1. "Because You Can Never Have Enough...": At The Criterion Collection blog On Five, Kim Hendrickson explores the history (and mystery) of a missing scene from Pasolini's Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom. (Above screencap from DVDBeaver.)
["A few months back, after we announced our upcoming release of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, we received a note from a viewer asking us which version of the film we would be releasing, noting that a 2001 British Film Institute (BFI) release featured a brief scene not contained in the original Criterion DVD. Dealing with various versions of a film is a common situation for us, and as a producer it’s one of the first issues I address. The scene in question occurs at the end of the wedding sequence, approximately forty-four minutes into the film. In the Criterion master, the scene cuts just after the magistrate shuffles the wedding guests out the door and down the stairs. In the 2001 BFI release, this scene extends to include the magistrate reading a short poem."]
2. "Film Audio: The Pauline Factor, '68": Tom Sutpen links to a 1968 audio seminar with Pauline Kael. (Hattip: Aaron Aradillas)
["How much provocation can one speaker pack into just 54 minutes? In this recording of a talk given at UC Berkeley on April 26, 1968, the then-newly-hired film critic for The New Yorker, Pauline Kael, goes a great distance toward answering that question as she brutalizes Underground cinema, Arthur Penn, and the institutional imperatives of mass-market film criticism. And those are but three of the targets upon which she opens fire."]
3. A week in the film life of Steven Carlson.
["ON FRENZY: Everywhere I look, there's a darkness... Alfred Hitchcock's darkest joke is also one of his grandest, an iconic wrong-man thriller given a contemporary viciousness and pumped up to Kafkaesque levels of persecution, and Jon Finch is in his own way the perfect protagonist, so beaten down by life that a murder rap is just another thing for him to impotently defy. But here's the thing: While a good deal of the film (especially the ride in the potato truck) is sick squirmy fun, there's something that most people miss or at least don't feel like discussing. Hitchcock beats Michael Haneke to the punch a good 25 years prior to the latter's ascendancy in indicting his audience for what they're not walking out on."]
4. "Coming soon: 'Facebook: The Movie'?": From the Los Angeles Times. Sorkin's Facebook page is here.
["Is Aaron Sorkin getting his geek on? The famous technophobe and Hollywood scribe is trading the "West Wing" and "Studio 60" corridors for the graffiti-scrawled, software-developer-mobbed corridors of social networking upstart Facebook Inc. The Palo Alto company says it has not signed on to a Sorkin film about its inception, but Sorkin has started a Facebook group (well, he says, his assistant did that) to gather color for a Facebook film he is writing for Sony and producer Scott Rudin. A Sony Pictures spokesman confirmed the project but wouldn't discuss details. Through a publicist, Sorkin declined to comment."]
5. "Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction": Foxxx Mulder? Wha???
["“Californication” and “X-Files” star David Duchovny has checked into rehab for sex addiction, his lawyer Stanton “Larry” Stein confirmed to Access Hollywood. “I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,” the actor said in a statement released to Access. “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.” David married actress Téa Leoni in 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6."]
Quote of the Day: David Reisman
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): Mike Connors in Mannix; lead image to the Moving Image Source article "Lone Justice" by Mark Holcomb.
Clip of the Day: "I wish I were like Siskel & Ebert"
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Links for the Day (August 29th, 2008)
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Aw. "The Critic" always makes me laugh, but that all seems bittersweet, now.
That said - if anyone was going to make a film of "the behind the scenes of Facebook," I suppose I'd want it to be Sorkin. But he needs a really strong project to recover some of the respect he lost during "Studio 60" and the lukewarm reception to his last film, and this doesn't sound like the right vehicle.
Re #5: Just wonder how long it took to find a skeevy enough looking picture of Duchovny with another woman to go with that story.
Get ready for the onslaught of XXX-Files jokes.
That other woman being my girl Gill.
When I saw Salo in London in the mid-nineties, a prologue and an epilogue were tacked on. The prologue showed a map of Italy during which a voiceover described the political situation during which the film takes place.
The film ended on a freeze frame of the two soldiers waltzing together while a voice read an Amnesty International-esque message about how the atrocities seen in Salo still take place in some parts of the world today.
I recall reading that this was the only way local British film boards would allow the film to be shown. Some of the more gruesome material was edited.
Hey, lookit that. Thanks for the mention.
Also: God, I miss The Critic.
Re #5: Eureka! David Duchovny is the element missing from the upcoming film version of Chuck Palahniuk’s “Choke.” Couldn’t ask for a better publicity stunt. (And as if Tea Leoni ain’t just as freaky!)
Thanks for the link. I'm appropriately 'umbled, sir.
I've made the poster for the Facebook movie.
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