When asked why he wanted to record new versions of songs his band June of 44 first released more than two decades ago — on their final proper studio LP, 1999’s Anahata — guitarist-vocalist Jeff Mueller gives a simple answer: He’d never really felt like they were finished in the first place.
“The session for Anahata was pretty tough; many of the songs felt underdeveloped,” Mueller writes in an email. “Speaking for myself … it all just felt rushed and messy — I had very little grasp on how to organize and play my parts.
“The session for Anahata was pretty tough; many of the songs felt underdeveloped,” Mueller writes in an email. “Speaking for myself … it all just felt rushed and messy — I had very little grasp on how to organize and play my parts.
- 7/9/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Ask folks in Hollywood what they think of the Motion Picture Association of America’s Classification & Ratings Administration (Cara), and you’ll get an earful. Filmmakers have become so sophisticated about the vagaries of the ratings board (one F-word per PG-13 movie) that they often manipulate the process by adding footage they’re willing to lose later in order to get what they want into their final cut.
And over the decades, ace marketers have followed the game plan perfected by Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein when he publicized battles with the ratings board just to get exposure for movies like “Scandal,” “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” “Clerks,” “Kids,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
But while filmmakers get exorcised over the board’s many myopic decisions over sex and violence and issues like the studios getting away with more than the indies, MPAA president Jack Valenti had valid and urgent...
And over the decades, ace marketers have followed the game plan perfected by Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein when he publicized battles with the ratings board just to get exposure for movies like “Scandal,” “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover,” “Clerks,” “Kids,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
But while filmmakers get exorcised over the board’s many myopic decisions over sex and violence and issues like the studios getting away with more than the indies, MPAA president Jack Valenti had valid and urgent...
- 10/29/2018
- by Anne Thompson, Eric Kohn, Tom Brueggemann, Michael Nordine, Christian Blauvelt and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Emmanuel Bourdieu on who could play Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "One is Denis Podalydès, who is my best friend. And the other was Denis Lavant whom I knew only as a fan." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Emmanuel Bourdieu, director and co-screenwriter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (based on the book The Crippled Giant by Martin Hindus and starring Denis Lavant), spoke with me about the casting of the lead role, shooting in Belgium with cinematographer Marie Spencer and screenwriter Marcia Romano and editor Benoît Quinon on board, working with composer Grégoire Hetzel on creating a tune for a William Blake poem to characterize Philip Desmeules' portrayal of Hindus, and how Géraldine Pailhas helped with the costumes for Lucette (designed by Florence Scholtes and Christophe Pidre).
Denis Lavant as Louis-Ferdinand Céline with Bébert: "He could change the mood very very fast. And Denis knows how to do that.
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Emmanuel Bourdieu, director and co-screenwriter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (based on the book The Crippled Giant by Martin Hindus and starring Denis Lavant), spoke with me about the casting of the lead role, shooting in Belgium with cinematographer Marie Spencer and screenwriter Marcia Romano and editor Benoît Quinon on board, working with composer Grégoire Hetzel on creating a tune for a William Blake poem to characterize Philip Desmeules' portrayal of Hindus, and how Géraldine Pailhas helped with the costumes for Lucette (designed by Florence Scholtes and Christophe Pidre).
Denis Lavant as Louis-Ferdinand Céline with Bébert: "He could change the mood very very fast. And Denis knows how to do that.
- 1/5/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Visual consultant Haskell Wexler prior to a screening of “American Graffiti,” presented at Oscars® Outdoors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 2, 2013. credit: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- 12/27/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...
- 9/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Have a hankering to watch a group of angsty Beat poets have their worlds rocked by a murder? John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings will be screening at the Venice Film Festival and Tiff in the next week, taking audiences back to 1944. The film is set during the Beat movement's early days when writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr were navigating a new anticonformist way of life. A man in their midst, David Kammerer, becomes infatuated with the charming Carr and winds up dead. The Playlist posted a peek at the crime tale, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr. DeHaan won us over with his recitation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, which has a long history as a banned book — like most things Miller...
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- 9/4/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Fact: Allen Ginsberg was once wide-eyed and a little clueless like most young writers. Daniel Radcliffe conveys this naivete without ever speaking a word in this new clip from Kill Your Darlings, the Sundance hit directed by John Krokidas about the grisly beginnings of the Beat movement. If this is to be believed, young Allen witnessed a studly collegian quoting naughty lines from Henry Miller‘s Tropic of Cancer and was titillated by it. I believe it.
October 18! Can’t wait.
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October 18! Can’t wait.
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- 8/28/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
These days we are endlessly bombarded with lists of 'must-read' articles and books, and reviews of 'must-see' box sets. It all makes me want to sigh: must I?
The pile of books next to my bed has become a Tower of Doom. Last month, I was two-thirds of the way through The Age of Extremes when its author, Eric Hobsbawm, died. Just below it was The Railway Man, the wartime memoir of Eric Lomax. He passed away too. A week after I finished Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, defeated presidential candidate George McGovern, one of its key characters, went. Christopher Hitchens, Nora Ephron, Gore Vidal … My must-read list resembles a kill list.
It reminds me how much I hate those litanies of things to read, see, hear or experience before you die, and the way they turn entertainment into an impossibly epic assignment to be completed before the ultimate,...
The pile of books next to my bed has become a Tower of Doom. Last month, I was two-thirds of the way through The Age of Extremes when its author, Eric Hobsbawm, died. Just below it was The Railway Man, the wartime memoir of Eric Lomax. He passed away too. A week after I finished Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, defeated presidential candidate George McGovern, one of its key characters, went. Christopher Hitchens, Nora Ephron, Gore Vidal … My must-read list resembles a kill list.
It reminds me how much I hate those litanies of things to read, see, hear or experience before you die, and the way they turn entertainment into an impossibly epic assignment to be completed before the ultimate,...
- 10/29/2012
- by Dorian Lynskey
- The Guardian - Film News
I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about.
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Marlo Thomas
- Aol TV.
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
Photo by Will Hart/USA Network
Tonight Andrew McCarthy will appear on the season finale of USA's White Collar. He will reprise his role of Vincent Adler, the mentor who taught Neil Caffrey (Matt Bomer) everything he knows about the art of the con. In a recent conference call interview, we found out ten things that Andrew McCarthy knows about TV, movies, travel and donuts.
1. On The Current State of Television
"When I started acting, 100 years ago, in the early ‘80s, you only did the television show if your movie career was over. Now I’d say most of the best writing is on television. And movies are a different beast entirely. There’s the big blockbusters and then occasionally, there’s some little interesting movies that come along that somehow get made and 12 people are in them. I think it’s a real golden age for television for sure.
Tonight Andrew McCarthy will appear on the season finale of USA's White Collar. He will reprise his role of Vincent Adler, the mentor who taught Neil Caffrey (Matt Bomer) everything he knows about the art of the con. In a recent conference call interview, we found out ten things that Andrew McCarthy knows about TV, movies, travel and donuts.
1. On The Current State of Television
"When I started acting, 100 years ago, in the early ‘80s, you only did the television show if your movie career was over. Now I’d say most of the best writing is on television. And movies are a different beast entirely. There’s the big blockbusters and then occasionally, there’s some little interesting movies that come along that somehow get made and 12 people are in them. I think it’s a real golden age for television for sure.
- 3/8/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
If you grew up in the eighties, then Andrew McCarthy was probably key part of your weekend movie watching, with films like Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, St.Elmo’s Fire and Weekend at Bernie’s.
In recent years, he’s started directing (Gossip Girl) and writing travel columns but he’s never strayed far from acting. He’s now a recurring character on USA’s White Collar playing Victor Adler. This is one of the rare times he’s playing a bad guy and it’s great to watch!
I talked to Andrew on a conference call about his new character, what roles he regrets and how his directing has helped him in front of the camera.
For the full interview, click the audio link above or download from iTunes
White Collar airs Tuesdays at 10/9c
Is there a role that you regret doing or, and is there a role...
In recent years, he’s started directing (Gossip Girl) and writing travel columns but he’s never strayed far from acting. He’s now a recurring character on USA’s White Collar playing Victor Adler. This is one of the rare times he’s playing a bad guy and it’s great to watch!
I talked to Andrew on a conference call about his new character, what roles he regrets and how his directing has helped him in front of the camera.
For the full interview, click the audio link above or download from iTunes
White Collar airs Tuesdays at 10/9c
Is there a role that you regret doing or, and is there a role...
- 2/2/2011
- by Lance@dailyactor.com (Lance Carter)
- DailyActorMedia
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Robert here. Did you know that yesterday was the twenty year anniversary of the Nc-17 rating? That tag, applied to the most controversial of films, has developed the most controversial reputation itself, with artists and advocates complaining that it's implemented unevenly and scares away theaters an rental providers. We're going to leave all that be for now and instead celebrate the ten films that, despite or because of their Nc-17 reputations, lead the pack. Here are the top ten money-making Nc-17 films.
10. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) $1,614,784
Rated Nc-17 for strong, explicit sexuality
Does this one not sound familiar to you? Released early on in the rating's lifetime, speculation is that while there's plenty of sex, it was the full-frontal male nudity that pushed the MPAA rating's board over the edge, probably the sort of thing that would easily get an R today (but you never know). Nc-17 films were relatively rare...
10. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) $1,614,784
Rated Nc-17 for strong, explicit sexuality
Does this one not sound familiar to you? Released early on in the rating's lifetime, speculation is that while there's plenty of sex, it was the full-frontal male nudity that pushed the MPAA rating's board over the edge, probably the sort of thing that would easily get an R today (but you never know). Nc-17 films were relatively rare...
- 9/28/2010
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
Maverick director best known for his film of Ulysses – widely seen as a noble failure
There must be something quixotic about a director who sets out to make a film of James Joyce's Ulysses. A passionate Joycean, Joseph Strick, who has died aged 86, was undeterred by the challenge and the obstacles: "Even before I made it, people were saying it was unfilmable. I think the truth is, some people just find the book unreadable."
The iconoclastic Strick first envisaged an 18-hour version, faithful to every word, but unsurprisingly he could not get anyone to finance it. When the final two-hour version, shot in Dublin, was completed in 1967, it fell foul of censorship – just like the novel. The British Board of Film Censors requested 29 cuts to remove sexual references from Molly Bloom's final, expletive-laden soliloquy. Strick obliged by replacing all of the offending footage with a blank screen and a high-pitched shrieking sound.
There must be something quixotic about a director who sets out to make a film of James Joyce's Ulysses. A passionate Joycean, Joseph Strick, who has died aged 86, was undeterred by the challenge and the obstacles: "Even before I made it, people were saying it was unfilmable. I think the truth is, some people just find the book unreadable."
The iconoclastic Strick first envisaged an 18-hour version, faithful to every word, but unsurprisingly he could not get anyone to finance it. When the final two-hour version, shot in Dublin, was completed in 1967, it fell foul of censorship – just like the novel. The British Board of Film Censors requested 29 cuts to remove sexual references from Molly Bloom's final, expletive-laden soliloquy. Strick obliged by replacing all of the offending footage with a blank screen and a high-pitched shrieking sound.
- 6/17/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Although he was best known for tackling such seemingly unfilmable works of literature as James Joyce's Ulysses, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Jean Genet's The Balcony, Joseph Strick did earn an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1971 for Interviews with My Lai Veterans. He died June 1 in Paris of congested heart failure at age 86.
According to an obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Strick was an aerial photographer for the Us Army during World War II. His first film, the 1948 documentary Muscle Beach, profiled body builders ...
According to an obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Strick was an aerial photographer for the Us Army during World War II. His first film, the 1948 documentary Muscle Beach, profiled body builders ...
- 6/9/2010
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
Innovative American film editor best known for her work on Bonnie and Clyde
Dede Allen, who has died after a stroke aged 86, not only broke into the predominantly male preserve of film editing, but developed a style and made innovations so distinctive that a school of editing was named in her honour. She was one of the great practitioners of movie-making.
Yet she worked rarely in Hollywood, did not achieve notable success until the age of 42, and despite receiving several Oscar nominations and the first solo onscreen credit for an editor at the beginning of a film, she was never well known. The job is highly technical and riddled with jargon, yet it is also an art, which is how Allen viewed it.
The film that made her name was Arthur Penn's 1967 hit, Bonnie and Clyde, about the doomed 1930s bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
Dede Allen, who has died after a stroke aged 86, not only broke into the predominantly male preserve of film editing, but developed a style and made innovations so distinctive that a school of editing was named in her honour. She was one of the great practitioners of movie-making.
Yet she worked rarely in Hollywood, did not achieve notable success until the age of 42, and despite receiving several Oscar nominations and the first solo onscreen credit for an editor at the beginning of a film, she was never well known. The job is highly technical and riddled with jargon, yet it is also an art, which is how Allen viewed it.
The film that made her name was Arthur Penn's 1967 hit, Bonnie and Clyde, about the doomed 1930s bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
- 4/28/2010
- by Christopher Reed
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s easy to forget that Forry’s unique influence went far beyond the parameters of science fiction and horror. He crossed paths with any number of noted thinkers and artists during his life, including the legendary Henry Miller. Fja relates that particular story below…
Forry inscribes a book for one of his fans during a convention appearance. In our time together, I noted how generous he was in giving autographs to whomever wanted them.
There was a time when Henry Miller was known for his highly sexy novels Tropic of Capricorn and another called Tropic of Cancer; I believe one or both of them were filmed with Marlon Brando. Somewhere along the line I was invited to meet Henry Miller and I was astonished to see he had a Chinese wife. She, like me, could also speak Esperanto! I remember asking Henry if he’d ever read any science...
Forry inscribes a book for one of his fans during a convention appearance. In our time together, I noted how generous he was in giving autographs to whomever wanted them.
There was a time when Henry Miller was known for his highly sexy novels Tropic of Capricorn and another called Tropic of Cancer; I believe one or both of them were filmed with Marlon Brando. Somewhere along the line I was invited to meet Henry Miller and I was astonished to see he had a Chinese wife. She, like me, could also speak Esperanto! I remember asking Henry if he’d ever read any science...
- 2/23/2010
- by Earl Roesel
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
'I feel personally that a word has never been written or uttered that should not be published," free-speech hero Barney Rosset says in "Obscene," a compelling documentary about him directed by neophytes Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor.
As publisher of Evergreen magazine and owner of Grove Press in the 1960s, Rosset introduced Americans to such writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Malcolm X and Harold Pinter.
Perhaps more importantly, he sued...
As publisher of Evergreen magazine and owner of Grove Press in the 1960s, Rosset introduced Americans to such writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Malcolm X and Harold Pinter.
Perhaps more importantly, he sued...
- 9/26/2008
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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