Is Robert Downey Jr. cashing in or taking his message to the streets?
If 2046 was used “illegally,” that means an amazing music video cost Kanye the price of a smart editor’s day rate
April 11, 2008 – 10:00 am
I’ve had an amazing time in Sarasota over the past week but, alas, I’ve headed back to New York for my next event: I’ve been invited to take part in the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, a five day series of workshops and panels co-sponsored by the Museum of the Moving [...]
Cool Hunting has a preview of a beautiful book that’s out in the UK in the conjunction with the release there of Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely (which I reviewed at SXSW, and loved). The book includes the shooting script, by Harmony and his brother Avi Korine, as well as photographs from the set, some taken [...]
Who could boycott the late great Charlton Heston? He was so funny!
The Onion’s A.V. Club says this deserves to “float around the ‘ol blogosphere,” and I agree. Because if we can get enough people to support experimental films based on scenes from TV’s Full House, then one day I’ll be able to watch Candace Cameron and Dave Coullier on a big screen at Anthology Film Archives [...]
The final installment of the New York Underground Film Festival opens with HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD.
Hmm, maybe the programming execs at FOX have souls after all: they’ve mercifully taken The Return of Jezebel James, a disastrous waste of Parker Posey masquerading as a sitcom, off their schedule after just three episodes. At BigScreenLittleScreen, Ted Zee describes how a scene from the second episode (he’s obviously more dedicated to the Save Parker [...]
Today in Cultural Equivalency: testing the theory that MTV’s reality soap is a distant ancestor of films like RED DESERT and L’ECLISSE.
YouTube handed out awards this week, voted on by users of the site, to the best videos of the past year in twelve categories. I watched the short film winner, My Name is Lisa, when it was a finalist in that Juno promotional contest a couple of months back, where it took third place. I [...]
