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According to a 6.1.20 article in the Daily Nexus (the paper of the University of California Santa Barbara), hotshot elevated horror helmer Ari Aster (Midsommar, Hereditary) offered a brief description of his next film. It was in the script stage back then but is now completed, I've read, and titled Disappointment Blvd.. A24 will release it later this year.
March 24, 2022 2:41 pmby Jeffrey Wells
Tom Hagen at Jack Woltz's dinner table -- the 2008 Robert Harris-Gordon Willis version on top, the 2022 4K "restoration" version below. There's nothing particularly "wrong" with preferring the 2022 version -- the oranges, candles, pale amber lampshade and carved wood panelling have good color, but Hagen's skin tone is a little pinkish...sunburn, sweat. In the 2008 version his skin has a warmer shade. More importantly, it blends in with the general color scheme of the frame. This is why I stand with the 2008 version, which Mr. Willis helped to create anyway so where's the argument?
March 24, 2022 12:58 pmby Jeffrey Wells
March 24, 2022 12:32 pmby Jeffrey Wells


Originally posted on 2.1.22, then immediately paywalled: I've said from the beginning that casting of The Offer (4.28), the Paramount + series about the making of The Godfather, would be extra difficult because everyone knows the players so well -- faces, voices, mannerisms. Each and every performance would have to deliver a masterful impersonation for the film to really work. The new trailer makes it clear this aspect was a bridge too far.
March 23, 2022 5:05 pmby Jeffrey Wells

According to L.A. Times film staffer Jen Yamato, the fallout from that Licorice Pizza hiccup in which succeeding Asian wives of a character named Jerry Frick (John Michael Higgins) were made into an Asian punchline…the fallout from this is “bigger than the Oscars.”

It is? Strange as that thing was, it’s over and forgotten now — the ship has sailed. Nobody cares. Oh, and who thinks the 94th Oscars are “big”? Last time I checked the buzzword was “diminished.”

March 23, 2022 4:57 pmby Jeffrey Wells

“Senator, she’s had nothing to do with the Kavanaugh hearings…”

March 23, 2022 4:44 pmby Jeffrey Wells

I realize that I’m expected to know who Jacob Elordi is. I’ve seen a couple of episodes of Euphoria so I guess I do. I’m also aware that he’s tall (6’3″) and hunky with 13 million Instagram followers. At least he has something to do with movies, which is more than you can say for DJ Khaled.

March 23, 2022 4:40 pmby Jeffrey Wells

Through residing in some kind of cosmic cine-realm, the spirit of Gordon Willis has nonetheless gotten wind of the ecstatic reactions to the digitally reordered 50th anniversary Godfather. I would like to think that he’s pleased about the following statement, which Willis wrote several years ago, having been posted this morning on Home Theatre Forum:

“Apparently restoring the Godfather [films] is becoming more difficult than the original task of making them.

“The main thing is to reflect on the word RESTORE, which in the simplest possible terms, means PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS.

“I realize how difficult it is for people not to fall in love with ‘THE PROCESS’… whatever it might be. Digital reconstruction of the Godfather films should be held to remounting the film in its ORIGINAL visual structure.

“That means NO sharpening, NO grain reduction and NO reshaping of of the visual interpretive levels. The period work in Part 2 will be especially affected, or maybe I should say INfected.

“How this picture was shot, regarding the lighting, and the color was well thought out…don’t change it. I realize it’s everybody’s instinct to reduce or expand things to a level they understand, but the job is to PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS. The tools that are available to do that now, are miraculous. They are, however a means to an end… not an end in themselves.

“These films have been made already. People working on them should give them the respect that’s necessary to bring them back to life, which means not changing one damn thing.”

March 23, 2022 1:55 pmby Jeffrey Wells
March 23, 2022 1:28 pmby Jeffrey Wells

March 23, 2022 1:11 pmby Jeffrey Wells

HE hits the local Pavilions — exactly two years ago:

March 23, 2022 12:43 pmby Jeffrey Wells

I didn’t stream it — I bought the 50th anniversary 4K Godfather disc late Tuesday afternoon and watched it soon after. I can’t help but approve of the novelty aspect — it may not be anyone’s idea of a classic-looking Godfather but it certainly looks spiffier — smoother, less grainy and more vivid than ever before.
March 23, 2022 12:43 amby Jeffrey Wells

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