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Here's a great interview with Cameron Crowe about ELIZABETHTOWN!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I am head over heels in love with ALMOST FAMOUS, but it is a very personal story to me. Most people around me at the time the movie came out kept saying that it could have been about me. In a basic sense, they're right. I started interviewing celebrities at the age of 14 (George Carlin was my first, think about how crazy that is... a 14 year old kid chatting with someone as sharp and frank as Carlin!) and started writing for this very website when I was 16. Harry himself said he very much saw Patrick Fugit's William Miller as me (although my deflowering wasn't with a trio including Anna Paquin and Fairuza Balk, damn it!) and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Lester Bangs as him. Just a little AICN trivia for ya', but you can see why the film hit me hard.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to ELIZABETHTOWN. Crowe says in the interview that he feels this one will be very much akin to ALMOST FAMOUS. I've heard it's a great script and I absolutely can not wait! Check out the interview linked below... it's a great read!
Hey Harry. Cameron Crowe has been here in Louisville for a few weeks now
filming Elizabethtown. The actual town of Elizabethtown (E-town if you're a
local) is about an hour south of here. The town of Versailles (pronounced
Ver-sails because this isn't France, this is small-town Kentucky) is
actually substituting for E-town in a lot of shots; it's between Louisville
and Lexington. Side note: the world's best bourbon, Woodford Reserve, comes
from a distillery in Versailles. If you're ever in the region, check out
the distillery tour - it's amazing.
The Louisville paper scored a pretty good interview with Crowe regarding the movie, and apparently it's the first one he's given. Check it out:CLICK IT HERE YOU GOLDEN GODS!
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Woo Hoo! Cameron Crowe rocks!!
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THAT'S how interviews should be done!! And Cameron Crowe responds in kind, what a fantastic guy....i am giddy and up about this movie now and i know next to nothing about it. This will be fantastic...i can feel it in me bones!!
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Very nice interview. I'm surprised the journalist didn't catch "Francois Truffaut's 'Rules of the Game,'" though -- that would be Renoir's film. But Crowe has tipped his hat to Truffaut in the past (I think "Stolen Kisses" was on an "Almost Famous" marquee), so I wonder if Crowe was going to name something else. Hmm.
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Thanks for the scoop as well. Great interview. Crowe's an interesting filmmaker, and I expect good things from this project. The closer to 'Almost Famous,' the better.
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even if it does seem to lack vampires and werewolves.
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...living, certainly, and dead, very nearly. back when he was doing _ridgemont high_ and _say anything_, he was like john hughes with better dialogue -- harmless, and easy, SO easy, to ignore. since he's been enshrined as an "auteur" on the dubious "strengths" of _jerry mcguire_ and the lester-bangs-must-be-doing-backflips-in-his-grave, squeaky clean 70's rock "memoir" _almost famous_ (i almost, and should have, walked out as soon as they started singing "tiny dancer"...), his cloying, hallmark-card, friction-free dram-edy pretentions make hughes look like abel ferrara. fuck this guy -- he whatever's-the-opposite-of-completes me.
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Crowe has the most Un-Wilder tendency to cover everything in sap. Wilder was the most un-sentimental American mainstream director this side of Kubrick, yet Crowe's film wallow in the stuff. I can only imagine Wilder reading the script to Jerry Mcguire, patting his sappy young friend on the head while cringing inside. Yes, Crowe films have their good moments, but he is going to have to develop a more hardened, jaded sensiblity if he hopes to even come close to equalling The Master.
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Jul 28, 2004 4:05:16 PM CDT
Thinking about Billy Wilder films makes me want to see Stalag 17
by big jim
Looks like I know what I'll be watching tonight!
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Crowe's really hit or miss for me. Love Almost Famous, but loathe Vanilla Sky.
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Jul 29, 2004 10:29:07 AM CDT
They are shooting right down the street from me this week!
by kentucky colonel
Hiya all. This week they are shooting scenes at the Brown hotel which is at 600 Fourth Street. I live on the 1300 block of Fourth street, so that means...CAMERON CROWE is just 7 BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW! Stop by if ya wanna watch any of your movies, Cameron. I've got a kick-ass music collection, too! Nice to have you in my neighborhood! And yes, Woodford Reserve is among the best bourbons there is, but Elizabethtown is only 35 minutes south of Louisville, home to my first live-in girlfriend (Hi, Shelly!).
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best fucking quote I think I've ever heard to describe some overrated hack director's tendency to be sickeningly sentimental and cloying. His films are TOTAL SHIT. I just don't get it anymore... was it something about being around in the 1930's, 40's and 50's that just made you more objective and interesting as an artist - Wilder and Kubrick - as someone else mentioned, just to name a few? Why are we stuck with such pussies for directors? Who the hell knows anymore... oh, and, mentioning Ferrara, Bad Lieutenant is right up there with Scarecrow, Straight Time, and Panic in Needle Park as one of the best documentary-esque films ever made. The 'Jersey Girls' scene and that part where he's getting 'fixed' by that chick... unbelievable.
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