March 2012
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February 2012
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WatchShort Film: SPOOKS
all the questions you ever wanted to know about film school but were too smart to ask.
over at movies.com i just posted the first installment of my Film School Diaries, an uncomfortably candid diary of my time at, um, film school. i’m still trying to sort through my thoughts on the experience, and i figured what better way to do that than publicly baring my soul on the...
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“Many resent Wes Anderson simply because of the social tribes that have adapted...”
– LENA DUNHAM, in her defense of Wes Anderson / review of Criterion’s BOTTLE ROCKET disc for Hammer to Nail.
turns out that Dunham dabbled a bit in film criticism before the tables turned. her pieces are pretty astute, and make for fun reading beyond their newly appropriated value as curios...
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“GONE seldom leaves its heroine, and should be commended for trying to illustrate...”
– from my review of GONE for Box Office Magazine.
this is the kinda stuff that i have to scribble in my notes to endure those brutal “friday morning specials” (read: films too heinous to screen for critics). i still love you, Seyfried.
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WatchHUGO and The First Movie Magicians
with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo primed to lose the best picture Oscar this sunday, it’s important to fan the rare flames of interest in early cinema that the film has ignited for audiences of all ages and passions (it’s very strange to me that people are lumping The Artist in with Hugo as if “early cinema” were merely a relative term....
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“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my...”
– Rainer Werner Fassbinder
in some ways, WORLD ON A WIRE might represent Fassbinder’s most focused expression of that sentiment, at least to the positive. for more of that “oppressive type of relationship,” methinks MARTHA takes the cake.
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“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
what he said.
this quote jumped out at me after coming home from a screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s beautiful new film I WISH, in which there are at least 5 little kids after whom i should pretty much remodel my entire worldview. more on that one tomorrow.
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“[The Criterion Collection] was really clear with me. They definitely said this...”
– Lena Dunham on Criterion’s controversial decision to release her feature, TINY FURNITURE (out today on DVD & Blu-ray).
Quote snagged from Dunham’s great new Indiewire interview.
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“i literally and carnally love [TINY FURNITURE writer / director / star Lena...”
– YouTube commenter AndreSpereyda.
it’s currently the only comment attached to this Press Pause Play video interview of Lena Dunham.
i plan on writing quite a bit about Dunham / Tiny Furniture this week (both a review of Criterion’s new DVD & Blu-ray of the film, as well as an essay...
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“Pocket calculators encourage children to think that they have all the answers....”
– Metropolitan Life | Fran Lebowitz (via deliberatepace)
(and so, the idea for TINY FURNITURE was born).