It's Thursday, not Friday

 say popcorn.

Paul Newman did not only make spagetti sauce.

The following is a pot-boiling summary of Directors’ creative rights under Article 7 of the Directors Guild of America Basic Agreement #8 , widely known as the 'Paul Newman Rule.' It was created by the Guild after actor Paul Newman had a director fired in order to assume complete and creative control over a film that he was starring in. Newman's later involvement in the pasta and meat sauce industry had no immediate effect on the Guild's rule, nor was there ever a rule to include any of his meat sauce in catering services for any motion picture that he made. Tuna Melt Deluxe sandwiches remain under Guild argument and a final decision should be made available by the Guild regarding Tuna Melt's soon.

8.  Replacing A Director

Except in an emergency (and then, only for five days), no person already assigned to the motion picture may replace you. (7-1401) Arbitration decisions confirm that the Producer may not create an “emergency” by terminating your employment.

 

"A visual pun on the process by which light burns an image onto the emulsion of analog film."

 

damn (Germany attacked again)

                 

Gud luck Ms. Merkel, next election. 

They called this invention - magic.

   poof! 

poof¹

po͝of,po͞of/

exclamation

1. 1. 

   used to convey the suddenness with which someone or something disappears.

   
   

   "once you've used it, poof—it's gone."
2. 2. 

   used to express contemptuous dismissal.

   
   

   "“Oh, poof!” said Will. “You say that every year you foolish moronic idiot.”"
   
   
   

   

   
   
   

   
   

   
   

                'All boarded up,'  NYC 2016.

Dying camera batteries and flying lens caps included.

Stewart Copeland (who I consider to be the best drummer in the world) shot this film entirely with a battery operated Super 8mm film camera and documented the rise and fall of one of the greatest bands ever- The Police. This film is so visually beautiful to watch and some of the best moments are when the camera batteries go weak and the technical issues accent the beauty of unplanned things.

                                              And even now in his 60's he remains so active!

bye.

p.s. Blast from the Past...aka T-Bone

Tripods & Super 8 projectors Inc. (self-storage dorm).

        

        

       bye.

NYC snow has finally arrived - YAY !

                                                             Can you say, brrr ?

The Boogiedown.

Just learned that James Caan is from- The Bronx. And Kenneth Lonergan. And Nancy Allen. And Al Pacino. And the list goes on and on and on.bye.  

TGIF

National Film Registry honors- The Breakfast Club

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-film-registry-honors-breakfast-club-rushmore-and-other-teen-angst-movies/2016/12/13/824a7fbe-be58-11e6-ac85-094a21c44abc_story.html?utm_term=.94550472d967

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The new Apple Magic Mouse 2 gadget is so much fun to use and smooth on the index finger. So luvin' it. Spin yo' index fingas virtual wheel again now - 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' bye.

 

bye, Heath.

              

  'Sick Homeless Veteran With Cancer'-Somewhere Highway NYC.

New Apple Techology - The iChew Mac

 

St. Ives (1976 print).

 

So strange to find this 70's 16mm film print and spot actors Jeff Goldblum and Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) in small bit parts in it playing gangster hoodlum street thugs - Halarious. Goldblum clearly was being typecast by Hollywood in his 20's and getting only roles to play swarthy thugs trying to kill Charles Bronson! He even played one of the degenerate gang members who broke into Bronson's house and attacked his family in, Death Wish. So weird and funny, if they only knew he'd move on the play The Fly, Jurassic Park and Independence Day. Hmmmmm, not sure if his acting range has varied much over the past decades. I'll bite my tongue. St. Ives has a great soundtrack written by Lalo Schifrin and also an incredible cast no matter how mediocre the script is. And, Jacqueline Bisset stars in it which makes you lose track of time rather fast. bye.

Austerlitz observes concentrated tourism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/arts/international/sergei-loznitsa-movie-austerlitz-tourists-concentration-camps.html?_r=0

The Journey is filmmaker Peter Watkins’s most ambitious experiment with form: at once a documentary, a dystopian science fiction film, a handbook for media analysis, and an organizational structure linking activist groups throughout the world. From 1983 to 1986, he undertook a transcontinental project to map the corrosive anticipation of impending nuclear catastrophe. Watkins worked with an international network of support groups to raise money and assemble crews while shooting the film in the US, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France, West Germany, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Polynesia, Mexico, and the Soviet Union. The result is a fourteen-hour cartography of capitalism, historical memory, and fear that weaves together an analysis of the global arms race, recollections of survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hamburg, and community preenactments of possible disaster scenarios. It is also a sustained critique of the media’s role in distraction, misinformation, and the normalization of nuclear geopolitical strategy, environmental destruction, gender inequality, the erosion of public education, and the spread of world hunger. Mixing nighttime news tropes, culture-jamming tactics, and even a dash of comedic animation, The Journey also continually questions and makes visible its own formal strategies. Watkins encourages us to challenge how we take in media, information, and entertainment, and, furthermore, to take them over --- heil bye. 

                               

Trump Plaza lobby 12-13-2016.

 " Not sure who passed the gas, but let's smile for the bias media. "

The Golden Globe Awards nominations for 2017 are announced.  And frankly, they're good. bye.

Dylan's Nobel peace prize was delivered to Patti Smith.

"Ring around the rosy
 Pocket full of posies
 Ashes, ashes
 We all fall down"
                  - Bob Dylan comment on his Nobel acceptance delay.

LOL LINK:  http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-transcendent-patti-smith-accepts-bob-dylans-nobel-prize

                                                        

                                                                                  

Pink Floyd: The Wall (released 1982)

p.s.

2nd Unit 'Exteriors' shot with Canon 6D

Happy Birthday, John Cassavetes !!!

#onlyoneyou
#kingofindependentfilm
#blowoutdacandles

                                                                                 

     The Guard Dog, 2016.

                      

                      

  

Wat(sic) is semiotics?

"The field of semiotics dictate that any idea created by an artist, any image or moment in an artist's work is fair game for interpretation, as long as the interpreter understands it may not have been intentional on the artist's part." - Film Crit Hulk

A masterpiece deemed too 'weird' for television.

Interesting how 'Mulholland Drive' was initially written by David Lynch as an ABC television series proposal, was harshly rejected as being weird, and then went on to get multiple Oscar nods in multiple categories as a feature-length film. LOL. Life is truly something and that old saying is true - keep moving forward no matter what and never let 'em see ya sweat. bye. 

 

https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr 

 

 And then this ...

bye.

Ring, Rings cost more than 10 cents.

Public Telephone Works, 2016.

      Robert Rauschenberg,  R.I.P.

Huppert in the Times.

         

Isabelle's article Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/t-magazine/isabelle-huppert-elle-movie-interview.html?_r=0