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Indie Implosion, Several Kinds of Awful: BlogNosh 05/12/08

By Karina Longworth posted 6 months ago

“Over the last 10 weeks, the independent film “industry” has been restructured before our eyes,” writes Bob Alexander at the Indiepix blog. “Is the world of indie film burning up? Or is a new era about to emerge?”
Defamer points to seven clips from the Sex and the City movie, posted over at BlackFilm.com. I couldn’t get any of them to play all the way through, but the above screencap of Chris Noth (who’s starting to age into some kind of Tim Burton-era Batman villain…Melt Face?) looking like he’s going to eat Sarah Jessica Parker is proof that I tried.
The Playlist points to an Onion, um, exclusive: “Michel Gondry Entertained For Days By Cardboard Box.” Who’s the Gondry impersonator?
The Auteurs, a newish film site previously mentioned here, is hosting a short film competition at Cannes. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a prediction: “These movies are going to be awful.”