- The Making of “Network” and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies – If you’ve ever wondered if everyone can equally recognize greatness, Itzkoff quotes Chayefsky’s May 21, 1975, letter to Paul Newman offering him “any part in this picture you want.” Newman turned him down.
- RoboCop: The Oral History – PV: One extremely satisfactory scene is the one where RoboCop essentially walks over water at the steel mill. A day before filming, we saw that there were these big walls. And I came to think of them as the walls of Jerusalem. That wasn't in the script, but at that moment, we decided to write about him walking on water into the scene. We also invented the part where Clarence drops the steel bars on RoboCop's head at that moment. Those steel bars were just there, and hadn't been used for years. But seeing that scene come together — that was a beautiful moment.
- In Memoriam: Shirley Temple, 1928-2014 –
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 10.02.2014 – 13.02.2014
- The reviewer projects confidence, the critic displays curiosity –
- Dave Holmes Revisits 1987 Box Office – Dragnet has pretty much been forgotten and there’s no need to remind you of it here, unless you want to see the music video for the soundtrack’s lead single, “City of Crime,” in which Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks rap and dance. Does that sound like something you’d be interested in?
- David O. Russell interviewed by Louis CK – And then you said, "Go big or go home. What are we here for? This isn't like, Let's just hang out in this room for a while then go home. This is big shit." It was inspiring. I've actually taken to that myself. I've said it a few times on the set of my show—"Let's go, guys. Go big or go home. This is not worth doing in half measures."
Slacker-alustus
Kävin puhumassa Kino Artovassa Linklaterin Slackerista. Tässä tallenne.
Muistiinpanot näyttivät tältä.
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 7.02.2014 – 8.02.2014
- Downtown Los Angeles in film: ugly past, glorious future –
- Jay Leno’s Last ’Tonight Show’ and Lasting Legacy: Saving a Tear For the Third Act – He loved his monologue. He was absolutely a pushover with his guests. He had zero right angles. His safety guaranteed A-list stars, many who were wary of Letterman. Even when confronted with a situation where his disdain for contentious interviewing could have hurt him the most — e.g., having Hugh Grant on post-hooker incident — Leno hit it out of the park. It was his signature moment.
- Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos (NYT Magazine) – Last fall, I proposed to Luhrmann that he give me a sense of what his life is like in the in-between time — the months of rebooting and reassessing, navel-gazing and nail-biting, that follow the birth of one film and precede the conception of another.
- The ’90s is a difficult era to accomplish on film in costumes –
Arvostelu: Nymphomaniac iskee tabujen kimppuun lerssi ojossa
Kriitikko Pauline Kael innostui vuonna 1972 teattereihin tulleesta Viimeinen tango Pariisissa -elokuvasta. Hän uskoi sen olevan uuden ajan airut, jonka myötä elokuvissa voitaisiin vihdoinkin käsitellä kaikkia aiheita suorapuheisesti. Lars von Trier tuntuu olevan tuon ajatuksen rintaperillinen ja Nymphomaniac sen uusin, pullein ilmentymä: neljä tuntia dialogia, traumoja ja tabuja. Siinä on paljon nielt… purtavaa.