And Learning to Drive is an adult pleasure too.
And there are a bunch of recent holdovers “for adults” worth the time: Mr Holmes, Amy, The End of the Tour, Tangerine, The Look of Silence, Listen to Me Marlon, Meru, amongst others. (I haven’t seen The Diary of a Teenage Girl.)
And there are still some good big, recent studio movies out there worth catching… Straight Outta Compton, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Trainwreck.
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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” â 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 â 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 â he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” â and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging â I was with her at that moment â 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 namedâ” “Yeah, sure â 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 Iâm on the phone with you now, after all thatâs 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 didnât seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereâs not a case of that. He wasnât using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had â if that were what the accusation involved â 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. Iâm not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, âYou know, itâs not this, itâs thatâ? Because â let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, thatâs what it lacked. Thatâs 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
…and The Gift.
I really wanted to like “American Ultra” more than I did.
Hoped it would’ve been smarter, funnier and that the action had been handled w/ more flair.
I think it wanted to be this generation’s equivalent to “True Romance.”
But it lacks the crazy genius of Tarantino’s script or Tony Scott’s ultra stylish/stylized direction.
The cast, however, is very good, and Goggins’ final scene is unexpectedly moving.
Am I imagining things, or has Kristen Stewart quietly become the best under-30 actress working in movies today? Along w/ J-Law, that is.
Shailene Woodley, Ellen Page, Saoirse Ronan, Lupita Nyongo, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Jones, Alicia Vikanda, Maika Monroe. All actresses in roughly the same age group who I rate a lot higher than Kristen Stewart, not that she’s bad or anything.
Ellen Page? Even Ellen Page doesn’t think she’s a good actress, as she is off tangling with Ted Cruz at the Iowa State Fair for her new VICE show.
But yeah, no one touches Queen Ronan. Or Fanning the Younger IMO. Or Brie Larson. Or J-Law. It’s a stacked group…
Excepting Jones (really?? the skinny English chick from that Stephen Hawkings Lifetime movie?), that’s a solid group of young actresses.
But I stand by my picks of Lawrence and Stewart.
Anyone who doubts the former “Twilight” queen’s thesping chops needs to see “Clouds of Sils Maria” (and “Still Alice”) ASAP.
i think kstewl’s doing well lately, she’s got her slightly sullen, bored thing going that makes her a bit different – though one person’s ‘bored’ is another’s ‘wooden’ – and she’s stretching her range lately. there are a lot of quite good to real-deal talented young actresses around, probably a bit moreso than the guys at the moment
I really enjoyed Jones in Ralph Fiennes’ “The Invisible Woman.” Not yet at the point of believing it was a fluke….
Jones is pretty much interchangeable for me w/ a half dozen other young Brit actresses, Et.
I haven’t seen anything yet from her that makes me think she’s anything special.
Well, Ellen Page has at least one more Oscar nomination than Kristen Stewart, for one thing. So do Jones (see Like Crazy or Breathe In sometime. I’m still mad that Amazing SpiderMan 2 totally wasted her), Stone and Kendrick. Forgot about Brie Larson, which is odd as she’s fantastic too.
Saw ’em, Wally. Did nada for me.
Huge Brie Larson fan btw.
Dr. Wally Rises: Are you sure Brie Larson is good? She doesn’t have any Oscar nominations, you know. đ
So speaking of young talented actresses, it seems like Hailee Steinfeld may have ceded the field to become a pop star. And in this case it might work. Not only does she have the backing of the most powerful woman in the world under 30 (sorry J-Law, it’s T-Swift by a mile), but her debut is decent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMpFmHSgC4Q
Speaking of adult pleasures, SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY is a total delight.
Totally agree, Cad.
In fact I commented on “Funny” in the weekend b.o. estimate blog.
Pretty stunning (and depressing) that a film as good as the Bog goes the VOD route while Owen Wilson’s other August release (that dumb-dumb action movie w/ geopolitical pretensions) goes into 2,000+ theaters.
“…. Even Ellen Page doesnât think sheâs a good actress, as she is off tangling with Ted Cruz…”
Wait…. having a life and interests outside film means she doesn’t think she’s any good at her career?? Maybe a touch of projection going on there…
So Robert Downey Jr., Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton are all bad actors too since they did political documentary work of their own at one point or another? Hmmmmmmmmm, nope.