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This is about the roughest non-festival week I’ve had this year… see you when I see you…
There’s a new Gurus on the front page if you want to chew on that.
May 3, 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
Why is this a non-fest week? You guys not doing anything for AFI?
Well, in many ways, it is a fest week.
Thing is, in LA, fest press blurs into regular press. So it gets weird.
But point taken
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with Sam Worthington, Jonah Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzaxlddWbk
no Immortals reviews yet?
Actonman- The only “screening” in NE Ohio is a promo Thursday nite.
Not sure whether that’s the deal everywhere else, but it sounds like the sort of treatment that’s usually accorded Screen Gems’ lowliest genre fare.
Hardly a ringing endorsement on Relativity’s part–especially for a film by cult auteur director Tarsem.
Sounds like it has the makings of a one weekend (b.o.) wonder.
It’s really sad that a review of a new Scorsese film gets only 2 comments.
It’s a review for a film opening in 15 days. I know everyone in LALA Land likes to think that we work on their advanced schedule but we’re not. I’ll care about Hugo the week of Thanksgiving. This week, it’s all about J. Edgar and Immortals.
Yeah, obviously everyone’s interested in a new Scorsese movie, but time and again threads about some month-away deal where 90% of the readers haven’t seen it yet just turn into some deal where everyone’s riffing about their preconceptions and box-office predictions and making mind-numbing LISTS of that director’s previous movies, all of it everyone talking out their ass ’cause they haven’t seen the actual movie.
I did ask if Moretz looked cute in her Little Hat though.
Cool, here’s my Scorsese Top 10:
1. Bringing Out The Dead
2. Italianamerican
3. Life Lessons
4. Michael Jackson – Bad (music video)
5. Boardwalk Empire (pilot)
6. Boxcar Bertha
7. The Key to Reserva
8. Mirror, Mirror (Amazing Stories episode)
9. It’s Not Just You, Murray!
10. Shark Tale (I KNOW HE DIDN”T DIRECT THIS BUT HE’S SO FUNNY!)
Hugo looks like a kid’s movie, not an adult movie featuring kids. I’m a huge Scorsese fan, and it’s barely on my radar. I’m more excited for Tin Tin.
Gurus o gold is hard to comment on since many of us have seen what’s being offered. Midnight in Paris for sure, Moneyball will fade out. I bet Young Adult gets up there. And no one give me “unlikable characters” BS. I despised just about every character in Kids Are All Right, that made it in there.
Clooney’s quite a charmer, if it works I wouldn’t be surprised.
No Goodfellas? Really? COME ON XD!
yeah its an ad but its pretty cool 3d ..
Astounding 3D effects projected onto a building’s facade
8 minutes video
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/astounding-3d-effects-projected-onto-a-buildings-facade.html
Is that a joke, Lazarus?
Wow, “Shame” is as intense as advertised. But never underestimate the tendency of straight male critics to exaggerate the amount of male frontal nudity in a movie.
Good to know it rules! I’m sure I’ll be QCing the last 48 minutes in black and white in 20 different aspect ratios at Ye Olde Posthouse within the next two days.
Because you gotta transcribe the 2016 basic-cable version of that pre-release shit TODAY, AMIRIGHT?
I need a new job. The other day I had to type out the last 45 m of a movie that comes out at Christmas that I’ve been waiting YEARS to see. My job is a cineaste’s fucking nightmare.
How about a new professionally written resume Lex?
There are no job jobs available in LA… I don’t wanna go off on a woe-is-me riff, but at Age 39 you can’t settle for entry-level pay, everyone wants to hire young kids for that shit anyway… but what I’ve done for 20 years (timecode shit and tweaking frame rates and transcribing template files for overseas translation of movies/TV) isn’t something that’s APPLICABLE EXPERIENCE to any other job… I’m basically hired for my grammar/punctuation/proofreading skillz, but it’s not like there’s a newspaper/magazine industry anymore in L.A.
Yeah I suppose. 20 years at the same job. Don’t come across that very often these days.
Well, same profession, various companies, but always doing the same shit, for going on 16… A very niche job that no one really understands, and can’t be parlayed into ANYTHING else except transcribing more and more til you’re in the grave.
It’s awful. Any desk job is awful. That’s why I’m always ranting on here that it doesn’t seem like anyone here even KNOWS or can relate to the experience of going to a job, at a desk, with a computer screen, with coworkers telling you about their chili recipes, day in and day out for a decade plus.
Just seems like everyone I read here and on Twitter is just sitting at home watching BluRays or going to junkets every waking moment. I’m jealous, of course, but it doesn’t sound like any of you guys have benefits or health insurance, which are kind of a MUST in life.
Poland likes to tell me to GET OUT THERE AND DO THE WORK, but I need to make 800 a week AND have medical insurance. I can’t survive on I9 pay for freelance reviews where I’m giving some MOVIE BLOGGER my SSN, which sounds shady as hell.
I used to teach high school and have had office jobs like you describe (though not for 10+ years). I too am jealous of those attending festivals & junkets and sitting at home watching Blu-rays every waking moment. Back in the day I figured I’d have a long, fruitful career in film criticism. Not so much.
LEXG, LICENSED TEACHER is my long-stated last-gasp throw-in-the-towel profession if I’m not living the Ratner Life by 45, but I dunno… Can you START teaching at that age? Probably not.
My original point was I AM STOKED for SHAME, but I probably will have to see it under shitty movie-destroying circumstances. Life sucks.
Sure you can. Lots of teachers are professionals who worked in various industries and then got their certification. You could do it. And Shame looks fantastic. Sorry for derailing things.
4 million dollar photo . you guys can do better ?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/this-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-photograph
Never in a million years thought I’d see the day where Jean-Pierre Gorin, the GOD OF ALL DIRECTORS, was quoted on Poland’s Movie City News.
ROUTINE PLEASURES POWER.
lots of people don’t find Whitney the nbc show funny
will she ever get a dp/30 ? it might surprise people
how funny or unfunny she might be in real life.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/m6pef/i_hate_this_woman_and_her_unfunny_laughtrack/
Lucas gives Vader lifetime ban
http://movies.sky.com/lucas-gives-vader-lifetime-ban
cool voice dp/30 duel ..
Michelle Yeoh vs Werner Herzog both have cool voices ..
winner – Yeoh …. she explained the movie in the last 10 minutes.
loser – Herzog – first 10 minutes no clue what his movie is about. DP didn’t asked any basic questions.
but next year winner will be Herzog …he’ll do more dp/30 . Yeoh will probably not do another dp/30…unless
its at a major festival.