For too long, Los Angeles has treated Hollywood as an inconvenience rather than an asset.
The result: 50,000 jobs lost
When I’m mayor, LA will be a reliable partner to film productions. We’ll staff a real city film office, eliminate fees for smaller productions, simplify permitting, and get rid of ridiculous conditions that stall production.
The greatest of all British filmmakers, Terence Davies, got funding for just eight dramatic features in forty years, went a dozen years without any, five between A Quiet Passion and Benediction, the planned Zweig adaptation The Post Office Girl fell through in his last years.
"the irishman" deliberately breaks verismilitude by having Scorsese and his crew trying to reenact the artifice of their prime gangster movies but running against the friction demonstrated by their age, if you dont get the resulting recursive commentary you don't get the film.
Zoron the Moron has spoken out MORE in defense of Khalil Mohammed than he ever has about Jews being harassed in the streets of NYC… or the massacre happening in Iran right now.
Hey hey, ho ho
Khalil Mohammed, you got to go.
@tnyfrontrow@JustinCChang@BilgeEbiri This was fascinating. Any line trying to describe him as a filmmaker, his films, or the scene where he’s describing the shot breakdown or his ending to Elle Fanning—felt more than false. As if he was making a movie about chefs and he’d never been in a kitchen.