The 49 titles unveiled on Thursday represent 28 countries in all, with an especially strong showing for Romania (with two films in competition, past Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu’s “Baccalaureat” and Cristi Puiu’s “Sierra-Nevada,” and debut “Dogs” in Un Certain Regard) and, of course, France.
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Would You Be Willing To Pay $50 For A Movie In Your Home?
“Access to the service would cost something like $150; then, home viewers could pay $50 to watch a new film instead of going to their local theater. Film distributors would supposedly get a huge chunk of that revenue, as an incentive for partnership—Variety reports that several major studios, like Universal, Fox, and Sony, are interested. But after years of intransigence, studios might understandably be reluctant to allow such a drastic change to be put in the hands of a self-branded industry disruptor.”
Letterboxing – A Brief History Of The Two Horizontal Black Bars That Changed How You Watch Movies At Home
“Before letterboxing, we were throwing away three-quarters of the picture on some films.”
Facebook Live Is Going To Have A Big Problem, And It Won’t Be Porn
Rule 34 notwithstanding, “it’s unlikely that the site will devolve into a Chatroulette-style exhibitionist’s paradise anytime soon, partly because its controversial ‘real names’ policy makes it hard for most to remain anonymous. Far more troublesome for Facebook will be … matters of intellectual property.”
The First-Ever Afghan Muppet Is A Girl With A Mission
“Zari, whose name means ‘shimmering,’ is an eager 6-year-old who will focus on girls’ empowerment, health and emotional well-being” on the Afghan version of Sesame Street, Baghch-e Simsim.
We Analyzed 8,000 Hollywood Movie Scripts To See Gender Balance
“We Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character’s lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.”
When Samuel Beckett Made A Buster Keaton Movie (Yes, Really)
“When [the] future Nobel laureate … made his one and only film in the mid-1960s, he structured it both as a chase film and as a homage to the earliest years of cinema. However, you won’t be surprised to learn that the resulting work, Film, is far more complex, strange and intellectual than its slapstick forebears.”
Can NPR Survive The Fight For Its Future?
“The NPR News voice, though not monolithic, is unmistakably distinct from the diverse range of audio programming that has taken off in the recent podcast boom.”
How Do TV Shows Destroy Themselves?
This deconstruction of Sleepy Hollow’s fast descent could be a primer for what other TV shows should avoid.
What The Movie Biz Did To The Director Of ‘Girlfight’
“The arc of her life and career easily reflects the trials faced by so many other female filmmakers. But it is also the singular story of an (at times) painfully solitary artist, someone whose temperament has put her at odds with the lopsided demands of her chosen profession — and, ultimately, allowed her to survive it.”