THE 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; Winona Ryder; Craig Zadan; "Berlin"; Lievsay and Lynch, Men of Sound; Bill Cunningham; Bill Kurtis; Translating James Baldwin; and more.

 "We watched movies like Battle of Algiers and The French Connection. A lot of our conversations had to do with the Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker and Frederick Wiseman and those cinema verité documentaries of the 1960s — how they were put together and the ways you could join shots in such a way that it felt emotionally continuous, but actually wasn't." Editing First Man The Reporter

 "Scott Stuber is steering the film division away from the volume business that has defined Netflix’s TV push and [stop] taking projects other studios were discarding, and is being more selective. 'They know they need to do a watercooler movie.'" The Reporter

 Lenders Take Control Of Domestic Production, Distribution, As Global Road Potholes Screen

 Oscar Producer And TV Musical Man Craig Zadan Was 69 LATimes

 Venice Joins Berlin and Cannes on Extended Review Embargoes Variety

 "Ben Sherwood, who currently runs ABC, Freeform and Disney Channel, would become the head of worldwide news and nonfiction content." Palace Intrigue As Disney Sups On Fox Bones Bloomberg

"Why James Bond Should Be Black But Batman Should Stay White" The Reporter

"Every film about teens is really about the moment they realize that none of the adults know what they’re doing." Desiree Akhavan Grauniad

Support The Girls' Andrew Bujalski's 10 for the Decade Grasshopper Film

 "John Cassavetes, Underrated Surrealist" By Andrew Bujalski Criterion

 Flashback: Skip Lievsay On The Sound Design Of Skip Lievsay For Scorsese and The Coens Grauniad
And - From 2001, Scott Macaulay Talks Mulholland Drive With David Lynch Filmmaker

"As personal as Truffaut's films are, the gap between the public Truffaut and the private Truffaut is enormous, and that's the paradoxical subject of this deeply personal, inevitably impersonal film... The egotist is writing about himself and relying on women to reveal different facets of his own identity." Richard Brody in The New Yorker

"I wrote about Silver Jews, the loneliness of being a fan and why David Berman is the Denis Johnson of indie rock" Madelaine Lucas in The Believer

Jason Lutes On Completing His 550-Page "Berlin Trilogy" Graphic Novel Seven Days Vermont

 "If I was to create an imaginary garden I wanted the toads in it to be real. One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened in what James Joyce called the “nightmare” of history, nor any technology not already available. No imaginary gizmos, no imaginary laws, no imaginary atrocities. God is in the details, they say. So is the Devil." "What Writers Can Learn from Margaret Atwood’s New Introduction to The Handmaid’s Tale" Tor.com

"It also felt like living in two rooms, divided by a thick wall: the room that Baldwin built to contain all those emotions, and the unfinished room." Elena Marcu on Translating James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" LitHub

 "Bill Kurtis, Chicago’s iconic newsman, opens up about a life of extraordinary triumphs, profound pain, and never-ending reinvention." Bryan Smith Chicago

 "In his posthumous book, 'Fashion Climbing,' the New York Times’s onetime fashion and society photographer Bill Cunningham recalls his younger days as a hat maker and man about town." Dwight Garner, NYTimes
"My father wasn’t like the other fathers my friends at school had; he was mysterious, majestic, absurd and wondrous. He was always ready for anything, especially if it was curious and daring. His wiry form carried his raucous cheeky cackle from one adventure, one painting, one dance to another. His gait had the cadence of big beaters thudding melodically on a big wooden xylophone, for though he was slight his presence was larger than any room he was ever in." Bertie Blackman remembers her father. Australian Figurative Painter Charles Blackman  Grauniad

 "We object to the government taking away the privacy rights of private individuals when they donate to private, nonprofit organizations." Dark Money Group Cited In Dark Money Doc Cries Out For Secrecy For Their Potential Election Influence Via Dark Money KRTV

 "Michelle Wolf Was Never Gonna Be Your Jon Stewart, America" Voice

 Actress Olivia Colman Named Most Important Person In British Television Grauniad

 "Winona Ryder, Serious Actress" Voice

 "Where to eat like a 'Crazy Rich Asian'"Chicago Tribune
Natalie Portman To Play Identical Twin Sisters, Advice Columnists Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers; Will Direct, Too Jerusalem Post
"The trope of the unethical female reporter has persisted for several decades, throughout fiction, film, and television": Educating Movies And Television On How They Ought To Portray Female Journalists: Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic

 "After writing about The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Bruce LaBruce has finally got Jodie Foster out of his system." Talkhouse

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