Eugene Hernandez of indieWIRE is laying down the buzz in Cannes, and it’s no real surprise Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), the Coen brothers (No Country For Old Men) and Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park) are getting the spotlight. (Of course, there’s a certain status a filmmaker can attain where they become [...]
Appropriation: Originality is overrated. Filmmakers taking footage from another film and adapting it into a new movie–Orson Welles (F for Fake), Werner Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder) and Roger Corman (Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women)–are they inspired or just desperate? (Chat about it in the FilmCouch group)
In the spirit of appropriation, email a [...]
Standard Podcast [23:37m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download (598)
Sequels tend to be pretty predictable (unless, of course, they’re about global warming or directed by Hal Hartly).
For some time high profile business leaders, celebrities and politicians have lived under the threat of the “blogosphere.” The mental scenario follows the Howard Dean story. In one moment of carelessness, something will slip from the mouth, be appropriated by a snarky music-pirating college kid and transformed into a viral bit of content infiltrating millions [...]
Interview with Christopher Smith director of Severance, a fall-down-funny-then-cover-your-eyes slasher flick opening in theaters tonight. The FilmCouch group reloads discussion on what makes a villain from FilmCouch 18, and somehow draws a connection between American Beauty and Star Wars. A 33 year old German film is more relevant today than ever–Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [...]
Standard Podcast [23:53m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download (580)
You could spend a good portion of the day (or night) reading reports from Cannes on the new Wong Kar Wai film.
Some words from the filmmaker…
What’s the best way to get free publicity? Stirring up some controversy with the federal government seems to work fairly well.
Paul and Kevin go to NY without ever leaving the office. Karina Longworth gives us the down low on the Tribeca Film Festival (check out her posts here). Interviews with Jesse Eisenberg (Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale) and Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) on Durst’s feature debut, The Education of Charlie Banks. Zak Penn, [...]
Standard Podcast [23:25m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download (587)
Here’s an article worth checking out.
