Mann, Depp, Bale, French Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, and digital cinematography by Dante Spinotti… what do you think? 'Public Enemies' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video
Here are a few links that have caught my eye in the past week: Barack Obama is doing his small part to cut back on federal spending by regifting an AFI box set of the “25 Greatest American Films of all Time” to visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. As The Guardian reports, the British press is up in arms by the chintzy perceived snub, noting that Brown previously gave Obama a pen carved from the sister ship the White House desk is made from and a first edition of a seven-volume Churchill biography. The gift has also turned political […]
Having long been interested in compositional mash-ups (from Stockhausen to the Beatles, Holger Czukay, Byrne/Eno, John Oswald, Christian Marclay and myriad hip-hop artists), I guess I am late to the party when it comes to Israeli producer Kutiman, who has become an internet star by remixing the work of musicians who have uploaded their own work to YouTube. He has created a video album, Thru You comprised entirely of unrelated YouTube clips. It’s pretty great. Here Kutiman explains his approach: And here’s probably the flashiest of the clips, but check out the album link above as I actually prefer some […]
Entertainment attorney Steven Beer of Greenberg, Traurig prepared the below in advance of his presentation this weekend at the IFP’s Script to Screen conference, and he was kind enough to let the blog publish it. For those attending the conference, Beer will discuss these points further tomorrow at the New York Film Academy, 100 East 17th Street, New York, New York 10003. The “Tips from the Pros” panel will be on Sunday, March 8, 2009 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. I am excited to address this topic. From my experience, not enough attention is paid to packaging and pitching […]
DENIS LAVANT IN “MERDE,”DIRECTOR LEOS CARAX’SEGMENT OF TOKYO!. COURTESY LIBERATION ENTERTAINMENT. French directors Leos Carax and Michel Gondry – both born in the early 1960s, during the first blush of the Nouvelle Vague – so far have had markedly different career paths. Carax, a boy from the Parisian suburbs, became a film critic and short film director before announcing himself as a major talent with his first two features, Boy Meets Girl (1984) and Bad Blood (1986). Carax’s distinctive visual style, outsider sensibility and preoccupation with modern romance was also on show in his third film, Lovers on the Bridge […]
Philippe Petit’s brief bit of coin sleight-of-hand and Oscar chin-balancing when James Marsh’s Man on Wire won the Oscar was one of the more entertaining moments at this year’s Academy Awards. Now, on his website, New York magician David Blaine posts a video of a kind of magical face-off that occurred when he ran into the French tightrope-walker on the street.
With two of our favorites, Rachel Getting Married and Synecdoche, New York, coming out on Blu-Ray and DVD next Tuesday, we’re going to hold a contest with the first person to e-mail us the correct answers to our questions receiving a Blu-Ray or DVD of the films. Check back to the blog next Tuesday at 12:00pm (EST) for the questions. (DISCLAIMER: Contest is only available for those living in the U.S.) The answers will be found in our stories on the films in the Fall, 2008 issue. We are only giving away 1 Blu-Ray and DVD for each film.
“Everything is over 6” — meaning budgeted millions — “or under 1,” a producer friend says. “There are no 3s.” “Everything’s 3 now,” an agent counters in an unrelated conversation. “3 is the new ‘6 – 8.’” “1 – 3 is impossible — it’s the union/non-union no-man’s land,” I paraphrase another producing friend. Meanwhile, more than one financier says to me, “1.2 is the number.” How to keep it all straight?
In addition to a spectacular weekend of New York City movie-viewing opportunities, which Michael Tully has thoughtfully laid out for you at Hammer to Nail, the writer/director/artist/performer Miranda July will be participating in the second annual Brainwave Festival at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea. July will be joining a line-up that includes Paul Simon, Lewis Black, Darren Aronofsky, Eric Fischl, Mario Battali, Tom Wolfe and Laurie Anderson. The various talks and presentations all, according to the website, deal with “intersection of mind and matter” and many pair artists with neuroscientists. July’s event, which takes place Saturday, March 7, at 6pm, […]
If you believe in the trend presaged by this week’s rumble between Facebook and Twitter (briefly, after failing to buy the microblogging service, Facebook is redesigning its home page to incorporate more of the immediate news and info-streaming features that Twitter has made popular), then we are moving towards an always-on, always-connected social reality. We will no longer “log on” or “check our email.” Bytes of data will be like air, a digital cloud the intake of which we won’t really think about. Of the Facebook change, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, “As people share more, the timeline gets filled in […]