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The King Crimson Movie - I’ve never seen a film exactly like this. It’s hard to get it out of my head. lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/0…
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Colour me unsurprised that Lookout Mountain, Jared Leto’s former USAF bunker home – now sold to Anduril wargameboy Palmer Luckey – once housed four childlike telepathic aliens, imprisoned there after their silver sphere craft was shot down during tests of a secret US Army laser
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Heartbroken to hear about the passing of Dave Kendall.
Dave was one of the true believers. Long before alternative music found its way into the mainstream, he was there every week on 120 Minutes, introducing people to bands that would go on to define an era. He didn’t just host a show. He gave a home to music that deserved to be heard.
He loved the music, respected the artists, and connected with fans in a way that always felt authentic. That’s a rare gift.
Sending love to everyone whose life he touched.
Rest easy, Dave.
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This is Carole Tonkinson, Russell Brand's editor at Macmillan. She's a registered therapist. When she she signed Brand up she explained: “I wrote to Russell on 1st January this year asking if he would write this book, because I woke up thinking that if there were one book we could publish in the year ahead that would make a huge difference it would be this book." She was one of my keenest persecutors.
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Fantastic comments from Soderbergh about FURY ROAD. Love this quote the most:
“We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically.’
Steven Soderbergh on George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015):
"Interviewer: You never storyboard?
Soderbergh: No. The ability to stage well is a skill and a talent that I value above almost everything else. And I say that because there are people who do it better than I’ll ever be able to do it after 40 years of active study. I just watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.
I could almost see that’s kind of possible until the polecat sequence, and then I give up. We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically. And each one is a real shot where a lot of things had to go right. I’m going to keep trying; I’m not going to keep trying in the sense that I’m going to volunteer to direct the next Mad Max movie. I’m going to keep trying in the sense that when I have sequences that demand a certain level of sophistication in terms of their visual staging, I’m going to try and watch the people who do it really well and see if I can climb inside their heads enough to think like that.
But he’s off the chart. I guarantee that the handful of people who are even in range of that, when they saw Fury Road, had blood squirting out of their eyes. The thing with George Miller, it’s not just that, he does everything really well. The scripts are great, the performances are great, the ideas are great. He’s exceptional. I met him once for about 30 seconds at the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the year of Fury Road. But you don’t want to say that stuff to somebody’s face; it’s embarrassing."
(Steven Soderbergh's interview with Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)
P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) premiered in Hollywood, California.
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Steven Soderbergh on George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015):
"Interviewer: You never storyboard?
Soderbergh: No. The ability to stage well is a skill and a talent that I value above almost everything else. And I say that because there are people who do it better than I’ll ever be able to do it after 40 years of active study. I just watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.
I could almost see that’s kind of possible until the polecat sequence, and then I give up. We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically. And each one is a real shot where a lot of things had to go right. I’m going to keep trying; I’m not going to keep trying in the sense that I’m going to volunteer to direct the next Mad Max movie. I’m going to keep trying in the sense that when I have sequences that demand a certain level of sophistication in terms of their visual staging, I’m going to try and watch the people who do it really well and see if I can climb inside their heads enough to think like that.
But he’s off the chart. I guarantee that the handful of people who are even in range of that, when they saw Fury Road, had blood squirting out of their eyes. The thing with George Miller, it’s not just that, he does everything really well. The scripts are great, the performances are great, the ideas are great. He’s exceptional. I met him once for about 30 seconds at the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the year of Fury Road. But you don’t want to say that stuff to somebody’s face; it’s embarrassing."
(Steven Soderbergh's interview with Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)
P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) premiered in Hollywood, California.
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'The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection...features early-in-their-career performances from alternative and experimental artists like R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Depeche Mode, Stereolab, Sonic Youth and Björk.'
From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R
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Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home.
They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️
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@TeamYouTube My channel's been terminated for a (good faith) policy violation. I'm an independent filmmaker who's made films for @Netflix, @BBC, @Nowness, @SkyArts with over 2.5 million views on your platform. I'm asking for a human review so I can carry on making films here.
@TeamYouTube My channel's been terminated for a (good faith) policy violation. I'm an independent filmmaker who's made films for @Netflix, @BBC, @Nowness, @SkyArts with over 2.5 million views on your platform. I'm asking for a human review so I can carry on making films here.
