Was George Clooney’s decision to go “fi-core” over the WGA’s decision to deny him a writing credit on Leatherheads akin to using “a chainsaw to operate on a papercut”? David Poland thinks so. “The guy who took out an ad in the trades telling SAG to move faster seems like just the kind of guy who belongs leading the way inside the WGA, trying to improve the arbitration process, rather than walking away in a huff.”- “It’s as if the PR people said, “so, Mr. Don R. Lewis didn’t like our comedic gem? Let’s see how he likes THIS!” Cut cut…snip snip.” Don Lewis tells us what it feels like to be blurbed on the DVD cover for a film he negatively reviewed.
- “The New Beverly has scored probably its greatest coup yet in terms of presenting filmmakers and the movies they love to eager audiences,” writes Dennis Cozzalio. He’s talking about Dante’s Inferno, a two-week program of films made and selected by Joe Dante. Dennis has a special fondness for the one Dante film that will be shown in a non-midnight slot, Hollywood Boulevard.
- I wish I was at Full Frame, the doc fest that’s taking place this weekend in Durham, NC, but alas, The Cinetrix’s dispatches for GreenCine Daily will have to suffice. So far she’s been “blown away” by Forbidden Lie$, which was the best film I saw last month at True/False.
