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Peter Greenaway Lecture Streamed Live

By Karina Longworth posted 8 months ago

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway is giving a multimedia presentation/lecture this morning at the Clicks or Morta?r symposium, and if you go to Pixel Palace RIGHT NOW, you can watch it live. I’ll investigate whether or not the video is archived after the show is over, and if so, I’ll post it here.

I discovered the Greenaway presentation via the Documentally Twitter stream, which has been disseminating Greenaway’s best quotes live. Examples: “Peter Greenaway thinks the remote control shot the cinema dead.”; “Peter Greenaway thinks film festivals are a waste of time.. ‘We need to put new wine in new bottles’”. Etc.

Clicks or Mortar? is a one-day event in the UK devoted to imagining the future of cinema as a concept and as a public space. From their website:

Digital projection is turning cinemas into spaces that can support every sort of screen-based creative work, extending their usefulness far beyond simply showing films. In the future they may be transformed from ‘picture palaces’ into ‘pixel palaces’, offering a home to games players, interactive performance artists and moving image makers, supporting new forms of film storytelling and, most significantly, engaging audiences who may well be turning from passive consumers of culture into active participants in its creation.

UPDATE: I’ve installed the Ustream embed after the jump.
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Twilight Breaks Record for Female Director. Trade Roughage 11/24/08

By Christopher Campbell posted 1 year ago

Of all the news related to Twilight’s unsurprising $70.6 million opening, the most important has to be that Catherine Hardwicke (pictured) now holds the record for highest-grossing debut for a female director. The previous record holder was Mimi Leder, whose Deep Impact bowed with $41.2 million a decade ago. And the most important non-Twilight box office news has to be that Slumdog Millionaire continued to have a per-screen average in the $30,000s, even with a minor increase to 32 screens, and reached a very impressive very-limited-release gross of $1.6 million.
Last Friday, Twilight costar Anna Kendrick was announced as the female lead opposite George Clooney in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. But the 23-year-old will not be Clooney’s love interest. That honor has instead gone to 35-year-old Vera Farmiga.
French filmmaker Pascal Laugier is coming to Hollywood to direct a couple American horror pics, including a Hellraiser remake for Dimension and a short story adaptation titled Details for Paramount Vantage. Both films will likely pale in quality to his French productions, but every foreign auteur has to try tinseltown at least once, right?
Film print fans rejoice! Digital projection is being blamed for and may suffer from the faulty screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at LA’s DGA Theatre last Thursday. Apparently similar problems have affected recent screenings of Che and Quantum of Solace, too.