Cannes opener

Further proof that the modern film festival has lost all relevance: Da Vinci Cash to open Cannes.


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Hot gay cowboy sex!
Well, that should get us more hits. Anyway, you can stop checking Google for those nude Heath Ledger pics that were leaked a while back. Brokeback Mountain is coming out and getting good reviews.

Sure, some women literally just like to watch guys get it on. But there’s a whole lot more who get off on watching a man cry—and not in that nasty Last Seduction way. For women Brokeback Mountain viewers, there’s sympathy, empathy, romance and—well, yes—just a teeny Myra Breckinridgian overtone of in-the-butt proto-feminist vengeance.

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What did you guys think about the movie adaptation The Woman in White? The book by Wilkie Collins is incredible, and they made some dramatic changes to the overall feel for the movie...did you guys think it was better or worse?

Edited by author 11-04-2005 12:03 PM
Agenda 1: Short experimental films by W. Burroughs

If you happen to be in New Orleans next Thursday, you might want to catch this.

"They're pretty experimental," Broussard said about Burroughs' films. In his novels, Burroughs used a cut-up writing technique where he would cut manuscripts into fragments, put them in a hat, draw them out at random and piece together a new narrative. "His film representations are related to his novels."

The Velcrow Ripper night showing Scared Sacred is sure to be interesting, as well.

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Shocking news! Reader discretion advised!

Hollywood screen writing a bastion of white male dominance. World, also a bastion of white male dominance, makes Macaulay Culkin face from Home Alone.


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Rick Moody and the icing on the cake
Otherwise known as Hollywood.

I had my Hollywood moment. It's not that I would turn down an opportunity to be adapted (there are a couple of stories by me optioned at the moment), but I don't need it. It's just icing on the cake. As I said in 1997, movies are a particularly good billboard for a book. Movies need fiction and literature more than vice versa, because literature is where most of the genuine takes place. I don't want more fame, power, or influence. I sort of get uncomfortable with that kind of thing. I just want to be able to keep writing.

I've seen The Ice Storm but never read a Rick Moody book. Don't know what that means.

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I thought writers were the deserters.

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"Literature -- even simple craftsmanship -- is a higher art than filmmaking."

What a load of toss. A writer is a sniper. A filmmaker is a general.

Uh, I'm gonna go get my bulletproof underwear now...

Good article, but I wonder about this line:

"Literature -- even simple craftsmanship -- is a higher art than filmmaking."

Hmmmm??

Damn right I'm going to take the money and pay off my student loans!

And what in the name of all that is blessed is wrong with that?

Granted I'm not selling a book; It's a screenplay. I *know* that should it go into production it will be warped and twisted and pulled. Some of the darkness will be wrung out, the truth will be bleached a bit and edges smoothed. But still. If I hadn't expected that, I would've made it a novel. HA!

Read the book or watch the movie?
Hmm....

We won't question a system that buys 10 times as many books as can ever be made into films, commissions five times as many scripts from those books as it can ever shoot, pushes them through rewrite after rewrite in an attempt to achieve the elusive balance of commercial elements, then inevitably picks the worst and makes a movie out of it. Those are all pathologies to be dealt with another time or, preferably, by someone else.

That's right, don't question. Take the money and pay off those student loans. Shhh....

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Correction: Michael Madsen's new book is "The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen." 46 Down is included in this book. He will be signing at The World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, Sept. 12.