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Showing posts with label surreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surreal. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Sunday, 10 September 2017
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017)
TRIVIA: Everett McGill came
out of retirement after 17 years to reprise his role as Big Ed Hurley.
This belated season was first
teased by simultaneous tweets, "That gum you like is going to come back in
style," from Mark Frost and David Lynch at
11:30am, the same time that Agent Dale Cooper is first seen dictating to his
secretary Diane and "entering the town of Twin Peaks" in the original
pilot episode of Twin Peaks (1990).
During the audition process for Twin Peaks (2017), David Lynch requested
the actors to perform a lengthy monologue about themselves.
During a Q&A on the annual TLV
International Student Film Festival on June 2016, David Lynch said
that working on Twin Peaks (2017) again after so many years was one of
the greatest experiences he ever had.
Michael J. Anderson was
approached to reprise his role as The Man From Another Place, but negotiations
fell through over pay disputes. Anderson later took his anger to social media,
going so far as to accuse Lynch of rape, incest, murder and encouraging
suicide. A spokesperson for Anderson denied to comment further, only to say
that Anderson would not be doing any interviews "for the foreseeable
future."
The actor who portrays the Security
Guard, Michael Bisping, is the 2016 UFC Middleweight world
champion.
Labels:
crime,
david lynch,
doppelgänger,
FBI,
Kyle MacLachlan,
las vegas,
murder,
mystery,
return,
revival,
supernatural,
surreal,
tv,
twin peaks
Thursday, 27 October 2016
FILM 1583: THE ONE I LOVE
TRIVIA: About the script and the way it was performed, Duplass stated,
"The way this worked, there (was) about a 50-page document that was the
entire movie - the scene beats, everything, locations - except for the actual
dialogue in the film. And most of the dialogue you see in the film is
improvised. Although in certain scenes, where we have effects and things like
that, Justin our writer [Justin Lader] would write out a version of that scene
the night before, to give us a good guide, so we could have something to stick
to." About the script and the way it was performed, Duplass stated,
"The way this worked, there (was) about a 50-page document that was the
entire movie - the scene beats, everything, locations - except for the actual
dialogue in the film. And most of the dialogue you see in the film is
improvised. Although in certain scenes, where we have effects and things like
that, Justin our writer [Justin Lader] would write out a version of that scene
the night before, to give us a good guide, so we could have something to stick
to."
The filming location is Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen's home. Photos of
the guest house can be found in a Houzz article titled "Ted Danson and
Mary Steenburgen's Guesthouse Brims With Charm."
The director Charlie McDowell's girlfriend, Rooney Mara was the costume
designer. She goes by a pseudonym on the movie because they didn't want to
credit Rooney Mara, costume designer. She's Bree Daniel on the credits.
Ted Danson, playing the
therapist, is director Charlie
McDowell's stepfather. McDowell's mother Mary Steenburgen is also
featured doing voice work.
When Ethan is browsing the computer late in the film, he discovers a
number of folders, each bearing the names of a couple who have visited the
retreat. One of them is "Ted & Mary," a reference to husband
& wife (and relatives of the director) Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.
Labels:
couple,
film,
film list,
guest house,
house,
movie,
pool,
relationship,
retreat,
surreal,
therapy
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Monday, 29 February 2016
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
FILM 1459: WILD STRAWBERRIES
TRIVIA: Ingmar Bergman has
described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from
Stockholm to Dalarna, stopping in Uppsala where he had been born and raised,
and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to
think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be
just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you
could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open
a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and
come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and
arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives.
That was actually the idea behind Wild
Strawberries (1957)"
Cinematographer Gunnar Fischer says that
several scenes had to be shot indoors due to Victor Sjöström's poor
health. "We had to make some very bad back-projection in the car because
we never knew if Victor would come back alive the next day." Nevertheless,
as long as Victor was home by 5:15 P.M. each day, "and had his whiskey
punctually, all went well."
The dummy that Isak Borg mistakes
for a pedestrian during the dream sequence was constructed from a balloon and a
silk stocking.
Saturday, 19 September 2015
FILM 1380: THE FALL
TRIVIA: The film was shot in 28
countries for four years. According to the director no stages were ever used,
only existing locations.
According to his Facebook profile, Peter Jackson decided to
cast Lee Pace as King Thranduil
in the 'Hobbit' trilogy, after seeing his performance in this movie.
Darwin's monkey "Wallace"
is a reference to the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who independently
developed the idea of natural selection. Darwin and Wallace presented the
theory together, but due to the publication of "On the Origin of
Species" Darwin usually gets sole credit for the theory. The scene on
Butterfly Island when Darwin closes Wallace in the sack and says " we....
I have an idea" alludes to him taking sole credit for ideas that were not
completely his own.
The cinematic poster for this movie
is based on the Salvador Dali painting, "1935_03_Face of Mae West Which
May Be Used as an Apartment", circa 1935.
One of the significant plot
developments - Alexandria's misinterpreting the letter E as the number 3 in a
note written by Roy - was derived from an accidental misreading by the 6 year
old actress during filming, which the director then realized he could adapt
into a clever twist in the story.
The magic word "Googly"
that Alexandria repeats in the movie is also the name of the production
company.
Labels:
elephant,
film,
film list,
friendship,
monkey,
movie,
relationship,
story,
surreal
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
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