- After Last Season -traileri – artsyfartsyyyyyh!
- The Dirty Garage (video) – The most independent movie ever made!
- Evil Movie Megacorporation Rebranding –
Word 261: Chary
Of course, advocates of the free, independent press are rightfully chary about wholesale deregulation, but John Morton, the eminent newspaper analyst, said that individual newspaper companies can’t solve this problem by working alone.
chary (adj) : characterized by great cautious and wariness [syn: cagey, cagy] – source: United, Newspapers May Stand
Muualla noteerattua 23.03.2009
- Dana Fox, Diablo Cody, Liz Meriwether & Lorene Scafaria eli The Fempire – Ms. Scafaria and Ms. Cody are usually not a duo, but half of a quartet. With their pals Dana Fox, who wrote “What Happens in Vegas,” and Liz Meriwether, a playwright-turned-screenwriter, they make up a Hollywood powerhouse writing posse who call themselves “The Fempire.”
- Robert Greenwald julkaisee dokkarinsa palasina netissä sitä mukaa kun se valmistuu (NY Times) –
- Dvd-myynti laskussa Jenkeissä, teatteriesityksistä tulossa taas tärkein rahakanava? (NY Times) – “There is no more downside protection for producers in the video marketplace,” said Ingo Vollkammer, a co-founder and a co-chief executive of Leomax Entertainment, an independent production and film finance company. “Movies today need to be theatrically driven.”
- Mikael Fräntin puhe Suomen elokuvakerhojen liiton 50-vuotisjuhlaseminaarissa – via Koistinen, Tero
Del.icio.us-linkit 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009
- Helpot Hurt-soinnut –
- GlobalPost kokeilee hoitaa ulkomaan uutisointia netissä uudella bisnesmallilla – That ad-supported reporting is only one part of the GlobalPost business plan. If it is to succeed, it will depend in part on how many people sign up for a separate paid section of the site, which was to have been available in test mode beginning last week but is now expected to go online in the coming days. Called Passport, it offers access to GlobalPost correspondents, including exclusive reports on business topics of less interest to general audiences, conference calls and meetings with reporters, and breaking news e-mail messages from those journalists. Passport subscribers, who pay as much as $199 a year, can suggest article ideas. –– a third revenue stream has been growing, as the company has signed up a growing number of news outlets, including The Daily News and The Boise Weekly of Idaho, to carry its reports and have use of its correspondents.
- Post-Mortem – ‘ER’ Is Remembered Fondly (NY Times) – "I said to George it was going to be the No. 1 show in television by the fifth episode. He said no way. We wound up betting on it. It was No. 1 after the fourth episode and George still owes me that $5. Maybe if he reads this he’ll pay me."
- BBC leikkaa 2 mrd, saa 30 milj lisää nettipalveluihin – kommenttina Suomen debattiin julkisesta palvelusta: "The trust explained that work would have to be done on the BBC's online services to justify the extra cash. They criticised the search facility on bbc.co.uk and said that not enough was being done to direct users to external websites. In particular, they asked management to think carefully about whether the BBC's website content was always distinctive. "
- Google Maps Latitude, Longitude Popup –
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Muualla noteerattua 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009
- 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.
Del.icio.us-linkit 19.03.2009 – 22.03.2009
- Kent: Om du var här (tab) – kauhean korkealta mänöö
- ‘Star Trek’ Fans Put Kirk’s Command Chair in Their Homes –
- When Losing Leads to Winning (Freakonomics) – It’s an intriguing finding: being behind by a little yields the greatest possible effort.
- Paul Rudnickin Shouts & Murmurs -pakina "Intelligent Design" – And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will look younger?”
- Matt Labash: Detroit, The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep – Detroit schools haven't ordered new textbooks in 19 years. Students have reported having to bring their own toilet paper. Teachers have reported bringing hammers to class for protection. Declining enrollment has forced 67 school closures since 2005 (more than a quarter of the city's schools). The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country. Not for nothing did one frustrated activist start pelting school board members with grapes during a meeting. She probably should've reached for something heavier.
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Tukea Rare Exports -leffalle, ninjamusikaalille ja Valkoisen peuran uusintaversiolle
Jalmari Finne tekee Rare Exports -lyhäreistä kokoillan elokuvan. Suomen elokuvasäätiö myönsi projektille viime vuoden joulukuussa 20 000 euroa kehittämistukea ja maaliskuussa 720 000 euroa tuotantotukea. Näyttelijäkaartikin on pysynyt ennallaan (Tommila & Korpela jne.) Ensi-iltaa kaavaillaan ensi vuoden syksylle.
Tukipäätöksistä löytyy muutama muukin hauska bongaus. Ensinnäkin genreleffoja näyttäisi olevan ainakin suunnittelussa enemmän kuin aikoihin.
- Marko Mäkilaakso, jonka zombiesotaleffa ei vieläkään ole levityksessä, sai lovecraftiaaniselta kuulostavan Night of the Witch –leffan kehittelyyn 6000 euroa. Synopsis:
Nuori noitatieteen opettaja, professori John Ward, saapuu kotikaupunkiinsa Salemiin pitämään luentoa ja joutuu kohtaamaan menneisyytensä kun noita palaa kaupunkiin.
- Pekko Pesosen ja AJ Annilan kaavailema ninjamusikaali on saanut 10 000 euroa käsikirjoittamistukea. Tosin mahtaneeko Annila olla enää mukana puikoissa, kun häntä on vokoteltu ulkomaille hommiin?
- Sami Laitisen ja Kasimir Lehdon scifi-pätkä 2012 lienee valmistuessaan (jos se siis valmistuu) ensimmäinen kotimainen kokoillan 3d-leffa
- Musiikkivideoilla kunnostautunut Antti Jokinen sai 60 000 euroa kehittämistukea Nicholas of the North -elokuvalle, joka on onelinerinsä mukaan
Koko perheen fantasiaelokuva jossa Nicholas North pelastaa itsensä ja koko pohjoisen kansan pahojen voimien kirouksesta.
- Viides genreleffaksi laskettava tapaus on Valkoinen peura, joka on siitä harvinainen tapaus, että se on uusintaversio. Yritin miettiä suomalaisia remakeja, mutta en keksinyt kuin kaksi: Tuntematon sotilas (Laine ja Molle) ja Juha (1937, 1956 ja 1999).
Romaanisovituksia on tulossa parikin kappaletta. Veli-Pekka Hänninen sovittaa Arto Salmisen Varastoa leffaksi ja Ville Jankeri on ohjaamassa Pussikaljaelokuvaa, jonka nimi on mediaa vaihtaessa näppärästi mukautettu.
Ihan muuten vaan kiinnostavia ovat Muukalaisen ohjanneen Jukka-Pekka Valkeapään Juoksija eli Amok-juoksu olympiavuonna 1952
(10 000 euroa käsikirjoitustukea) ja Aleksi Salmenperän Korso, jossa nuori kaveri koettaa toteuttaa epärealistista haavettaan pienessä betonilähiössä
(20 000 euroa kehittämistukea).
Muualla noteerattua 19.03.2009 – 21.03.2009
- Drag Me To Hell -traileri – Sam Raimi palaa juurilleen
- Vintage Movie Posters from Turkey –
- The Decade of the Dude (Rolling Stone) – "This whole room is kind of dude-like," Jeff Bridges says. It's a summer afternoon at Bridges' Santa Barbara, California, estate, and the 58-year-old actor is digging around his dusty garage, looking for memorabilia from The Big Lebowski. Artifacts from the movie are strewn about his Spanish-tiled house. In Bridges' recording studio — where he once cut an album with Michael McDonald — sits one of the bowling-pin hats used in the trippy dream sequence with Bridges and co-star Julianne Moore. In his office are the grimy jelly sandals that Bridges' character, a slacker called the Dude, wore for most of the film. When we walk up to the ocean-view bluff where Bridges likes to hike every day, there's the remains of a cocktail in a dirty cup. It's a Black Russian. As far as I can tell, this seems like the biggest difference between Bridges and his most enduring character, who prefers his Russians white.
- 500 Days of Summer -traileri – Nerd rapture? Zooey Deschanel + Joseph Gordon-Levitt, soundtrackilla Regina Spektor
Del.icio.us-linkit 17.03.2009 – 19.03.2009
- DHTML Lemmings – ei tarvitse siis Flash-plugaria toimiakseen
- US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites – The New York Review of Books – Contents
Introduction
1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program
1.1 Arrest and Transfer
1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement and Incommunicado Detention
1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
1.3.1 Suffocation by water
1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing
1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar
1.3.4 Beating and kicking
1.3.5 Confinement in a box
1.3.6 Prolonged nudity
1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
1.3.10 Threats
1.3.11 Forced shaving
1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food
1.4 Further elements of the detention regime…. - Steven Johnson: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News – There should have been a ten-year evolutionary process: the ecosystem steadily diversifying and establishing its complex relationships, the new business models evolving, the papers slowly transferring from print to digital, along with the advertisers. Instead, the financial meltdown – and some related over-leveraging by the newspaper companies themselves – has taken what should have been a decade-long process and crammed it down into a year or two. That is bad news for two reasons. First because it is going to inflict a lot of stress on people inside the industry who do great things, and who provide an important social good with their work. But it’s also bad news because it’s going to distract us from the long-term view; we’re going to spend so much time trying to figure out how to keep the old model on life support that we won’t be able to help invent a new model that actually might work better for everyone.
- Deep Secrets of ‘The Daily Show’ – työskentelytavoista jne
- Songs You Used To Love – voi leikkiä arvausleikkiä
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Muualla noteerattua 17.03.2009 – 18.03.2009
- Away We Go -traileri – käsis Dave Eggers, rooleissa John Krasisnski, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara, ohjaus Sam Mendes (meh)
- Tunteet ja elokuva – It is the job of the critic and the viewer or reader to ferret out these messages, lift them from their context within the work, reorient them into some kind of brief philosophical treatise, and take the implication of that treatise as the purpose of the film, or at least as the locus of its true worth. But this way of thinking about film diminishes the art form by reducing it to a bare bones propositional message. It ignores the spectator's experience in viewing the film, places ultimate value on the propositional content that is later distilled from that viewing, and misunderstands the function of the viewing experience in developing the film's themes and ideas. Such a mistake is commonly called the "heresy of paraphrase."
- Dan Meth's Pop Cultural Charts – NYC Sitcom Map, Sit-Com Houses, The Trilogy Meter