tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84329502024-03-07T17:52:31.346-06:00BY RAY PRIDEMore writing about movies than you could ever find on your own. Movie reviews at Newcityfilm.com.Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comBlogger1754125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-68706496305906929482021-01-05T02:30:00.002-06:002021-01-05T14:27:30.063-06:00Autoerotica: The glittering wreckage of "Crash"
David
Cronenberg's "Crash," winner of a jury prize for "audacity"
at last year's Cannes Film Festival, is a fine translation of the singular
character of J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel. In burnished, ornate, painfully
specific prose, Ballard suggests a linkage between sexuality and the modern
machine, between the unspeakable thrill of danger in our imaginative lives and
the deadly potential of Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-79989465276952327892020-10-21T02:34:00.008-05:002020-10-21T02:34:57.257-05:00Don DeLillo on "The Silence"From the Grauniad: "There were many distractions. But I’m also much slower. I’m not older and wiser. I’m just older and slower... I was on a plane from Paris, and it was unusual – at least for me. There were overhead screens below the luggage bins, and for most of the flight I sat there looking at them. I found myself taking out an old notebook that I carry with me, and noting details, writing inRay Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-16579929366465856392020-10-20T17:34:00.003-05:002020-10-20T17:34:34.044-05:00Empty Bottle, October 12, 2020 Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-69301076503117201342020-10-20T17:31:00.003-05:002020-10-20T17:31:20.600-05:00Please Do Not Describe The GraffitiRay Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-53200979115479407982020-10-20T17:20:00.003-05:002020-10-20T17:20:22.484-05:00Michiko Kakutani on "Ex Libris"Michiko Kakutani: "My job as a critic was to give honest evaluations of new books and to try to explain why I thought they were worth reading – or not; to try to situate that book within an author’s oeuvre and, if nonfiction, explain how it might compare with others on the same subject. In 'Ex Libris,' I’m only writing about books I love, or that I think matter. There’s no having to dissect Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-82616615259685162092020-10-18T17:08:00.001-05:002020-10-18T17:08:10.957-05:00The 2020 FILM 50 is here.Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-44269422284225563572019-01-22T16:49:00.001-06:002019-01-22T16:51:53.843-06:002018's Ten Oscar-Nominated Screenplays
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Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-64725478216130884322018-12-30T18:24:00.003-06:002019-01-22T16:40:55.022-06:00Thirty-Nine 2019 For Your Consideration Screenplay PDFs
Studios make screenplays available for consideration through the end of "awards season." Legal downloading of choice reading is recommended.
All is True.
Beautiful Boy
BlacKkKlansman.
Black Panther. (online)
Boy Erased.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Capernaum.
Colette.
Crazy Rich Asians.
Destroyer.
Disobedience.
Eighth Grade.
First Man.
First Reformed.
The Front Runner.
Green Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-17038809865114777982018-11-18T15:49:00.003-06:002018-11-18T15:49:53.269-06:00Recently Published Work - 19 November 2018
A few fresh reviews from Newcity.
Hit and Myth: A Review Of The Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” "If my long experience with the Coens holds, where the films that grate take time to smooth, I’ll love 'Buster Scruggs' in four or five years. Or maybe just a second go; the taste for this tartness is only going to grow."
Generations: A Review Of “Widows” "AllRay Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-20477977326078613832018-11-03T16:31:00.003-05:002018-11-04T17:38:28.538-06:00Recently Published Work - 3 November 2018.
Newcity's 2018 "Best Of Chicago": 35 entries
All’s Welles That Ends: The Apparition of “The Other Side of the Wind”
"Onrushing Now": Memories of Film Festivals Past
High swoons for "A Star Is Born"
Filmmaker 25 New Faces of Film 2018 (I contributed three entries)
"Hal” of Mirrors: Amy Scott On Her Hal Ashby Doc And Chicago As “Finish Your Shit” School
Film 50 2018 (Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-31439636801448124792018-09-25T18:25:00.004-05:002018-09-25T18:27:29.380-05:00Gleanings 20 September 2018
When bosses that are universally hated are cast on the ash heap, the grumbling of years, even decades, rushes out. Les Moonves: why was the the highest-paid executive among multimillionaire media executives? What did he bring that none of the other (mostly) men couldn't, to shareholders, to Sumner Redstone, to National Amusements, to the greater world (of entertainment)?
Virginia Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-49910971305771196022018-09-07T20:06:00.002-05:002018-09-25T18:09:57.326-05:00Weekend Reads 8-9 September 2018
Thirty-Seven Takes and Reads Since Midweek: China May Shun Asians; Shane Black Apologizes; Burt Reynolds; An Oral History Of Deliverance; David Simon And "A Shard Of The Real"; Amy Scott On Hal; Joe Russo: Movies Aren't Dumbing Down; Academy Waits A Year On "Popular" Oscar While Dumbing Down Show; TIFF Tough Talk; Michael Eisner Demos VR in 1998; Moonves Eclipsed?
China Balking at Showing Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-44315737296363721212018-08-31T14:55:00.003-05:002018-08-31T18:23:24.602-05:00The Weekend Report, August 31-September 1, 2018
VOICE Stilled; Roma Raves; Ryan and Petri on C. K.; Amazon Shelves Woody?; Depardieu Accusations; Star Wars Turns; e. e. cummings on "Freakdom"
This is a tragedy, and it hurts my heart. This is where I started my professional writing life and where I met brilliant writers - and many friends - too numerous to mention. The Village Voice ends editorial production, lays off half Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-17997982432897781102018-08-29T16:31:00.002-05:002018-08-29T16:31:32.793-05:00THE WEDNESDAY REPORT, 29 August 2018
THE MIND THAT BROUGHT YOU CITIZEN KANE; The Ankler On Netflix As Archetypal 21st Century Tech Startup; Walesa Nominates Oleg Sentsov For Nobel Peace Prize; Brian D. Johnson On Toronto: Can TIFF Adapt To Changing Cinema?; Incompetence Alleged at LAWeekly; New Yorker Profiles Boots Riley; Bill Cunningham's Memoir; Two Takes On Louis C. K.; Two Resto Reviews: A Rave And A Damning Pan.
"Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-83735236001176011562018-08-27T17:00:00.002-05:002018-08-27T18:18:07.310-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Monday 26 August 2018
Steve James and America To Me; Neil Simon; David Lynch Memoir; Women's Dreams In Horror; A New Jeff Nichols Short with Michael Shannon; Derek Jarman's Keith Collins; Kevin Smith and that Fifty-First Pound; A Timeless Tony Curtis Tale; and more.
"I was trying to figure out, am I just going to be picking white kids to hold them up as a kind of example of cluelessness or white privilegeRay Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-89518562854385863322018-08-25T16:08:00.002-05:002018-08-25T16:08:33.621-05:00THE WEEKEND REPORT, August 25-26, 2018
Andrew Bujalski On Support The Girls; Crazy Rich Asians: Seed, Not Sequels; Errol Morris On "Honey Badger" Steve Bannon And American Dharma; Tim Conway; Netflix Poaches Disney Exec To Make Better Original Features; "Privacy Nihilism"; Larry Clark; Abel Ferrara and much more.
Andrew Bujalski on Support The Girls, Hollywood Casting and the Patriarchy Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker
"Crazy Rich Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-54951627134477468462018-08-23T15:05:00.000-05:002018-08-23T15:08:02.568-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Thursday 23 August 2018
Thirty-plus items, tending to the literary side: The movies that influenced the editing of First Man; Netflix recognizes that their original movies need to be nearly good; Global Road Potholes; Palace Intrigue as Disney Examines Fox Bones; Bond, Black, Batman White?; Akhavan on Teens; Bujalski's Ten For Decade and on John Cassavetes, Surrealist; David Berman: Denis Johnson of indie rock; Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-74664606326482142262018-08-21T14:20:00.003-05:002018-08-21T14:27:18.111-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Tuesday 20 August 2018
Bond Adrift: Mackenzie? McQuarrie? Soderbergh? Uwe Boll?; Hundredth Day Of Sentsov Hunger Strike; The Schrader Correspondence; Kelly Marie Tran Strikes Back; Ebiri on Rublev; Asia Denies; Times Presses For Comment; Taking The Moonves Shot; Heller-Nicholas on Mary Shelley; Netflix commercials fated? and more.
Nobody has ever stared as intently and as smugly at a phone as @Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-89720525830367958472018-08-20T15:35:00.000-05:002018-08-20T16:24:42.909-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Monday 20 August 2018
Amazon To Lavish Landmark?; Amazon Lockers In Lobbies?; The $120 Cable Bill Becomes The $120 Streaming Tab; How Netflix Data Customizes Your Programming Gorge; Early Facebook Investor Sad; Why Tracking Doesn't Get It Right; Celebrating Crazy Rich Asians For What It Is; The Encrypted Documents on Asia Argento The Times Published; Sexy Beast Goes Brit Series; Twitter Quitters; Guy Lodge OnRay Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-3976413747502606212018-08-19T17:01:00.001-05:002018-08-19T17:38:11.410-05:00The WEEKEND Report 19 August 2018
Rich Asians Bank; Gap Leaps; Baz On Secret Cinema R+J; The Passing Of Beloved Filmmaker, Educator Robert Todd; Future For Sydney Pollack Aretha Doc From 1972?; Russia-Imprisoned Ukraine Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov Gives Up Hope; Addressing Netflix "Series Sag"
“This shows — once again, with emphasis — that true diversity matters. Audiences are tired of seeing the same stories with the same Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-5015396680843926132018-08-16T16:55:00.000-05:002018-08-16T16:57:03.736-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Thursday, 16 August 2018
Bing Liu's Minding The Gap, Front And Center; The Life Of Kartemquin Films; Crazy Rich Asians Strikes Chords, Sparks; David Remnick's New Yorker Profile Of Aretha Franklin; An Oral History Of Better Luck Tomorrow; Rebecca Solnit; Madonna; Michael Lehmann On Heathers At 30; Variety Jordan Peele Cover Story; Magazines In Contraction; Books Hold Steady; Aleš Kot Appreciates James Gray's We Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-39526129534505509642018-08-14T17:21:00.003-05:002018-08-14T17:21:37.429-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT, Tuesday 14 August 2018
Eric Allen Hatch starts survey column on film festivals worldwide; the grand ; posters Guy Peellaert made for Wim Wenders; Condé Nast plans maybe not best-laid; RBG goes CNN on Labor Day; performative pains of the great Madeline's Madeline; CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes doubted; and more.
"My view of these festivals changed. A cynicism began to creep in—perhaps Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-2203792825225045442018-08-13T09:00:00.000-05:002018-08-13T12:52:19.610-05:00Monday Morning, 13 August 2018
Filmmaker-writer Steven Lippman passes suddenly; Renata Adler's 1980 "Perils of Pauline" That Began a Feud; John Powers' oratory from Jonathan Gold's Service; Visiting The Last Blockbuster, in Bend, Oregon; American Cinematographer Looks At Maltese Falcon—in 1941; "Why most actors (myself included) are insane!" by Betty Gilpin; Natasha Braier On Cinematography From The Female Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-38037008633865916162018-08-10T16:30:00.000-05:002018-08-10T18:32:18.783-05:00Weekend reads, August 10-12, 2018
The Sumner of All Fears?; Cartooning Herzog Park Ranger; Spike Lee's Time Cover And Carrie Mae Weems' Photographs; Joe Leydon's Personal History on Spike Lee's Ten Best; Jacqueline Decker On Making Immodest Masterpiece; New Wave Lesbian Sex Scenes; Last Temptation of Christ at 30; The Legendary Voice Behind Movie Trailers; and Tweet Relief from Albert Brooks, Brian Stelter, Matt Pearce, Kate Ray Pridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533284713609879919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432950.post-82465594561503390862018-08-09T15:34:00.001-05:002018-08-09T15:37:49.989-05:00THE AFTERNOON REPORT For Thursday 9 August 2018
Oscar G/rumblings; Russian captive Ukrainian filmmaker near death; Rushfield on Moonves; Gunn Redux?; The Path To Crazy Rich Asians; Boots Riley likes critics; and more.
"After 87 days without food, hunger-striking Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia, is 'increasingly frail.' He seeks Russia's release of himself and 64 other Ukrainian 'political prisoners.'" AP
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