“We want to complete our vision of an interactive documentary, an application that allows viewers to traverse the conversation database freely following their interests.”
Category: media
When Counterinsurgency Experts Go See Les Mis
“Most viewers left the showing of Les Misérables discussing Anne Hathaway (good), Russell Crowe (bad), and Sacha Baron Cohen (ugly) – but as a student of political violence, something else caught my eye. I was more interested in the structural integrity of the barricades and the poor substitution of tenors for tactics.”
Small Cable Channels Feeling The Squeeze
“Distributors have talked for years about belt-tightening, but two things are different now: potential Web competitors are creeping up and programming costs are soaring, particularly for sports channels and broadcasters.”
Is Reality TV Too Dangerous (For Its Crews)?
“A combination of tight budgets, lack of trained safety personnel and pressure to capture dramatic footage has caused serious and in some cases fatal incidents.”
Who Cares If The Spanish Flag Is Wrong In Men In Black 3?
This guy does. And oh, does he have movie inconsistency details down.
It’s 2013, But Soderbergh’s Liberace Movie Is Called ‘Too Gay’ For Hollywood
“‘Nobody would make it,’ Soderbergh tells The Post. ‘We went to everybody in town. They all said it was too gay. … And this is after Brokeback Mountain, by the way, which is not as funny as this movie. I was stunned. It made no sense to any of us.'”
True, Album Sales Are Down, But Look At Vinyl
“Spencer Hickman, formerly of Rough Trade Record Stores and co-ordinator of Record Store Day, says many still like the ‘ritual’ of buying and playing physical formats.”
Digital Films Come To Cuba – But Not To Movie Theaters
“Hundreds of Cuban filmmakers, armed with digital technology, are laying the foundations of an independent movie industry outside the state apparatus that has defined Cuban cinema for much of the Castro era — and still, much to the frustration of some filmmakers, controls access to the island’s movie theaters.”
How The Debate About Movies Is Changing
“Does controversy help or hurt a movie’s Oscar campaign? For that matter, does campaigning help or hurt during Oscar season?”
Movies Won’t Go Away – Are They The New “Short” Form?
“Unlike the best long-form series, which build their fictional worlds over months or years, the best movies present relatively narrow segments of time in which the crucial qualities are compression, concision and intensity.”