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THE FIVE STAGES OF GLOBAL WARMING

Taking a cue from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Al Gore discusses the five stages of coming to terms with global warming in this long interview with Ray Pride (pictured with Gore) about the excellent documentary An Inconvenient Truth. From the interview: GORE: First of all, David Guggenheim, in my opinion, has done a spectacular job of making a really entertaining movie out of a slide show! [laughs] It was his idea to use the short biographical pieces, not mine. He convinced me that on film it’s important to provide a basis for the audience to connect personally to a character or characters…. […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 5, 2006

DEMONIC DIRECTING

Steve Gallagher emailed today to pass on news about the newly launched website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, “the world’s largest multi-media collection showcasing Ingmar Bergman’s professional career, dating back to 1938.” It’s one of the best single-director websites out there, an exhaustive catalogue of the great director’s work delivered, at times, in a surprisingly light-hearted tone. For example, here’s the opening of the page dealing with Bergman and the theme of Death. Bergman and Death have become the subject of parody, and a gentle (or otherwise) mockery of the art house cinema scene. The personification of Death in The […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 5, 2006

BRIGHT PICTURES

Over at Ain’t It Cool News, Elston Gunn interviews producer Lily Bright, discussing her productions of M Blash’s recent Lying, which premiered at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight, and Asia Argento’s The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. Particularly, she discusses being in roll-up to the release of Argento’s film when the news that author J.T. LeRoy, who wrote the underlying work, was a literary hoax: Well, we’ll never really know, but I do think it was very unfair and unintelligent for critics to say a film of a story based on a hoax is pointless. Asia was inspired by the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 4, 2006

ADVANCE COPY

Below Peter Bowen blogs about the crossover between film production and criticism, namely the emergence of internet-distributed mash-ups and “web cinematic essays” as a new form of dialogue about the movies. So far, most of these pieces have been about films that have already been released. Now, though, the artist Chris Moukarbel has gone the mash-up editors one better by pre-empting Oliver Stone’s forthcoming World Trade Center with an twelve-minute web-distributed art project based on a bootlegged copy of Stone’s screenplay. From the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art: Moukarbel makes site-specific video and installations, often using found media […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 3, 2006

GREY AREAS

In her Risky Business blog, Ann Thompson links to John DeFore’s “Bootleg Movies,” a piece appearing in Slate detailing “the strange films you find in the back alleys of the internet.” From the piece: These businesses, outgrowths of the kind of tape-trading scenes familiar to Grateful Dead fans, are run by enthusiasts out to finance their own hobbies, not to make a killing. (Traditional bootleggers charge a premium, but most offerings here are half the price of ordinary releases.) They sell everything from forgotten silents to auteurist curiosities to spaghetti westerns—usually on discs mastered from an old VHS release or […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 2, 2006

"COULDN’T YOU HAVE USED RWANDA?"

I don’t know if it’s the editing of the interview or the thought processes of the director, but Jenifer Merin’s interview with Omen director John Moore in New York Press seems quite bizarre: From the piece: MERIN: The Omen’s the first feature to use 9/11 World Trade Center towers footage in a story other than the story of 9/11. And, you’ve included images from Katrina and other disasters. Why? MOORE: To contextualize the story. I want to make films that comment on what’s going on in the world, but not be ugly, stupid and raw about it by making dumb-ass […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 2, 2006

COMFORTABLE CONVERSATION

Over at Green Cine — yes the site also has a collection of great original material as well as its excellent daily collection of links — Thomas Logoreci interviews Jay and Mark Duplass, whose The Puffy Chair opens today in San Francisco, Austin, Berkeley, Boston, Portland and DC. In the piece, they talk a little bit about what they are doing next: Jay: We’re trying to do a relationship movie in a horror genre. We’re not sure that it’s going to work, but we’re going to make it anyway. Mark: There’s some trepidation, but we do feel very confident in […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 2, 2006

SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS

Capitalizing on the trend towards flat-screen and plasma TVs — and television as home design — Microcinema has announced a partnership with Colorcalm, “the best-selling producer of of ambient media and design-led programming,” that will result in a new label. Microambience will be “a dedicated distribution service and channel for ambient designers, producers, labels, and ambient moving image connoisseurs worldwide.” So far, the label ranges from video fireplaces to more interesting stuff like Colorcalm – By Design, a shorts compilation designed to play as a continuous loop which images by designers Peter Saville, Irma Boom and John Maeda and music […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 2, 2006

BLIND AND GREEN

A story going around the N.Y. production community: When an Environmentally Aware Big Name Actor signed on his latest production, he asked that he be driven in a hybrid vehicle. Production informed him that there were no hybrids available to rent from their vendors. “But should we just drive you in a compact or mid-size instead?”, they asked, looking for a fuel-saving alternative. “No way!” he replied, and the production went ahead with the customary — and fuel guzzling — town car.

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 1, 2006

LEGISLATING THE CRITICS

From Rob Nelson’s interview with Rick Linklater in this week’s Village Voice: If Linklater leaves the big questions of his movies to their audiences, how does he think they’ll respond when A Scanner Darkly opens in July and Fast Food Nation in the fall? “You can never prove or predict the cause and effect of anything, whatever its purpose,” he says. “When The Jungle was published a hundred years ago, they enacted the FDA. But in today’s world, we’re more likely to see legislation enacted to prevent us from criticizing the way things are. In Texas, it’s against the law […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 1, 2006

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