July 2010
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June 2010
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Watch great films online or on iPod, iPhone, iPad... →
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That he had a skinny, bespectacled male lover called Wally just didn’t fit...
– Wild things - Times Online
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If you read enough of Wood’s criticism, you can see him naked. And if I do...
– Wood’s Dilemma by Tom McCormack
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Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market,” she laughs. “We...
– Shirin Neshat: A long way from home
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Carl Th. Dreyer →
Beautifully designed and unique in scope and focus: The Web site about Carl Dreyer
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If we allow the voice of the independent artist to be stifled we should expect...
– Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron: Why We Must All Defend Independent Filmmaking
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Documentary on Lost Animated Masterpiece “The Thief and the Cobbler” — Kickstarter
Back this project.
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May 2010
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I heard ‘we don’t want to be seen as monkeys’ an awful lot.
– Sorrel Moseley-Williams on how director Andrés Livov-Macklin gained the trust of the people of Los Pereyra, Argentina.
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Seberg’s Patricia was everything I wanted to be: stylish, bilingual,...
– The Enduring Magic of Breathless
A lovely remembrance. However, the author should have at least mentioned Mark Rappaport’s wonderful From The Journals of Jean Seberg. For my time, more funny and rewarding and more radical than his Rock Hudson’s Home Movies.
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LoopLoop
(by Patrick Bergeron)
Hypnotic.
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[Suing pirates] isn’t a deterrence move, it’s simply a novel revenue...
– Yo ho, an (Internet) pirate’s life for some.
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The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975.
(by Mike Haeg)
This short film represents the sort of irreplaceable artifact that could only exist within the documentary tradition.
By contrast, does anyone think Iron Man 2 is irreplaceable?
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We ignore film’s most unique attribute. As demonstrated by how little of...
– 38 More Ways The Film Industry Is Failing Today | Truly Free Film
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38 More Ways The Film Industry Is Failing Today |... →
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The next superhero film should star Mickey Rourke. As himself.
– Superheroes suck!
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That a copy of the original print of “Metropolis” even existed in Buenos Aires...
– The Full ‘Metropolis’
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They just fucked with the wrong Mexican! →
April 2010
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FILM SOCIALISME / JLG / FILM ANNONCE 4
(by Lieutenant D.)
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If James Cameron showed up at my door with a contract to be in his next film, I...
– Poseur Alert: Jean-Luc Godard’s New Trailer is the Entire Film!
Godard is an artist and a clever one, but this statement and the whole frakin’ post make me nauseous. Can’t one make a point without saying something stupid?
Wanna find pretension? Pick a film blog. Any film blog!
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I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you...
– Director of Sita Sings the Blues
This isn’t marketing; it’s principle.
Believing in Banksy before taking on the marketing for the film (as his blog...
– Art Fag City » Wooster Collective’s Marc Schiller Fails to Disclose Marketing Ties with Banksy Movie
I haven’t seen the movie yet but if Banksy really believed his own bullshit, then the movie would have been released via Creative Commons and for free on the Internet. Just like Sita...
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Five or six things I think I know about film...
Here they are:
No one knows what’s important
There is no “we”
Context, identity and affinities matter
The essence of cinema lives between your ears
Nobody’s perfect
Films make memories
1. No one knows what’s important
One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve tried, for the last three months, to catch up on all the movies I’ve missed seeing over...
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my message about being proud of owning a pussy (even though I’m a man) is...
– What’s Good For the Goose: The 2010 Feminist Porn Awards
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How to Make a Documentary About Sampling--Legally... →
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The future of criticism is the same as it ever was. Miserable, and full of...
– Is There a Future for Arts Criticism?
David Byrne is the most-quoted pop star ever?
March 2010
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Why does [insert random Hollywood movie here] have to end with an action...
– Roger Ebert , asking the question I always ask myself after watching a Hollywood movie.
My answer: They shoulda done it with HBO.