The guys who run the new music/MP3 blog Good Weather for Air Strikes have launched a new blog devoted solely to music video downloads called Videoteque. Named in homage to Radiohead, the site features no streaming video, just downloads, many in iPod-ready MP4 format. First up, yes, a bunch of Radiohead clips by such directors as Michel Gondry and Jamie Thraves.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 26, 2006Partizan, the European video company that was a producer of Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep, has posted a video podcast that includes a sequence from the movie, due out later in the year from Warner Independent. As it’s called a “podcast,” I’m hoping that the subscription, now lodged in my iTunes, will reveal further clips and maybe some original short-form work for the podcast medium from this great filmmaker.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 13, 2006The composer Jon Brion, who has done scores for directors such as Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, and Paul Thomas Anderson, has been getting a lot of ink this week for his producing and arranging work on the new Kanye West album. Here’s Rob Mitchum in Pitchfork Media, who compiles a 70-minute mixtape designed to update you on Brion’s eclectic body of work. From the piece: “The most talked about man in music right now is Kanye West, whose recently-released Late Registration album is already one of the most prominent critical battlefields of 2005. It’s no shocker that an expert […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 6, 2005Perhaps you’ve heard that the IFP/New York has retooled its annual Gotham Awards, moving the event out of IFP Market week to December 1 — smack dab at the start of the Oscar push. This week the IFP/New York announced the Gotham’s first two 2004 award recipient: actor Don Cheadle, who has Hotel Rwanda coming out from United Artists, and Michel Gondry’s film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is being honored under the new “Celebrate New York” tag for films shot in New York that “expand the boundaries of creative expression.” With its December 1 date, the Gotham’s […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 22, 2004