The great Garry Shandling describing Rip Torn’s audition for “The Larry Sanders Show”: Rip came in for the first time, and his agent said he wouldn’t read. Weeks later it was just him and me in a room with no one else, and I said to Rip, “Could we read half of this together?” And he […]
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Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) describes the life of a not-very-successful Hollywood actor in The Guardian: And there’s this hideous thing they make you do when you go up for a television show: they make you sign a contract before you walk into the final audition. The last thing they want is for you to have […]
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Shatner interviewed in GQ (via @saniac): Resistance is futile, of course. You aren’t in Shatner’s presence ten minutes before he reverse-engineers your emotional state; first, you adopt those conversational rhythms of his—everywhere, the jelly!—and then, by God, you start to feel the enthusiasm of your words, an enthusiasm inevitably heightened by your knowledge that this is WILLIAM […]
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May I direct your attention to the new series of “The Gravy”, a top notch art documentary series from Wellington’s Sticky Pictures. There’s a heapin’ helpin’ of interesting content lined up including a whole episode on theatre-maker Jo Randerson and her show Good Night — The End (Downstage, Sep 2009). That’s S04E03, folks. Also of …
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I’m finally watching the Spielberg/Hanks mini-series “Band of Brothers” in the beautiful new blu-ray edition. It’s stunning television and I can’t wait for the expected sequel (of sorts): “The Pacific”, due out next year. Coming across this blog entry at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, it occurs to me that a similar drama from the […]
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So, here I am sitting in the deserted cafe of the Antarctic Centre at Christchurch Airport, waiting to pick up Marty R for the start of his birthday trip. We’ve hired a sporty silver Mercedes so we can drive him back to his gaff in Dunedin and then hoon around Otago pretending to be rock stars. […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”