I want three of my unfinished screenplays to finish themselves. Or, the time to finish one.
a little late uploading this one.
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Within the next month I have to either film a minute long adapataion of the fable Stone Soup or Plato’s The Cave.
“The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children!”
I wish that I could make films and sleep at the same time.
Mark Crispin Miller
He lectured my class tonight. It was fantastic.
“The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.”
Manhatta
RADIOHEAD
yes!!!
Descartes’ illustration of mind/body dualism.
He sure had a wonderful imagination.
I just finished a short script, which is a huge accomplishment for me. I tend to only think in large scale terms, and every idea I get I try and stretch it out into a feature and then get overwhelmed. But this one looks like I will be able to actually film it once I get permission from The Montel Williams Show.
I’m without internet. Why is internet supposed to be capitalized? I guess here is an explanation. Personally, I don’t want to capitalize it.
But really, I’m without internet.
Hotel Chevalier: NO
I want to like Wes Anderson. I really do. Honest to God I want to enjoy his films. I do think parts of his films can be fun and cute, but for the past month I’ve been getting into these small internal discussions over him and what he means to me. I know it’s ridiculous to spend so much time thinking about him, but I want to know what I truly feel while watching his films. Is is jealousy? is It resentment? I think most thinking beings would agree that Anderson is not a great filmmaker, to me he is a fantastic commercial director, but to watch a whole film of his can be a little much. When I watch his films I can only see him scratching the surface of everything and everyone I love (Fitzgerald, Truffaut, Rohmer, Salinger) and applies their style and worlds to a poorly written and directed film, with the exception of Bottle Rocket. Bottle Rocket is one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen, and surprisingly lacks the vapidness of Anderson’s later work. He’s been on a consistent decline since, which brings me to Hotel Chevalier…in his defense it was just a cute short film (or Apple commercial), but it was absolutely terrible. Everything about it made me cringe, except for the colors and Paris. I guess it comes down to Wes Anderson reminding me of those 14 year old girls who have LiveJournal icons of Antoine Doinel with pink cursive font and sparkling hearts around his face. There is no question that these people missed the whole point of the films they’re obsessing over - they’re watching these films for purely aesthetic reasons and escapism …but they’re 14 and on liveJournal, Wes Anderson is 38.
…and yes, you’ll probably find me in the theater on The Darjeeling Limited’s second week, but only because I like his colors. I guess thats is where he has the one up on the 14 year olds. Color.
In reference to German Expressionism
Combat the bourgeois decalcomania of naturalism with its mania for recording mere facts, and its paltry aim of photographing nature or daily life. The world is there for all to see; it would be absurd to reproduce it purely and simply as it is. — Kasimir Edschmid
Albert Maysles (my favorite documentary filmmaker) discussed his film Grey Gardens (my favorite documentary) at the Loft tonight. I recorded most of the discussion and will be posting it after I’m done studying.
I want to see this
"Eric Satie’s score for Entr’acte (1924) shines as an anti-narrative, proto-minimalist gem; like Clair’s film, it is designed both to dazzle and to disorient the audience, partly by parodying the medium’s customary product, partly by following a subtle formal logic beneath a deceptively random surface."
From Music and the Silent Film by Matin Marks. Found in The Oxford History of World Cinema.