“Buzkashi Boys is the story of two young boys in Kabul who dream of playing buzkashi, the Afghan national sport in which horseback riders compete for possession of a headless goat. … [The movie] has provided a rare opportunity for a narrative, fictional film shot in Afghanistan to reach an international audience and has invigorated the tiny Afghan film industry.”
Category: media
Romney V. Big Bird (A New Way Of Arguing Against PBS)
“Romney is essentially saying, “Hey, I like the things you like too. We just can’t afford them.” It takes the debate out of the usual culture-warrior frame (liberals are using our money to undermine our values!) and puts it in a dollars-and-cents frame.”
New Indie Movies Coming To A Theater Very, Very Close To You
That is, in your living room – on demand.
MoMA Wants To Save The Past – On, And Of, Film
“Even as preservation work proliferates, opportunities to see the films in question continue to dwindle, as studios cut back on their ‘deep library’releases to home video, black-and-white movies vanish from television, and even museums and revival houses turn more and more to the digital presentation of films through hard-drive digital cinema packages.”
Google+ Doesn’t Want A Billion Users; It Wants Your Love
“Among avowed users, there’s an almost cult-like evangelism, and it’s just about impossible to talk to G+ users — “Plussers” — without getting into stories that involve deep emotions.”
New ‘Blackadder’ Script Discovered
Fans of the British comedy series rejoice at the Christmas script, wherein Rowan Atkinson’s character would have played the innkeeper in Bethlehem who offered a manger to Joseph and a very pregnant Mary.
Still Miss The Carol Burnett Show? Never Fear
YouTube has clips galore – and they’re inspiring a new generation of Burnett-lovers.
Twenty-Five Years Later, Mandy Patinkin Is Still Proud Of Inigo Montoya
“I always had it in my mind that if I could get the six fingered man, if Inigo could get the six fingered man, then my father, Mandy’s father, would come back and be with me.”
Report: Percentage Of Gay Characters On American TV Is Up
“The 17th-annual “Where We Are on TV” report released Friday by GLAAD found that 4.4 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series during the 2012-13 season will portray lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters. This is up from 2.9 percent in 2011, which saw a dip in what had been a growing annual trend.”
Facebook Hits One Billion Users (Some Perspective)
“There weren’t a billion PCs in use until just four years ago. And as of the end of last year, roughly one third of the world’s 7 billion people — 2.3 billion, give or take — were using the internet. In other words, nearly half of the internet-using population is on Facebook, and that’s with it officially banned in China.”