“You write your first draft with your heart. And you rewrite with your head.” William Forrester (Sean Connery) in Finding Forrester Written by Mike Rick and directed by Gus Van Sant (both who are based in Portland, Oregon) “It helps to live in LA, but it’s not imperative. I was living in Portland, Oregon when [...]
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“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.”—Portlandia (TV series created by Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein. Johnathan Krisel) P.S. Still looking for the perfect quote from Portland filmmaker Gus Van Sant to finish out my Oregon focused week, so I’m open to any quotes you have from him—or links to interviews with him. [...]
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“Portland is a city where young people go to retire.”—Portlandia Scott W. Smith Tagged: Portland, Portlandia
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“For those of you who have seen Living in Oblivion (the best movie about making a movie), there is a wonderful scene that’s repeated throughout the film of various crew members sniffing the milk container on the craft services table after they’ve poured themselves a cup of coffee. Everyone makes a face, puts it down [...]
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In light of the Friday post on Portland filmmaker Edd Blott, and the University of Oregon football team stepping up to #1 ranking in the AP poll over the weekend (how can you not pull for a team whose mascot is a duck?), I’m feeling in a very Oregon state of mind. So I went over to [...]
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Congrats to Portland filmmaker Edd Blott (and long time reader of this blog) for winning Best Director of the 2012 Oregon Film Awards for his feature A Tale of Delight. The film—which Edd also wrote— will have its world premiere at The Academy Theater in Portland on Dec. 6, 2012. Check out the interviews I [...]
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“Not all film heroes change: James Bond, Ace Ventura, Batman and other action figures are too busy effecting change, by saving the world or making us laugh, to undergo personal transformation. However, in the film stories we turn to time and time again, be it Casablanca, Witness, Moonstruck, Chinatown or In the Line of Fire, [...]
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“We’re looking to create the future. We’re looking to change the world of education.” Lynda Weinman If you can’t talk politics on election day, when can you? Both President Obama and Mitt Romney (who I both photographed in the above pictures back in ’08) say that Iowa could hold the key to deciding the next president [...]
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“I would never write about a character who is not at the end of his rope.” Stanley Elkin On Saturday I watched the movie Flight starring Denzel Washington and couldn’t help think about the last two posts I wrote quoting WME Story Editor Christopher Lockhart. Mainly because the Robert Zemeckis directed film from a script [...]
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