
- Women turn the camera on male domination (Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problems With Woman Directors)
“AMERICAN novelist Bret Easton Ellis – who was once tediously provocative and is now merely tedious – announced recently that women film directors lack the ”male gaze” necessary to make great cinema.” Exact interview with Movieline is here. - Why the Outrage over The Killer Inside Me? Domestic Violence really is Brutal.
“Having never met Winterbottom, I cannot vouch for the shape of his head. Having seen the film, though, I can say that I have had plenty more “gratuitously violent” nights at the cinema and certainly much, much more misogynistic ones. In truth, Winterbottom has made an unexpectedly moral film, one that puts many of Hollywood’s most common cliches to shame, and if some critics don’t see that, it is because they can’t see the screen through their knee-jerks.” - Debra Granik, John Hawkes, and Dale Dickey on Winter’s Bone
“As an outsider to this Ozark environment, but one who’s striving for a high degree of verisimilitude in how you portray it, how do you earn the trust of the locals?” - Gogi Gui and a Movie? Karina Longworth talks up L.A.’s CGV Cinemas
“First of all, we really want to serve our community, and the biggest Korean-American community is here in L.A.,” says CGV operations manager Christable Lee, over kimbap at Schoolfood in the Madang mall. “But we also really want to spread love for Asian cinema. We’re trying to get [American] people to like Korean movies.” - Movie Trailers Give More and More Plot Away
“If a film is successful, the marketing department always gives itself a big clap on the back,” says Roger Michell (director of Notting Hill and Enduring Love). “And if it isn’t, then they say, ‘Well, the film was shit!’ So that’s kind of a dark art, right?” - Splice broke rule No. 1 – Don’t show the monster!
“All of the posters for the film showed the hybrid animal/human creature, a female named “Dren,” that Polley and Brody create in their genetics lab. The most common poster I saw had Dren in a dress tippy-toeing towards Polley and Brody, with her long tail curled behind her. It looked like a scene from a Disney movie about giant friendly mice.”
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I know Simon Mayo took Winterbottom to task on the violence front in an interview recently. Winterbottom defended himself and his decisions pretty well I think.
“Brooks tells Vulture that he has now conceded that in today’s movie business, “as a general rule, you show your best stuff … It’s interesting, because [audiences] will still laugh at the joke a second time in the theater.”
A second time yes. Problem is, most of the time I have seen the joke ten times or more. It drives me bonkers when audiences laugh again at a joke I know damn well they’ve seen 100 times. People are stupid. Another reason why I try to avoid watching trailers for movies I already know about and especially if I know I’m going to be seeing anyway.