Authors — Scott Macaulay

ROOM FOR EVERYTHING

Peter Debruge in Variety gets to the bottom of an urban mystery (subscription required for link): what kind of movie that billboard on Highland in L.A. featuring a guy’s headshot and a movie title (The Room) is actually advertising, and how said movie has managed to run for years at the Sunset 5? The face on the billboard leers down over Highland, half-lidded and haunting in black and white. The image — actually the headshot of helmer Tommy Wiseau — has branded “The Room,” a self-distributed directorial debut so hopelessly amateurish that auds reportedly walked out during its two-week run […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 9, 2006
NET NEUTRAL

The great political website Agonist has a new section up, the Agonist Net Neutrality Forum, dedicated to news and advocacy concerning the potential encroachments (corporate and governmental) on the freedoms we now enjoy on the internet. There’s a lot of debate going on around right now on this topic, but it hasn’t percolated up to the mainstream media as much as it should, Paul Kapustka has a primer on the issue up on his blog.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006
STOCK FOOTAGE

Getty Images held a short film competition in which 50% of the material of each submitted film has to be material from the Getty archive. The 28 finalists are online, and viewers get to vote for the winner, who receives a $10,000 cash prize. (Annoyingly, you have to register with their site to stream the films, but registration is free.) Via Shortsville, which is picking up steam as a place to find cool short film and advertising links.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006
HOLZER AND BECKETT’S WORDS

If you’re in London this week, check out artist Jenny Holzer’s public art work for the Beckett Centenary Festival. From the press release: As part of the Beckett Centenary Festival at the Barbican, American artist Jenny Holzer presents a series of light projections on the Barbican and buildings around London including City Hall and Somerset House. Writings from Beckett and a selection of works by celebrated poets, are cast onto well-known London landmarks, allowing light and text to flow over the cityscape, creating an extraordinary visual experience. Holzer rose to prominence with her text series Truisms (1977-79). In 1990 she […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006
NAOMI CAMPBELL IS THE DEVIL…

… in in this short FX extravanganza entitled The Call directed by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua for the Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli. John Malkovitch collects a payday as an exorcist.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006
SCOTT WALKER RETURNS

An issue or so ago I put Scott Walker in our “Super 8” column, anticipating his new album, his first in ten years. Now it’s got a title — The Drift — and the musician Momus has an early review on his blog: Fuck me, this is terrifying! I’ve come by The Drift, the new Scott Walker album. Don’t ask me how. It’s on 4AD. I used to be on 4AD, but that’s by the by the by the by. But the thing is, this isn’t a pop record, it’s a nightmare. It’s a horror film, part Cocteau, part Jodorowsky. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 7, 2006
POSTER MADNESS

This has been a good year so far for cool movie posters (I haven’t seen V for Vendetta yet but I loved the marketing campaign). And now comes these amazing new posters for Christoph Gans’s upcoming Silent Hill, which looks from the trailer like it might actually be good. (The one to the right is titled “The Nurses.”)
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 6, 2006
VENGEANCE TRAILER

The U.S. red-band trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is here.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 6, 2006
LEM PODCAST

A few posts below I noted the death of Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. Benjamin Walker has just posted a podcast devoted to Lem and his work.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 6, 2006
PEN PALS, PART TWO

The debate playing out at Caveh Zahedi’s blog over, specifically, Landmark’s backing out of screening his I Am a Sex Addict gets more and more fascinating as Zahedi and Mark Cuban go back and forth in a increasingly long series of blog entries. At the very least, it’s a more interesting and thorough debate of the whole “day and date” releasing strategy than we’ve seen in the trades as it deals with the inevitable conflicts that will arise between competing alliances of theater chains, cable providers and theatrical distributors. After a seemingly futile letter to Steven Soderbergh to intervene, Zahedi […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 6, 2006

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