Category: media

Jonathan Jones: “I have been watching Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science-fiction film and it struck me as a work of art, almost a filmed installation, that defines what ‘postmodernity’ is, or was, or will be.”

“Univision dominated its English-language counterparts last night, winning Monday night in adults 18-49 (2.3/6), adults 18-34 (2.5/7) and total viewers (5.7 million).”

“The hit Palestinian TV satire show Watan ala Watar began its Aug. 14 episode with a sketch featuring Palestinian Attorney General Ahmad Mughani getting besieged by Palestinians filing lawsuits over Watan ala Watar making fun of them.”

“The nation that brought the television world Big Brother and a hoax game show with a donor kidney prize has now pitted five young rejected asylum seekers” – real ones, not actors – “against one another to compete for €4,000 ($5,600) for when they are kicked out of the country.”

The rumored tablet might change everything about e-book, music and video purchasing … and it’s no longer just a rumor: The Amazon Kindle will go head to head with Apple’s iPad and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. And it’s cheap.

“Forty-four percent of respondents said they stream TV shows online more than once per week.” But networks are pushing back — hard. What does the future hold?

Cinemathèques keep popping up, changing the film landscape of N.Y. “The most enterprising microcinemas promise not just a film that isn’t showing anywhere else but also an experience tailored around it. Context is everything.”

“‘It was a liberating thing in the ’80s’ when it became possible to manipulate fonts with the click of a mouse. But with great power comes great responsibility … and some didn’t use their typeface forces for good. To wit: Comic Sans.”

Tim Carmody: “Now everyone has taken two quick slaps and a glass of cold water in the face. Growth from this point forward is going to be harder for everyone, as they each fight each other both for share and to maintain what they already have.”

“It’s ‘too much,’ too numbing, to replay footage of the planes going into the World Trade Center towers, but it’s not too much to air two hours of Bachelor Pad and two hours of America’s Got Talent?”