Time keeps moving quickly when at an event like this. Yesterday I watched Peter O'Toole leave his footprints at Gruman's Chinese Theatre, then moved on to see The Parent Trap introduced by Hayley Mills at the Egyptian Theatre. The British born actress gave much credit to her success to Walt Disney. He had selected her on the insistence of his wife to appear in Pollyana. Her successes were many.
The afternoon brought Reds with a discussion by Warren Beatty and Alec Baldwin. This three hour film focuses on communist politics in the US and the Russian Revolution. The discussion between Alec Baldwin and Warren Beatty on film making was the best of the festival. Beatty said that Reds would probably not have been produced in today's environment. "Producers cant take the risk of boring the audience. " Beatty starred in, directed, and produced the film. With the three hour run time, it was the last film produced with an intermission. When Baldwin asked what it was like to act in, direct, and to produce a film Beatty replied with "It can't be done, but sometimes it is better than the alternative." He explained that trying to describe a role can be difficult to do. Beatty called the liberation of females as the biggest revolution of the past. The advance of the internet and technology leads him to believe the delivery of movies will become the most significant news in the business during the next years. How to get people's attention is the main task today with it now being unforgivable to be boring. In a discussion about other actors, Beatty described working with Gene Hackman and others: "It makes you a better actor. Talent is energy." "The masses don't always understand the absence of art, but they do the presence of art."
The final movie of the night was Gaslight preceeded by a discussion between Robert Osborne and Angela Lansbury. Acknowledging that seeing a film you have acted in can be "terrifying", Lansbury described the changes in filmmaking and promotion. Initial films were released in sneak previews that provided time for additional shoots to respond to audience reactions. When she moved in Los Angeles in 1942, she remembered the musty smells in the costumes area of MGM Studios. She described it as a cold place to work where actors stayed in private trailers and little interaction seemed to occur. Her original contract with Louis B. Mayer was for $5oo per week. He had a habit of looking through screen tests for talent and had found her there. Her first film was Gaslight. She went on to the Portrait of Dorian Gray, and National Velvet at the age of 18.
That was a solid 7 hours of movies. Somewhere in the middle of all of that I still found time to walk, eat, and sleep. . See my pics from Saturdayincluding Hayley Mills, Angela Lansbury, Alec Baldwin and more here
The afternoon brought Reds with a discussion by Warren Beatty and Alec Baldwin. This three hour film focuses on communist politics in the US and the Russian Revolution. The discussion between Alec Baldwin and Warren Beatty on film making was the best of the festival. Beatty said that Reds would probably not have been produced in today's environment. "Producers cant take the risk of boring the audience. " Beatty starred in, directed, and produced the film. With the three hour run time, it was the last film produced with an intermission. When Baldwin asked what it was like to act in, direct, and to produce a film Beatty replied with "It can't be done, but sometimes it is better than the alternative." He explained that trying to describe a role can be difficult to do. Beatty called the liberation of females as the biggest revolution of the past. The advance of the internet and technology leads him to believe the delivery of movies will become the most significant news in the business during the next years. How to get people's attention is the main task today with it now being unforgivable to be boring. In a discussion about other actors, Beatty described working with Gene Hackman and others: "It makes you a better actor. Talent is energy." "The masses don't always understand the absence of art, but they do the presence of art."
The final movie of the night was Gaslight preceeded by a discussion between Robert Osborne and Angela Lansbury. Acknowledging that seeing a film you have acted in can be "terrifying", Lansbury described the changes in filmmaking and promotion. Initial films were released in sneak previews that provided time for additional shoots to respond to audience reactions. When she moved in Los Angeles in 1942, she remembered the musty smells in the costumes area of MGM Studios. She described it as a cold place to work where actors stayed in private trailers and little interaction seemed to occur. Her original contract with Louis B. Mayer was for $5oo per week. He had a habit of looking through screen tests for talent and had found her there. Her first film was Gaslight. She went on to the Portrait of Dorian Gray, and National Velvet at the age of 18.
That was a solid 7 hours of movies. Somewhere in the middle of all of that I still found time to walk, eat, and sleep. . See my pics from Saturdayincluding Hayley Mills, Angela Lansbury, Alec Baldwin and more here
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