The Afternoon Report: Tuesday 7 August 2018
Dennis Hopper... New York Film Fest Main Slate... Kent Jones Cites Coppola... A New Hollywood Blacklist? ... Rita Moreno on Singing with Animal... Ethan Hawke Profiled... Spike Lee And Love For Tom Pollock... Frank Borzage Saluted By Farran Smith Nehme... Matt Singer Revisits Memories Of Kevin Smith In The Flesh In New Jersey... A Trailer For The Restored Distant Voices, Still Lives
"Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie Is as Essential as Cinema Gets" Bilge Ebiri
"How we made Steppenwolf's 'Born to Be Wild'" Grauniad
NYFF Main-Slates Lanthimos; Cuarón; Schnabel; Panahi; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; Jia Zhangke; Coens; Lee Chang-dong; Pawlikowski; Garrel; Ying Liang; Llinás Grass; Hong Sangsoox2; Rohrwacher; Perry; Denis; Barry Jenkins; Tamara Jenkins; Godard; Köhler; Bi Gan; Wiseman; Assayas; Billingham; Hirokazu Kore-eda; Honoré; Sotomayor; Petzold; Dano NYFF
"Francis Coppola said that the cinema would become a real art form only when the tools of moviemaking became as inexpensive as paints, brushes, and canvases. That has come to pass, but at the same time it’s become increasingly tough to do serious work that is beholden to nothing but the filmmaker’s need to express these emotions in this form in moving images and sound."
A24 Offers One-Off Free Screenings of Eighth Grade In All Fifty States Over "R" Rating A24
"If a Twitter mob is not quite the same as a pair of FBI agents delivering subpoenas, there are enough parallels between then and now to be discomfiting to anyone concerned with due process, free expression, or a simple fair shake." Thomas Doherty at The Reporter
"Ethan Hawke walks into the Odeon. 'I always think of 'Bright Lights, Big City.' Like I'm about to go in the bathroom and do lines with Bret Easton Ellis." GQ
“I did a big action movie called The Incredible Hulk. You know what went wrong? I wanted a better script. I thought we should make one Marvel movie as good as the worst Christopher Nolan movie, but what the hell was I thinking?”
"I got my first Emmy for it, but it didn't show in my career. You know, once you have a Latino name, you're sort of fucked. But Frank and Jim loved it. They thought I was a Muppetess." Rita Moreno Remembers Singing with Animal The New Yorker
Farran Smith Nehme On Borzage's Moonrise ("some of the most gorgeous noir cinematography of the era") And Other Republic Pictures Treasures VOICE
"Pick a decade, and Robert Redford has done amazing things on screen." Sean P. Means Timelines
"Google the articles by David Denby, Jack Kroll… they said blood was gonna be on my hands. People were urging Tom Pollock, who was then the president of Universal Pictures, not to open the film. And if he was still gonna open it, don’t put it in the summer, because you know how they do in the summertime. People forget, and I’ll say it in public anytime I can, but Tom Pollock was the patron saint of Do the Right Thing." Kyle Buchanan
"Watching his early movies in a theater again was a surreal experience. In some ways, Smith’s breakthroughs were eerily prescient. In others, they feel like they were made 200 years ago instead of twenty, in some bygone prehistoric era." Matt Singer Revisits Kevin Smith's The Jersey Trilogy Screencrush
When Kathleen Turner Met The Donald: "Yes. Yuck. He has this gross handshake. What’s he do? He goes to shake your hand and with his index finger kind of rubs the inside of your wrist. He’s trying to do some kind of seductive intimacy move. You pull your hand away and go yuck." David Marchese
