{"id":2273,"date":"2008-05-02T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2011-03-01T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:50:31","slug":"snapshots-and-soundbites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/02\/snapshots-and-soundbites\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots and soundbites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boardman’s Art Theatre, two blocks from the Virginia Theatre, Champaign, Illinois.<\/em><\/p>\n

DB here:<\/p>\n

As you may surmise, a hell of a time was had by all at last week\u2019s Ebertfest<\/a>. In the sessions I moderated, I was often so busy listening and thinking about my next question that I didn\u2019t have time to write down all the aper\u00e7us<\/em> that spilled forth from the guests. But here are some soundbites, mixed with pix.<\/p>\n

Jeff Nichols, director of Shotgun Stories<\/em>: \u201cI managed to make a 90-minute movie that feels 2 \u00bd hours long.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeff Nichols, John Peterson (The Real Dirt on Farmer John<\/em>), Eran Kolirin (The Band’s Visit<\/em>), Timothy Spall (Hamlet<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Bill Forsyth on his early work: \u201cI made films about teenagers because they were cheap to hire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Christine Lahti (Swing Shift<\/em>, Running on Empty<\/em>, Jack & Bobby<\/em>, Amerika<\/em>) and Bill Forsyth, reunited for the screening of Housekeeping<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Why so much multiframe imagery in Hulk<\/em>? \u201cIn those notes you get from studio people,” Ang Lee explained, \u201cthey always want more<\/em> and faster<\/em>. So I decided to give it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ang Lee (Hulk<\/em>) and unidentified admirer.<\/p>\n

Barry Avrich asked Suzanne Pleshette how she had survived so long in the industry. Suzanne: \u201cI don\u2019t have a gag reflex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barry Avrich (The Last Mogul<\/em>, Satisfaction<\/em>, Citizen Cohl: The Untold Story<\/em>, and the book Selling the Sizzle<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Paul Schrader: Theatrical screening is dead. \u201cThe multiplexes look like mortuaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom DiCillo: \u201cGoing to a film is a religious experience. . . . When you see it on a computer screen, fuck it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom DiCillo (Delirious<\/em>) and Timothy Spall.<\/p>\n

Paul Schrader: “When I started, there was a crisis of content. Nobody knew what a movie should be about. So we had films with sex and violence and anti-heroes. But now we have a crisis of form. How long should a movie be? How big should the screen be? What is this thing called movies?”<\/p>\n

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Paul Schrader (Mishima<\/em>) and Hannah Fisher (Dubai International Film Festival).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat part of this is directing?\u201d Tom DiCillo, reflecting on the fact that it took six years to set up Delirious<\/em> and he spent only 25 days behind the camera.<\/p>\n

Tarsem Singh: \u201cI\u2019ve been an atheist since I was nine. I\u2019ve never used any intoxicant\u2014drugs or liquor or whatever. But I don\u2019t like to associate with nondrinkers: they\u2019re either religious or reformed alcoholics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mary Corliss (Film Comment<\/em>) and Richard Corliss (Time<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Joey Pantoliano (The Matrix<\/em>, Memento<\/em>, The Sopranos, Canvas, <\/em>and book Who’s Sorry Now<\/em><\/a>) with unidentified admirer.<\/p>\n

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Michael Barker (Sony Pictures Classics).<\/p>\n

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Eiko Ishioka: “When Paul asked me what I thought about Mishima, I said, ‘I don’t like him.’ He said, ‘Perfect!'”<\/p>\n

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Eiko Ishioka (Mishima<\/em>, The Cell<\/em>, The Fall<\/em>), multimedia artist.<\/p>\n

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The Ebertfest Team<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chaz Ebert.<\/p>\n

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Mary Susan Britt.<\/p>\n

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James Bond, projectionist, and Nate Kohn, Festival Director.<\/p>\n

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See you here next year? Jim Emerson (scanners<\/em><\/a>, Rogerebert.com<\/a>) is counting the hours.<\/p>\n

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Bonus feature<\/strong>: What you would have been able to see in Urbana-Champaign 16 April 1941.<\/p>\n

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