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I missed a memo or something.
Oh I know he wasn't. I knew as I was typing it that Mike would greet me with huzzah's. I'm just sort of screaming into the wind, asking the film gods to strike me down or challenge me.
We're preparing as we speak.
I mean just think of it.
The Little Princess
Great Expectations
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Azkaban
Children of Men
Gravity
COMPLETELY different films, all handled with such a clear focus and tonal unity. Every single on of those films knows exactly what it is and even if you don't like any of those specifically, you can't deny that they're all fully committed to their own identity.
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I had a feeling that little opinion would bring all the boys to the yard. I'm fine with people telling me I'm full of shit with it, but I would love for them to tell me how I'm wrong, exactly.
Pound for pound, Alfonso Cuaron is a more accomplished director with a more versatile skill set than Martin Scorcese. This is not to say anything bad about Scorcese. He's a master of the craft and has defined a couple generations of filmmaking. This is to say nothing of how great an advocate for films he is. But Cuaron has accomplished, in my mind, at least as much in fewer films than Martin has. In terms of innovation, and serious leaps in evolution as a filmmaker, there's no one really like Cuaron that I can think of. Again, Scorcese is great, but we all kinda know what to expect with a Scorcese film whereas Cuaron surprises and impresses equally with every film, in a way we have not seen from him at that point.
Yeah let's keep it above the belt. If a movie doesn't work for you it doesn't work. There's not always a rulebook. Trey is not a better or worse film watcher because he doesn't like Vertigo. Most Scorcesse does not work for me. I think Easy Rider is a mess. None of us have a divining rod about what's good. I think there is very little about film criticism that's objective.
We had to make the decision between putting in everyone's great takes and deliveries, or putting together a cut which flowed better and didn't drag as much.
Welcome to my life. I often say my job is "Performance Genocide."
Some years ago, I worked with a fella who had two kids. He acted out the differences between one's first and second child like this:
Firstborn child drops their pacifier on the floor...
*waves arms while shouting* OMG What do we do? We have to buy a new one! Or maybe we can boil it? We better call the pediatrician and ask. OMG OMG OMG
Cut to: a few years later. Second child drops their pacifier on the floor...
*pantomimes picking it up, shaking it, sticking it back in the kid's mouth*
I didn't have to wait for a second kid to do that. 8 months in, a quick rinse and it went back in. 15 months and I just shook it off.
Who is that supposed to appeal to? Why are you interested in it, Eddie?
I'm always interested in stories that deal with identity. More specifically, stories in which someone's perception of their own identity becomes threatened. Zero Charisma has it's lead character challenged by a handsomer, nicer, cooler version of himself and so his place in his social group becomes questioned. I dig that sorta thing. Plus, I spent hundreds if hours of my youth slinging 20, 8, and 4 sided die. These are my people.
The greatest actor of the 70's by a clear margin was John Cazale. Their is not another actor in history who can make the claim that every movie they were ever in was nominated for Best Picture. This is not a coincidence. He was attracted to strong material, other actors were attracted to working with him, and he made everyone step their fucking game up. Pound for Pound, he may be the greatest actor ever.
I've been dying to see it, and I know it's showed a couple times at Cinefamily.
Sorta space related.
I recently turned Teague and Paul onto the awesome web series Man at Arms, where a master blacksmith recreates your favorite nerd weapons (Keyblade, WOlverine Claws, Buster Sword, etc.) This episode, he takes the Meteor sword from Avatar: The Last Airbender Something Something Korra, and forges it....OUT OF REAL METEORITE.
Laura Beth is indeed awesome. And Cassavetes is awesome as well. In that order.
I don't think Toy Story is chasing an existential crisis. All of the crises in all three movies simply have to do with aging/life changes.
TS1: Getting a baby brother.
TS2: Puberty.
TS3: Moving away or staying with your family.
You might see a man having fun… all I see is a man not home writing!!
Good. A writer who does nothing but write and refuses to engage in the world around him or herself is not a writer whose works I want to read.
The Oppenheimer quote gave me some hope that they're aiming to capture the tone of the Toho original.
Also, BOY is the bake off going to be perfunctory this year.
That was the first movie in a good long while where I would just sit, mouth agape for long stretches. I agree with all, the tether business took me out for about 15 seconds, but I was so invested in Ryan's story, I was back into it without much trouble.
There it is. I have yet to see it, but I'm sure I will at some point.
Catching Hell was great. Hoop Dreams is sort of the gold standard of Sports Docs, but there was also that one that won the Oscar two years ago. Can't remember the name of it.
I love Sports Doc's and I think ESPN does some great work. My buddy Royce Directed the Run Rickey Run doc. I like the Bo Jackson one, and I cannot WAIT for the Eddie Aikau one coming out soon. We'll probably do Dogtown and Z Boys at some point. Also, I was filming Life in the Cage the same time they were filming The Smashing Machine, so I wouldn't mind doing that at some point.
Docs about the industry tend to be a bit too inside baseball for me. I watch docs because I have questions about subjects, and I want those questions explored if not answered. I don't want to be lectured about a subject, I want to be told a story.
Thankfully, "mineral," in Spanish is, "mineral." One less word to translate!
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