One of the last times Steven Soderbergh spoke in
public about making movies, in 2013, he talked about how much he no longer enjoyed making them.
Not exact matches
So knowing
about the Bible not only
makes the
movies more fun and enables critique of
public policy, but it also paradoxically encourages you to think for yourself.
Allison talked with Scientific American
about his prize - winning presentation, the difficulties of communicating highly technical concepts to the
public and how $ 200,000 could
make his «molecular
movies» a reality.
PREVIOUS, JUNE 2 AM: Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will
make a
movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then
made public thousands of classified documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.
He discusses his appreciation of The Wire, how he approached «the best worst
movie ever
made,» telling the universal story
about dreamers on the outside, the soul of The Room's Tommy Wiseau, choosing to honour other artists, Basquiat, Pollock, the addiction and pitfalls of
public persona, relieving ego to find happiness, recognizing workaholic and escapism tendencies to find happiness and what's on his work - out playlist (Jonathan Richman, Jamie XX, Mura Masa, A$ AP Rocky).
As we reported over the weekend, the only screening being
made available to press and critics will be on Friday morning,
about 15 hours after the general
public is able to see the
movie at Thursday night preview screenings around the country.
And then, Harlin decides to
make an action
movie about pirates, which, as a pre-Pirates of the Caribbean concept, wasn't one that was strong (the
public has never had a collective desire for more pirate films).
But no, instead two TV writers (Dennis McNicholas, a Saturday Night Live scribe who inflicted The Ladies Man
movie on the general
public, and Chris Henchy, Entourage)
make absolutely no effort to stretch themselves and instead regurgitate humor that would fit much better in just
about any
movie starring Seth Rogen.
Though the general
public doesn't always share their enthusiasm, Hollywood loves
making movies about itself.
The result, in the case of The Dark Knight Rises, is a
movie so rich in lushly cinematic images — with lustrous colors and richly textured night scenes — that it should be displayed side by side with the likes of The Avengers and The Amazing Spider - Man in
public forums devoted to educating the audience
about what is being lost as the
making and exhibiting of films on actual film becomes a museum art — the latest, but surely not the last, casualty of Hollywood's relentless focus on the bottom line.
The one thing that is
making me finally like
public speaking (even though I still get butterflies) is being able to tell people
about the unfolding of the
movie that has long been running in my head and how the next scene is coming to reality before my eyes.
To
make the time commuting by
public transit pass more quickly, I find watching
movie rentals or purchases from iTunes, although expensive, to be a satisfactory experience holding the device on my lap (although it is true what they say
about the glare — it is hard to view content in bright sunlight).