Category: media

The shortlist includes “Bill Cunningham New York,” “Buck” and “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.”

Some suggestions for geeks, iPhone lovers, haters of digital rights management and the rest of us. (Also, what *is* the cloud?)

“The machinery of production and distribution is in the midst of an epochal change, part of the rapid and convulsive digitalization of everything under the sun. If you go to a movie theater, you are less and less likely to see a film in the traditional, literal sense.”

“What distinguishes the current incarnation of slow TV is that it flies in the face of conventional wisdom about modern audiences demanding immediacy, their attention spans sapped by the ever-moving online era.”

“That’s American Zoetrope all over: excess, hubris, majestic ideals and brilliant innovation, all mired in recurrent financial chaos, and overseen by a magical, mercurial, charismatic figure seemingly straight out of the real Renaissance (and Italian to boot).”

“Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, AOL, Yahoo, eBay, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and a host of other groups and companies oppose the measure, saying the bill will break the internet as we know it.”

“Lord Hollick, the Labour peer and millionaire businessman, has offered to pay the BBC the £5,000 needed to secure a repeat broadcast of Dennis Potter’s drama The Singing Detective to mark its 25th anniversary. However, BBC rules on using donations to pay for programmes may prevent Hollick’s offer being accepted.”

Roughly one-quarter of Turkish women are married before age 18, with the number nearing one-half in parts of Anatolia. A new prime-time serial, whose two-minute trailer has become an online hit in Turkey, is addressing the issue openly.

Disney Studios thinks that the new Muppets feature film, “[which] cost under $50 million to make, has blockbuster potential. But it’s anyone’s guess whether puppets can resonate in the Pixar era. … The Muppets also does not tiptoe around the elephant in the room, which is the dilapidated state of the entire franchise.”

“Blame New York and the lousy television advertising market. Fewer dramas are filming in Los Angeles because of more competition from New York, which is having a record year for TV production.”