Praised by Jonas Mekas as the "the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s," Canadian filmmaker and critic R. Bruce Elder's work places images of nature and the body within rigorous theories on art, spirituality, and philosophy. Now playing for free on Nomadica (hosted by the Laba Libera Academy of Fine Arts) until May 30, his 1982 film Illuminated Texts is one chapter of his magnum opus, the film cycle The Book of All The Dead. In fact, Illuminated Texts only makes up three hours of the cycle's 46 hours, which consists of 20 films made between 1975 and 1994. But the questions that the encyclopedic film raises about image-making technology, forms of knowledge, and the discord of human history, are wholly realized. Illuminated Texts begins with a satirical opening involving a pushy professor who imposes false mathematical teachings onto his all-too-willing and dim-witted pupil. This forceful institutional pedagogy is challenged by the film's subsequent chapters,...
- 5/24/2021
- MUBI
“Distant Constellation,’ a documentary featuring residents of a Turkish old age home sharing stories of their youth, might not sound riveting to all tastes — but through the lens of director-cinematographer Shevaun Mizrahi, it is one of the more exciting achievements in nonfiction cinema in recent memory. Raised in Massachusetts by her mother, Mizrahi would often visit her Turkish-born father in Istanbul, where she would volunteer at the government run facility for the elderly and spend time with its residents. Many of them were minorities, and spoke different languages, making it easy for Mizrahi to communicate.
“They lacked bitterness, despite the tragedies some had through,” said Mizrahi in an interview with IndieWire in New York, where she was in town for a screening of the film at BAMcinemafest. “It was a place that felt familiar and those relationships built over years. I was studying cinematography [at NYU’s graduate program] and my camera was like a sketchbook.
“They lacked bitterness, despite the tragedies some had through,” said Mizrahi in an interview with IndieWire in New York, where she was in town for a screening of the film at BAMcinemafest. “It was a place that felt familiar and those relationships built over years. I was studying cinematography [at NYU’s graduate program] and my camera was like a sketchbook.
- 6/29/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Hampton Fancher: "You know, I wrote Blade Runner for Robert Mitchum. The first draft was for him. And Robert Mulligan was going to direct it." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Hampton Fancher, co-screenwriter of Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, told me that he had Robert Mitchum in mind, not Harrison Ford, while writing his first draft of the Blade Runner screenplay when Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird) was going to direct the film.
In our conversation at Lincoln Center, Hampton also saw Sam Shepard and Mitchum similarities, that Harry Dean Stanton had a Mitchum-like attitude, and expressed what Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and a Wallace Stevens poem can do to him.
Hampton Fancher, subject of Michael Almereyda's recent documentary Escapes and director of The Minus Man (starring Owen Wilson as a serial killer) starts out with coming to grips with evil and beauty.
Hampton Fancher, co-screenwriter of Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, told me that he had Robert Mitchum in mind, not Harrison Ford, while writing his first draft of the Blade Runner screenplay when Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird) was going to direct the film.
In our conversation at Lincoln Center, Hampton also saw Sam Shepard and Mitchum similarities, that Harry Dean Stanton had a Mitchum-like attitude, and expressed what Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and a Wallace Stevens poem can do to him.
Hampton Fancher, subject of Michael Almereyda's recent documentary Escapes and director of The Minus Man (starring Owen Wilson as a serial killer) starts out with coming to grips with evil and beauty.
- 11/3/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ethan Coen has an unusual request for Donald Trump: In an open letter published by the Huffington Post, the filmmaker asks to be named Poet Laureate of the United States. “American poetry should enhance America’s greatness, but let’s be honest, Mr. President: lately the poems have been not so great,” begins Coen’s hard-to-deny plea. “The Obama poet laureates were, quite frankly, a disaster. Under their leadership, very weak, much American poetry has failed even to rhyme.”
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Coen’s credentials are indeed impressive: Along with his brother Joel, he’s won two Academy Awards for his screenplays (“Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men”), with four more nominations in the same category. Though not as well known for his verse, Coen did publish the Trump-inspired poem “Be Fair!
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Coen’s credentials are indeed impressive: Along with his brother Joel, he’s won two Academy Awards for his screenplays (“Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men”), with four more nominations in the same category. Though not as well known for his verse, Coen did publish the Trump-inspired poem “Be Fair!
- 3/9/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Whether he's writing about shadowy creatures capable of shredding humans into pulp with their claws, or taking you through the skies on an adventure aboard a flying ship, author Patrick W. Marsh knows how to pull you into the imaginative worlds of his written works. With the creator of the compelling The Greenland Diaries book series attending Crypticon Minnesota once again this year, I caught up with Marsh for our latest Q&A feature.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Patrick. What sparked your passion for writing?
Patrick W. Marsh: My passion for writing sort of blossomed out of my desire to communicate with people in a method I felt most comfortable. I was an awkward and sensitive child, and writing allowed me to cut through the mundane and the distracting. There is so much clutter in life, I found it hard to tell the truth.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Patrick. What sparked your passion for writing?
Patrick W. Marsh: My passion for writing sort of blossomed out of my desire to communicate with people in a method I felt most comfortable. I was an awkward and sensitive child, and writing allowed me to cut through the mundane and the distracting. There is so much clutter in life, I found it hard to tell the truth.
- 10/14/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Legendary American independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been a frequent visitor to the Cannes Film Festival ever since winning the Camera d’Or for Stranger Than Paradise in 1984. He took the Grand Jury prize in 2005 for Broken Flowers but has never managed to nab the Big One. His latest film, Paterson, which premiered last week in competition here, is the story of a bus driver (played by Adam Driver) named Paterson who lives in Paterson NJ, walks his wife’s bulldog, Marvin, and writes poems in his spare time. We sat down with the great silver-haired Son of Lee Marvin to talk hip-hop, Tilda Swinton, and the poetry of everyday things.
Some critics have called this your most personal film. How do would you respond to a statement like that?
I don’t know. With our last film, Only Lovers Left Alive, everyone said “Aha! His most personal film!” I don’t know.
Some critics have called this your most personal film. How do would you respond to a statement like that?
I don’t know. With our last film, Only Lovers Left Alive, everyone said “Aha! His most personal film!” I don’t know.
- 5/23/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. Thirteen Ways of Looking, by Colum McCann (Random House, October 13) The author of Let the Great World Spin has spent so long illuminating history through fiction that readers might miss the real source of his power: not his heightened ventriloquism but his perfection of sentence, idea, and voice. The title novella in this quartet of contemporary stories riffs on Wallace Stevens's famous blackbirds, the detective genre, and the surveillance state all in the fractured narrative of one heart-torn New Yorker's dying day. Along with the other pieces, all thematically related to a random assault McCann suffered last year, it displays a rare confluence of skill, style, and moral vision.M Train, by Patti Smith (Knopf, October 6); Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir, by Carrie Brownstein (Riverhead, October 11)In...
- 10/5/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Music and Sex: Scenes from a life - A novel in progress (first chapter here). Warning: more highly graphic Tmi.
A weekend of fruitless fretting almost led Walter to agree that Martial had the right idea and the show should go on with no guitarist, and with just Walter on keyboards, but really all he'd come up with for sure was a new band name -- The Living Section, for the Wednesday arts portion of The New York Times. The other guys all agreed that was an improvement. However, he couldn't bring himself to propose to them what, in his head, he had dubbed the Martial Plan.
The thing about the band was, it had to be fit in between all the stuff that going to college was actually about, such as attending classes. So on Monday, it was back to the usual schedule, which meant one of his favorite...
A weekend of fruitless fretting almost led Walter to agree that Martial had the right idea and the show should go on with no guitarist, and with just Walter on keyboards, but really all he'd come up with for sure was a new band name -- The Living Section, for the Wednesday arts portion of The New York Times. The other guys all agreed that was an improvement. However, he couldn't bring himself to propose to them what, in his head, he had dubbed the Martial Plan.
The thing about the band was, it had to be fit in between all the stuff that going to college was actually about, such as attending classes. So on Monday, it was back to the usual schedule, which meant one of his favorite...
- 9/8/2015
- by RomanAkLeff
- www.culturecatch.com
In his youth, Bill Murray wrote poetry, although he's been wise enough not to share it with the world. "Everything rhymed," he's said of those juvenile efforts, a sentence halfway between a brag and a confession. In recent years, the actor has become a public supporter of the Poets House, an independent library in Manhattan devoted entirely to poetry, with over 60,000 volumes in its collection. "I think there's really an alignment between comedy and poetry, and you see that in the way that Bill operates," Lee Briccetti, the executive director of Poets House,...
- 8/27/2015
- Rollingstone.com
“Castratos of Moon-Mash” is what Wallace Stevens said we’d be “without the sexual myth, the human revery or poem of death.” Without these ravaged facts of physical life, organic depths and regrets, constant re-becomings, separation, fear, dreams, bodies, and defeats, Stevens said, we’re not human, only neutered beings — Platonic abstractions without flesh. Since her breakout show at the Ten in One Gallery in 2001, the 44-year-old Jessica Jackson Hutchins has wrestled with the sexual myth, revery, poems of life and death, human dependency, motherhood, clustered flesh, and social loci made material. In the past, she’s created couches and chairs with pulpy masses, hypersecretions of ceramic and papier-mâché spilling over like a body fermenting, rising into flesh, cratering away. There are vases and vessels resting in forms, possibly puckered openings, voodoo protuberances, erotic shapes, shelters, microcosmic colosseums. She’s equally gaudy and hermetic, ragingly vulnerable but cloaked; at...
- 5/29/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal in Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's Best of Enemies: "They got into each other's craw. It's like a hook that sunk into the other person."
Two determined men all set to do battle, William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative trailblazer, and Gore Vidal, renowned author and iconoclast of the left, clash in Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's high-spirited and illuminating Best Of Enemies. "One must have a mind of winter", to take the cue from Wallace Stevens' poem, The Snow Man, to not be irresistibly drawn in by their bigger-than-life personalities. Dick Cavett, Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Matt Tyrnauer, Brooke Gladstone, Ginia Bellafante, Reid Buckley and Sam Tanenhaus give their take on this polarised pair in Best Of Enemies.
At Le Cirque in New York following a dinner honoring the filmmakers, I spoke with Robert Gordon, who is also...
Two determined men all set to do battle, William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative trailblazer, and Gore Vidal, renowned author and iconoclast of the left, clash in Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's high-spirited and illuminating Best Of Enemies. "One must have a mind of winter", to take the cue from Wallace Stevens' poem, The Snow Man, to not be irresistibly drawn in by their bigger-than-life personalities. Dick Cavett, Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Matt Tyrnauer, Brooke Gladstone, Ginia Bellafante, Reid Buckley and Sam Tanenhaus give their take on this polarised pair in Best Of Enemies.
At Le Cirque in New York following a dinner honoring the filmmakers, I spoke with Robert Gordon, who is also...
- 4/9/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Opening Night – World Premiere
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
Gone Girl
David Fincher, USA, 2014, Dcp, 150m
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture, shifting gears as smoothly as a Maserati 250F. Ben Affleck is Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the day of their fifth anniversary. Neil Patrick Harris is Amy’s old boyfriend Desi, Carrie Coon (who played Honey in Tracy Letts’s acclaimed production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) is Nick’s sister Margo, Kim Dickens (Treme, Friday Night Lights) is Detective Rhonda Boney, and Tyler Perry is Nick’s superstar lawyer Tanner Bolt. At once a grand panoramic vision of middle America, a uniquely disturbing exploration of the fault lines in a marriage,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Thoughts occasioned by the release of Adieu au langage
Godard and the Permanently New
One “It has to face the men of the time and to meet/The women of the time. It has to think about war And it has to find what will suffice. It has/To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage, and, like an insatiable actor, slowly and/With meditation, speak words that in the ear,
In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat…”
Two “…no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. …what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it….novelty is better than repetition.”
-and modernity, novelty, superventing contemporareity in his cinema begins with a re-evaluation of screen time, direction, and space and his satisfactions at segmenting space as determined by...
Godard and the Permanently New
One “It has to face the men of the time and to meet/The women of the time. It has to think about war And it has to find what will suffice. It has/To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage, and, like an insatiable actor, slowly and/With meditation, speak words that in the ear,
In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat…”
Two “…no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. …what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it….novelty is better than repetition.”
-and modernity, novelty, superventing contemporareity in his cinema begins with a re-evaluation of screen time, direction, and space and his satisfactions at segmenting space as determined by...
- 6/4/2014
- by Jim Robison
- Trailers from Hell
Drinking Buddies is one of those easeful films one watches to compare the archetypes of the generation one lives in against one's life. When seeing the banality of middle class living inside the film, the viewer may question one’s own life lived instead of the empty ones on the screen: Am I this conceited? Why is my best friend so lazy? Does my beard make me look fat? But the images the film constructs aren’t strong enough to stop the inquiry from swelling to Barthesian proportions, and more spaces open to query what exactly one is doing with one’s life to be watching such a film. Why do people hi-five so much in the last fifteen years? Why do I hi-five? I’ve been to Chicago. Chicago looks like Portland in this film. Should I move to Portland or Chicago? Are microbreweries a metaphor for scrappy individualism...
- 1/7/2014
- by Greg Gerke
- MUBI
Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) – but six key rules emerge
One morning this summer, I got up at first light – I'd left the blinds open the night before – then drank a strong cup of coffee, sat near-naked by an open window for an hour, worked all morning, then had a martini with lunch. I took a long afternoon walk, and for the rest of the week experimented with never working for more than three hours at a stretch.
This was all in an effort to adopt the rituals of some great artists and thinkers: the rising-at-dawn bit came from Ernest Hemingway, who was up at around 5.30am, even if he'd been drinking the night before; the strong coffee was borrowed from Beethoven,...
One morning this summer, I got up at first light – I'd left the blinds open the night before – then drank a strong cup of coffee, sat near-naked by an open window for an hour, worked all morning, then had a martini with lunch. I took a long afternoon walk, and for the rest of the week experimented with never working for more than three hours at a stretch.
This was all in an effort to adopt the rituals of some great artists and thinkers: the rising-at-dawn bit came from Ernest Hemingway, who was up at around 5.30am, even if he'd been drinking the night before; the strong coffee was borrowed from Beethoven,...
- 10/5/2013
- by Oliver Burkeman
- The Guardian - Film News
Washington, Jun 24: Us poet Wallace Stevens had said that by looking at an ordinary blackbird from many different perspectives, makes us think about it in new ways.
Author Annie Murphy Paul has written in the Huffington Post that the science of learning is a relatively new discipline that is an agglomeration of cognitive science, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience.
This disciple's mission is to apply the methods of science to human endeavors - teaching and learning - that for centuries have been treated mostly as an art.
She wrote 8 things that could help a person become smarter.
Firstly, she wrote that all intelligence.
Author Annie Murphy Paul has written in the Huffington Post that the science of learning is a relatively new discipline that is an agglomeration of cognitive science, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience.
This disciple's mission is to apply the methods of science to human endeavors - teaching and learning - that for centuries have been treated mostly as an art.
She wrote 8 things that could help a person become smarter.
Firstly, she wrote that all intelligence.
- 6/24/2013
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
Say you were writing a vampire movie, and you were also Amy Heckerling, and you'd managed to get both Alicia Silverstone and Wallace Stevens to sign up for a Clueless mini-reunion. How do you cast the Paul Rudd role? Does it involve a little too much time spent reading Downton Abbey–Clueless fanfic? We can only assume that a particularly imaginative message board helped inspire the casting of Dan Stevens in Vamps, Heckerling's rom-com about two very cute bloodsuckers (Silverstone and Krysten Ritter) who must save the undead world from a way harsh Vampire Killer type (Stevens). And so Vulture would like to thank this anonymous message board, because now we know what it looks like when Matthew Crawley hangs out shirtless in a coffin. The world has been waiting for this moment. Our time is now.
- 9/24/2012
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
[1] Tired as I am of the "paranormal romance" trend, I'm actually looking forward to Amy Heckerling's vampire romcom Vamps. Plot-wise, it doesn't sound too different from any other vampire flick. The story centers around Goody (Alicia Silverstone) and Stacy (Krysten Ritter), two beautiful vampires living the good life in modern-day New York "until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality." But I'm hoping the director of teen comedy classics like Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High can infuse these tired tropes with some fresh, subversive flavor. It'll be a while before I find out if my wishes will come true -- the film doesn't even have a release date yet -- but a batch of new photos offers clues as to exactly what kind of vampires we'll be dealing with. Check the gallery out after the jump. [gallery columns="2" exclude="107188"] In addition to Silverstone and Ritter,...
- 7/7/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
The Rapture of Unreason
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
- 6/9/2011
- by Hal Duncan
- Boomtron
Melodie Knight Luke Johnson
“It is certainly an irrational thing to do if you want either of the usual rewards of fame and riches…Nowadays, it’s about as rational as saying, ‘what do you do for a living’ ‘Well, I’m a kite-flyer.’ I mean, there’s not a great demand for kite-flyers around.” -George Garrett
I once asked a classroom of sixth graders to draw a picture of a poet. Virtually all of them came up with...
“It is certainly an irrational thing to do if you want either of the usual rewards of fame and riches…Nowadays, it’s about as rational as saying, ‘what do you do for a living’ ‘Well, I’m a kite-flyer.’ I mean, there’s not a great demand for kite-flyers around.” -George Garrett
I once asked a classroom of sixth graders to draw a picture of a poet. Virtually all of them came up with...
- 4/21/2011
- by Luke Johnson
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
"Of the darkness in men's minds; what can you say?"--Joni Mitchell, "The Wolf in Lindsay"
Not to counter Joni's world-weary query; but, in fact, when it comes to the darkness in men's minds, film writers have a lot to say and often quite poetically. As Wallace Stevens reminded us, death (and darkness) are the mother of all beauty. With darkness serving as inspiration, it's enjoyable to read write-ups on Elliot Lavine's noirish programs for the Roxie Film Center written by local colleagues. This go-round--with his "Not Necessarily Noir" (Nnn) program currently screening at the Roxie through September 2--Mick Lasalle leads the pack with his great piece for the San Francisco Chronicle contextualizing the importance of Lavine's most recent effort, which he asserts "constitutes a breakthrough in programming." That's a bold statement--even for their being longtime chums--and I can't argue with it. (Sample more of their friendship in...
Not to counter Joni's world-weary query; but, in fact, when it comes to the darkness in men's minds, film writers have a lot to say and often quite poetically. As Wallace Stevens reminded us, death (and darkness) are the mother of all beauty. With darkness serving as inspiration, it's enjoyable to read write-ups on Elliot Lavine's noirish programs for the Roxie Film Center written by local colleagues. This go-round--with his "Not Necessarily Noir" (Nnn) program currently screening at the Roxie through September 2--Mick Lasalle leads the pack with his great piece for the San Francisco Chronicle contextualizing the importance of Lavine's most recent effort, which he asserts "constitutes a breakthrough in programming." That's a bold statement--even for their being longtime chums--and I can't argue with it. (Sample more of their friendship in...
- 8/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Emma Roberts may have opted to delete her Twitter account (R.I.P.) after announcing her allegiance to Team Jacob, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse drew some Twitter hate that he was forced to respond to today after attempting to make a joke about the situation.
Another team you don't want to mess with right now is the Los Angeles Lakers. They took home this year's NBA championship honors last night, and some fans in their home city decided to tear some streets up in celebration. Find out what Twitter-Wood thought about that and what Lindsay Lohan's iPad artwork looks like after the jump.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is Twitter-Wood for June 18, 2010.
@mrosenbaum711 Wow!!!!' unreal game 7. Big phil Jackson in front of me. Stud. Jeanie rules!!!! Thanks for the good times. http://yfrog.com/2greuwj
-Michael Rosenbaum, Actor ("Smallville," "Poolhall Junkies")
@MintzPlasse How dare Emma Roberts say she is on team Jacob.
Another team you don't want to mess with right now is the Los Angeles Lakers. They took home this year's NBA championship honors last night, and some fans in their home city decided to tear some streets up in celebration. Find out what Twitter-Wood thought about that and what Lindsay Lohan's iPad artwork looks like after the jump.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is Twitter-Wood for June 18, 2010.
@mrosenbaum711 Wow!!!!' unreal game 7. Big phil Jackson in front of me. Stud. Jeanie rules!!!! Thanks for the good times. http://yfrog.com/2greuwj
-Michael Rosenbaum, Actor ("Smallville," "Poolhall Junkies")
@MintzPlasse How dare Emma Roberts say she is on team Jacob.
- 6/18/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Movies Blog
This is a golden age for film criticism. Never before have more critics written more or better words for more readers about more films. But already you are ahead of me, and know this is because of the internet.
Twenty years ago a good-sized city might have contained a dozen people making a living from writing about films, and for half of them the salary might have been adequate to raise a family. Today that city might contain hundreds, although (the Catch-22) not more than one or two are making a living.
Film criticism is still a profession, but it's no longer an occupation. You can't make any money at it. This provides an opportunity for those who care about movies and enjoy expressing themselves. Anyone with access to a computer need only to use free blogware and set up in business.
Countless others write long and often expert posts on such sites as IMDb,...
Twenty years ago a good-sized city might have contained a dozen people making a living from writing about films, and for half of them the salary might have been adequate to raise a family. Today that city might contain hundreds, although (the Catch-22) not more than one or two are making a living.
Film criticism is still a profession, but it's no longer an occupation. You can't make any money at it. This provides an opportunity for those who care about movies and enjoy expressing themselves. Anyone with access to a computer need only to use free blogware and set up in business.
Countless others write long and often expert posts on such sites as IMDb,...
- 5/8/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
You know that already, but to be reminded again, surf to this week’s must-read post on film criticism in the age of the internet. Yes, it’s sad that film critics are losing their jobs, but Ebert finds good reason to celebrate the diversity of voices the ‘net brings us. A key graph: What the internet is creating is a class of literate, gifted amateur writers, in an old tradition. Like Trollope, who was a British Post official all his working life, they write for love and because they must. Like Rohinton Mistry, a banking executive, or Wallace Stevens, an insurance executive, or Edmund Wilson, who spent his most productive years sitting in his big stone house in upstate New York and writing about what he damned well...
- 5/1/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Michael Hainey’s Nebraska I and To the Horizon. Photographs courtesy of the artist. New York City–based Michael Hainey, the deputy editor of GQ magazine, has a hard-to-understand love for the Midwestern grasslands. For that solitude. Those wide, flat horizons. “My father was from Nebraska, and I feel that my heart ranges back and forth in that wide open empty space of the Midwest, searching,” says Hainey, who himself hails from Illinois. Those vast expanses of land are what inspired him to paint. He started as a poet, but there came a moment about 10 years ago when, in his mind, he kept seeing a poem he had written as incomplete. “I kept saying to myself, This isn’t a poem—it’s a painting,” he says. “I had never painted. Yet, I had this vision of it as a poem. And I couldn’t deny the vision.” That poem...
- 11/6/2009
- Vanity Fair
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