July 2011
Hello new film friends!
I just wanted to thank you for your interest in my cinematic scrapbook and for following.
Here is my favorite thing here. I don’t post a lot, but feel free to explore all the tags and things (I try to curate everything to the best of my ability). My favorite tags are: women in film, quotes; directors; actors; editors; interview; animation; art; soundtracks;...
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June 2011
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tardiscruising:
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Motion Picture Academy launches online database of... →
Motion Picture Academy launches online database of production art
If you can’t come to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library to do research on production design, the library’s database can come to you.
On Tuesday, the academy announced the online launch of the Production Art Database.
The database is a trove of more than 5,300 items from the library’s vast...
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“I worked the third shift at a convenience store for a few months. At four in the...”
– Steve Carell on a pre-acting job (via wherearetheturtles-wherearethey)
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Faye Dunaway: You...you have a lot of very fine qualities.
Robert Redford: What fine qualities?
Dunaway: You have good eyes. Not kind, but they don't lie. And they don't look away much, and they don't miss anything. I could use eyes like that.
Redford: But you're overdue in Vermont. Is he a tough guy?
Dunaway: He's pretty tough.
Redford: What will he do?
Dunaway: Understand, probably.
Redford: Boy. That is tough.
A scene from 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR written by screenwriter David Rayfiel, who passed away yesterday at the age of 87. (via Hollywood Elsewhere)
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“The story gets even worse as it goes along, with Zimmerman ending up back at...”
– Patrick Goldstein, discussing a recent “interview” of Chris Evans for GQ (via heathicorn)
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Emmy Roundtable: Comedy Actresses
Lea Michele: I've had so many scary/embarrassing things happen to me from working on Broadway. From people being wildly drunk like in the audience, and we also had seats on the stage. I was in a show called Spring Awakening, and there was this one scene where my character is deciding whether or not she should have an abortion, and I'm fourteen years old, and it's Germany, and everything bad is happening, and this one woman in the audience she goes "GO FOR IIIIIT"
Amy Poehler: I'm really sorry I thought it was funny at the time.
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“As long as you have a sense of who you are, what you believe in, and know your...”
– J.J. Abrams.
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“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and...”
– Conan O’Brien, addressing the class of 2011 at Dartmouth College.
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“Sophie, the girl, is given a spell and transformed into an old woman. It would...”
– Hayao Miyazaki, on what attracted him to Howl’s Moving Castle.
The Auteur of Anime by Margaret Talbot: “The New Yorker” (January 17th, 2005)
(via hayao-miyazaki) (via bricorama)
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“He doesn’t sound like he’s acting, he sounds like a human being speaking in a...”
– Woody Allen on Owen Wilson. (via shaneguiter)
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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand →
kavalierandclay:
Over 2,000 human voices recorded via the internet, assembled to sing Daisy Bell.
And you thought HAL singing it was creepy.
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Piledriver Waltz by Alex Turner. From Submarine.
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“I called [Spielberg] immediately when I had this idea of doing a film about...”
– J.J. Abrams talks about the autobiographical aspects of Super 8 and what made Spielberg’s early films so wonderful on All Things Considered (via kavalierandclay)
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