Movie City Indie Archive for December, 2011

Trailering Tony Gatlif’s INDIGNADOS

http://vimeo.com/34377474

Premiering Berlinale 2012: Gatlif shot both a fiction and documentary version of his observation of the European “Indignados,” predecessors to the “Occupy” protests around the world. Reports Cineuropa: “According to Gatlif, Indignados “plunges into the dense and palpable reality of a Europe in revolt just to be able to live, through the gaze and illusions of Betty (Mamebetty Honoré Diallo), a young African illegal immigrant.” Travelling along the edge of the borders of a Europe on the verge of collapse in terms of its social cohesion, Betty confronts this reality and the absurd situations it creates… At the same time, Gatlif has directed the documentary Indignez-vous! for Arte.” Gatlif: “This is urgent. The disorder of financial capitalism is throwing the world and its population into a crisis that is increasingly tough for millions of people, reduced to unemployment and plunged into poverty. These dark times in which we live may lead to worse still, a surge in xenophobic and racist violence, a war of civilisation, pitting nations against other nations in the name of God, the incompatibility of cultures, or quite simply hatred of the other. Cinema, like literature, music and the other arts, must fight against this terrible outcome.”

“Cry Me A River,” from DREILEBEN

Oh my. So good. From Dreileben. Wonder which of the three films? The Petzold? [Via Dennis Lim.]

Inside The Stanford Apple Archives (2’24”)

[Associated Press.]

Postering THE PAPERBOY

[Millennium Films.]

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Harvey Korman’s CARVING MAGIC (10’28”)

John Roecker’s “They’re All Out Without You,” A Green Day “Punk Opera” (29’35”)

From the Vimeo link: “Based on the Characters from Green Day’s Grammy Award Winning Album American Idiot. John Roecker who directed the soon to be released documentary “Heart Like a Hand Grenade” (“HLAHG”) about the making of Green Day’s best selling album to date—”American Idiot”—brings you his take on the characters as originally visualized from AI, what many consider to be the first true “punk rock” opera. John’s longtime friendship with Billie Joe Armstrong, (the lead singer and guitarist of Green Day) gave him insight into the band’s creative vision, and put John at ground zero… in the recording studio along with the band. John’s task seemed simply really, to document the creative process as it unfolded – honest, uncensored, and real. What emerged The American Idiot Album, now considered by many to be Green Day’s greatest musical achievement. As John continued to document the layers of creativity behind the music of AI, he started to visualize who the characters were, and what they were truly meant to be.

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Orphaned Polar Bear Cub. That Is All.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jwKwbuW2GdA

19 “For Your Consideration” 2011 Scripts Now Include MARGARET, WAR HORSE

These are PDF downloads. Streaming the Contagion score makes for a nice background. (Paramount has scripts, but only upon request and if qualified.)

Margaret

War Horse

The Artist

Beginners

Bridesmaids

Coriolanus

The Debt

The Descendants

Hanna

The Help

The Iron Lady

Jane Eyre

Martha Marcy May Marlene

My Week With Marilyn

Pariah

Shame

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Warrior

Win Win

 

Terry Gilliam’s “Happy Christmas Wishes” (1968, 2:45)

Terry Gilliam Socks

Photo: Ray Pride, Marrakech, December 2011.

Ladies & Gentlemen… Julianne Moore (:52)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V4YlDkCIoIs

Woodkid’s BORN TO DIE for Lana Del Rey

About the director: “The Evolution Of Woodkid.”

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Clipping Tony Kaye’s DETACHMENT (language NSFW)

“I used to be very angry.” February 24th on VOD; theatrical in March. More at the film’s website.

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Tex Avery Drinks The Kool-Aid (1’00)

[Via CartoonBrew.]

CONTAGION II

Trailering Guy Maddin’s KEYHOLE

Post-production diary here.

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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