“The creators of the Puma Creative Impact award believe [the effect documentaries have in the wider world] can be massive.” The stated aim of the €50,000 prize? “To honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact in the world.” Are they right?
Category: media
Come On. We Need The Arts On Canadian TV
“In the past few months, two staples of the channel – Bravo!News and Arts & Minds – were abruptly cancelled. Both were magazine-style shows covering the arts – profiles of Canadian writers, interviews with writers visiting Canada, the opening of exhibitions, new opera and ballet productions, the opening of new exhibitions, coverage of many arts awards.”
BBC To Cut 2000 Jobs, Slash Programming
“The BBC is planning to cut 2,000 jobs and radically change programming in order to cut 20% from its budget over the next five years.”
Time For TV To Be Everywhere
“Are viewers — especially older soap opera fans — truly ready to get their shows from a Web site?”
Charlie Kaufman: Why I Wrote Being John Malkovich
“My idea was that I would write a script and use it to get [TV] work. I had this idea that someone finds a portal into someone’s head, and I had another idea that somebody has a story about someone having an affair with a co-worker. And neither one was going anywhere, so I just decided to combine them.”
LACMA and Motion Picture Academy To Open Film Museum
“[The] city known as the epicenter of the move industry has always lacked a large-scale museum dedicated to the art of filmmaking. Now that absence is poised to be filled thanks to a new partnership announced late Tuesday between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”
Fox Having A Cow As Shutdown Of The Simpsons Looms
“A money dispute between Fox and the actors who voice the characters on The Simpsons may force the long-running hit series to shut down next spring.”
TV’s Mixed-Up Rules On Obscenity
“The old rules about obscenity and offensive language are now hard to discern. Nobody knows where a line is drawn. It’s all a muddle. For instance, there are words and phrases commonly used on network TV programs airing at 8 p.m. that would not appear in this newspaper.”
How Women In Love‘s Naked Wrestling Got Past The Censors
‘The controversial nude wrestling scene in the 1969 film Women in Love was passed for release only as the result of a secret pact between the then British Board of Film Censors and director Ken Russell, it has been revealed in archive correspondence released by the BBFC.”
3D Is Unworthy Of Decent Movies Like The Lion King
John Patterson: “3D should be cheap-ass. It should be a gimmick. It needs to be wasted on violent, sleazy and stupid movies like Friday The 13th Part 3 or The Final Destination.“