December 2009
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"Best" "Films" "Direct to DVD" in "2009"
I disagree with most of this list (would it be a year-end list if no one did?), but it’s an important point to make. Read it at the “Independent” Film Channel.
http://www.ifc.com/news/2009/12/2009-direct-to-dvd.php
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Shaking the Money Tree
Shaking the Money Tree, 3rd Edition
Just in time for Spring semester. I’m making this a key textbook for my graduate seminar. SUCH a great book, and a new version coming out just at the right time.
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Protocol Society
“Economic change is fomenting intellectual change. When the economy was about stuff, economics resembled physics. When it’s about ideas, economics comes to resemble psychology.”
(Found at David Brooks - The Protocol Society - NYTimes.com)
This sentence cracks open a lot of nuts, gives a lot to think of for artists, and their respective holding companies (recording industry, movie...
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Tagline for a decade?
“…wholesale flight from truth”
(Via Tiger Woods, Person of the Year - NYTimes.com)Original Article
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Phantom Menace Review, or Lesson of Cinema?
Watch this. All of it. I’m officially going to require that all film students I ever have from now on will be required to study this. I’ve made a playlist of the entire series of seven reviews, it’s about 70 minutes.
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Diegetic Time == Real Time
SEVEN HOURS of gorgeous HD train landscapes, with a Creative Commons license? Yes please.
“…every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast…”
(Via Download Bergensbanen in HD)Original Article
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Giri Chit
Giri Chit (2009, 14 minutes)
Cosplay girls, urban farming and a Zamboni. The subtle trace of irreconcilable worlds.
GIRI CHIT tells an epic tale. A worker driving a mobile sweeper in hypnotic circles across an already immaculate surface. The high drama of cosplay aficionados clamoring to be seen. A cast of thousands toiling hundreds of feet above the street.
Giri translates as ‘duty’ in...