Festivals Archive for August, 2010

Going To Town: Ben Affleck Rides Again

Going To Town: Ben Affleck Rides Again

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TIFF Press-Industry Screening Venue Declared Bedbug-Free

Toronto Press-Industry Screening Venue Declared Bedbug-Free

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TIFF Launches Bell Lightbox With Block Parties

TIFF Launches Bell Lightbox With Block Parties

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Manchevski Takes His Mothers To TIFF

Manchevski Takes His Mothers To TIFF

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The Teasing Tweets Of TIFF

The Teasing Tweets Of TIFF

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Gauging Wavelengths At TIFF

Gauging Wavelengths At TIFF

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TIFF Summons Pest Control

Bedbugs! TIFF Summons Pest Control To Press/Industry Venue

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Toronto Fest To Make Paparazzi Snap To

Toronto Fest To Make Paparazzi Snap To

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MZS Celebrates Waiting For Godard

MZS Celebrates Waiting For Godard

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Alain Corneau, 67, Director

Alain Corneau, 67, Director Of Tous Les Matins Du Monde; Final Film, Love Crime, Preems At Toronto

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Schnabel’s Toronto Art Show Coincides With TIFF

Schnabel’s Toronto Art Show Coincides With TIFF

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Girish Ponders The Dream Film Festival

Girish Ponders The Dream Film Festival

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Is It The End For Yorkville As A Toronto Int’l “Epicentre”?

Is It The End For Yorkville As A Toronto Int’l “Epicentre”?

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Waiting For Godard

Waiting For Godard “If AMPAS is having trouble tracking Godard down, they should probably be relieved. If he does turn up in person, it’s a fair bet that he would give a speech that would provoke far more outrage than anything Vanessa Redgrave or Marlon Brando ever said or did on Oscar night.” Macnab Sez…

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Toronto Life Picks Its Most Memorable Moments From 35 Years Of TIFF

Toronto Life Picks Its Most Memorable Moments From 35 Years Of TIFF

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How Godard Reacts To Awards

“I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.” A Telegram From Mr. Godard To The National Film Theater Once Upon An Honor And – Brody’s 2000 New Yorker Profile From A Very Brief Swiss Visit Plus – Godard’s Hélas-Pour-Vous 1995…

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Where Is Jean-Luc?

Où est Jean-Luc? Un Histoire Du Cinema Academy Cannot Locate Oscar Honoree With – Movieline’s “Missing” Poster For Jean-Luc Godard: Drôle Ou Deguelasse? But – Not As Disgusting As “maybe his cold dead corpse is slowly decomposing on the dirty bathroom floor of a seedy Swiss motel. Tee-hee.”

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Canadian Filmmaker And Artist Michael Snow Sues Condo Tower Attached To TIFF’s Lightbox Over Axed Public Art Commission

Canadian Filmmaker And Artist Michael Snow Sues Condo Tower Attached To TIFF’s Lightbox Over Axed Public Art Commission

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Howell On The History That Led From Farb’s Car Wash To TIFF’s Bell Lightbox

Howell On The History That Led From Farb’s Car Wash To TIFF’s Bell Lightbox

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David Lynch Guest Artistic Director Of Upcoming AFI Fest

David Lynch Guest Artistic Director Of Upcoming AFI Fest

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David on: Wrapping TIFF 2014

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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