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Re: Exquisite Shorts Program, A New Online Platform, Announces First Program

Lauren — Tue, 18 May 2021 15:54:40 -0000

So sick!!

Re: How to Option a Book for Film Adaptation

Barbara Avon — Mon, 17 May 2021 13:56:18 -0000

As someone else already noted, I understand this article is a bit old. However, I found it, and if I found it, maybe someone else will find me. I am an Indie author with a large social media following on Twitter. This year, I'm hoping to get closer to my Book-to-Movie, or Book-To-Netflix dream. Although many of my books would work well on screen, the one I have in mind is my Psychological Thriller, "Sacrilege". - After a senseless act of violence brings a small town to their knees, wayward priest Cris Corelli and the woman he loves teeter on the edge of darkness. It's presently available on Amazon in both e-book and paperback and wherever e-books are sold. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

The cinematic book trailer can be found on YouTube and on my website barbaraavon dot com. My email is barbaraavonauthor at gmail dot com

Many thanks, B.A.

Re: “Am I Going to Have to Reshoot Half of This Movie?” Howard Deutch on Some Kind of Wonderful

MarcB1969 — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:40:41 -0000

I get sucked into watching Pretty in Pink every single time despite not caring about the main characters (mostly a cast of teenagers in their 20s) or the plot just because it is so well shot. Now I know why.

Re: Mike Stoklasa

Grackene — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:52:56 -0000

This is quite the find.

Re: “It Was Subversive, a Political Act, Giving Screen Time to a Scrappy Stray Dog”: Director Elizabeth Lo on Her Mesmerizing Tribeca Documentary, Stray

Fred Fitch — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:55:32 -0000

I just saw it OnDemand, and it was a profound experience. I've met a few stray dogs like Zeytin in the Bronx and Manhattan--not hostile to people, not interested in becoming pets (some strays are practically begging to be taken home). It is absolutely not true that there are no strays at all in New York, though they are rare and often secretive--occasionally dangerous, though more to animals than people. (A friend's dog who escaped from a professional dog walker, was found partly eaten by stray dogs in a nearby park).

However, a dog that is easily approached yet independent-minded is more likely to be picked up by the authorities. Probably the norm in New York is more like the female I saw down near the Hudson River, who hid in the brush while her puppies played along the railroad tracks. Fearing an Amtrak train would flatten them, I called the authorities, and heard they were picked up--being pups, they probably found homes easily. The mother would have had to start over again. It is hard to apply human morality to the dog world. It doesn't work so well for us a lot of the time either.

So to see this type of dog society on a large scale, accepted as normal by the humans--mesmerizing. It does make one question assumptions about how dogs and people should live together, but I did not feel I was looking at some ideal we should all aspire to. Just a different ethos. Something we could learn from. I still want to keep dogs as companions, and the ease with which dogs adapt to that lifestyle proves it is not unnatural to them. It's just not all they can be. I would like to see a world in which they could chose between living with people and living on their own. But part of that choice would require people who want to live with dogs in their homes. And we'd all have to become a lot more tolerant. Of human strays as well as canine.

Re: Sonia Kennebeck

Ken Danieli — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:33:25 -0000

Re: Chloé Zhao

disqus_R1Uc6w9Vg1 — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:44:10 -0000

where can we find the original video clip?

Re: Chloé Zhao

Soleil7 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:11:18 -0000

I think we know why.

Re: Chloé Zhao

Jacob Turner — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 06:25:17 -0000

Why did filmmaker censor this article? Here is what the second paragraph originally said:

She admits, “I get asked a lot, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Zhao says that the same impulses that led her to political science attracted her to this tale of an insurgent Lakota teen finding his way to adulthood within a cloistered environment in which teen suicide is rampant. “It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere,” she continues. “You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that too.”

Re: “Film is just as social as it is creative…”: Zsuzsanna Kiràly on Development and Co-Production in Berlin

disqus_PVD5IUrUQ2 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:19:31 -0000

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Re: “We Spent a Lot of Time Choosing Lenses”: Keith Thomas on The Vigil and His Forthcoming Firestarter Adaptation

Dee — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:36:06 -0000

Actors with two Jewish parents: Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Logan Lerman, Paul Rudd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bar Refaeli, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adam Brody, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Erin Heatherton, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Gregg Sulkin, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Esti Ginzburg, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Margarita Levieva, James Wolk, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Corey Stoll, Michael Vartan, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Julian Morris, Asher Angel, Debra Winger, Eric Balfour, Dan Hedaya, Emory Cohen, Corey Haim, Scott Mechlowicz, Harvey Keitel, Odeya Rush, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Jewish, too (though I don’t know if both of his parents are).

Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers: Timothée Chalamet, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Kristen Stewart, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Ryan Potter, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D’Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Judah Lewis, Brandon Flynn, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, and Harrison Ford (whose maternal grandparents were both Jewish, despite those Hanukkah Song lyrics).

Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jewish and/or identify as Jewish: Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zac Efron, David Corenswet, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Andrew Garfield, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.

Oh, and Ansel Elgort’s father is Jewish, though I don’t know how Ansel was raised. Robert Downey, Jr., Sean Penn, and Ed Skrein were also born to Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers. Armie Hammer, Chris Pine, Emily Ratajkowski, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Finn Wolfhard are part Jewish.

Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism: Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

Re: “…We Wanted Our Cameras to Listen and Play Witness”: Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman on After Parkland

Stacey R Wartell — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:52:40 -0000

You two lied to the familys of MSD. We all trusted you and gave you an open door to our homes and lives. Our private and personal information is out on the streets here being "gossiped" about.
NEVER THE FUCK AGAIN

Re: DIY Lives? #LIKE‘s Distribution Journey, Part Two: The End of the Beginning

louis hale — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:08:57 -0000

Hey Filmmakers! Please reach out with any thoughts or questions!
Sarah

Re: Isaac Florentine on Acts of Vengeance, Antonio Banderas’s Mastery of Fight Choreography and Making a Movie in the Wake of His Wife’s Cancer Diagnosis

Mitchell — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:01:46 -0000

Watched the movie three years ago. Saw it in the previews and grabbed it because I just finished writing an entire biography of the man who created the mixed martial art of Hapkido in 1961. Bruce Lee came to the Korean Master Bong Soo Han to learn new kicks for "Enter the Dragon." This movie was so elevated and elegant because it featured Banderas. I can only hope that as good a film and a lead character is done for Master Han's life, where his unique skills were taken advantage of in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Please know our condolences are felt so much because of the emotional journey of the movie. What a great tribute to both women's lives and what a great dedication for such a film. We are honored by your sharing.

Re: Back to One, Episode 138: Nicole Beharie

Peter Rinaldi — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:36:02 -0000

Thank YOU for writing this!

Re: Director Bram Van Paesschen on Empire of Dust

StuckinBrussels — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:27:12 -0000

My congratulations to the director for capturing a slice of human life I'd have otherwise never seen. Well done.

Re: “I Think I was Just Hip to Loneliness Before Everyone Else Was”: Writer/Director Jane Schoenbrun and Composer Alex G on the Sundance-Premiering We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

isaac — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:37:53 -0000

alex g swag

Re: “There’s So Much Darkness, So Much Room to Dream”: David Lynch on Lost Highway

JoeCoffee — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:02:11 -0000

So thankful this was (re)posted. Any insights to aid in appreciating Lost Highway-not to mention Lynch's creative world-are valuable. His comments on film noir are interesting, too.

Re: Back to One, Episode 138: Nicole Beharie

Niki D'Anger — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:20:40 -0000

For the past 72 hours I've been delving into podcasts featuring my favorite actors/authors, & something TOLD me to google "Nicole Beharie podcast" & I'm so happy I just stumbled across this. There's something magical about hearing the perspectives of people you respect & look up to when you'd probably never otherwise have the opportunity to hear. Thank you guys for posting!

Re: “Backwards Continuity is Not a Category, Is It?”: Script Supervisor Steve Gehrke on Tenet

TheDonMega — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:51:03 -0000

Damn it Gerhke, you had one job!

Re: “This is the Headline: ‘You Can’t Do It Alone. So Do It With People You Love'”: DP and Director Christopher Doyle on

John Mille — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 23:33:52 -0000

There is a documentary being released on Christopher Doyle do you know when?

Re: Back to One, Episode 137: Nat Wolff

Iron — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:01:30 -0000

Insightful

Re: Seeing the Unseen

Dura_Bill — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:33:33 -0000

Oh how awful it must be to be Charlie Kaufman. I feel so bad for him, that he must endure the endless think pieces praising his genius, the constant feedback from actors and directors that he is sui generis and most likely the greatest screenwriter in the history of the medium, the wealth, the fame, the creative freedom. How does Kaufman do it? How does he go on? I guess he must. What a brave soul. To suffer as much as he has (working for scale on a sitcom? How dare they!), all in the face of what every person who has ever tricked themselves into thinking that they are creative and have something to say wishes for on an hourly basis. To think, Kaufman has achieved a kind of secular immortality, whereas the rest of us will die in obscurity, yet the burden lays on him like a titanium cross. WHAT A PUTZ.

Re: A History of the Fan Mutation, YouTube’s Strangest Art Movement

Ian Sbz Willett-Jacob — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:59:29 -0000

i knew it

Re: Searching for an Independent Distribution Strategy Amidst Pandemics and Streaming Wars

louis hale — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:07:24 -0000

Unfortunately even then the filmmaker won't get the ticket price.