Category: media

“In what’s touted as an industry first, the documentary “Foo Fighters: Back and Forth” will be followed immediately by a live, 3-D performance of “Wasting Light,” the band’s album arriving next week. Audience members will be able to text in extra song requests as the band plays.”

“The two new theaters in the complex, which will open officially on June 17, are meant to be intimate settings, with 150 and 90 seats. But the complex … will also include an indoor cafe and an auditorium – with a 152-inch plasma screen and a capacity for 75 people.”

“Poland has had a complicated relationship with Lech Walesa. The love-hate of past years, however, is danger of fading into indifference and neglect.” But Poland’s most famous filmmaker “has decided enough is enough. A jaundiced, dyspeptic, post-modernist nation will be made to look again at ‘the hero in its midst’, with a biopic recounting the Solidarity struggle.”

“Are there times when talking in a theater is justified, even necessary? There might just be certain genres that lend themselves to the loud-crowd experience.”

“People want something they can’t get anyplace else, and that’s what we do. This is a microclimate for weather; it’s a microclimate for the demographics of listeners; it’s a microclimate for whether you can get radio stations in because of the hills. There are markets like this all over the country. You just have to know where they are.”

“During the coming weeks, Hollywood might benefit richly from the practice of “intelligent failure” — even though some of its movies could be labeled as uniquely unintelligent. Much of the output — sequels and prequels — represents an effort to replicate past success, even though some of the ventures being replicated ended up in red ink.”

“Spurred by the advent of cheaper digital technology, these young filmmakers are stylistically daring and increasingly fearless in addressing, or at least alluding to, taboo topics such as homosexuality and the heavy social costs of China’s breakneck dash toward modernity.”

“If Univision has years of viewer loyalty and ratings on its side, Telemundo is also gaining traction. Telemundo, with its far more modest profile, is going after an acculturated Latino audience and reframing the possibilities of a field whose viewership continues to grow.”

“The voice of the artist is present in any artistic work, and those of the characters exist in any artistic work with an actual or implied story. However, the added component of the player or players, who give meaning to the characters and story, and make decisions affecting their fates is the third, unique voice.”

Other winners ranged from Spike Lee’s Katrina follow-up If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise and NPR reporter Julie McCarthy’s coverage of Pakistan to the PBS documentary William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible and the live storytelling series The Moth Radio Hour.