
The Skywalker Ranch is the limit.
En tout cas les fans (actifs) ont gardé la force avec eux, ils font ça pour le plaisir et semblent avoir retrouvé l'esprit originel :
Mon sous-titrage du cinema, qu'il s'agisse de films, de pépètes ou simplement de personnes.
Ce blog a obtenu son visa Tout Public, il s'adresse à tous ceux qui vont au cinéma et/ou qui aiment les films.
[The droning old fart] recently flew from Montréal to New York. When he arrived, the customs officer asked him: "Mr Godard: what are you coming here for? Business or pleasure?" Godard indicated the former. The officer asked what business he was in. "Unsuccessful movies," Godard replied.Hé ben, il est où le petit péteux qui faisait son malin avec des petites phrases comme "tout ce dont on a besoin pour faire un film c'est d'une fille et d'un flingue" ou "le cinéma c'est la vérité 24 fois par seconde" ?
There is something paradoxical about his attitude toward cinema. He now seems despairing of the medium's ability to reinvent itself or to have any kind of social impact. "It's over," he sighs. "There was a time maybe when cinema could have improved society, but that time was missed."
"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
What we have is a world, as former studio head David Picker so wisely stated, where Hollywood is no longer making movies, they are selling a product. And the product they are selling only happens to be movies.William Goldman Which lie did I tell (2000)
Paramount made some more preproduction cash by taking advantage of the British government's largesse. To qualify for Section 48 tax relief in Britain, the movie had to include some scenes filmed in Britain and employ a couple of British actors. Given Lara Croft's peripatetic plot, neither condition presented an artistic problem. Again, Paramount entered into a complex sale-leaseback transaction, this time with Britain's Lombard Bank. Through this legal legerdemain, the studio netted, up front, another $12 million—enough to pay for the director and script.Conclusion de l'article : il est plus facile de financer une grosse bouse à $100m comme Lara Croft qu'un petit film indépendant à $16m comme Sideways.
[In 1966] the journalist Peter Bart quoted Pollack deriding the "horizontal" storytelling favored by American directors and offering paeans to Fellini and Truffaut. But by then it was too late. Pollack's rough edges had been shorn off by television. He had become a dedicated middlebrow artist, suspicious of sophistication and concerned with nothing so much as being an entertainer.Ce décalage c'est exactement ce que la nouv' vag' et ses novlinguistes ne peuvent pas comprendre puisque pour eux le talent préexiste à l'envie de faire du cinéma. Pour moi c'est tout à l'honneur de Pollack de décider de baisser ses prétentions s'il sait qu'il ne sera jamais Fellini ou Truffaut. A condition bien-sûr qu'il ne tombe pas dans le cynisme du mercenaire.
The Pollack hero undergoes a ritualized breaking-in: He begins as a handsome loner, self-sufficient and set in his ways. Then he meets a she. She (Streep, Fonda, Streisand) is overly idealistic or else overly prim. He is smitten. He opens himself up. Together, he and she overcome a hostage crisis, evil lawyers, or African colonization. Two and a half hours later, he is a slightly better he. If you think I'm oversimplifying things, listen to Pollack: "It's usually the same guy in a different place," he told The Directors. "Sometimes he's in Africa, sometimes he's in the West. ... And often it's Redford."C'est là la différence entre l'auteur reconnu et le faiseur : l'un a des thèmes de prédilection qu'il explore au fil de ses oeuvres quand l'autre ne fait que se répéter. Mais pourquoi tomber dans le manichéisme alors qu'on peut très bien imaginer un auteur puant se perdre dans ses obsessions au mépris du spectateur quand le faiseur a simplement pour ambition de réussir le meilleur film dont il est capable avec les ingrédients qu'il a rassemblés ?
Hollywood has a word for people who join big stars with big literary properties and then leave the film to make itself—producers.Ah ! si on pouvait sortir cinq minutes du cliché du producteur inculte qui insulte tout le monde sauf ses banquiers et ses stars...
"I want to make movies that have energy. They may be cynical - but with a sunny cynicism."Vous trouverez cette citation d'enculé (enculé oui, mais attention, enculé optimiste) dans le New York Times. L'article est vraiment fourre-tout, une compilation de vignettes sans aucune perspective, donc c'est à chacun d'y faire son marché.David Sacks, 32, an inventor of the Internet payment system PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion
"I've never put a dime of my own money into this business," said John Davis, a multimillionaire producer whose entree to Hollywood was smoothed by his father, Marvin Davis, who purchased 20th Century Fox and sold it to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in the 1980's. "I always advise other people not to. It is a very risky business. The riches in this business are made on libraries that increase in value over a long period of time, but you have to have two or three thousand titles."
Even though Hollywood's labor unions have failed to make any headway in getting a share of DVD profits, individual movie artists are free to argue for a bigger slice of the proceeds. The studios say that any DVD concessions would bring financial ruin, but cracks are starting to appear in their previously united front, fissures that could ultimately provide the clearest view of the battleground.CA ventes + location DVD 2004 (US+Can) = 15,5 +5,7 milliards de dollarsJohn Horn, LA Times (17 avril)
“The 2wenty,” which is shown with digital projectors, is “a larger-than-life pre-show adding unique and special entertainment to the REG movie-going experience.” The country’s largest theater chain [Regal] refers to it as “quality entertainment supplied by our four content partners.”En revanche très bonne initiative que celle de la Captive Motion Picture Audience of America : mettre une affichette "réservé" sur son fauteuil et ne revenir que pour le début du film.
To understand what this is really about, replace “entertainment” with “advertisements” and “content partners” with “companies that are paying for these advertisements.” Essentially, movie theater chains have found a way to give us even more advertising: by running pre-show ad films while the lights are still on and audiences are finding their seats.
...sequels are whores movies.
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In Lucas's case, I think there are precious few on the planet who preferred Return of the Jedi to Star Wars. Well, why, pray tell, should the Phantom Menace be any less boring and flawed than the last of the first trilogy?
People will come up with all kind of bullshit for whoring. I remember telling people, Well, there was just so much great stuff about Butch and Sundance I couldn't fit in the first one. Wonderful interesting new material.
Bullshit. That was whore talking.
And whatever Lucas tells us today about why he did the deed, whatever excuses he comes up with, it will be bullshit. If you disagree then answer this: why didn't he finance a sequel to Howard the Duck?William Goldman, Which lie did I tell? (2000)
Ecrivain et scénariste américain oscarisé pour Butch Cassidy et le Kid (qui a donné une prequel dix ans après) puis pour les Hommes du Président.
On the heels of Amelie and The Chorus, Scott Thomas' latest film Arsene Lupin, an unusual mix of costume drama, martial arts and computer-generated imagery, is another box office success story.
These days, I don’t think of awards at all. And even less so since I’ve been part of that world, and I’ve seen what it really is. It doesn’t have the same sort of allure it once did. It’s just watching a marketing machine, and there’s something very ugly about that. I hate it, I think it’s crap. It’s marketing, and marketing is marketing. People get too attached to it. It’s slightly mean-spirited. I can’t speak to larger trends. If people say a movie is better because it has an award it’s sort of affecting the future of marketing.
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I’m not interested in watching films right now that feel like a product. I want to feel like I’m watching something that’s really really a mess. Does this make any sense? I don’t know what it is, I want to watch a film in which it feels like there’s something at risk, that’s not a package. But everything seems to be a package. I’m on edge, I don’t want to feel like someone’s sort of presenting me with something and I’m supposed to appreciate it.
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I don’t really have anything against stories, but I just want to feel something happening. I read something that Emily Dickinson said that I’m going to paraphrase: you know something’s poetry if a shiver goes up your spine. And that’s the thing to try to put out there, and you put it out there by being honest. If you have a story, it has to conform to that, rather than the other way around. I’m not necessarily into plotless cinema; sometimes people make those movies and they’re not very good, or interesting. Everything is intention, and sometimes people’s intentions, even when they’re avant-garde or on-the-edge, or muddied, become apparent, and it doesn’t really have any power.
(...) admittedly it's not a book for grown-ups. The book is all about the fantastic atmosphere drawn between a little boy's and a young man's world. Told in a flashback through the eyes of the former little boy there's also a sense of lost paradise. Once read twice lost it seems, hence the point that nostalgia is only a transient feeling, not a firm standpoint you can find and climb over and over again.Il est normal pour un enfant qui ne comprend pas encore tout de vivre dans un monde vaporeux où l'atmosphère prime sur le décor. Mais l'adulte est censé faire l'effort de comprendre, pas de se réfugier dans ses souvenirs d'enfance, ses albums de photos jaunies au goût de madeleine et aux sonorités de Choristes.