Day: January 20, 2006

In my story about Nick

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In my story about Nick Cassevetes’ Alpha Dog [see below], I failed to give credit to Lewis Beale for having been the first to write about the legal troubles that are threatening to impede New Line Cinema’s plans to release Alpha Dopg in February. Beale’s story (“Based and Bested by a true Story’) ran in the New York Times on 10.19; here’s a link to a syndication of the story that ran in the Arizona Republic.

Nicole Holofcener’s Friends with Money,

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Nicole Holofcener’s Friends with Money, the Sundance Film festival’s debut flick, had two showings last night at the Eccles — at 6:45 and 9:30 pm. It’s now 10:10 am Friday and and I haven’t found one quickie review anywhere yet. C’mon, press contingent! …it’s a bit early in the festival to be dragging ass. (That means you, Indiewire.) Yesterday I asked a friend to e-mail me a fast ten-word review of Friends with Money — he responded with one. The film costars Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, Frances McDormand, Jason Isaacs (who’s fantastic in Nine Lives, which will soon be out on DVD) and Scott Caan.

This is only about four

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This is only about four months late, but when the 50th anni- versary of James Dean’s death was being written about early last September, I was searching all over for this fairly high- quality (i.e., by the CG standards of the late ’90s) computer simulation of how the smash-up between Dean’s Porsche (a.k.a. “Little Bastard”) and Donald Turnupseed’s black and white Chevy probably went down. I couldn’t find it, and then all of sudden it turned up yesterday on my external hard drive so here it is. (It’s a Quicktime file.)

Here’s a pretty good London

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Here’s a pretty good London Times piece by Denis Seguin about Kirby Dick‘s This Film Is Not Yet Rated, a documentary strongly critical of the MPAA’s CARA ratings board. Excerpt: “It wasn√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢√É‚Äû√ɬ¥t censorship that really annoyed Dick. What got him going was the anonymity of it all. So, armed with a budget of $1 million, Dick hired a private investigator named Becky Altringer to help him track down and expose the MPAA’s examiners. For months, Dick and his crew sat outside the MPAA’s offices in Encino, California. They followed employees to lunch and even sifted through their rubbish.” Dick’s doc will debut at Park City’s Eccles theatre on Wednsday, 1.25, at 9:30 pm, followed by a Thursday 1.26 screening at 11:30 am at the Park City Library.