The Kings of Faber.
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…and say that he should be put on some pedestal because he’s an artist. Bullshit. According to the laws of this country, he’s a rapist. He did something wrong, and he has to own up to it just like everyone else. And this ‘artist’ crap? Yeah, you know who else was an artist? Hitler. Do a few landscapes make him any less of a monster? No, no they don’t.
Here’s the thing - sure, we can talk about Polanski’s movies and how awesome they are - I mean, Chinatown is an absolutely fantastic film and should be a mainstay in teaching the craft - but it doesn’t change who he is. We shouldn’t let how great the work is affect how we view the director. Michael Bay made Armageddon, which is one of my favorite I-always-watch-it-when-it’s-on-TV movies, but it doesn’t make him any less of an asshole. Kevin Smith has produced probably the largest cult-classic body of work since Mel Brooks was on his game, but he’s still a bit of douche. And James Cameron - well, I just don’t like him.
So when you talk about Roman Polanski, talk about what he is: a coward who had sex with a 13-year-old and ran away to avoid punishment.
This has been a public service announcement.
This actually makes me hate the movie a little bit less
George Clooney, you perfect bastard.
Well, I happen to have the novelized version of this movie right here, and I will share with you one of the best sections from it.
“Pamela watched Bruce’s retreating back for a moment, then frowned at her invitation. “Batman and Robin,” she hissed. “Militant arm of the warm-blooded oppressors! Animal protectors of the status quo! First I’ll rid myself of the winged and feathered pests - and then Gotham will me mine for the greening!”
And scene.
If I ever get my shit together and write something decent enough to become a movie, I’m going to insist that Bob Newhart play a character.
I’ve always kind of had him at the back of my mind when I hypothetically cast my characters.
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, The Blues Brothers
Nerdgasm :: C3PO and R2D2 spotted in background hieroglyphics in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dear god, this is an easter egg to the nth degree.
In his wonderful 1989 essay “Why I Love Black and White,” Roger Ebert wrote: “There are basic aesthetic issues here. Colors have emotional resonance for us… Black and white movies present the deliberate absence of color. This makes them less realistic than color films (for the real world is in color). They are more dreamlike, more pure, composed of shapes and forms and movements and light and shadow. Color films can simply be illuminated. Black and white films have to be lighted. With color, you can throw light in everywhere, and the colors will help the viewer determine one shape from another, and the foreground from the background. With black and white, everything would tend toward a shapeless blur if it were not for meticulous attention to light and shadow, which can actually create a world in which the lighting indicates a hierarchy of moral values.”
Fans of black and white absolutely need to look at this — it’s definitely an interesting way of looking at some of these movies, and it makes me want to try them and see for myself.
I also recommend the special edition of Frank Darabont’s The Mist — It includes a black and white version of the movie that is vastly superior to the theatrical version. It’s the version I insist on showing to people.
Definitely check out the video included for The Departed — I almost can’t picture watching that movie in color again.
Totally agree with Silence of the Lambs, but not with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sorry, but there’s some magic in the color, especially the sunset scene of Jones putting on his hat at the dig site.
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Photo Op of the Day: Kevin Smith joins protesters counter-protesting a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church outside the Sundance screening of his controversial “religious horror movie” Red State.
[gawker / photo: ap.]
In B4 “I just like to fuck with the clergy, man.”](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfjbwsh57x1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Photo Op of the Day: Kevin Smith joins protesters counter-protesting a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church outside the Sundance screening of his controversial “religious horror movie” Red State.
[gawker / photo: ap.]
In B4 “I just like to fuck with the clergy, man.”
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A trailer for Ghostbusters, set to the trailer music for Inception.
It’s times like this I wish I had a Mac.
This might just be the most perfect thing we’ve ever seen. It’s been a Ghostbusters kinda week.
We have to go deeper…but don’t cross the streams.
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From The Archives: Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis and Francis Ford Coppola, celebrating Lucas’s 50th birthday at Skywalker Ranch, May 14, 1994.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
It was a daylong affair at which the famed circle of filmmakers who’d long been part of Lucas’ career, along with their respective wives and girlfriends, mingled with his childhood friends from Modesto, Calif. At one point, someone — no one now can quite remember who — called for a group shot. And with a click, a moment in time was frozen with seven of the era’s most prominent directors caught, for a second, in midcareer.
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From The Archives: Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis and Francis Ford Coppola, celebrating Lucas’s 50th birthday at Skywalker Ranch, May 14, 1994.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
It was a daylong affair at which the famed circle of filmmakers who’d long been part of Lucas’ career, along with their respective wives and girlfriends, mingled with his childhood friends from Modesto, Calif. At one point, someone — no one now can quite remember who — called for a group shot. And with a click, a moment in time was frozen with seven of the era’s most prominent directors caught, for a second, in midcareer.
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