Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Mermaids on Mars, Hollywood Reporter Oscar Picks, ADG Hall of Fame, ADG Lifetime Achievement
Mermaids on Mars - Behind the Scenes with Production Designer Tom Proost from Athena Studios on Vimeo.
Feinberg Forecast Award Predictions 2015-16
ART DIRECTORS GUILD TO INDUCT FOUR LEGENDARY WOMEN INTO ITS HALL OF FAME AT THE 20TH ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN AWARDS ON JANUARY 31, 2016
BILL ANDERSON, HARRISON ELLENSHAW AND WILLIAM J. NEWMON, ll JOIN PATRIZIA VON BRANDENSTEIN IN RECEIVING ADG LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
The Hollywood Reporter's Favorite Performances - Bel Powley, Bill Graham gets Museum Show, Sense8, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Humpty Christmas
THR Film Critics' favorite performances of 2015: #6, @BDPowley https://t.co/zGgH1LLkwo pic.twitter.com/vOGoqkVF48
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 23, 2015
Bill Graham is getting a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum - Bill Graham and the Rock &
Roll Revolution
Why Sense8 was the most unfairly overlooked show of 2015. - Slate
50 years later, the gospel truth behind why tonight’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ endures -
BEFORE THE STEADY STREAM of Emmy Awards and Grammy nominations and Oscar consideration came The Idea — the one that producer-director Lee Mendelson, a half-century later, calls with a certain zest “the best idea I’ve had in my entire life...”
...Mendelson called fellow Northern California resident Charles Schulz — “his phone number was listed right in the book,” the producer recalls...
Meanwhile Happy Holidays:
Sunday, December 20, 2015
SF Opera
S.F. Opera to Premiere Work Based on Chinese Classic - See more at: https://www.sfcv.org/music-news/sf-opera-to-premiere-work-based-on-chinese-classic#sthash.eRvanEeS.dpuf
I just helped Sandra Woodall work on some designs for Stan Lai's new theater in Shanghai. She's over there now.
This is Sand and a Distant Star written by Stan Lai, more images
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
SF Ballet Orchestra, Looking
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Scores Three Grammy Nominations
The Top Ten TV Series of 2015 - By Matt Brennan | Thompson on Hollywood!- #4 "Looking"
The Top Ten TV Series of 2015 - By Matt Brennan | Thompson on Hollywood!- #4 "Looking"
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Bel Powley, Diary of a Teenage Girl, SF Ballet's Nutcracker, Looking, Steve Jobs, Detour San Francisco
Bel Powley Best actress, 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'
DON’T BOTHER VOTING ON THE OSCARS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN… BEL POWLEY IN THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL - BY MATTHEW ENG
‘Spotlight,’ Dano, Powley Big Winners At Gotham Independent Film Awards
Bel Powley Wins Best Actress At Gotham Awards 2015!
Bel Powley winning the Best Actress Gotham Award for THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Marielle Heller's 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Dated and Detailed for Blu-ray - The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, lossless 5.1 audio, and supplements include: Deleted Scenes; Marielles Journey: Bringing The Diary To Life A Making-of Featurette; and LA Film Festival Q&A with Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, and Marielle Heller.
Nutcracker returns to SF Ballet
Top 10 TV Episodes of 2015 - Time
7. Looking, "Looking for a Plot" "HBO’s moody half-hour came in for criticism throughout its now-concluded run for being “boring.” This was the series’s most eventful episode, sure–encompassing a trip to a funeral in Modesto and a car crash. But for all the incident, “Looking for a Plot” was as deliberate and thoughtful as fans of the show had reason to expect. A scene at a gay bar, in which the show’s characters contemplate what life would be like had they never grown up and gone West, is as fuzzily moving as any the show produced."
Los Angeles Film Critics
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”)
‘Steve Jobs’ Flops at Box Office, and Silicon Valley Cheers - New York Times
Friday, November 27, 2015
Wallace Shawn
A life in theater, how it happens:
"About seven years later. In 1970, I started working as a writer for André Gregory and his acting company. And in those days André’s troupe used to teach acting workshops every summer at NYU, so for three summers I participated and sort of informally studied acting with André and his gang. And then in 1977 or so, Wilford Leach got Joe Papp to commission me to translate The Mandrake by Machiavelli. At that time I was totally broke—more than broke. I was enormously in debt, because I basically lived by borrowing money from friends. And when I completed the translation, Wilford said, to my amazement, The other actors and I would like you to be in the play. In the play? How could I be in the play? I’m not an actor! And Wilford said, It’ll be easy for you. You’ll be the prologue. You’re the translator, so that’s very appropriate. And then you can be the servant, because he really doesn’t do much. He’s onstage for the whole play, but he doesn’t have many lines. And he said they would pay me a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week. Well, Deborah, Wilford, and I were having dinner when this all came up, and I had been considering becoming a taxi driver. And Deborah said, Do this instead. It’s much better. Because you can’t really drive."
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6154/the-art-of-theater-no-17-wallace-shawn
"About seven years later. In 1970, I started working as a writer for André Gregory and his acting company. And in those days André’s troupe used to teach acting workshops every summer at NYU, so for three summers I participated and sort of informally studied acting with André and his gang. And then in 1977 or so, Wilford Leach got Joe Papp to commission me to translate The Mandrake by Machiavelli. At that time I was totally broke—more than broke. I was enormously in debt, because I basically lived by borrowing money from friends. And when I completed the translation, Wilford said, to my amazement, The other actors and I would like you to be in the play. In the play? How could I be in the play? I’m not an actor! And Wilford said, It’ll be easy for you. You’ll be the prologue. You’re the translator, so that’s very appropriate. And then you can be the servant, because he really doesn’t do much. He’s onstage for the whole play, but he doesn’t have many lines. And he said they would pay me a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week. Well, Deborah, Wilford, and I were having dinner when this all came up, and I had been considering becoming a taxi driver. And Deborah said, Do this instead. It’s much better. Because you can’t really drive."
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6154/the-art-of-theater-no-17-wallace-shawn
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
WIngs over the Golden Gate
James Fallows posted this video called Wings Over the Golden Gate while wondering about something I was always curious about, the early twentieth century movie accent.
Language Mystery: When Did Americans Stop Sounding This Way?
There's a follow up post.
Language Mystery Redux: Who Was the Last American to Speak This Way? A particular style of American English once dominated respectable discourse. Now it has entirely disappeared. When? Why? How?
And Readers have their say here:
That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away Is your language rhotic? How to find out, and whether you should care.
Language Mystery: When Did Americans Stop Sounding This Way?
There's a follow up post.
Language Mystery Redux: Who Was the Last American to Speak This Way? A particular style of American English once dominated respectable discourse. Now it has entirely disappeared. When? Why? How?
And Readers have their say here:
That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away Is your language rhotic? How to find out, and whether you should care.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Car Commercial on the Bay Bridge, Looking, Jocelyn Vollmar, SF Opera, Star Wars, Steve Jobs
CHP: Commercial shoot backed up traffic on Bay Bridge Saturday morning, undressed pedestrian earlier in the week, and we saw a bicyclist on the right lane of the lower deck on Thursday, a pickup truck stopped and got him to toss his bike in.
@LookingHBO pics from last night of filming...thanks for coming to #SF and come back anytime!❤️💛💚💙💜 #MissYouAlready pic.twitter.com/fCrR4hzodP
— Film San Francisco (@Film_SF) November 22, 2015
Star of ‘Looking,’ ‘Frozen,’ ‘Hamilton’ visits Sonoma
Jocelyn Vollmar, turning 90, recalls career at S.F. Ballet
S.F. Opera’s Massive Meistersinger Scores in Intimate Moments
S.F. Opera to open new performance venue in February
This is the largest private collection of "Star Wars" memorabilia in the world https://t.co/MVXa4lN1xe pic.twitter.com/3V5GMaqOSb
— Forbes (@Forbes) November 22, 2015
What The Steve Jobs Movie Should Have Been About, According To A Former ColleagueDisney-Pixar's Ed Catmull on 'Good Dinosaur,' Female Directors and Why Steve Jobs Would Be "Appalled" by 'Steve Jobs'
Saturday, November 14, 2015
SF Opera, Steve Jobs, SF Ballet
San Francisco Opera to Present Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURBERG, 11/18
The ‘Steve Jobs’ movie may be biggest Apple flop since the Newton - Apple brings in more revenue in 38 minutes than ‘Steve Jobs’ has in five weeks
STEVE JOBS DIRECTOR DANNY BOYLE ON WHY THE MOVIE FLOPPED
S.F. Ballet losing 2 principal dancers
Sofranko has 1 foot in S.F. Ballet, 1 in his own company
The ‘Steve Jobs’ movie may be biggest Apple flop since the Newton - Apple brings in more revenue in 38 minutes than ‘Steve Jobs’ has in five weeks
STEVE JOBS DIRECTOR DANNY BOYLE ON WHY THE MOVIE FLOPPED
S.F. Ballet losing 2 principal dancers
Sofranko has 1 foot in S.F. Ballet, 1 in his own company
Friday, November 6, 2015
Carrie Nardello Open Studios, Jonathon Groff, Fall of the House of Usher, Steve Jobs
ARTISTS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS AT OPEN STUDIOS WKND 4 - Carrie Nardello
Hamilton's Jonathan Groff Set for Curran Theatre Interview Series - See more at: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/hamiltons-jonathan-groff-set-for-curran-theatre-interview-series-368444#sthash.iFDrzDfp.dpuf
HBO's 'Looking' Returns To Lower Haight Tonight
SF Opera produces Getty's 'Fall of the House of Usher'
'Steve Jobs' is such a box-office bomb, it's made only as much as Ashton Kutcher's 'Jobs'
Weekend Box Office: 'Intern' Tops $180M Worldwide, 'Steve Jobs' Tops 'Jobs,' 'Inside Out' Hits $850M - In sadder news, Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Steve Jobs lost 2,000 screens on Friday and earned $823k (-69%) in 421 theaters for a $16.6m cume. It has topped Jobs, for what that is worth.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Steve Jobs, SF Opera, Looking
Weekend Box Office: 'The Martian' Tops $425M, 'Steve Jobs' Falling Faster Than 'Jobs'
Steve Jobs Movie Is Being Sued For A Fishy Reason
Universal's 'Steve Jobs' Suffers Copyright Attack Over Shark Scene
Photographer sues over shark picture used in 'Steve Jobs'
UNFAIR USE - American Photo
We Need More Movies Like ‘Steve Jobs,’ So Long as They’re Not Like ‘Steve Jobs’ - The Federalist
Box office: Why did so few people turn out to see 'Steve Jobs'? - LA Times
Readers React The problem with 'Steve Jobs': fiction masquerading as fact - LATimes
What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success
San Francisco Opera Announces Cast Update for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
San Francisco Opera's Magical Magic Flute, With Cool Animals, in English
Universal's 'Steve Jobs' Suffers Copyright Attack Over Shark Scene
Photographer sues over shark picture used in 'Steve Jobs'
UNFAIR USE - American Photo
We Need More Movies Like ‘Steve Jobs,’ So Long as They’re Not Like ‘Steve Jobs’ - The Federalist
Box office: Why did so few people turn out to see 'Steve Jobs'? - LA Times
Readers React The problem with 'Steve Jobs': fiction masquerading as fact - LATimes
What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success
San Francisco Opera Announces Cast Update for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
San Francisco Opera's Magical Magic Flute, With Cool Animals, in English
Welcome back to @LookingHBO!! We're so glad to have you again shooting in SF! #welcomeback #lookinghbo #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/U9jSKl73sp
— Film San Francisco (@Film_SF) October 30, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Harley Jessup, Twice Upon a Time - Animated Feature, Steve Jobs Flops, Prop I, Broke-Ass Stuart
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
SF Opera, Curran Theater, Looking, Steve Jobs Box Office, Ant-Man in China, Most Liberal City
Classical Notes: Matthew Shilvock, S.F. Opera general director designate, says the art form can be a life changer
The Charming & Historical Curran Theater Begins Extensive Renovation
Curran Theatre Names New Editor-at-Large
New Details On HBO's 'Looking' Wrap-Up Movie
Boxed in by comedy of life in ‘Object Lesson’
Friday Box Office: 'Pan' Plunges 68%, 'Steve Jobs' Expands, 'Ant-Man' Scores Big In China
Box office: Can 'Steve Jobs' be a critical and commercial hit?
Forbes - We're Number 1
Friday, October 9, 2015
32ten, Opera Shop, More Steve Jobs
Exhibit for Jurassic World at the Javits Center in NYC, built at 32ten, Ben Nichols and crew.
What was left of the Opera Shop on Wednesday, by Thursday it was gone. Photos by Robert Burg
Friday, October 2, 2015
Steve Jobs
‘Steve Jobs’: Too nasty for movie awards - Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” makes “The Social Network” — another acidic portrayal of an arrogant tech genius with ice water instead of blood in his veins, also written by Aaron Sorkin, that ended up losing in Oscar’s major categories — look positively warm and fuzzy by comparison. - New York Post
Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender’s ‘Steve Jobs’ is ‘incorrigibly entertaining,’ a must-see - Working with d.p. Alwin Kutchler, Boyle sometimes sends the camera hurtling after the characters in lengthy, down-the-corridor tracking shots; elsewhere, the brief transitional snippets between acts feature some fairly aggressive stylization, in line with his usual m.o. - Zap2it
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Georgia Crew Shortage
Runaway Production Edition:
Georgia’s Booming Film Industry Produces Shortage of Crew Members
What A Shortage Of Workers On Film Sets In Georgia Says About America
GOV. DEAL VOICES CONCERNS OVER LOCAL FILM CREW SHORTAGE
Facebook page - Keep Georgia Film Industry Booming
New movie production complexes are opening in Atlanta. Will jobs follow? - The expansion in business is accompanied by a shortage of qualified film and TV crews
Summers are hot and humid with temperatures in the afternoons that reach, on average, to near 90 °F (32 °C). Overnight lows fall to near 68 °F (20 °C) and there is usually an 8 °F (4 °C) difference in temperature between the mountains and Atlanta. Climate of Georgia (U.S. state)
Sunday, September 27, 2015
SF Opera General director, Smuin Ballet, Tim Cook, Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
SF Opera, SF Ballet, Dreamforce 2015, Burning Man
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Steve Jobs, The Armory, SF Opera, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
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Friday, August 21, 2015
The SF Armory, Diary of a Teenage Girl opens in SF this weekend, Stagehands Ring Cycle
Armory Drill Court to Become 4,000 Person Venue
'Diary of a Teenage Girl': Is Alameda's Marielle Heller about to hit the big time?
The quietly radical Diary of a Teenage Girl turns the page on coming of age films. - Review
When opera was opera, John Conklin's designs. There 6 parts total, check them all out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMeSoYLLgU43VDXqoIbBnw
Friday, August 14, 2015
Sweeney Todd, Phantom of the Opera, Diary of a Teenage Girl
BWW Interview: PHANTOM's Carlotta, Jacquelynne Fontaine
San Francisco Opera to Present SWEENEY TODD for the First Time This Fall
A 'Diary' Unlocked: A Teenage Coming-Of-Age Story Put On Film
Website
92% Rotten Tomatoes
Washington Post Review
‘Diary’ of a teen set loose in the unhinged ’70s - SF Chronicle
The Diary of a Teenage Girl Is a Must-See - East Bay Express
Professor profile: Pheobe Gloeckner
Comicyclopedia
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: An Account in Words and Pictures
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures 1st (first) Printing Edition by Gloeckner, Phoebe [2002]
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Sense8 Renewed
Netflix Renews ‘Sense8′ for Second Season
Sense8 renewed for season 2 on Netflix
#Sense8 season 2 is officially happening
http://t.co/ldn82p3Cj6 pic.twitter.com/mwxJt6TrcF
— Variety (@Variety) August 8, 2015
Hmmm, what to wish for? #sense8
https://t.co/L5z1mcPovB
— Sense8 (@sense8) August 8, 2015
Sense8 renewed for season 2 on Netflix
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
What a drag! Alexander Skarsgard arrives at premiere of Diary Of A Teenage Girl dressed as a woman
Not so odd once Marielle Heller introduced about 2 dozen drag queens to do a tribute to "Rocky Horror Picture Show" "Do the Timewarp"
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp from Peter Radikal on Vimeo.
It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust They really drive you insane.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Alexander Skarsgård Explains Why He Dressed In Drag And Reveals His Drag Name Helloooooo Lady Libido Lushbody.
Watch the trailer for new film 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'
'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' is a rare film that explores female sexuality without judgment
This Movie Will Make You Feel 17 Again
Alexander Skarsgard Dresses in Drag at ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Premiere
Alexander Skarsgard looks gorgeous in drag at S.F. premiere of new movie
http://redtopsy.tumblr.com/post/125917280465/askarslibrary-santress-a-behind-the-scenes
COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION PREMIERED IN SUNDANCE AND BERLIN WINS
Cinema Buff - News
Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Cousin Wonderlette and make-up artist/drag queen Mercedez Munro
Diary of a Teenage Girl opens today! Beautiful, important funny movie- my favorite this year. Run don't walk!
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 6, 2015I agree. Go see Diary Of A Teenage Girl this weekend. Incredible movie. https://t.co/TSekWHOjB3
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) August 6, 2015
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