From my favorite movie, Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place:
No reason whatsoever that I'm posting that clip other than I feel like it.
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Back to NY this week, this time on work related travel - huzzah for business-covered hotel stays! - where I will likely gorge on bagels and pizza made the way God intended. It's always great...
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No reason whatsoever that I'm posting that clip other than I feel like it.
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Back to NY this week, this time on work related travel - huzzah for business-covered hotel stays! - where I will likely gorge on bagels and pizza made the way God intended. It's always great...
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toothpickmoe:
You really must have to deal with some awesome folks, huh?
_biblia_:
well. . . not batman. . . .
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tinyhobo:
whatever.
it was funny.
it was funny.
chainlink:
Very pleased to make your acquaintance sir. I've always admired your comments and envied your beers. 
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revelation:
Fine thanks
I'm covering Sitges Internation Film Festival as photographer, tomorrow we have Rutger Hauer, hosting Blade Runner Final Cut's presentation. I saw this new version a couple of days ago, and I truely like it better than director's cut. It's closer to original version (and I won't make any more comments in case you want to see it hehe)
I'm covering Sitges Internation Film Festival as photographer, tomorrow we have Rutger Hauer, hosting Blade Runner Final Cut's presentation. I saw this new version a couple of days ago, and I truely like it better than director's cut. It's closer to original version (and I won't make any more comments in case you want to see it hehe)
tinyhobo:
just popping in to say cheers
WHY. MUST. EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. IN THIS BLOODY CITY. BE SO GODDAMNED FLAKY???!!!?!!??!!! 
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toothpickmoe:
Now now. I haven't had a chance to flake on you yet.
This morning I woke up to the sound of the neighbor trimming his tree. I told myself he would stop trimming only if I got out of bed. The tree got smaller and smaller. Soon it was just a stump, and he had to go underground and start trimming the roots, and still I couldn't get up. The roots were gone and he was sawing...
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koala:
Beautiful.
cineman:
Cool quote. My friend's daughter was in "Me and You" and loves her.
Thanks also for the comment. Yes, things are very interesting these days to say the least. How's everything in your world? Good luck with it all.
Thanks also for the comment. Yes, things are very interesting these days to say the least. How's everything in your world? Good luck with it all.
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pygmy:
that's my approach to it, too. sometimes there's just nothing else you can do but wait it out. as miserable as i've been lately, there's something cathartic about it all.
so sorry to hear your past was similarly troubled. consider more hugs sent your way.
here's to hoping we both get a good, well deserved nights sleep tonight!
so sorry to hear your past was similarly troubled. consider more hugs sent your way.
here's to hoping we both get a good, well deserved nights sleep tonight!
prockgirlscout:
How come they call it Stone Bistro? 
"It's true. I'm not authentic. With everything that I feel, before actually feeling it I know that I'm feeling it. And then, bound up as I am with defining and thinking it, I no longer more than half-feel it. My greatest passions are mere nervous impulses. The rest of the time I feel hurriedly, then elaborate in words, press a little here, force a little...
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the_reverend:
Hey Raffster. Hope life is good with you.
pygmy:
you must be in a sad state if you're quoting sarte...
so i just added you to my mental list of People Who I'd Like To Deliver A Hug To (incidentally, you're right next to Ice-T)
i know how you (and sartre) feel, though. if you want, send me your address, i will send you a book you might find helpful in breaking away from his bad influence (it's a good book, but don't worry, not the good book )
i know this is just the internet and all, and i'm hardly even around anymore, but i consider you a friend. just so you know. and when i have friends who i sense are having a rough time, but to whom i can't deliver hugs, i'm irresistibly compelled to send them books. it's a strange illness, really.
so i just added you to my mental list of People Who I'd Like To Deliver A Hug To (incidentally, you're right next to Ice-T)
i know how you (and sartre) feel, though. if you want, send me your address, i will send you a book you might find helpful in breaking away from his bad influence (it's a good book, but don't worry, not the good book
)i know this is just the internet and all, and i'm hardly even around anymore, but i consider you a friend. just so you know. and when i have friends who i sense are having a rough time, but to whom i can't deliver hugs, i'm irresistibly compelled to send them books. it's a strange illness, really.
Back from NY. Man, I needed that.
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We're nearing completion on Carissa, one of the movies I've been producing. The whole thing is and has been a thorough learning experience from the start - of course at this stage in my career almost everything is a learning experience, but this project is especially different than anything I've worked on before.
The film is...
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We're nearing completion on Carissa, one of the movies I've been producing. The whole thing is and has been a thorough learning experience from the start - of course at this stage in my career almost everything is a learning experience, but this project is especially different than anything I've worked on before.
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cineman:
Thanks - I am looking forward to it very much.
Best of luck to you and your guys as you head for the white light on this one, too.
Random brush: I ate sushi at a table next to D.G. at Sundance '06 at the place next to the Holiday Village; my friends and I couldn't get into the screening of An Inconvenient Truth next door.
Best of luck to you and your guys as you head for the white light on this one, too.
Random brush: I ate sushi at a table next to D.G. at Sundance '06 at the place next to the Holiday Village; my friends and I couldn't get into the screening of An Inconvenient Truth next door.
revelation:
Well, I think social problems start with a very personal problem, what I call the Denial Syndrome. Most of people think there are real problems around but they prefer to think about the ones of their own before start to evaluating the rest of humanities' issues, to end up thinking that those issues doesn't actually exist as long as they're far, far away.
Is like what happened in World War II in Germany: it can't happen again, unless it happens in a country the CNN doesn't care about. What you don't see doesn't exist, and if it takes place on a movie screen you can forget about as long as the film has an end.
I think the merit lies in the fact that your work is harder than it seems.
Is like what happened in World War II in Germany: it can't happen again, unless it happens in a country the CNN doesn't care about. What you don't see doesn't exist, and if it takes place on a movie screen you can forget about as long as the film has an end.
I think the merit lies in the fact that your work is harder than it seems.
Christ on a crutch, I need to get out of LA for a while.
EDIT TO ADD: I just booked myself a flight to NY, much-needed for my mental health, leaving in approximately 14 hours. So that solves that.
EDIT TO ADD: I just booked myself a flight to NY, much-needed for my mental health, leaving in approximately 14 hours. So that solves that.
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revelation:
You would probably need an Ego Tour
_biblia_:
i think vagabondage is my new favorite word.
have a fabulous trip-- hopefully it cures that nasty case of stasis you've got.
have a fabulous trip-- hopefully it cures that nasty case of stasis you've got.
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toothpickmoe:
Oh, indeed. I'm so glad you understand his place in the pantheon of legendary film makers.
I also think Walsh will one day be the crowning jewel of the director world (Entourage reference ahoy).
I also think Walsh will one day be the crowning jewel of the director world (Entourage reference ahoy).
westley:
<---Although he did it pretty damned interestingly in that film.
Style = substance
I thought about that question too, and I have to say it completely slipped my mind that Antonioni was still alive. I picked Godard, who, the way this week is going, had better be keeping a close watch on his health.
I saw Eros recently, which was the only reason I knew he was alive. Godard was another name that several of us mentioned. The unofficial, unranked list we came up with: Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claire Denis, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Takeshi Kitano, Werner Herzog, Wong Kar Wai, Tsai Ming Liang, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Manoel de Oliveira, Kon Ichikawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Zhang Yimou, Isao Takahata...
My personal favorite is Lynch, but I would say JLG as well. Outside of Resnais, Oliveira, and Ichikawa we are pretty much talking about people whose careers have been built post-1960 at this point.
meh
revelation:
Mew? lol
Bad question: How much did I fuck up?
Better question: How much can I possibly unfuck?
Better question: How much can I possibly unfuck?
toothpickmoe:
That's some Tony Robbins shit right there, yo.