Movie City News Archive for September, 2019
Punk Leaves SF
Eight tons of punk Facing rising San Francisco rent prices, the world’s largest collection of punk records and ‘Maximum Rocknroll,’ the anti-establishment music magazine that safeguards it, must find a new home. https://t.co/moVtUxzEvV — Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 27, 2019
Read the full article »“This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare,” Chris Morris Says Of The Day Shall Come
“This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare,” Chris Morris Says Of The Day Shall Come
Read the full article »A Reader-Abusive Interview With Rian Johnson
“Oh, my god, of course. I mean, what the fuck – am I not gonna ask Don Johnson about Miami Vice?” A Reader-Abusive Interview With Rian Johnson
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Kickstarter's CEO has confirmed that the company is anti-union and will remain so. They will continue to fight against unionization and stand by the firings. His message to pro-union @kickstarter users is: drop dead, we don't need you. https://t.co/fwT4DclTTO — Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) September 28, 2019
Read the full article »“For much of The Irishman, the women are at the margins — wives and daughters, always around, rarely saying anything. This isn’t atypical in Scorsese’s work, which rarely centers on women. The worlds he makes movies about are built by men, for men. They see women as beloved and beautiful accessories, maybe tangentially helpful, sometimes irrational irritations. But The Irishman uses Frank’s perspective on the women in his life to remind us that his myopia has blinded him to the truth about himself.”
“For much of The Irishman, the women are at the margins — wives and daughters, always around, rarely saying anything. This isn’t atypical in Scorsese’s work, which rarely centers on women. The worlds he makes movies about are built by men, for men. They see women as beloved and beautiful accessories, maybe tangentially helpful, sometimes irrational…
Read the full article »“There were notions Scorsese mentioned as we start3d to prep the movie. One very early on was wanting to have a feeling of the photographic memory of the past. He mentioned Super 8 or 16mm home movies, and asked me in the general sense how I thought we could achieve that feeling without literally shooting with grainy, handheld film. So I got more into emulating the still photography look of the different decades, in particular the ’50s, and then the ’60s, and then of course a lot of the story happens in the ’70s. I decided to separate those decades with those looks, emulating those emulsions: Kodachrome in the ’50s, and toward the ’60s we transition to Ektachrome (also saturated in color, but more a blue-green tendency, and the shadow). Then for the ’70s, I transitioned into a whole different look, which is not still photography: ENR, a process that was developed in Technicolor by Vittorio Storaro, in which the silver is retained on the print of film for motion pictures, and the result is high contrast and desaturation of color. I started applying levels of this ENR look, so that basically the film starts getting drained of color in the later decades. That gives a feel of nostalgia, maybe, for the past, even though the events that are happening are not necessarily the prettiest.”
“One very early notion Scorsese mentioned as we prepped was wanting to have a feeling of the photographic memory of the past. He mentioned Super 8 or 16mm home movies, and asked me in the general sense how I thought we could achieve that feeling without literally shooting with grainy, handheld film. So I got more into…
Read the full article »Luis Ospina
We are gutted to learn of the death of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina, who graciously let us show his films in a near-complete retro back in 2016. You can watch Luis’ 1982 masterpiece PURA SANGRE free of charge on his Vimeo, among many other works: https://t.co/OvBQUUqyu0 pic.twitter.com/u3Q0Jeg8HC — Spectacle Theater (@SpectacleNYC) September 27, 2019
Read the full article »Sony, Disney To Collaborate On Third Spider-Man Property
Sony, Disney To Collaborate On Third Spider-Man Property
Read the full article »“My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don’t dig too deep into that or analyze it myself. I may say, “That scene in that movie would be perfect for this thing.” I’ll talk to my staff and say, “Oh you have to check out this film, it had this one scene that was really great!” In that sense I’m very straightforward about what my influences are. But more than being influenced by film in a tangible way that filters into my own work, I’m more influenced by things that happen in my daily life. The sunglasses that you’re wearing, somehow those sunglasses lodge in my subconscious and end up influencing me and they’ll end up in my next film and I won’t remember where they came from.”
“My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don’t dig too deep into that or analyze it myself. I may say, “That scene in that movie would be perfect for this thing.” I’ll talk to my staff and say, “Oh you have to check out this film, it had this one scene that…
Read the full article »Eccleston
"Many times I've wanted to reveal that I'm a lifelong anorexic & dysmorphic. I never have. I thought of it as a filthy secret, because I'm northern, I'm male and working class." Christopher Ecclestone shows that mental health problems affect men too 🙌https://t.co/A3aDwo4eIH — Time to Change (@TimetoChange) September 24, 2019
Read the full article »Godard
“He had jeeps stick long sharp steel fingers into the eyes of wrecked cars and toss them on their backs.” From the @guardianfilm archives, Peter Lennon’s 1967 report from the set of Godard’s WEEKEND: https://t.co/ZSSegNPZgt — The Daily (@CriterionDaily) September 28, 2019
Read the full article »Behlmer
Rudy Behlmer, Bruce Eder, Peter Cowie, the holy trinity of early Criterion laserdisc commentary tracks. — Darrell Bratz (@DarrellBratz) September 28, 2019
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: The Circus, J.C.’s Vampires, Bucket of Blood, Tracker, Black String, Major/Minor, Find Me Guilty, Pitching In … More
It not only represents the last film Charles Chaplin made during the silent era, but also the least heralded and most troubled of his masterpieces. Its production was so traumatic, in fact, that Chaplin left it out of his autobiography.
Read the full article »Movie Crazy
I grew up in NY in a movie-crazed home and went to movies all the time (neighborhood theater pictured). But my parents didn’t go to the NYFF and neither did I because it was uptown and seemed too fancy and pricey @FilmLinc pic.twitter.com/5YRvDwMUBV — Manohla Darkness (@ManohlaDargis) September 26, 2019
Read the full article »Behind The Chicago Film Scene in Fifty Entries And 23,000 Words
Behind The Chicago Film Scene in Fifty Entries, Dozens Of Portraits And 23,000 Words
Read the full article »Bela Tarr
Hello, Béla Tarr! https://t.co/a09HRipLc5 pic.twitter.com/hATdxFal1O — Ray Pride (@RayPride) September 26, 2019
Read the full article »A. O. Scott
A city so nice, they shot it a million times https://t.co/Xa1PFDLqGn — 32 across (@aoscott) September 26, 2019
Read the full article »“I have to tell you, for me, the film is 35mm celluloid. I made all my shit on 35mm celluloid. My problem is—it’s not technical, again. I don’t care about the scratches because maybe you got an old print. The problem is, the digital picture has to be a new language. But we do not use it as a new language. People are using it to look like a fake film camera. Why do they not think about a new visual language? If you see these fucking digital possibilities, you can create a new language that is only for digital technology. It’s really stupid if you believe that a digital picture will have the same quality as 35mm. Never! But you have a totally different possibilities in a different way, but you can use it. Why don’t you? It’s not my job because I do not touch cameras any more. But there are a lot of possibilities out there.”
“I have to tell you, for me, the film is 35mm celluloid. I made all my shit on 35mm celluloid. My problem is—it’s not technical, again. I don’t care about the scratches because maybe you got an old print. The problem is, the digital picture has to be a new language. But we do not…
Read the full article »“In a September 18 email, the U. S. Army instructed service members to remain aware of their surroundings and “identify two escape routes” when entering theaters showing Joker. In the event of a shooting, they were instructed to “run, hide, fight.” “Run if you can,” the safety notice said. “If you’re stuck, hide (also known as ‘sheltering in place’), and stay quiet. If a shooter finds you, fight with whatever you can.”
“In a September 18 email, the U. S. Army instructed service members to remain aware of their surroundings and “identify two escape routes” when entering theaters showing Joker. In the event of a shooting, they were instructed to “run, hide, fight.” “Run if you can,” the safety notice said. “If you’re stuck, hide (also known…
Read the full article »I-Land
The I-Land is a landmark series. Most bad shows are forgettable mediocrities. This is the first true travesty of steaming services which means it’s downhill from here. The final episode has the production values of a 90s FMV Cd-Rom and the acting of The Room. — Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) September 18, 2019
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