Woody Allen’s portrait of the Jazz Age.
As Hollywood’s shadow keeps getting darker and longer, the question `What is cinema?’ becomes more and more insistent. “The real fight is over taste, over affirming strange, original and singular films versus routine films.” Village Voice
– for making film and professional quality video have plummeted to the point that that they’re now within reach of those without studio budgets. A new business model is needed. Financial Times
– up a robust 34 percent annual rate, fueled by acquisition mania; film revenues up 19 percent. Variety
– ban “Anna and the King,” deeming it disrespectful to the country’s royal family. BBC
– avoid NAACP boycott on diversity after meeting. Los Angeles Times
From shooting to editing to promoting, 1999 is likely to go down as the year that digital took over every aspect of the movie business. Next: goodbye celluloid. BBC
Toronto man rebroadcasts every TV station available in Toronto over the internet on Icravetv.com, and networks have a fit. “It’s all perfectly legal,” he claims. Wired
Anatomy of a classical music radio station. LA’s KKGO turns ten-years-old. Los Angeles Times
And the censors. New York Times
