Movie City Indie Archive for May, 2012
Trailering Michel Gondry’s THE WE AND THE I (1’55”)
Saves on sets.
Peter Berg Blows Up His BATTLESHIP In Israeli TV Interview MNSFW (1’34”)
“What the fuck is going to happen in Israel? What’s the nickname for Benjamin, what do you guys call him? You got Bibi, and who’s his Secretary of Defense, the Defense Minister? You have two men that are now dictating the policy towards Iran. It’s a real mess, because you’ve gotta decide whether it’s better to allow Iran to be armed, and whether a nuclear Iran is less of a threat than an attacked Iran. If you attack Iran now, they’re gonna fight you back, right? There’s gonna be blood. Israelis will die, right? No question. Would you rather take that now, or let them get a nuclear bomb. It’s the most serious issue facing our planet today. More so than the movie Battleship, which I’m very excited to have directed, I love Rihanna, she’s a great actress, did a wonderful job in the film, my Dad was a Navy historian… Have you been in the Israeli army? What? How’d you get out of that, are you a draft dodger? You gotta join the army, motherfucker! How’d you get out of that?” [Via reader JR74.]
4 Comments »Don DeLillo talks COSMOPOLIS (spoilers)
From the press kit: “It all happened very quickly, actually. [The script] was incredibly close to the book. Of course, Cronenberg cut out a few scenes that couldn’t work out, but it is totally faithful to the spirit of the novel. Of course, I had no intention to make comments when I read it, it had become a Cronenberg film. It is my novel, but it is his film, there is no question about it. Then, last March, I saw the film in New York once it was completed. I was really impressed. It is as uncompromising as it can possibly be. I liked it from the very beginning, from the opening credits: what an amazing idea to start with Jackson Pollock, and to finish with Rothko, for that matter. And the final scene, with [—] and [—], is just mind-blowing! Throughout the years, there have been many proposals to adapt several of my books, but they have never come through. I thought that adapting ‘Cosmopolis’ would be particularly tricky, since most action is confined within a car, which doesn’t translate well to the screen. But not only did Cronenberg respect that, he also shot in the limo some scenes that originally happened elsewhere, like the sequence with Juliette Binoche, for instance.”
On his novels, often fixated on movies, being hard to adapt: “I thought that ‘Libra’ or ‘White Noise’ could easily be turned into films, but apparently it is very complicated. I don’t know why. Anyway, don’t expect me to take care of it myself and write a screenplay… Read the full article »
1 Comment »Trailering Resnais
If such a thing were possible, this looks potentially even nuttier than Wild Grass. And the “David Boring”-style title treatment!
Vidal Sassoon: Mayfair’s Hot New Hairstylist! For 1955 (1’22”)
Bronson Allen’s FAREWELL CUMBERLAND CINEMA (4’50”)
[Via Norm Wilner.]
Adam Yauch Performing “Three MCs and One DJ”
One of multiple angles from the Criterion DVD collection. Directed by Nathaniel Hörnblowér. [Via Criterion.]
In 1986, The Beastie Boys Terrified Oprah And Dogmatic Tipper Gore (2’49”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJAGJ8ckmZY
1 Comment »The Magnolia Moment At Laemmle’s NoHo 7: The Week Of May 11
Pre-VOD Preview City for the week of May 11. [Via Stephen Saito.]