Friday, February 13th, 2009
Web headlines of “Joaquin Phoenix’s BIZZARRE Behavior on David Letterman” were all over my laptop screen yesterday, so of course I tracked it down on YouTube. I recently read a piece by director James Gray (who had worked with Phoenix in The Yards, We Own The Night, and the new Two Lovers) that was an […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Don’t believe the hype about Christian Bale’s rant; he was right to chew out a distracted cinematographer…
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
An email from FLAVORPILL informed me that the National Film Board of Canada has launched a new site that not only posts award-winning films for FREE online viewing, but accompanies it with a great database that lets you search by various categories, including length… I’m sure there are countless treasures to be found, but here […]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Brooks Barnes at the New York Times has the rare economically-optimistic piece up today; check it out HERE. I found this on the excellent ProVideoCoalition.com
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
www.savethebiz.org thinks so! While I support the Screen Actors Guild and my homies that are members, another work stoppage could be a huge blow to the thousands of people that work below the line. Thanks to Christina for the link.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Well, the nominations for the 2009 Academy Awards were announced about 12 hours ago and… they’re pretty boring, but not exactly free of surprises. The academy (AMPAS) avoided having their ceremony picketed by legions of 15-year-olds by giving Heath Ledger the nomination he so justly deserved, but The Dark Knight went un-nominated as did its […]
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