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The dangerous power of David Lynch's voice.
Wed, Feb 24 2010 11:00 AM

David Lynch has, as I'm writing this, 225,395 Twitter followers who are regularly treated to such insights as "I plan to cut strips of Douglas Fir for trim on plywood and apply Fix-All on a large canvas. What are you doing this weekend?" Nice work if you can get it -- anyone else who posted things like that would be lucky to get even their close... Read More...

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Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Odds, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, David Foster Wallace, Twitter

What's up with all those Wes Anderson spoofs?
Fri, Feb 5 2010 9:57 AM

Super Bowl Sunday is coming up fast, so Slate has a video called "If Filmmakers Directed The Super Bowl." Here you can find by-the-numbers appropriations of various filmmakers: football footage intercut with anime and "Kill Bill" font and songs spell "Tarantino." For Lynch, run the footage backwards. For Wes Anderson, by all means... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, The Darjeeling Limited, Slate, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Super Bowl

The Coens join the one-a-year club.
Thu, Jan 21 2010 1:08 PM

The announcement that the Coen brothers' "True Grit" will be with us by Christmas means the Coens have managed to release a new movie every year for four years in a row. This places them in a weird, elite club of filmmakers who really have nothing in common besides their uncommon productivity. The list includes Woody Allen (who hasn't had a... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Quentin Tarantino, Odds, Wes Anderson, Coen brothers, Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood, Werner Herzog, P.T. Anderson, True Grit

Odds: "Film is a lying media."
Fri, Aug 15 2008 5:15 PM

Werner Herzog could have a solid side career doing Q&As. At Esquire, Stephen Garrett moderates a conversation between the director and his longtime friend, the subject of "Man on Wire," tightrope artist Philippe Petit: PP: Do you remember the first films you saw? WH: Yes--both of them bad and disappointing. One was about Eskimos building an igloo... Read More...

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Filed under: Odds, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Chang Chen, Shu Qi, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Hou Hsiao-hsien, AFI Catalog, The Assassin, Werner Herzog