Via GreenCine comes this interview with David Gordon Green appearing in The Believer. Here, Green talks about his adolescent video renting habits: “The first movie I rented—and I was a little overwhelmed, so I ended up regretting my choice—but it was an Al Pacino movie called Author! Author! I was debating between that, Ladyhawke, and I Spit on Your Grave, but that last one, I was afraid my sisters would tell my mom I’d rented that. And it was not going to be the kind of appropriate thing to have around the house. But I was glad to see the […]
Um, our Alexa ratings could use a boost at the moment… so here’s the the just-released Scale, the second installment in Mike Figgis’s Kate Moss meditation, The Dreams of Miss X. It’s part of a four-part series he’s been doing for the lingerie house Agent Provocateur. (You have to watch it on their site and give them an email address before you’re allowed to view it. The clip does get cool in a Jean Cocteau kind of way as it goes on, though.) From the site: “The four dreams of Miss X” was shot in night vision and explores the […]
The Criterion Collection has started a blog titled “On Five.” (It’s subtitled, “Unofficial Information about the Criterion Collection from the People who are Officially in Charge.” Click over there on Tuesdays and Fridays for posts on new releases, HD vs. Blu-Ray, and more.
On October 18 I posted a few quick comments on the Google/YouTube deal. Specifically, I concluded my posting by wondering if any of the artists whose work has been streamed on YouTube will see any cash from the “copyright infringement” settlements that are part of the deal. Here’s what I wrote: The question then becomes, what mechanism or accounting system exists to reward individual copyright holders from the revenue “shared” with Universal by YouTube? Do artists signed to Universal see (or do their balance statements reflect) this income? And what about all the other artists whose video is being shared […]
Via Ann Thompson, this very funny clip.
Until some ballsy distributor decides to wage a “fair use” battle against studio copyright holders, it may be that the Sophie Fiennes doc The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, in which the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek discourses about film, politics, desire and theory, will be little seen in the U.S. So, I’m going to point you towards YouTube, which has several clips from the film, which was hit in Toronto this year, streaming through its servers. Here is Zizek talking about Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
I posted last night about the news that actress and director Adrienne Shelly died on Wednesday in New York. I didn’t know Shelly, but I certainly knew her work and, as I wrote, thought she was a true original. Below are links to a couple of other writers who remembered her on their blogs today. From Anthony Kaufman: …I followed Shelly’s second directorial effort “I’ll Take You There” on the festival circuit, reporting on its Telluride premiere, then publishing an inteview I did with her as the film was playing at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2000; she talked […]
Okay, while checking out Sujewa Ekanayake’s excellent group blog Indie Features 06, which I’ve been remiss in doing for a while, I came across this link to an amazing chart by Scott Krisner of the CinemaTech blog. It’s one of those things that I immediately wish was an article in Filmmaker: a listing of all the sites and outlets that allow internet video producers to generate revenue from the exhibition and syndication of their work. From Kirsner’s intro: New revenue opportunities are emerging with the recent boom in video viewing on the Web. On this chart, I’ve tried to list […]
Kat Candler’s powerful fiction feature Jumping Off Bridges plays this weekend in New York at the Pioneer Theater and next weekend in L.A. at the Fine Arts. The film is a well-acted drama that looks at the effects of suicide on a group of Texas teens, and Candler handles her difficult material with skill and conviction. For more on the filmmaker’s self-distribution of their film click on the link above to go to their website or visit Indie Features 06 which has more info. And here’s what Ain’t it Cool News had to say about the movie: “Candler is very […]
Jamie Stuart forwarded this link to a Bravia paint ad directed by Jonathan Glazer (Birth, Sexy Beast). The ad took ten days and a crew of 250 to realize and then five days and 60 people to clean up. (Fortunately, the paint was water-based.) After you watch the ad check out the “making of” on YouTube.