"Not one of these times does he utter "Golly!" with any evident irony or disingenuousness or even the flattened affect of somebody who's parodying himself. (Let's also remember that this is a man with every button on his shirt buttoned and high-water pants.) During this same tri-"Golly!" interval, though, about 50 yards down the road, Mr. Bill Pullman, who's sitting in a big canvas director's chair getting interviewed for his E.P.K.,(i.e., 'Electronic press kit,' a bite-intensive interview that Lost Highway's publicists can then send off to Entertainment Tonight, local TV stations that want Pullman bites, etc.) is leaning forward earnestly and saying of David Lynch: "He's so truthful-that's what you build your trust on, as an actor, with a director" and "He's got this kind of modality to him, the way he speaks, that lets him be very open and honest and at the same time very sly. There's an irony about the way he speaks."
"It’s fun to think of it as ‘dusty’ blue because of what befalls it later. It’s by far the best suit in the movie, in the movies, perhaps the whole world."
"Thus Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control."
Interestingly, shows that the closer to the present a film is set, the more likely it is to have co-occurring films. Also interesting is where the artist has chosen to place vaguely defined futures. Maybe she knows something we don't?
via leahb. I remember reading some of these essays in school and actually also learning about Aspen at more or less the same time, but I've never delved into it in the way that ubuweb's archive makes possible and to some degree demands. via leahb.
Nick and Dror and I saw a screening of The Rules of the Game around Christmastime of last year at the Brattle in Cambridge. I was initially just in it for the culture, but most of the silly blurbs in this trailer turned out to be true.
