At the movies

March is shaping up to be an exciting month for indies. Here's a list of seven goodies from IndieWire. I'm particularly interested in the new Cianfrance film, The Place Beyond the Pines, and who doesn't want to delve deep into The Shining with the documentary, Room 237, in what Owen Gleiberman calls "a veritable Kubrickian … Continue reading At the movies

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Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. Chris Rock - His next film sounds intriguing.

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Oscar winning screenwriter Chris Terrio on Argo. There were definitely moments where I worried that I wasn’t giving a comprehensive enough version of this moment in history. As American filmmakers, we can never tell a comprehensive story about the plight of people in Iran at that moment, but the film — without ever losing the … Continue reading QOTD

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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep … Continue reading QOTD

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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. David Lynch

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Behn Zeitlin, writer/director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, on working and living in Louisiana. Me and Louisiana are involved in a epic romance that has spiraled completely out of control. I was supposed to get home in October 2006 and that obviously hasn’t happened. It was like I showed up to have a brief … Continue reading QOTD

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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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Mike White on his brilliant HBO series Enlightened  It's funny, when we turned in the pilot, Mike Lombardo, the head of HBO, said, "It's not really a comedy, is it?" And I was like, "Well, it's definitely more dramatic than your comedies." And he said, "It's more dramatic than our dramas." Sometimes when you write … Continue reading QOTD