New ReelerTV - No Mention of the "M" Word! - A Quiet City Fan is Born
Weinstein death threat, the end of IFC and Generation D.I.Y. in theaters are all in the News. S.T. talks with Joe Swanberg about what it's like to have his film, "Hannah Takes the Stairs" playing in New York. And Karina Longworth discusses the overlooked films programmed in the New Talkies: Generation D.I.Y.
Lots of words in this episode. Some too strong for iTunes, but at least nobody said the "M" word.
A funny little Google-ism:
This was already blogged about by Alison Willmore at the IFC TV Blog a couple of weeks ago.
I had the pleasure of seeing "Quiet City" and enjoyed it thoroughly. The performances were natural by every actor in the film. There's usually one bad apple, but not here. Fellow indieWIRE blogger, Michael Tully has a nice cameo talking about "...pills, powder or pipes..." I'm sure I have the order wrong.
I never trust anything that has had as much hype as the series has had and to be fair, I haven't seen any of the other films, but Quiet City really got me on many levels. And I'm not just saying that because it takes place in my neighborhood. It really is worthy of the attention and deserves much success.
Comments
Per J. Hoberman's take on MUMBLECORE as referenced in the IFC Blog, I think the future critical response to MUMBLE CORE will be interesting. I wonder what critics will think in 20 years. A recent reading of Roger Ebert's re-reviewing of PIERROT LE FOU seems to call into question the not only the merit of this film , but Godard's entire ouvere...Eberts seems to have lost the ability to see the magic.
"Godard's "Pierrot Le Fou" (1965) is the same film I liked so much when it opened here in 1968, and assigned a 3.5 star rating. In fact, it is probably a better film, because the Music Box is showing it in a new 35mm print. But while I once wrote of it as "Godard's most virtuoso display of his mastery of Hollywood genres," I now see it more as the story of silly characters who have seen too many Hollywood movies....I was in full flood of admiration for Jean-Luc Godard in the 1960s. Seemed like everyone was. One year, they showed three of his films at the New York Film Festival. The thing was, he made shots that knew they were shots, and you watched them knowing they were shots, and they knew you were watching, and you were all in on it together."
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070816/REVIEWS/70817008
Posted by: gabe | August 31, 2007 01:14 PM