Movie City Indie Archive for January, 2011
Take The Measure Of The Sartorialist
Watched this last week, but a mention by Sean Farnel reminded me it’s good.
Happy 70?! Faye Dunaway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEUFgclIbo&feature=player_embedded
In The Control Room With “Ebert Presents At The Movies”
[Via Vishnevetsky.]
“Paul Haggis is not collaborating on Scientology book”
From e-mail: “Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, who has been the subject of online and media speculation of his involvement in a future book project about the Church of Scientology to be written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lawrence Wright, is not co-writing or collaborating in any way on the book. Wanting to clear the air, Haggis asserts that he has absolutely no involvement in the book, as was asserted by select media.
His sole involvement is as the subject of an upcoming New Yorker profile, written by Mr. Wright.
“I am a great admirer of Mr. Wright, but he has not asked me to cooperate with him on any book. I am certainly not collaborating with him on one. I have no financial or other interest in any book Mr. Wright may or may not choose to write, now or in the future,” said Haggis.
Wright notes: “Paul cooperated with me on a profile for the New Yorker which includes his involvement with the Church of Scientology. I will expand on that material for the book. Both the article and the eventual book will explore the Haggis family’s experience inside the church and their decision to leave it. Haggis has been extremely helpful and candid, but he is certainly not a collaborator. The reporting and the writing is all my work. Haggis has received no compensation for his time.”
Trailering James-Kotlowitz’s THE INTERRUPTERS
Caution: Language, Violence. Alex Kotlowitz’s New York Times piece that inspired the film is here.
1 Comment »NSFW “El Guincho: Bombay,” by Nicolás Méndez, Shot by Marc Gómez del Moral
I wish “WTF” were my middle name. After three views and I won’t pretend to make learned comparisons, but I don’t think that Yorgos Lanthimos, Gerardo Naranjo, Azazel Jacobs or Athina Rachel Tsangari would find this glorious melange without interest. A grand unified theory of everything in 5:43, with female nudity and sparklers, cassettes and whitey-white Converse high-tops, guns, tongues, rainbows, feet, and citations of kidnapping and other forms of violence in the modern world.
Holy F—! Cee-Lo’s “F— You” Performed As An ASL Final
Gush of enthused acronyms ensues.
Trent Reznor On Why Elvis Costello Didn’t Suit SOCIAL NETWORK (vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whNd1-yUEZQ&feature=player_embedded
Trent Reznor and Jon Pareles talk scoring. A different look at the TSN credit sequence four minutes or so in… [Via TimesTalks.]
2 Comments »Opening Peter Yates’ BULLITT And Trailering FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
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This must be the This is the Jean Hersholt Award that Jean Hersholt got.
Todd Haynes’ Debut Isn’t Legally Available
But somehow Google Video isn’t aware of that.
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