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Third Thessalonians: a time and a place
It's not as simple as it could be dropped into the middle of a film festival and keeping up with a blog and the off-campus outside world... but there's stuff I'm adding at my Twitter feed , and of course, the headlines upfront at Movie City News . Werner Herzog walks among the ...
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The Exiles (1961, ****)
Milestone Films, one of the most important distributors of gone-missing films from international film heritage, including Killer of Sheep and I Am Cuba , releases Kent McKenzie's The Exiles presented by Charles Burnett and Sherman Alexie, a restoration of an almost-unseen 1961 fiction film ...
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"You must have a collection of posters from the world's worst movies," Jane Birkin says.
... To the man with the oversized bag of paper.
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Alexandre Desplat on working with Terrence Malick, more
Alexandre Desplat on working with Terrence Malick, more
mcnblogs.com — At a masterclass at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Terrence Malick on 2010's Tree of Life . "The most important thing for me, for music to express," the composer, who's worked on ... Alexandre Desplat on working with Terrence Malick, more
No Subtitles Necessary, (2009, ***)
James Chressanthis ' No Subtitles Necessary premieres Tuesday night on PBS' "Independent Lens" series: it's an anecdote-rich documentary about lifelong friends, cinematographic greats Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, from their youthful escape from Hungary in 1956 with footage of the ...
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Is this the end of The Road as we know it? A long Hillcoat-McCarthy interview
In an extensive interview in the Wall Street Journal , John Hillcoat and Cormac McCarthy talk about The Road and the fragmentation of culture. "Viewers are being hardwired differently," Hillcoat observes. "In film, it's harder and harder to use wide shots now. And the bigger the budget, the ...
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Fatih Akin deejays
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Warehouse C, early hours November 14, 2009.
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[PR] Announcing the 2009 IDA Awards nominees
The International Documentary Association Announces Nominees for The 2009 IDA Awards Laura Ling and Euna Lee to Present Tribute to Courage Under Fire at the 25th Anniversary of the IDA Awards LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2009– The nominees for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 ...
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A deep thought from graphic novelist Warren Ellis...
From the writer of "Crooked Little Vein," a print-on-demand experiment with seven years of random scraps, bits and bobs, entitled " Shivering Sands ."
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The Matrix, a film by Charlie Chaplin
Russian television satirists imagine a silent-era Matrix . Via Boing-Boing.
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OnePiece: Richard Curtis on happiness
OnePiece: Richard Curtis on happiness
mcnblogs.com — A one minute summa from writer-director Richard Curtis on why his films, including Love Actually Pirate Radio , don't shy from happiness. OnePiece: Richard Curtis on happiness
[PR] Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards 2009
[PR] Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards 2009
mcnblogs.com — The Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the premiere confabs for documentarians to meet, announce the 2009 Award winners: "Hosted by filmmakers Roger Graef OBE and AJ Schnack, six awards were presented: the Sheffield Green Award, the Wallflower Press ... [PR] Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards 2009
When Lars von Trier met Max Fischer...
A doodle by designer and drummer Sam Smith . His giant-cat motif in this poster for the Japanese film House is actually inspired; he's been doing it a while for Nashville's arthouse, The Belcourt .
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Bruno's scissored La Toya Jackson scene
Posted as a promo for the upcoming homevideo release.
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Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman, Peninsula Hotel, Chicago, 3 November 2009.
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#unseenprequels: another Twitter meme
I'm amazed when Twitter memes break out overnight and it's late late late on some coast and a flurry of a dozen or more rush from the fingertips of a single writer. Although I was tempted by #unseenprequels to suggest "Jason Reitman's Stalled On The Tarmac," "The Blastocysts Karamazov" and ...
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Terrible things happen in an imperfect world...
With intermittent otherness.
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Good days? Bad days? Good days.
Week later, two million views, still a classic.
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Charles and Ray Eames' Polaroid SX-70 promo film
Technology arrives...
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