Muualla noteerattua 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009 — A Heartbreaking ∞ of Staggering Genius

Warner Bros. is opening its film vaults to customer requests, including many film titles previously unavailable on disc. – The consumer who visits www.warnerarchive.com initially will find 150 classic titles from Warner Bros. Pictures, MGM and RKO that each can be ordered either as a computer download ($14.95) or as a DVD ($19.95) that arrives in the mailbox approximately five days after purchase.
Sidewaysistä tehdään uusintaversio Japanin markkinoille –
A. O. Scott: Neo-Neo Realism – American Directors Make Clear-Eyed Movies for Hard Times (NYT Mag) – But what if, at least some of the time, we feel an urge to escape from escapism? For most of the past decade, magical thinking has been elevated from a diversion to an ideological principle. The benign faith that dreams will come true can be hard to distinguish from the more sinister seduction of believing in lies. To counter the tyranny of fantasy entrenched on Wall Street and in Washington as well as in Hollywood, it seems possible that engagement with the world as it is might reassert itself as an aesthetic strategy. Perhaps it would be worth considering that what we need from movies, in the face of a dismaying and confusing real world, is realism.