Hendel in D.C.
I live in Washington, D.C., where I first came to work as a writer and producer for The Atlantic in 2010. Now I cover transportation for local news site TBD at its On Foot blog.
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…and it may have landed the perfect star for the role.
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Back To The Future Business Card of the Day: After a lifetime of random fan questions about his role in Back To The Future, Biff Tannen Tom Wilson, now a musician and comedian, has resorted to handing out a postcard pre-printed with all his answers. Some highlights:
The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
Among many improvisations on the set, I coined the term “butthead,” as well as “Make like a tree, and get out of here.”
I hold my co-workers in the best light, but have no idea what any of them are doing now.
I made less money than you think.
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These films defined an unhealthily large part of my childhood. Love the note—you should really click through and read it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3v721jJid1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Back To The Future Business Card of the Day: After a lifetime of random fan questions about his role in Back To The Future, Biff Tannen Tom Wilson, now a musician and comedian, has resorted to handing out a postcard pre-printed with all his answers. Some highlights:
- The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.
- Among many improvisations on the set, I coined the term “butthead,” as well as “Make like a tree, and get out of here.”
- I hold my co-workers in the best light, but have no idea what any of them are doing now.
- I made less money than you think.
These films defined an unhealthily large part of my childhood. Love the note—you should really click through and read it.
But a lot of people apparently adore the movie. The style and soundtrack, at least, were solid.
Martin Scorcese’s After Hours (1985) is not a good film—and as a whole, a profoundly frustrating, even annoying one—but it has several individually magnetic scenes.
Andrei Tarkovsky would have turned 80 years old earlier this month on April 4. 80 seems so young for the Soviet director given how long it’s been since he died. My father was born before him, even. I’ve seen all but one of his films.
AFI Silver is holding a retrospective on the film career of Jack Nicholson from April 13 to June 27. I’d love to see The Passenger again. Michelangelo Antonioni always pulls me right in.
(Source: burned-out-poets)
Strange to think, but I worked on this film. I was a producer’s assistant and it was shot in spring of 2010 in Alton, Illinois, right before I moved to D.C. We shot scenes in prisons, schools, strip clubs, and bars, and I had a blast. I kept people quiet, drove actors around, helped with food and supplies, and did whatever I could. The film is called Joint Body and it’s coming to dvd this summer, apparently.
New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean recounts her reaction to how Charlie Kaufman adapted The Orchid Thief into the magnificent 2002 film Adaptation. I rewatched that with some people this week and in this video, love hearing her thoughts on how Kaufman depicted her personality (which included sex, drugs, and a lot of other wild fictions that perfectly work within the movie).
Movie Trailer of the Day: The first official trailer for On The Road — Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles’ Francis Ford Coppola produced adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s same-named novel.
Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Motensen, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Alice Braga, Terrence Howard, and Elisabeth Moss, the film is expected to be released later this year.
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Perhaps On The Road the film will be less annoying than On The Road the book. Not a bad trailer, at least.
