“No stabbings, no shootings, no gunfire, no one gets whacked—is Martin Scorsese going soft on us?” Lesley Stahl on Scorsese’s film Hugo 60 Minutes “Some of the films I make, the characters may not be the nicest people around.“ Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has a history of violence—Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006). When the former [...]
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“Bursting with earned emotion, Hugo is a mechanism that comes to life at the turn of a key in the shape of a heart.” Richard Corliss Time “How can you mend a broken heart? …How can you mend this broken man?” Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb Within the last three days I completed a Hugo [...]
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Oops, I did it again. This weekend I watched both Hugo & The Artist in the theaters—just like a did last month to start the new year. I love those movies. Apparently others do as well. Yesterday, The Artist picked up seven BAFTA awards including Best Picture and for Michel Hazanavicus’s script, and Hugo picked up four awards and [...]
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“We are languishing in a period without much direction and no shared body of ideas about what we and our society are all about. Now, as never before, we need people who have stories to tell that make sense and order out of the daily avalanche of sensation, news, events; the function of the artist [...]
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“The best drama for me is one which shows a man in danger. There is no action when there is no danger. To live or die? What drama is greater?” Howard Hawks* Director— Scarface (1932), Sergent York, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep Interviews with Film Directors Edited by Andrew Sarris *Hawks was [...]
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“The best drama for me is one which shows a man in danger. There is no action when there is no danger. To live or die? What drama is greater?” Howard Hawks* Director— Scarface (1932), Sergent York, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep Interviews with Film Directors Edited by Andrew Sarris *Hawks was [...]
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”In high school I’d get out of doing papers by asking if I could do videos instead. I was one of those weird kids in high school who figured out that I wanted to make videos for the rest of my life.” Kevin T. Willson Director of Sling Baby USA Today The Sling Baby now has [...]
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“The average copywriter gets only three commercials a year on air.” David Ogilvy Ogilvy on Advertising I don’t know if the times have changed for copywriters since David Ogilvy wrote those above words in 1983, but I did want to give a few shout-out to the copywriter for the behind the Volkswagon spot The Dog [...]
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“You don’t have to be a professional filmmaker or a professional ad agency to compete with the best (ad makers) in the world and take home the biggest prize (a top spot on AdMeter.)” Tony Matta, Vice-President. Marketing, Frito-Lay North America USA TODAY Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Loyd would have enjoyed the three [...]
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“When we speak of silent comedy we speak instantly of three names—Chaplin, Loyd, Keaton.” Walter Kerr The Silent Clowns The eyes of the world are on the Midwest today. Tomorrow they could shift back to the Middle East and Israel vs. Iran. But for at least a few hours during Super Bowl XLVI it will [...]
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