Category: media

Scorsese loves 3-D. And “he also hopes the movies over the next few years will become ever-more interactive. Like, hologram-interactive.”

“It strikes me that we may be in need of a National Television Heritage Day, not to recall what we watched, but how we watched.” No one had to walk two miles uphill in a snowstorm, but it wasn’t all simplicity and HD.

At Montreal’s new Satosphere, watching movies is hardly passive – it’s fully immersive. “Now we have a created a playground for the next century,” says the theatre’s president.

This American Life’s Ira Glass: “For some reason radio seems to survive, and I believe it’s because as long as there are cars with radios and people are lazy, people will get into a car and turn on a radio. And thank God people are fucking lazy. And like radio sort of just is there.”

“If you see many movies, it should be clear that smoking is, typically, about as glamorous and sexy as impetigo. Sure, tough guys may have a stogie sticking out of a corner of their mouths, or lonely misfits in indie films may puff up a storm, but the carcinogenic kisses of the Bogart and Bacall era just don’t thrill us anymore.”

“Over the past few weeks, a number of Russian politics-themed clips on YouTube have achieved over one million views. The videos are in a variety of genres – political polemic, satire and song – but they have one thing in common: a critical or irreverent attitude to the country’s leadership – Mr Putin, President Dmitry Medvedev and their party, United Russia.”

The director who made tough cabbie Travis Bickle and boxer Jake LaMotta into cinema icons talks about filming “a graphic novel … about a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo who lives inside the walls of a 1930s Paris train station.”

Says the BBC’s head of social media, “I think the evidence is pretty clear … that auto-feeds are fine for getting your stuff out but humans produce better tweets: they are more likely to drive engagement to get people interested in what you’re saying, encouraging them to pass it on, to click-through, and to talk about you.”

He’s released about half a dozen films in nearly 40 years, but the director has announced production plans for two movies to be made back-to-back in 2012, both starring Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale. “Lovers of long, lyrical meditations on the universe, nature, and the meaning of life, your cup runneth over.”

“I wanted my script to be as factually accurate as possible. But I also wanted to tell a rocking good story and to express a theme that matters to me a great deal: that the pen is mightier than the sword. … The truth is, there is no truth in film–in any film. Even the films that we think are true, about real people in real places, actually aren’t.”