Less is more, subtle is everything - re: editing

sub·tle

ˈsədl/

adjective

1. (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe to people who live out in Coney Island- cause their way of life is way too far out there for them to 'get it'.

   
   
   

   "his language expresses rich and subtle meanings"

   synonyms:

   fine, fine-drawn, nice, hair-splitting not spitting "subtle distinctionss(sic)"

   • (of a mixture or effect if using an effects pedal) delicately complex and understated.

     
     
     

     "subtle lighting"

     
     

     synonyms:

     understated, muted, boring yes, subdued; More

   • making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something, this sounds right.

     
     
     

     "he tried a more subtle approach and said 'bye' "
                      
     

                           

     
     

     'May Stay Stray'   Roosevelt Island, NY.  2016.

Campos' Christine ain't no Plymouth Fury.

Campos' latest film CHRISTINE is not only an interesting character study of a news woman's tragedy that ironically got poor coverage by the press (Trump wasn't running for office back then in the 70's), it also is an instant veritable period piece detailing how Live TV news broadcasting was managed before digital - complete with showing us the hustle and bustle of film editing 'on the fly.' Every filmmaker in the world knows what it feels like to be running around editing rooms on a deadline with strips of 16mm film flapping around like a chicken without a head on it's neck (no pun intended, Ms. Christine r.i.p.). Campos is a true talent and this is just another feather in his niche cap. Thumbs up on this one Campos. Rebecca Hall was great, and how she managed to pull off that accent (she is a native Brit) is beyond me. p.s. Special Thanks to Solitaire Inc.

Film Synopsis : Christine is an ambitious news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion, love for a coworker and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue-based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self-doubt and give the people what they want.

Christine's last tv news broadcast recorded on film and on dead air has been missing for decades and is considered to be a 'holy grail'. 3-2-1-BYE.

Unfortunately, nope. Not yet.

2017 CONVERGENCE conference - Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

                           Actor Kevin Bacon goofing with Griffin Dunne.

http://www.arthouseconvergence.org/index.php/about/

Krull- a movie that is so crazy, so bad, yet so adventurously 'inventive' that it deserves that posthumous trophy of being an instant classic. I wonder if actor Liam Neeson wants his colleagues to know this was one of his first. I hope so. bye.  

Lunch Link:  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/21/lydia-lunch-no-wave-music-writing-workshop

p.s. Looking forward to working with Nick Zedd later this year.

Isabelle !!!

Congratulations to the precious Isabelle Huppert for the Golden Globe Award 2017 !!!!!!!! Life IS truly full of surprises. bye.

"Take your broken heart, make it into art."

Carrie Fisher

       

                       

         Excellent soundtrack. So original.

"If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

— Jodi Picoult

One day after a metropolitan snowstorm.

           bye.copyright 2016.

Don Ron.

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2017/01/anthology-film-archives-is-expanding-adding-new-library-and-cafe/

p.s. Find my long time buddy actor Ron Perlman in this 1981 movie cast ...

Ron's very first headshot he used in NYC. lol

http://www.filmferrania.it  

      

And, a truly independent project runs for two to three years- at least. And there is NO pay for the 16-18 hours daily. You do it because you must, like the need to have air to breathe. bye.

R.D.Lang film released in Glasgow.

http://www.thenational.scot/culture/15002499.Movie_about_famed_Scots_psychiatrist_RD_Laing_to_grace_Glasgow_Film_Festival/

p.s. Carrie Fisher gets buried in her giant Prozac Pill urn.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38541220

GLORIA , 16mm

(reel 2)

Seeing works like these in their native form is truly something. When films get digitized and transferred to DVD or Blu Ray they get cropped and cleaned up prior to release. Here, I was able to see microphone booms accidentally caught in camera shots, etc... Cassavetes, even with a bigger budget, remained raw and real in every single aspect of his shooting strategies. Such an auteur. So inspiring. The boom becomes John's definitive fingerprint (and probably got the sound man fired after the shoot, lol). bye.

The one and only film director Samuel Fueller(r.i.p.) would shoot a gun into the air with blanks in it when calling action at the start of 'shooting' his movies. Crazy, but true. bye.

 

The Carpenter strikes back.

  

           

    

Yay!

My fingers are crossed for:

Isabelle Huppert, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Mel Gibson, Annette Bening, The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and recovering kleptomaniac Winona Ryder (for reasons other than her ridiculous performance in 'Stranger Things').

                          Golden Globes this Sunday !!!!

                         

Celebration... Yahoo! This is your Celebration... Yahoo! This is your celebration Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate) There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times, and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you Come on now Celebration Let's all celebrate and have a good time Celebration We gonna celebrate and have a good time It's time to come together It's up to you, what's your pleasure Everyone around the world Come on! Yahoo! It's a celebration Yahoo! Celebrate good times, come on! It's a celebration Celebrate good times, come on! Let's celebrate We're gonna have a good time tonight Let's celebrate, it's all right We're gonna eat some meatballs now ! … bye Kool and the Gang! burrrrrrp....

p.s. I haven't been able to see Gibson's Hacksaw film, but I do hope he gets the Best Director Globe for it because he's pretty amazing (Braveheart, Mad Max, etc) and they've punished him enough for his craziness, And, he shaved his nutty beard finally too! ...

                                 

                       Keep making excuses to go out for more fun coffee.

                                    And don't burp in public, it's rude.

  

          

The Godfather of Avant- Garde Cinema

http://jonasmekas.com/diary/

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.

                                       

 
    The Criterion Channel on FilmStruck: SPLIT SCREEN from Criterion Collection on Vimeo.

organized tiredness.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-sues-apple-claiming-facetime-distracted-driver-crash/story?id=44506168

Sunrise. Exteriors. 2nd Unit 'stills'

                                                          

 Ext. Sunrise - Coming Soon - ...

                                Copyright 2017, Jane Public Pictures.

                                                        

                                                                                                    

p.s. underwater scene's sound design...

                                                      

Martin Scorsese says ...

                       

        P.S. 

"Scripts are ever mutating."

       - David Cronenberg

*It's very relieving to be reminded by a master that one must never feel a sense of restriction towards the self-imposed doctrine that is a script, designed to unconsciously lead its writer to a somewhere place unknown.

Stacks Resolution

  

      

My New Year's resolution is to build up a greater empire of catalogued feature-length films (movies that are on the official international endangered/extinction list) and their vinyl record soundtrack works to go along with 'em. bye.