Movie City Indie Archive for February, 2011
Chris Ware Who Can Design Uncle Boonmee’s Reverberating Memories
Kyle Buchanan has more. I’m pleased to see this collaboration came to pass after the subject of Ware’s work came up during a December conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival about his time in Chicago as a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute. “Joe” kindly confessed he had picked up Newcity each week for Ware’s ACME comics and for my reviews.
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Trailering “Mildred Pierce”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRnI661f8w&feature=player_embedded
La Veda loca.
Close Encounters Of The Second-Time-Round Kind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXENZQ0bx5g&feature=player_embedded
You’ll believe a bicycle can fly over the moon… Bring on the Spielberg Simulacrum!
2 Comments »“Ken Adam: Cold War Modern”
From director Tom Haines: “Filmed for the V&A, a profile of the veteran Art Director Ken Adam, the man who invented the War Room as we know it and created the original Bond aesthetic. A fascinating, inspiring man, who’s lived a rich and varied life.” Music by Mike Lindsay.
Only A Century Has Passed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50KspvNHFS0&feature=player_embedded
The Mitchell & Kenyon DVD has much more.
1 Comment »Sucker Postered
A biiiiiiiig expansion of this fragment below the fold. [Click to engorge.]
Howard Rodman: “Independent film is in a very paradoxical place right now.”
From an extended exchange between screenwriter, WGA board director, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Sundance lab advisor Howard A. Rodman at the film blog “No Meaner Place.”
Neely: So Independent film is not dead.
Howard: Umm, no. Independent film is in a very paradoxical place right now. I can make a movie with my telephone, and in fact, I could download an app that would enable me to edit it on my telephone. Given the internet, the barriers to the physical image capture and production of a film have never been lower in the hundred-odd years of cinema, nor have the technological barriers to distribution ever been lower. You don’t need this big heavy film can that you basically have to physically carry. You can stream, you can download. Those two barriers used to be almost onerously high, and now you can now leapfrog over them with a telephone and a laptop.
But the barriers to traditional distribution in an effective way have, in some ways, never been higher—in terms of what it takes to cut through the noise of the larger culture; what it takes to find that small audience and make them aware of what you’ve done. I’m not just talking about theatrical distribution. There’s this weird paradox where I think Independent film is more available for more people than it ever has been; but the difficulty of making Independent film has multiplied in certain other ways.
Neely: The platforms seem to be shrinking, but the numbers seem to be growing.
Howard: Right. And if you’re intent on theatrical distribution as the spearhead of your distribution program, that’s never been harder. The amount of money it takes to market a film doesn’t change whether the movie was made for $5 or $50 or $500 or $5,000. As Karl Marx once said, “Despite fluctuations in the price of beef, the sacrifice remains constant for the ox.” [More here. Photo by Ray Pride.]
Kevin Smith’s Post-RED STATE Address (30m vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pcHCF2h44&feature=player_embedded