Category: media

“As a director you’re literally making 2,000 decisions a day, and no one else is going to make those same decisions. So it’s definitely going to be your movie, in the sense that everything filters through your nervous system and your sensibility, and you don’t have to worry about it beyond that. Whether it’s obviously what people think of as a Cronenberg movie or not is irrelevant.”

Seventy-five percent of surveyed girls said the programs have inspired conversations with their parents and friends. Some girls even said they take inspiration from the shows, with 68 percent agreeing with the statement that the shows “make me think I can achieve anything in life,” while 62 percent said the shows have “raised their awareness of social issues and causes.”

A Chilean film that explores the aftermath of the Pinochet coup and the years of Pinochet’s regime won the award from the International Documentary Association — but it didn’t even make the shortlist for the Oscars.

“In some art forms if not others, the coverage is no weaker than, say, 20 years ago. Because there are more channels it just looks as if there’s less. Obviously if you want ballet or opera on the telly, you can forget it, but classical music is in fitfully good nick.” And the South Bank Show is back!

Barry Levinson’s first film as a writer-director, the one that put him, and modern Baltimore, on the movie map, turns 30 this year. How’s it holding up? “Viewers still respond to all the people in it, not as old friends but as fresh discoveries.”

Xboxes and other game consoles are doomed in our browser-obsessed time, says famed game designer Richard Garriott de Cayeux, aka Lord British.

“Amid an almost daily deluge of new deals and initiatives, it feels like we’re getting closer — approaching some kind of threshold, one that could launch video content toward a next level but might also claim high-profile casualties in the process.”

“On Tuesday, for example, the investment company Melrose II filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Paramount Pictures Corp., claiming that, over the past five years, the studio has paid them zero profits on investments on a slate of films that have earned more than $7-billon(U.S.) at the box office.”

“It’s been more than six months since Seattle’s Classical KING-FM switched from commercial to listener-supported operations. Based on numbers provided by the station this week in a sort of midterm “report card,” the move appears, so far, to have been good for business.”

“Google rolled out an ambitious new look for YouTube on Thursday … But the ultimate goal is much more ambitious than just making the video-sharing site look less cluttered: Google wants YouTube to be so wonderful that people will use it the way they use TV – surfing channels when they’re bored and want to be entertained rather than when they’re looking for something specific.”