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November 26, 2022
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November 26, 2022
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November 26, 2022
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"The counterculture films from 1968-71, whether or not they were good, were exciting. And they demanded to be seen in a crowd, preferably stoned."
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November 26, 2022
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1.28%
"At that age, the height of comedy was a guy in a gorilla suit, and the only thing funnier than that was a guy getting punched in the nuts. So a guy in a gorilla suit getting punched in the nuts was the absolute pinnacle of comedy."
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November 27, 2022
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2.05%
"If I wanted to be allowed to hang around during adult time, my little ass better be fucking cool."
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November 27, 2022
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"Because I was allowed to see things the other kids weren't, I appeared sophisticated to my classmates. And because I was watching the most challenging movies of the greatest movie-making era in the history of Hollywood, they were right, I was."
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November 28, 2022
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3.84%
"To one degree or another I've spent my entire life since attending movies and making them, trying to recreate the experience of watching a brand-new Jim Brown film, on a Saturday night, in a black cinema in 1972."
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November 30, 2022
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4.09%
"Now, not all those Elvis movies were bad. Some were better than others. But it's safe to say they weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies.""
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November 30, 2022
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4.35%
"The importance of Neile McQueen to Steve's success as an actor can't be overemphasized.
It was Neile who read the scripts. It was Neile who narrowed down the material. It was Neile who was good at choosing material that would be best for Steve."
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It was Neile who read the scripts. It was Neile who narrowed down the material. It was Neile who was good at choosing material that would be best for Steve."
November 30, 2022
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4.6%
"Bullitt is about action, atmosphere, San Francisco, Yates' great location photography, Lalo Schifrin's jazzy score, and Steve McQueen, his haircut and wardrobe.
Nothing else matters."
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Nothing else matters."
December 7, 2022
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12.28%
"Curtis Hanson, c. 1968:
"It doesn't necessarily follow that because you're a good editor, you'll be a good director. But I do think that to be a good director you have to be a good editor.""
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"It doesn't necessarily follow that because you're a good editor, you'll be a good director. But I do think that to be a good director you have to be a good editor.""
December 28, 2022
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December 28, 2022
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16.11%
"[Don Siegel] has always confronted the audience with lead characters you're drawn to despite on-screen evidence of their troubling nature, and deeds. Lead protagonists he makes it difficult to root for, but, ultimately, you root for them nonetheless. Which goes to prove what I've always believed, "It takes a magnificent filmmaker to thoroughly corrupt an audience.""
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December 28, 2022
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December 30, 2022
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18.16%
"So, if you're reading this cinema book, hopefully to learn a little something about cinema, and your head is swimming from all the names you don't recognize, congratulations, you're learning something."
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December 31, 2022
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20.72%
"The way people were scared to go in the water after Jaws was how I felt about the prospect of going camping in the woods after Deliverance."
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January 9, 2023
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30.69%
"Viewers can accept my work or reject it. Deem it good, bad, or with indifference. But I've always approached my cinema with a fearlessness of the eventual outcome. A fearlessness that comes to me naturally—I mean, who cares, really? It's only a movie."
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February 15, 2023
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47.31%
"For a filmmaker with such an iconoclastic reputation, De Palma was acutely aware of the commercial concerns of the marketplace. Some could say to a fault."
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February 16, 2023
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54.73%
"Part of the anxiety the viewer feels while watching the movie comes from the question the movie forces you to ask yourself.
Is this movie—Taxi Driver—a movie about a racist, or is it a racist movie?
The answer is clearly the former. And what makes the film a gutsy masterpiece is it dares to pose that question to the audience, and then allows them to devise their own answer."
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Is this movie—Taxi Driver—a movie about a racist, or is it a racist movie?
The answer is clearly the former. And what makes the film a gutsy masterpiece is it dares to pose that question to the audience, and then allows them to devise their own answer."
March 12, 2023
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64.19%
"I loved Rolling Thunder so much that years before it became available on Vestron Home Video—for a period of ten years—I followed it all over Los Angeles, whenever and wherever it played (before home video, cinephiles used to do things like that)."
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March 12, 2023
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66.24%
"It seemed all the cool critics had their special filmmaker to champion and (John) Flynn was mine.
So much so that I sought him out at nineteen to interview him.
How did I manage that?"
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So much so that I sought him out at nineteen to interview him.
How did I manage that?"
March 23, 2023
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69.05%
"So Schrader's savage critique of fascist Revengeamatic flicks (Rolling Thunder) was turned by its makers into a savage fascist Revengeamatic.
Yet . . . the greatest savage, fascist, Revengeamatic flick ever made.
Which frustrates Schrader to this day."
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Yet . . . the greatest savage, fascist, Revengeamatic flick ever made.
Which frustrates Schrader to this day."
July 11, 2023
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Finished Reading
