Before official reviews are published by film critics, studios often have to face the wrath of first reactions on social media. These responses can make or break a film in 280 characters or fewer (which is part of the reason Cannes altered its scheduling this year), and they’ve become so central in shaping the buzz around a film that some studios impose social-media embargoes in addition to proper review embargoes. Speaking at his Festival of Disruption in New York City, David Lynch condemned the rise of these instant responses.
“You finish a film these days and right away you have this pressure to write about it in words,” Lynch said when asked by an audience member about social media. The director advocated for the need to sit with one’s thoughts and explore the abstractions of any given film without feeling pressured to instantaneously comment on it. In some cases,...
“You finish a film these days and right away you have this pressure to write about it in words,” Lynch said when asked by an audience member about social media. The director advocated for the need to sit with one’s thoughts and explore the abstractions of any given film without feeling pressured to instantaneously comment on it. In some cases,...
- 5/21/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe great French actor Stéphane Audran has died at the age of 85. David Hudson provides a thoughtful remembrance and career overview for The Daily.Following their producer-director collaboration on Amazon's underrated Red Oaks series, 90s contemporaries Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh are re-teaming for a most promising new Starz series entitled Now Apocalypse. Recommended VIEWINGFilm critic and Museum of Modern Art curator Dave Kehr investigates the many aspects that compose a western, and more largely, the genre's influence, origins, legacy, and future, in this wonderful video essay:The first trailer for Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell's long anticipated (and Thomas Pynchon inspired?) follow up to It Follows:Kino Lorber is re-releasing Personal Problems, a forgotten masterwork by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) and an early and essential experiment in video filmmaking. Here's...
- 3/28/2018
- MUBI
David Lynch is a tough interview subject. Reticent and reluctant, he doesn’t want to vaguely spell out anything and the filmmaker/artist is much more interested in your response to his work. New York Public Library's director of public programs Paul Holdengräber is also a bit of an odd individual. So as the host of Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam)’s rare conversation with David Lynch, the duo made for a strange match. Over the course of an hour and a half, punctuated by long uncomfortable silences and laborious pauses, Holdengräber tried to elicit insightful answers from the filmmaker about his movies, his art, his appreciation for painting and his music. But Lynch disinclined to ever engage too deeply, seemingly content with one sentence answers that the moderator then had to pry and dig for more elucidation. Case in point: when the moderator said it was “treacherous” to interview him,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
David Lynch made a rare public appearance last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) for an hour and a half discussion with New York Public Library's director of public programs Paul Holdengräber. Read More: David Lynch Talks 'Crazy Clown Time' and Why Singing is "So Embarrassing" Though Lynch was resistant for most of the evening to Holdengräber's line of questioning (when Holdengräber's presented Lynch with a still from "Blue Velvet" asking "Why this grass? Why this ear?," Lynch responded, "You would have to see the film"), Holdengräber did manage to suss out some fascinating reveals from the filmmaker/artist/musician. Below are the ten things we learned about Lynch at the event. Lynch started digging under the surface of things as a child. Asked when he started to become interested in the "insanity and absurdity of things underneath the surface," Lynch said, "as a child," and...
- 4/30/2014
- by Nigel M. Smith and Emily Buder
- Indiewire
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