almost ALL the directors and writers we work with(and we work with A LOT!) have been trying-- often for YEARS-- to make exactly those movies. And yes-- we CAN criticize financiers and studios and distributors-- and maybe audiences! but criticizing the filmmakers is bananas.
Alexander Payne: "I miss the mid-range, more expensive adult dramas with visual scope. Where is 'Out of Africa,' where is 'The English Patient' today?...We can criticize financiers and studios and distributors for not making those movies anymore, but I criticize [American]
Cinephiles might love 'Boogie Nights,' but Mark Wahlberg isn't a fan: I’ve made some poor choices in my past. ‘Boogie Nights’ is up there at the top of the list.”
More female and POC directors is important-- BUT so are more female and POC DPs, prod designers, costume designers, --ADs, UPMs, Grips, Gaffers etc-- not to mention producers.
really happy to have made it onto THR's Women in Entertainment 100 (and also very happy that the list is alphabetical now instead of in "power order"!) There wasn't room for my answers to all the questions so I'm posting them here:
We may look back on this as greatest political week of
@realdonaldtrump
’s presidency & a turning point in 2020 election.
* Home run State of the Union speech.
* Democrats go crazy over Green New Deal and now limiting detention bed space for violent, illegal immigrant criminals.
Cannes: I didn’t stay in a hotel room for YEARS….Todd and I slept head to toe on a sofa bed a 25 minute walk from the Palais when we were trying to finance SAFE (I can't remember who's apartment it was)
My first spirit awards were in 1992 with POISON. Todd and I were there with his parents and we were seated with Gus van sant and HIS parents. Buck Henry and Jodie foster hosted. No press allowed. Super funny and nasty ceremony.
Re: the whole WB/HBOMax sitch... as someone who used to go to the movies EVERY WEEK, I’m perfectly fine with it. I don’t plan on going back to the movies for a long time, vaccine or not. This way, we get to see movies from the comfort and safety of our own homes.
One of the first movies I EVER worked on (I sunk the dailies and prepped them for Bill every night) and I appear IN the party scenes absolutely against my will with a terrifying mullet. PARTING GLANCES taught me what personal cinema really was. I owe my career to Bill Sherwood.
I watched Bill Sherwood's 1986 gay indie Parting Glances today, about gay men in NYC at precisely the moment AIDS was beginning to tear through the community. Some aspects have aged better than others, but its matter-of-factness about gay life is so rare... >
brown alum: my kid got in!
me: great!
brown alum: but you know they REALLY did it on their own
me: you mean excluding 12 yrs private school, expensive test prep, legacy parents?
brown alum: no seriously
It APPEARS that there are folks who find my lounge reviews annoying. PLEASE unfollow me if you do. I know they mostly bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
I CAN'T TELL YOU how restorative it was to see movies on the big screen, in the dark, with other people. It actually completely restored my faith in how essential the cinematic experience IS--
FilmLinc tribute to Cate Blanchett:it was announced that Todd Haynes,moderater for an on-stage chat,tested positive for Covid that am.The crowd groaned.THEN it was announced that Bradley Cooper wouldn’t be thereMore groans.Then Cate piped up “But I’m here!"brought the house down!
"If $2M movies are now too expensive for equity financiers & streamers are boosting the budgets of modest indies to more than $10M, that leaves indie filmmakers with fewer options in the financing landscape."
@TedHope
@JamesSchamus
heard this one before?
5 jobs I've had in order:
1. babysitter
2. Fruit and nut vendor in NYC in the 80's (which was TOTALLY run by the Hare Krishnas) (I made so much money) (I paid for college)
3. Short order breakfast cook (probably my favorite job I've ever had)
4. Proofreader
5. Film production
Never made a "30 Under 30,""40 Under 40," or"10 Producers to Watch"list. Now it's too late.But those lists usually favor conformists approved by the system anyway,amirite? Plus my best work is yet to come!(If u were on 1 of those lists,you're amazing! I'm just jealous)
#producing
More people came up to me at the NYFF opening night party to tell me that they loved my wine/lounge reviews then came over to tell me that they loved my movies!
back in NYC for one week before heading back to LA for Oscars. One thing I forgot to mention about the PGA awards (with its closed bar and woeful wine...) is that they handed out breakfast burritos as we left. I grabbed one without even thinking and it was absolutely delicious.
I know you have all been waiting with baited breath — YES the white wine at the Gotham awards is an absolutely repellent Chardonnay— BUT!!! For the first time ever there is an absolutely quaffable rose. All. Good. Here.
THIS is the best thing at the Delta lounge today! I think my biggest achievement this weekend besides winning the Spirit for Past Lives was turning the AMERICAN FICTION producer on to my lounge reviews.