Movie City Indie Archive for July, 2009
Jonathan Glazer's latest video, The Dead Weather's "Treat Me Like Your Mother"
Men and women are sometimes known to disagree.
Jack Kerouac reads, with Steve Allen at the ivories
Via Coudal Partners.
A touch of the math: a reporter's wrong timing
Logistics awry followed by giggle…
Making music 'round the world: a video for Sour
SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.
Startlingly cute and complex. Directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura and Masayoshi Nakamura. Bon jour, Michel Gondry! [Via Spike Jonze.]
[PR] Entitling Michael Moore: Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore Unveils Title for New Film
Oscar®-winning filmmaker’s October 2nd Release a “Love Story” About Capitalism
(Beverly Hills, CA) July 8, 2009— Capitalism: A Love Story is the newly unveiled title of Oscar®-winner Michael Moore’s latest documentary feature. Overture Films will release the film domestically on October 2, 2009, and Paramount Vantage will handle international distribution. As previously announced, Moore will return to the issue that began his career: the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world.
On why he chose to make a ‘love story,’ Moore stated that it was time for him to make a ‘relationship movie.’ “It will be the perfect date movie,” said Moore. “It’s got it all—lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It’s a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let’s just say it: It’s Capitalism.”
The opening 7:44 of The Hurt Locker
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Sets the tone; if you want to see the film fresh from start to finish, get thee to a cinema. {Registration required]
Capturing Reality: The Art of the Documentary
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, from Canada’s National Film Board, is a film about contemporary documentary cinema and features leading lights of the field, including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Alanis Obomsawin, Michel Brault, Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto and Werner Herzog. Thirty-three filmmakers from 14 countries talk about the artistic and ethical choices they make in their craft. While the 97-minute film is on DVD with four additional hours of interview clips, much of it’s available on the neatly-designed website. Here’s Errol Morris on being born to babble, for instance. Here’s filmmaker Nettie Wild on “the first day on the job.”
One more reason it's hard to do satire these days
“That’s not how I’m wired! That’s not how I’m wired to operate! … The world needs more Trigs, not fewer.”
this is 606: a photo exhibition of "chicagoesque" images
Ten large photographic landscapes of Chicago, or “606,” open Friday, July 3 at The Architrouve in Chicago, 6-9-m. [Location and daily hours through August 2 here.] The set is drawn from the ongoing daily photographic project, “this is 606,” which is here.