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Via Ann Thompson, this very funny clip.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 4, 2006

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.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2006

ADRIENNE SHELLY REMEMBERED

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 […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2006

MONEY IS ALWAYS NICE…

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 […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2006

JUMPING OFF BRIDGES IN MANHATTAN AND L.A.

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 […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2006

ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE

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.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2006

WAR SONGS

Jane Hamsher’s Firedoglake links to one of the oddest anti-war songs going at the moment: a remix by Lou Reed of his “Walk on the Wild Side” that adds a verse about a soldier headed to Iraq in order to feed his family to the song’s litany of Warhol scenesters hustling their way through the streets of New York in the ’70s. The song is in support of Blue America PAC. Strangely, it’s not the first NYC rock revival Gulf War 2 statement I’ve heard this week. I caught Suicide’s Alan Vega out at P.S. 1 this Sunday as he […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 2, 2006

ADRIENNE SHELLY, R.I.P.

A friend emailed me this afternoon about the sudden passing of actress and director Adrienne Shelly, who was found dead in her office yesterday. This Newsday article has a few more details, but the cause of death is unknown. As an actress Shelly is best known for her work in Hal Hartley’s first two features, The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. A true original in the world of American independent film, she projected a fascinating, low-key charisma on screen and, in Hartley’s work in particular, captured the essence of a brainy and slightly lost young generation trying its hardest to figure […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 2, 2006

‘EVERY BANANA PEEL AND DYNAMITE STICK…"

Publishers Weekly has what seems to be the first review of Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Against the Day. From the conclusion: Now pushing 70, Pynchon remains the archpoet of death from above, comedy from below and sex from all sides. His new book will be bought and unread by the easily discouraged, read and reread by the cult of the difficult. True, beneath the book’s jacket lurks the clamor of several novels clawing to get out. But that rushing you hear is the sound of the world, every banana peel and dynamite stick of it, trying to crowd its way […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 30, 2006

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE

Indie films aren’t often noted for their ancillary rights potential, but over ten years after it first premiered at Sundance, there’s a video game based on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. Here’s Game Trailers: Reservoir Dogs is a bit of a chicken and egg debacle. Fans of the movie are going to be put off by an extended story and characters that don’t live up to the original. People who never experienced this dog’s tale before will be wondering “What’s the big deal?” Regardless of whether you’ve seen the movie or not, it’s not hard to realize that Reservoir Dogs is […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 30, 2006

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