“In sharp contrast to the way of working in the United States, Canada has a filmmaking process that assigns a prominent role to national government agencies, which identify and nurture promising talent through official programs, vet film proposals, and help finance the making and distribution of those projects deemed to be the most interesting artistically.”
Tag: 09.15.13
Who Says You’re Too Big To Dance Ballet? Asks Wayne Sleep
The former Royal Ballet principal “has made a television programme to encourage larger girls to put their dancing shoes back on. ‘I’m doing a Channel 4 series called Big Ballet,’ says Sleep … ‘It’s about big girls who were told at 10 to give up, as why would you stop a child dancing?”
Man Booker Prize To Start Including American Writers
“The organisers increasingly believe that excluding writers from America is anachronistic. The Booker committee believes US writers must be allowed to compete to ensure the award’s global reputation”.
Hey Supposedly Wonderful Streaming World, Where’s Your Data?
“Movies tumble into ‘analytic black holes’ when they are viewed on subscription services like Netflix, on-demand providers like the cable companies and iTunes, or an advertising-driven distributor like SnagFilm.”
Hollywood, Slouching Toward Digital
Filmmakers “see direct distribution as the future, but they worry about how it will impact the viewing experience.”
English: It’s Not Just For The English, Obviously
Novelists from the former British colonies “are no longer the exotic outsiders that add colour (literally as well as figuratively) to the British norm. They are the new normal.”
Will George Lucas Win His Bid To Build A Museum At The Presidio?
“Should San Francisco reject his latest proposal, Mr. Lucas is threatening to build his pop-culture palace in Chicago.”
Painter Peter Doig Says He’s Totally Not Painter Peter Doige
“There is quite a lot of rural Canada, you see, and [Doig] says that he and Doige were in different bits, and that he never served time anywhere.”
Who Won Big At The Toronto International Film Festival?
The highly anticipated “12 Years A Slave” takes top honors.
The Oh So Subtle Movie Score, And How It Wacks Out Our Emotions
“We can feel it going into our ears via sound waves and it can produce all sorts of physical responses, including in the right circumstances an actual thud to the stomach.”