“Science has failed this world.” For the trailer from H+ “Humanity goes offline. Survival goes on.” Tagline on H+: The Digital Series website Back in the good old days of 2005 a new website emerged on the Internet called You Tube. The user-generated website quickly became a place to upload everything young people lip-syncing songs, [...]
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“Most parts in comedy, they’re not written for men. They’re written for, like, boy-men. So it’s cool to play a man-man. They don’t make adult movies anymore. Go to a multiplex. If Sydney Pollack was around today, he’d be directing episodes of ‘True Blood.’” Chris Rock New York Times August 5, 2012 “Film 2 Days [...]
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.” Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) Quite spoken by chacter Henry in The [...]
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“If you’re not hot in Los Angeles, it’s a very lonely town…It’s a lonely town even if you are hot.” Peter Bogdanovich “I’m not bitter. I ask for it myself. Success is very hard. Nobody prepares you for it. You think you’re infallible. You pretend you know more than you do. Pride goeth before the [...]
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Paper Moon (1973) was Tatum O’Neal’s first film and she walked away with the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was 10 years old, which is still the record for the youngest Oscar-winning actor or actress. And while she’s terrific the entire film, her line, “I want my $200!” (see the scene below) was her “Show [...]
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Now on the day that John Wayne died I found myself on the Continental Divide Tell me where do I go from here Think of “Red River” or “Liberty Valance” Can’t believe the old man’s gone Incommunicado (written by Jimmy Buffett, Deborah McColl, M.L. Benoit) Until I started this Peter Bogdanovich thread last week I [...]
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“Auteurism today? Well, everybody thinks they’re an auteur. But nobody seems to understand what the whole auteur thing was. It wasn’t a theory as far as the French were concerned. It was a political statement called la politique des auteurs. Truffaut and Godard were attacking the old-fashioned, well-made film, French or American. They thought Howard [...]
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“Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence…” Simon & Garfunkel What a Time it Was “When I was a kid, I’d never seen a screwball comedy. So for me [What's Up, Doc?] was just this mind-blowing, new type comedy. …I went bananas for it.” Bridesmaid director Paul [...]
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“Can I tell one quick story? It’s not a funny story, but it’s a nice story to end with. It has to do with why we all sit around talking about movies so much. What is it we like about the movies? I was sitting with Jimmy Stewart one time and we got on to [...]
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“Nothing’s ever the way it is supposed to be at all.” Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd ) The Last Picture Show We are living in the wild west. Right now, right here in the good ole United States of America. Last night I watched the classic John Ford/John Wayne western The Searchers, and though the story is [...]
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