It’s been almost seven years since Dogme95. In March of that year, at a French cinema conference, a collective of Danish filmmakers headed by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg released a manifesto, sometimes called the “Vow Of Chastity.” In it were ten simple rules for making independent films, such as filming must be done [...]

Just wanted to call your attention to the French perspective on James Bond. The New York Times European edition ran a piece about gallic fascination with zero-zero-sept.
For three days this week, French and foreign researchers came together in a conference sponsored in part by the National Library of France and the University of Versailles to [...]

If I haven’t mentioned this story already, understand it’s only because I’ve been expecting them to somehow add child molestation and necrophilia to the already endless list of things wrong with Big Brother programs. But, circumstances have forced my hand and the other stuff will have to get its own post.
On Channel 4 in England, [...]

REGANBOOKS PUBLISHING HOUSE TO BE DISBANDED
Read about it later this year in “If There Had Been A Company, This Is How It Would Have Gone Out Of Business.”
AMERICAN IDOL SEASON DEBUT BREAKS RECORDS
Among them, Most Alcohol Consumed By A Judge Before a Local TV News Appearance.
FOURTH HOUR TO BE ADDED TO THE TODAY SHOW
One step [...]

But at my straight job, from whence I blog, I often wind up on hold with the Ticor Title Company. And my brain is twisted into a pretzel knot trying to parse out this message which cheerfully plays every two minutes:
We go out of our way to serve you, every day, because that’s our way!
So [...]

I am struggling to write this first paragraph without using the phrase “long national nightmare,” but American Idol’s Tuesday season premiere pulled in an astonishing 37.1 million viewers. This is said to be 2 million viewers more than last season’s premiere, which as I recall also preempted HOUSE.
Yes, Paula may be drinking to kill the [...]

Box Office Weekly #050 (MP3 - 15.7 MB - 23 min)
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In todays show: A Bollywood movie has its world premiere… in Canada?… This ratings system is rated badly… And in my commentary I trash the Golden Globes without a single word about anyone’s gown. All this and the we Stomp The Museum, today on [...]

Our good friends at Associated Press have published a list of upcoming films for the year. I’m going to highlight a few of them here, but I’m only going up to late spring because I only have no much snark in me at any given time.
ARE WE DONE YET?: The sequel to “Are We [...]

I have studiously avoided paying any attention to the Golden Globes this year, as I do every year. It’s not that the Globes are less legitimate than the Oscars; indeed they’re both equally bogus. However, I only have so much time to devote to this kind of nonsense, and I’ve made my choice.
I’ve got a [...]

The Sundance film festival is creeping away from its macrobiotic roots and stumbling into the digital age like a couple of outlaws jumping over a cliff. Later this month, 33 short films slated to screen at the festival will be made available for $1.99 apiece at the iTunes music store, according to the BBC.
Filmmakers will [...]