Sorrel Moseley-Williams on how director Andrés Livov-Macklin gained the trust of the people of Los Pereyra, Argentina.

Posted at 12:30am and tagged with: Argentina, documentary,.

I heard ‘we don’t want to be seen as monkeys’ an awful lot.

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.

Posted at 12:43pm and tagged with: Godard, Jean Seberg, Breathless, film,.

Seberg’s Patricia was everything I wanted to be: stylish, bilingual, alluring, sophisticated, independent—and deadly.

LoopLoop

(by Patrick Bergeron)

Hypnotic.

Posted at 10:08am and tagged with: short films,.

[Suing pirates] isn’t a deterrence move, it’s simply a novel revenue grab from a diamond-clad industry that feels nothing but contempt for its consumers, paying or not.

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?

Posted at 10:30pm and tagged with: documentary, San Francisco, soap box derby,.

GET OUT OF THERE!

(via hh1edits)

Reinforces my current embargo against fiction film.

Posted at 10:03pm and tagged with: film,.

We ignore film’s most unique attribute. As demonstrated by how little of people’s online time is spent watching content (30%), we know that people want connectivity & community more than anything else.