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
Apocalypse Now and Pyscho hit Blu-ray today.
Good times will be had by all.
I had a chat with a student yesterday, and she told me her career goal was to become a film critic. As happy as I was that she had such an deep interest in film, I wound up rather depressed for her.
Storymark,
Was she hot? Hook me up.
Man, if I had FEMALE STUDENTS who had to listen to me, the world would be a better place.
The title EASY A would have a whole new meaning.
YEP YEP.
Down, Lex.
The impoverished and corrupt Eastern bloc countries have the RIGHT IDEA where you can just BUY women.
Make this happen in America.
Sexy female film critics might revive the entire practice. Imagining Rex Reed in a dress simply isn’t doing it for me anymore.
Just a random observation: doesn’t announcing a Mel Gibson camero in Hangover 2 pretty much ruin the point of having a Mel Gibson cameo in Hangover 2?
I won’t get intrigued until Zach Galifianakis makes a surprise cameo in Apocalypto 2.
Christ Lex…. she’s 14.
Was there ever a chance of it remaining a surprise? They put the Tyson cameo all over the trailer.
Is Zach Galifianakis really protesting Gibson’s cameo?
Well I don’t know… I thought you were like a college professor maybe, or you taught 12th grade.
Never mind then.
GIBSON POWER.
Gibson ought to protest Galififuckass’s entire annoying career. Dude was a fucking PRICK at open mic 10 years ago.
I do teach High School, but all 4 grades, so they range from 13-18.
Not that I’d introduce you to the 18 year-olds either.
Why must all my discussions of Apocalypse Now devolve into Zach Galifianakis anecdotes? WHY?!
🙁
For your sins…
david— could the BYOB image at the top maybe incorporate some set of images related to hot button issues? maybe a random image generator so that every person sees a new image/headline from a set of them?
it might be nice to have some suggestions for a BYOB agenda (though, yeah, that kind of goes against the whole fundamental idea of BYOB)…
anyhoo…’Carlos’— what kind of intermission is there? or is it a shortened theatrical version? somebody tell meeee…
The BYOB banner should be a giant awesome pic of like DAKOTA FANNING or CHLOE MORETZ or something.
GOOD IDEA.
Why the HELL would anyone go to a film theater to see CARLOS????? It was just on TELEVISION FOR FREE last week.
Shit, maybe FX should release episodes of TERRIERS at the Egyptian and charge 15 bucks a ticket. Long as suckers are willing to shell out that kind of money to see TV MOVIES in a theater a week after they aired.
I’m watching Shoah on my iPhone.
Fuck an iPhone.
Virgin Mobile flip-up from 2003 FTW.
YEP YEP. It’s got BLACKJACK and MAGIC HEXA on it and everything.
A rapist ear-eater is apparently more hip.
I remember getting the Apocalypse Now complete dossier at $10 and feeling like I get one of the best deals ever. It’s also making me pause in buying the Blu-Ray for $40. That and I’m kind of broke right now.
Fuck BluRay.
I already owned Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse on DVD, so I opted for the 2-disc Apoc. Now Blu-ray set. You get two versions of AN and most of the extras for half the cost.
watched Toyko Gore Police – just plain weird
trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9TyMZvF3g
Johnny Knoxville visits Detroit to check out art
30 minutes ..
http://www.vbs.tv/en-ca/watch/uneven-terrain#
can the team of Catfish have another hit movie in next 5
years ? i doubt it
Must’ve passed by that version thinking it was one of the DVDs. I already saw Hearts of Darkness off Netflix, and it’s one of the most personal and interesting stories of filmmaking and the documentary…… is very impersonal and just skims over way too much.
David, again, use images from upcoming movies or movies you like, as the photo header of this blog. Come on, work with us man. WORK WITH US!
That aside, those two BDs are worth getting one day, but today is all about going to New Vegas.
How about a tasteful B&W shot of an empty boxing ring with blood dripping off the ropes?
just finished watch the dp/30 of hereafter
and here is one review ..
“a film like HEREAFTER, in which case you’re giving up your valuable time to have a talented filmmaker present material so dull and lifeless you’d just as well sit at home and watch static on your television”
http://www.moviesonline.ca/2010/10/hereafter-movie-review/
Crazy is, apparently, contagious. Look at this clueless, meglomaniacal aside buried in Mike Fleming’s DEADLINE piece on the new “Bourne” movie:
“…Even though Damon has been uninvolved in this new picture — he found out Tony Gilroy was directing when Deadline Hollywood broke the story….”
So, if we are to believe things correctly, Ron Meyer — who’s better at Hollywood diplomacy than just about any studio exec alive — leaked to Nikki BEFORE filling in the star his studio is desperately trying to woo to continue the franchise? No wonder Damon isn’t returning.
Get over yourself, Fleming.
Interesting… but not quite sure how to make that happen.
trying to make more Bourne movies is a great example of what is wrong with Hollywood.
Matt Damon makes this great little espionage action film. It is well received. It spawns 2 sequels, but these are creatively nothing more than extensions of the first film. It’s the same story pulled like taffy to cover 3 movies.
So you got three movies out of one story. They made a lot of money. And the studio thinks “How do we keep this going?”
I liked the Bourne flicks, but i would never need to see them again. They are great style flicks that don’t really warrant repeat viewings.
Even with 3 films, would you call Bourne a ‘franchise’. Were any of the films a deviation from the original story laid out in ‘Bourne Identity’?
You could make the argument for a number of films. The Matrix Trilogy comes to mind: 3 films about the same thing. Pirates of the Carribean had 2 stories over 3 movies. Star Wars had massive passages of time between chapters. The characters were the same but the story varied. The old Bond films had self contained stories.
You could argue that Casino and Quantum were basically the same story over 2 movies.
So turning Bourne into a ‘franchise’ seems weird to me.\
Maybe it’s just me.
I’m not an action fan per se, but I really have to disagree with you here. I thought The Bourne Identity was okay, but I love the sequels. I think they’re phenomenal, and yes, I have seen them multiple times, own them on Blu-ray, etc. And what’s amazing about the third one is that, by some miracle, it actually left me hoping and praying they would make a fourth installment. There is still more to explore with that character, especially if they ever consider digging deeper into his past, possibly uncovering something that is in the books but hasn’t been in the films yet. If done with the same care and artistry as the previous two films, I would love another Bourne installment. I’m just not sure that what Gilroy’s planning will come close to filling the void, but who knows?
The “long” version is actually three 110″ films (made for TV to fit inro two-hour slots), so there would be two intermissions.
I really enjoy the whole series (I still get a kick out of the entire 3rd movie taking place just before the end of the 2nd) but the first is still my favorite. I’m certainly willing to check out another installment, even without Damon.
KRISTEN STEWART for BOURNE 4.
KRISTEN STEWART for BOURNE 4.
KRISTEN STEWART for BOURNE 4.
KRISTEN STEWART for BOURNE 4.
KRISTEN STEWART for BOURNE 4.
Think about this, and you will see it is literally THE GREATEST IDEA YOU HAVE EVER HEARD. And I don’t mean as the arm candy to some douche. I mean reboot the series with KRISTEN as the lead. Brilliance.
Now someone send me a check for thinking this up.
Seriously. Plus since the Bourne movies are all snowy and wintery and blustery, she’ll get to wear a cute hat.
Kristen and Dakota are the TWO MOST PERFECT WOMEN OF ALL TIME. The fact that they are LITTLE FRIENDS is the CUTEST THING EVER.
I hope they get in their jammies and have LITTLE PILLOW FIGHTS.
I think of this roughly eight, nine hours out of my day.
They are true beauty.
Who’s ready for a mismatched road comedy starring David Poland and LexG?
Well, they do both love Little Children.
That is a funny joke, no doubt, but Kristen is A 20 YEAR OLD ADULT, and Dakota possesses the soul and wisdom of the Masters. She’s like 16.5 going on 36, only if 36-year-old women could actually be attractive.
As I told Wells when he snapped at me for the mighty crime of saying “If I were 15 again I’d think Chloe Moretz was the coolest thing ever,” that’s some tame shit and it’s not like I’m skulking around jungle jims, which is DISGUSTING and beneath contempt.
On the flip side, we’re WAY too uptight about this; Yes, WAY better to err on that side, then the 70s-80s when I was growing up, where Brooke Shields was like blatantly fetishized in movies and ads and Drew Barrymore was closing down bars like Semisonic.
But considering EVERY FRAU IN THE WORLD is allowed to lech over Taylor Lautner and Justin Bieber, I’m not gonna feel too guilty over saying AnnaSophia Robb or Saoirse Ronan are CHARMING and DELIGHTFUL.
Who would win the cat fight between Anne Thompson and David Poland, and does anyone really want to see that?
There is no catfight or any other kind of fight coming. She should stop doing Top 5 Ways To Build Traffic But Devalue Yourself As A Journalist, that’s all.
If she wanted to build traffic, she should hire me.
Then fume as I blow off the opportunity and fail to produce any material, as I always do.
Do you think Anne Thompson would pay me my desired 75K to write a column?
FTW.
Tell any woman you’re interested in dating that too.
David, your obsession with other people’s traffic is amusing. But, perhaps, also unseemly?
How’d the “Why do we suddenly care about Michael Caine’s opinion on assisted suicide?” thing go?
I think it ran out of steam after an initial flurry of — no kidding — international interest. News cycles are getting shorter all the time, I suppose. LOL.
You truly re-define creepy.
Hahaha suck it Nolan fanboys.
POLAND GET ME SOME PRESS PASSES TO THE NEXT SCREENING OF THE FOLLOWING:
BLACK SWAN
WELCOME TO THE RILEYS
127 HOURS
UNSTOPPABLE
SOMEWHERE
You will do this. DO IT POLAND DO IT.
COME ON, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
RILEYS POWER.
YOU WILL BOW TO KRISTEN.
YOU WILL BOW TO HER.
I hear she shows her feet like the WHOLE MOVIE.
CANNOT WAIT.
Do the ads for Welcome to the Rileys state that it’s from the director of Plunkett & Macleane?
They should. That movie RULES. Also in 1999 Liv Tyler was pretty much for me what K-Stew is today.
Let’s hope K-Stew never hits a “marrying the guy from Spacehog and hitting the buffet” phase.
SHOCKER: Every “woman” complaining about that GLEE GQ cover is an unattractive feminazi.
Color me STUNNED.
Ever notice ATTRACTIVE WOMEN never complain about stupid shit? Just the fat clunky glasses TWOP types.
Fucking women.
I thought it was the conservative Parents Television Council that was complaining about the Glee GQ cover?
I don’t know, I just saw an ugly chick so I assumed she was a feminist.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
MORE IMPORTANT NEWS:
If that asshole Devin Fuckassi wants his start-up blog Bitchass Digest to succeed, he NEEDS to extend an offer to me to write for it, then pay me 75K.
David— do you have an e-mail address that I could send a sample BYOB picture suggestion to? And maybe I could also send a link to some tutorial on random image generation.
to wit: i’m a dork and would like to see you fill in the blank space on the BYOB graphic.
poland@moviecitynews.com
That was very FoxNews of you, Joe.
Not remotely concerned about Anne’s traffic. More concerned with someone with standards dipping into the cesspool for, as she noted, page views.
Same as usual for me, I’m afraid.
The Mel Gibson-is-not-in-“Hangover” news is fascinating. “Did not have the full support of cast and crew.” Hmmm, which person with power objected? Galifianakis?
Galifinakis is a fat fuckhead who SUCKS and ISN’T FUNNY and was a TOTAL COCK at open mike to me back in the day, so fuck him. Typical POLITICALLY CORRECT alterna-comic, just like his jerkoff fucking peers– Cross, Garofolo, Griffin, Paul F Thompkins. ALL assholes.
GIBSON POWER.
Zach Fuckass has never had a single moment of screen time that couldn’t have been more ably handled by DANNY McBRIDE, who’s actually funny and not an asshole.
OK, should we be shocked because something like this happened? Or because it’s taken so long for something like this to happen?
I wonder if Gibson has generated a lot more hostility — both in and out of the industry — than we (or at least most of us) have heretofore assumed.
This is, I know, purely anecdotal evidence, but: Just last night, when I mentioned to my film history students something Mel Gibson told me in an interview several years ago, one student — a young African-American male — blurted out in a not-entirely-friendly tone: “Have you talked to Mel Gibson lately?” When I told him that, no, I haven’t, he merely nodded and said nothing else. He did not appear eager to discuss the matter any further, so I moved on.
I’d say his fans are creepier. Hi Wells!
Next to my office’s storage space I heard some guy (don’t even know what his profession is) yelling about Galifinakis being “a fucking laugh— and that’s it” and things like that in regard to the gibson/hangover debacle. Is this what people are feeling around town? Or just that guy who was riled up in his office with the door open?
Lex— I would be a total dick to you at an open mic too. In fact, I hope I have on occasion, but you are completely forgettable so I wouldn’t know either way. I think everyone would be more of a dick to you here too if this whole internet thing didn’t stymy actual conversations and encourage belligerent overposting.
GET BACK ON TRACK LEX, we are routing for a succinct comeback! (I wanted to see you come back in a new more serious form after that “retirement,” but it seems to have simply exacerbated your bad tendencies.)
And to clarify: being a dick online or at open mics isn’t a cool thing to do— but I totally do it.
None of this is interesting to anyone, least of all me, but to address one point of “RDB’s” (who? Have you ever posted on MCN before? If my posts are so bad, you’re welcome to bring something new to the table):
“I wanted to see you come back in a new more serious form after that “retirement,” but it seems to have simply exacerbated your bad tendencies.”
How many “smart” and “serious” critics and bloggers are there writing about film? Does ANYBODY care? Does ANY of that shit sell? I can name 30 guys who gravitate around the whole CHUD, Cinematical, IndieWire circle who are smart and love movies, but they’re dry as fucking toast. Like, yeah, I’m NOBODY, but as even Poland has and would concede, there’s a MARKET somewhere for a horny movie critic leching over chicks and getting drunk and ranting about vag and tits and jailbait but still occasionally bringing it back home to talk about movies in a legitimate way, and the gimmick is in the balancing act.
What the world IS NOT WAITING FOR is another “smart” movie blogger, another aspiring Pauline Kael showing off their adherance to decades-old sociopolitical tenets of Film Theory they learned in college. I have NO INTEREST in writing seriously about movies, and never have.
Christian, get a life, slimeball.
LexG: “I have NO INTEREST in writing seriously about movies, and never have.”
But here’s the problem, my friend: There already are hundreds if not thousands of people writing un-seriously about movies on line. We’ve come a very long way since a relatively serious journalist could make big bucks and attract a loyal following by dumbing down and writing as a drive-in movie critic. (Full disclosure: I was witness at creation when John Bloom began writing for the Dallas Times-Herald as Joe Bob Briggs. And at the time I thought: Damn. Wish I had thought of that gimmick first.) What can you offer that isn’t already offered out there?
I’m not offering shit.
I’m just getting drunk and posting on other dudes’ blogs.
But it does boggle the mind that, say, Jen Yamato gets PAID TO WRITE ABOUT MOVIES. Who let that fucking happen?
I think Katie Couric started it all off. But come on, all this fake indingnity has done is get the photos on the evening news. Isn’t the basis of the whole musical genre and pop music about sex?
I am still laughing at this great joke above.
I am awesome.
Jen Yamato let that happen. No, excuse me, I am wrong: Jen Yamato made that happen. To quote my favorite line from my favorite Arthur Miller play: We invent ourselves.
MSPaint penises (penii?) on photos.
Hey, it worked for Perez Hilton.
Maybe a twitter account?
Yet you’re the one always telling everybody about your film degrees…and when you write seriously about film, you’re good.
no the only thing you should use is http://tinyurl. com/32uv9us