This Savage Art

Through my hidden sources I have found the blog for Paul Thomas Anderson‘s next film, There Will Be Blood. It is very stealthy and never really gives any clue to an unsuspecting slob like me what the photos on Little Boston News are actually chronicling. It actually looks like a cheesy website for some seafood joint on City Island. Well, maybe this one from May 13th 2006 gives it away. I saw PT Anderson interviewed recently on IFC’s The Henry Rollins Show and I have to say I was impressed and moved by his words of wisdom. He basically was asked the what advice would you give? question and he just said to be fearless. He expanded on the gem by saying when he started out making films he was sometimes paralyzed with fear when people questioned the choices he made, people he thought might no better. The reality was they didn’t, they just had a different opinion. Even though he’s gotten a lot of shit in the past for riffing on Scorsese’s style I think he creates very full, sometimes quirky, cinematic experiences. Hopefully this will be one more.

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Check out the season premiere tonight on FX. Damn, I missed that show.

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Kevin Smith gets an eight minute standing ovation at the screening of Clerks 2 in Cannes.

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There was a magazine around a while ago called Scenario. What it did was give you three completed screenplays along with interviews and articles for $20. Okay, $20 is a little high for a magazine but you got three screenplays. I’m assuming with the introduction of sites like Drew’s it just cost too much money to keep going and dried up. It’s a shame because I’m flipping through the only issue I ever bought in 1999, Vol. 5, No. 1, The Paranoid Thriller Issue. It includes The Conversation, Enemy of the State and Mrs. Dalloway. Great. The magazine of screenwriting art. Anybody remember or have any issues?

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The lowdown from The Movie Binge; From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Movie Binge team will watch every major movie released. Are we crazy? Stupid? Attractive? The answer is always yes. Follow along as we try to watch all 85 films.

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Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette has been sprung at Cannes and there is much coverage here, here and here.

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The Reeler tells us The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens plans on doing a comprehensive Stanley Kubrick retrospective starting June 3. Check the museum’s website for more info.

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Check out this photo mosaic that never stops uh, mosaicing.

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The rising price of film stock and lowering of tape is making the future for shooting on film more and more uncertain. Read more from Cinema Minima…

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As a young man I had many interests. I had my hands in many different things. Everything from The New York Yankees to heavy metal to special effects make-up. That’s right, make-up! What did you think I meant? I idolized the greats like Tom Savini, Rick Baker, Rob Bottin and the godfather of special effects make-up, Dick Smith. This was one of my many totally obsessive creative phases I would continue to have in my life. I had a kit that I filled with bottles of latex, fake blood, collodion and acetone. I studied the films. The Thing, The Exorcist, The Howling, Creepshow and Friday the 13th. I even made a plaster cast head of my friend in his basement and almost suffocated him. All for my art. Continue Reading →

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