, at Anthology Film Archives. The bad news: No video allowed, so your amateur porn is of no use. The good news: Your parents’ 8mm sex footage from 1975 might have just enough grainy, ironic value to pass muster.