THE 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 privilege?" Steve James on the Challenges of "America To Me" NYTimes
Neil Simon Was 91: The Times Obit, With 11'39" "The Last Word" Video NYTimes
John Lahr's Essential 2010 New Yorker Profile of Neil Simon New Yorker
"Was it that time had passed him by, or that his audience had just become impatient with a man who could do one particular thing better than almost anyone else and wanted to keep doing it?" Mark Harris On Neil Simon Vulture new link
"Losing Neil Simon, a Writer From a Lost Time": Frank Rich Vulture
"I love curtains. Are you kidding me? I love them because they’re beautiful in and of themselves, but also because they hide something. There is something behind the curtain and you don’t know if it’s good or bad." Wendy Ide Minds David Lynch's Memoir Prospect
Gretchen Felker-Martin on "the horrific feminine and the use of women's dreams and interiority in horror film" VRVBlog
Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Sold Outright to Longtime Leaseholder Chronicle
Charlie Phillips On Agnès Varda Observer
A Michael Shannon Music Video Became a Jeff Nichols Short Vulture
Tweet Relief
Very sad to hear that Keith Collins has passed away. He was such a tower of strength as partner to the late, great Derek Jarman. And he looked after the estate and kept Jarman’s work alive. I hope you’re reunited in some other sphere. Farewell, HB. pic.twitter.com/se0xDtLgaH— Frank Collins (@cathoderaytube) August 25, 2018
When I was about 10 years old, Simon spoke at my local JCC. At the time I wanted to write plays, and I asked if he had any advice. His response was something like, “Do something else.” https://t.co/hbuCQYbr3l— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 26, 2018
Neil Simon was one of only two living theater artists--the other is Stephen Sondheim--to have a Broadway house named for him (it's where Angels in America recently ran) and the only playwright in modern times to OWN a Broadway theater (the Eugene O'Neill, for many years).— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) August 26, 2018
SPRING BREAKERS is the best movie of the 2010s.— Alejandro Adams (soft reboot) (@richesofchaos) August 27, 2018
And you know what? It's even more relevant, more soul-scorching-cum-edifying if you pretend it was made in the first six months of the Trump presidency.
Or in the last six minutes of the Trump presidency.
Zero depreciation.
Ethan Hawke was generous in his assessment of Logan— Ryland Walker Knight (@rylandwk) August 26, 2018
yes, why do you condescend to the movies about the angry man with the magic powers pic.twitter.com/ioKtfwxevb— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) August 26, 2018
I saw my first Marvel movie this summer for my Josh Brolin story. I could not believe how much it was made without me in mind.— Taffy Brodesser-Akner (@taffyakner) August 26, 2018
Tony Curtis, resplendent in the most groovy multicolored Nehru jacket had him— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 26, 2018