- Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (NYT Mag) – If Aline Brosh McKenna were to write a script about her life, it might open with McKenna, wavy-haired and underdressed, hopefully showing her work to a series of unsmiling magazine editors in New York. Discouraged but not defeated, she eventually screws up her resolve and decides to take a course in screenwriting. Cut to a classroom where student after student offers high-flown ideas for films that will never be made, until at last McKenna speaks: “I want to make a caper comedy about two girls, and one falls in love with someone she thinks is a criminal who turns out to be an F.B.I. agent.”
- Roger Ebert interviews Lee Marvin – Esquire, 1970 – "I need a beer," Marvin said. "Who's gonna get me a beer? I'm gonna get me a beer? I feel like a beer. Hell, I need a beer. Where are my glasses?" He peered around him. "Ever read this book? I got it for Christmas or some goddamn thing. A history of the West. Look here. All these cowboys are wearing chaps. Workingmen, see. Look here. Bronco Billy all dressed up in the East's conception of the Western hero. See. From a dime novel. That's how authentic a Western we made when we made Monte Walsh. Where's that beer? That author, he knows what it was really like. Get me a beer."
- Walter Murch: Dense Clarity — Clear Density –
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 24.08.2011 – 27.08.2011
- The Hollywood Producer Who Survived Catastrophe – Sample of a story from The Atavist
- Peeder Jigson's Video Diaries: Making of The Hobbit –
- The Godfather (1972) – [Full Movie] – YouTube – että ööh tämmöisen sitten panivat ja tuota
Arvostelu: Tree of Life syleilee koko maailmaa
Mistä puhumme kun puhumme Tree of Lifestä? Puhummeko Terrence Malickista, joka tekee elokuvia niin harvakseltaan, että jokainen ensi-ilta on tapaus? Puhummeko elokuvasta, joka voitti Cannesin Kultaisen palmun? Puhummeko dinosauruksista, jotka yhdessä vaiheessa ilmestyvät valkokankaalle? Puhummeko pirstaleisesta rakenteesta, utuisesta kertojasta, omituisesta lopusta?Kuulostaa monimutkaiselta, mutta ei ole ja samaan aikaan on.
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 22.08.2011
- Why Stupid Sequels Ruin The Originals, Too –
- The Film Snob's Dictionary, Volume 3 –
- Magnificent Obsession – One of the great tragedies in cinematic history was the fate of Orson Welles’s 1942 epic, The Magnificent Ambersons, which was cut, reshot, and mutilated by studio functionaries while its visionary director was working on another project in Brazil. Sixty years on, the 132 minutes of the original version—if indeed they exist—are still the holy grail of certain film buffs. The author follows the making, and unmaking, of a movie that Welles believed was the death of his Hollywood career.
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 21.08.2011 – 22.08.2011
- The Film Snob's Dictionary, Volume 3 –
- Magnificent Obsession – One of the great tragedies in cinematic history was the fate of Orson Welles’s 1942 epic, The Magnificent Ambersons, which was cut, reshot, and mutilated by studio functionaries while its visionary director was working on another project in Brazil. Sixty years on, the 132 minutes of the original version—if indeed they exist—are still the holy grail of certain film buffs. The author follows the making, and unmaking, of a movie that Welles believed was the death of his Hollywood career.
- A Proper Hollywood Restaurant – At the Tower Bar, you have your table, and if you are Ms. Huston or Ms. Aniston or Bill Murray, you also have your own white linen napkin embroidered with your name in cursive chocolate-brown script. If you are Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or Mr. Grey, the Paramount executive, you have your favorite house-baked chocolate chip cookies delivered by Mr. Dmitrov to your table along with dessert.