Petite idée de DVD à s'offrir pour bien démarrer l'année : le coffret Charley Chase édité par Lobster films : une douzaine de "two-reelers" (courts de 20 min) hilarants mis en scène par Leo McCarey. Mighty like a Moose sur le DVD2 est un chef d'oeuvre du genre.
Et puis comme il ne faut surtout pas laisser la médiocrité s'installer à l'heure où la dématérialisation numérique promet de tout chambouler (pour le meilleur et malheureusement surtout pour le pire parce que le DVD a aiguisé l'appétit des plus voraces) le point de vue de Budd Schulberg, toujours aussi vert à 90 ans passés :
In the old days, if you loved your picture, you fought for it. But now the mogul is Mr Bottom Line. The corporate wisdom is cut your losses. So Ali disappears. The second week you literally can’t find it. Same thing happened to Cinderella Man. And The Legend of Zorro, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas. Big names. Cost a bundle. Bomb.
Here’s how the great minds of Corporate Hollywood think: the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez romance is hot hot hot. Let’s cash in on all the gossip. So they make Gigli, a movie so bad and empty it’s literally unwatchable. And these two young people aren’t bad actors. But they need a real story to tell, real characters to play. They need good writing. Which Gigli don’t got. Another bomb.
Or Shanghai Sunrise. How could they miss in a movie starring the just-married Madonna and Sean Penn with all that free and lubricious publicity about their steamy relationship? Again, another floppola because all the energy was put into the selling and not into the storytelling.
Almost without fail, the only serious films come from Europe, where they are still making them the old way, or from dedicated, truly independent film-makers such as Jim Jarmusch or Gus Van Sant. And I see the Weinstein brothers, Harvey and Bob, as a welcome throwback to the days of the moguls who cared about the movies and every so often were willing to take chances.
The Times Online - 15 Déc. 2005 (via Leloup)
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