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Category Archives: Community

MILf Counting: BlogNosh 05/09/08

Sometime-Moldy Peach Adam Green talks to Gothamist about promoting the Juno soundtrack by playing The View: “They gave me a year’s supply of Café Bustelo for playing. Anyways I got a check for $900 with Mickey Mouse’s head printed on it. Me and my girlfriend couldn’t figure out why Disney was sending me money. It [...]

Glenn Kenny’s New Blog

A day after learning and announcing that his job at Premiere.com had been eliminated, Glenn Kenny has already set up a new personal blog, free of association with Premiere/Hachette. Well, sort of: the subtitle on the TypePad blog is, currently, “Film writer Glenn Kenny’s own bought-and-paid-for-blog, thank you very goddamn much.” The title-title is Some [...]

Critics Watch: Glenn Kenny Out At Premiere

Another week, another dose of frustrating news about the state of film journalism. This morning longtime Premiere film critic (and occasional SpoutBlog commenter) Glenn Kenny used his blog to announce that his “position at Premiere.com is being terminated.” Glenn says he’ll keep up his Premiere-hosted blog if he can; otherwise, he’s looking for freelance work. [...]

Tracey Fragments and the Ellen Page Conundrum

Why having Juno in your movie can be a double-edged sword.

Speed Racer’s Suggestion: BlogNosh 05/06/08

At the Risky Biz blog, Steven Zeitchik accuses the Wachowskis of “insidious” product placement in Speed Racer, altering the design of Speed’s helmet and the Mach 5 to subliminally invoke corporate partner McDonalds. “It may not be brand placement. It’s something much newer and trickier: brand suggestion.”
FILMMAKER Magazine’s website has published the essay by David [...]

Dick Cavett is ALWAYS Relevant: BlogNosh 05/05/08

I don’t really know what the TakeApart blog means when they say, “with the times of today mirroring the times of the film, [Zabriskie Point] couldn’t be more relevant”––the movie’s such crazy hippie fantasy, I can’t imagine a time when it was ever relevant––but I’ll thank them for pointing to the clip of its beautiful [...]

Polanski Re-Premieres: Trade Roughage 05/01/08

The New York Observer’s Culture blog notes that “Marina Zenovich’s Roman Polanski documentary will open in New York on July 11, two days after it airs on HBO.” No mention of the fact that it has already premiered here and, as AJ Schnack points out, will not be feted by a second or repeat review [...]

Guatemalan Blogshakes: BlogNosh 04/29/08

Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake, starring Will Oldham, is available on DVD today, thanks to the boys from Benten Films. See appreciations from Paul Harill, Michael Tully, and Michael Atkinson; see the trailer above.
“The Nonfiction Box Office is up more than 1100% from one year ago,” points out AJ Schnack. And it’s not just one [...]

Stumbling Towards Digital: BlogNosh 04/28/08

The latest issue of Reverse Shot is online. “For this issue, we attempted a unique approach by asking our writers to select a filmmaker who’s traditionally worked in film and has moved to digital video, as a brief sidestep or a career-changing ideological statement,” explain editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichardt. “Then we asked them [...]

Critics Watch: Seitz Out, Lee In

“The ideal is to have your job be something that doesn’t feel like a job, and that was the case for me for years with print criticism. It’s not the case anymore.”