“I will say, and this is for the record, Jean-Luc Godard may well be the third most awful man I’ve met in my life.” – On the eve of his film retrospective at New York’s Anthology Film Archive, Norman Mailer proves he’s still not over what he perceives as Godard’s butchering of his 1987 script of “King Lear.” Mailer said he got along with Godard for about 24 hours and only made the deal in hopes for funding his own future films. [Vulture]
“He just turned it over to me and gave me a few bucks. I guess I’ll probably shoot it at the end of the day.” – Beardy L.A. comedian Zach Galifianakis gets free creative reign over the Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” alternate, for hipsters-only video and scores enough bread for sandwiches and a few beers. Also? Galifianakis is in Sean Penn’s upcoming “Into The Wild“? Maybe he hung out with Eddie Vedder. [Imposed]
The Museum of Modern Art is celebrating the painfully tasteful film excavators Rialto Pictures, and thank god for that. Rialto work closely with equally artful tastemakers, the Criterion Collection to bring you the finest in film snob cinema. Without them, you’d still be watching “Back To The Future II” all day (which you probably do anyhow). [AP]
No.5 is alive and can be yours for $100,000 on Ebay. Hello, Johnny 5? The stupid ’80s robot movie with Steve Guttenberg? Yeah, now that’s a fucking masterpiece, right? Just don’t disassemble.[Vulture]