A Cannes blind item revealed. Plus: ROFLcon and Harvey Korman.
Deborah Scranton’s follow-up to THE WAR TAPES is watchable online.
March 24, 2008 – 11:30 am
Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind may have failed to make much of an impact at the box office, but as Liz Shannon Miller reports at NewTeeVee, it did touch off a serious wave of low-budget remake making on the web. Of the three “Sweded” mini-masterpieces she considers, by favorite is the above take on An [...]
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 [...]
March 21, 2008 – 11:52 am
Or: why an eight year old Ben Stiller movie is getting a boost from new technology.
Integrating short films into into news sites, without fanfare.
December 5, 2007 – 5:04 pm
Sundance just released their short film lineup, and though I’m still going through the release, I know for a fact that there’s at least one film on there that you can watch right this second. FCU: Fact Checkers Unit stars Bill Murray, Kristen Schaal, Peter Karinen and Brian Sacca; it was written by Karinen, Sacca [...]
November 30, 2007 – 9:03 am
If you’re a legendary director and you *have* to pick up a paycheck selling wine, this is how you do it.
November 29, 2007 – 4:38 pm
The West Side, a web series by Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman, defies online video stereotypes in virtually every meaningful way. It’s not a quick-and-shoddy, webcam-in-a-dorm-room production; there are real scripts, costumes, score and locations. It’s presented in wide screen, in crisp, meticulously lit and After Effected black-and-white. Plus, it’s a Western, a period piece, [...]
October 30, 2007 – 11:22 am
Brandon Harris sent me a note about his stylish short film, Happiness is No Fun, which purports to be “a short blaxploitation tinged remake of Godard’s seminal Breathless.” It’s not as jokey or spoofy as that logline might lead you to believe–which might lead to some initial disappointments. On the whole, I thought it’s refusal [...]
