RICHARD LINKLATER

I loved School of Rock. Probably not as much as some of the other films on this list, but I thoroughly enjoyed it none-the-less.

"spiritual sequel" to Dazed?

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007404.html

Not any more... http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/06/an-indie-flm-world-dazed-and-confused.html

The indie-film financing crisis is hitting even indie-film fixtures.

For the past few months, Richard Linklater has been circulating a buzzed-about script, a coming-of-age tale called "That's What I'm Talking About." Industryites who've read it say it's more like "Dazed & Confused" than much of what the director's done of late, though probably a little more on the drama end of the spectrum than the 1993 slacker comedy.

Talent reps had been reading the piece with a number of people in mind for the juicy roles, in a pic that Linklater was also to have directed.

But after months seeking financing, it looks like the movie may have to wait. There were financiers interested, but after seeing the rocky finished-film market, they didn't want to board the project until a distributor had signed on too.

And distributors -- as the market at Cannes and many other places showed -- are disinclined to board a movie at the script stage no matter how good a script it is. That Catch-22 was enough to freeze the project.

"We still think it's very marketable. It's just has to go on the shelf for now," said a rep for the director and his production banner Detour.

And if Linklater has to go on the shelf, what of all the slackers?

anyone seen Me & OW?

I think I mentioned in (one of) the film thread that Zac Efron finally looks rowr.

it is pretty good.

strange that they have a 36 year old playing Welles when he was 22, but he is very good in the role, and I guess there's no harm in emphasizing his presence/knowledge/etc... through the eyes of a 17 year old.

it's aight.

in my mind this looks the same as 'cradle will rock' which looked boring and i did not see

Just about every positive review has claimed it's nothing like Cradle Will Rock and that the movie is what CWR should have been.

it is better than 'cradle'... 'cradle' should just have been better, not more like this necessarily. 'me and orson welles' has very little to do with the politics of the 1930s, by comparison.

a lot of people have said the framing story in which f-ron meets cute with this aspiring new yorker writer is a bit ehhhhh. and they're right, it doesn't quite come off.

very strong supporting cast... may as well just say "needed more kelly reilly" here.

like i said in another thread... it's basically a good kid's film

Which this year does not want for, obv.

ain't nothing wrong with that.

age ain't nothing, et al

How do you make a movie about Orson Welles and not cast the guy who plays Paul Kinsey on Mad Men?

it's about the 22-y-o orson and the kins would have looked too old -- amazed this guy pulled it off tbh. the joseph cotten-looking dude was uncannily joseph cotten-looking.

I didn't think this guy pulled off the age at all, but as I said, I thought it worked.

What about Everett Sloane-looking dude?

it's basically a good kid's film

I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.

Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!

ha i was thinking abt going to see that today since i have the day off

i really dont know which of these id vote for - like the sunset films, slacker and d&c a whole lot for p different reasons

also I realize Canadians are raised differently, but I didn't know "a kid's film" could include a scene where members of the ensemble betting $5 on who will ball the theatre company's secretary first. (Though this certainly would've improved the last half of Up.)

I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.

Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:09 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i meant it in a good way!

i mean it is based on a kid's book

also ya, as kids we were raised to bet on adults' sexual peccadilloes... sort of an ol'-fashioned way to pass the time during those cold winters

and you had to do it in english AND in french

*makes poutine joke*

well, I'm guessing quite a few changes were made in the adaptation then. This is to some degree a horny 1930s teenager movie.

it's a young man coming-of-age movie—he's like 18, but as a 12-year-old i would have loooooooooved this so much

There was a guy in front of me last night who laughed at EVERYTHING... shots of the marquee, Brutus's orations, you name it.

also, I did not recognize any of the 4 company logos that preceded the credits, I guess that's why I didn't get any info about screenings.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/richard-linklater-says-dazed-confused.html#more

depressing, the two fallen-through films sound awesome

didn't know M&OW didn't really open in the US. played multiplexes here.

when's subUrbia coming out on dvd?

when the economy picks up.

Texas true-crime black comedy... "Jack Black as a gay mortician" does something to my kishkes, but we'll see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs7l6JTAc4

nephew of the murder victim seems OK with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/how-my-aunt-marge-ended-up-in-the-deep-freeze.html

I guess Shirley MacLaine playing a high-maintenance Texas dame who gets offed could've been titled Debra Winger's Revenge.

I think I read somewhere that Linklater is related to Marge, too?

dunno, i'm seeing this tnite so trying not to read too much

i keep being ABOUT to rent me & orson welles ten i spot something else.... i guess i can't work up much enthusiasm about it? but i'd like to see. and this new one.

no way is D&C his best film BTW. oh well.

So I'm in the minority so far, but after 20 cute minutes Bernie deflates like a balloon. Jack Black doesn't have to do any *actual* gay stuff besides mince, and sing "76 Trombones."

A roundup:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/richard-linklater-and-bernie

curious what gay things Morbz wanted to see Jack Black do

haha damn, all kinds of gay stuff, probably.

Well, if they worked, the film could've made the next horror poll.

xp

Point is the character apparently had tons of sex with local men, something that's only referred to comically by McConaughey's asshat DA. If yer gonna tell a story, tell it. OTOH, singing showtunes is much more reliably audience-friendly.

ah well ok that makes sense

still wanna see this tho. bummed it isn't opening in SF just yet

on a related Jack Black genital note, my friend Jim did the new Tenacious D album cover art (likely NSFW, tho Jay Leno held it up the other night):

http://www.toogoodforradio.com/comedy/stream-tenacious-ds-new-song-album-out-in-may/

a new Tenacious D album is really not something that needed to happen

seeing Bernie tonight

shoulda read me, I am absolved