Movie City Indie Archive for May, 2011
Forget TREE OF LIFE, What’s Up With WITTY SAYINGS OF WITTY FRENCHMEN?
[From the Film Daily archives.]
Silent Laurel & Hardy Home Movies from 1956 (3’43”)
From UCLA Film & Television Archive.
From Saturn To New York City: 2 More From THE TREE OF LIFE
[Via the watermarked website.]
Mike Mills Video-Diaries Paris For BEGINNERS
C’est anecdotique.
Teasing IRON SKY (With Bonus Udo Kier)
Can this semi-crowd-sourced still-aborning-B+-movie live up to all its advance footage? Woozy-wacky inappropriate goodness.
La Finke: Spellcheck Not Required On First Draft Of History
“Concerned Reader” sends this along. The entry was later copyedited; the time stamp remains unchanged.
1 Comment »Onto Stuart Klawans Into Page One: Inside The New York Times
The Nation’s Stuart Klawans is a too-little-known treasure among film critics. At Film Comment, he writes about Page One: Inside The New York Times. Sing: “Above all, you have David Carr. To allow him to emerge as the film’s unexpected champion of old-style journalism, Rossi and Novack rearrange chronology to create an intermittent but ongoing narrative of his reportorial feats and public appearances. It’s an impeccable decision. Like a gaunt figure from the pre-gentrified Times Square, glowering and possibly dangerous, Carr shambles incongruously into the elegance of the new Times Center skyscraper, bringing a jolt of rude, messy life into Page One with his every appearance. He is the ghost of newspapers past, with printers’ ink somehow still running in his veins. He is the character actor who effortlessly steals Page One from its leading man, the Central Casting–handsome managing editor Bill Keller.
“A man who has overcome drug abuse, imprisonment, and hand-to-mouth living, Carr carries himself like William Burroughs and speaks in the choked voice of Tom Waits, only an octave higher. He is the very image of the hipster who has lived hard—and the aura about him of the redeemed sinner lends both authority and fearlessness to his displays of moral rigor. He tongue-lashes anyone who ignorantly belittles the work of the Times, excoriates anyone stupid enough to think an aggregator’s website can substitute for consistent field reporting, and when laying bare the corporate culture of the Tribune Company, will not yield to either the distraction or the intimidation of lawyers. High principles combined with a liberating, foul-mouthed lack of all pretense: in Carr, Page One has its irresistible, truth-telling survivor.”
The rest is here. My report on (and pictures of) Carr at Sundance 2011 here.
GASLAND’s Got A Baby Sib: “My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)”
From Explainer.Net. Here.
Wild-Posting Chris Marker’s Guillaume In Paris On May 1
A little ado about something.
Picturing THE TREE OF LIFE
As Cannes-privileged naysayers gnash their cutlasses in anticipation of quickly, yet comprehensively misunderstimating Terrence Malick’s new film, Searchlight releases new images. Who made those pretty pictures, mommy? Why, that was Steadicam operator Joerg Widmer and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki!
Would this have been a more successful U. S. title for THE BEAVER?
Larry King Peddling Brooklyn Bagels In BevHills
It’s come to this.
Cannes Teaser: WU XIA (Dragon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTjHVqCq_k&feature=player_embedded