- Sama dialogi, viisi eri leffaa: Parallel Lines -traileri – Ridley Scottin lafka tuottaa ja telkkareitaan mainostava Philips maksaa viulut
- Ask a Film Location Scout – mainion Scouting NY -saitin pitäjä vastaa lukijakysymyksiin
- The HBO Auteur – David Simon (NYT Mag) –
Eläviä kuvia, television kuvia
Arkistot / asiasana: new+york+times+magazine
- Briteissä on vielä 30 000 mv-telkkarin katsojaa –
- Nyt se alkaa – A. O. Scottin "vuosikymmenen parhaat leffat" -juttu – Pitääkö oma lista siis kasata jo 2009? Luulin että olisi vielä vuosi aikaa!
- CulturePulp-sarjakuva: Make Your Own Disaster Movie –
- The Audacity of ‘Precious’ (NYT Magazine) – amerikkalaiset kohkaa elokuvasta, jossa on väkivaltaa, insestiä ja lihava näyttelijä pääosassa
- Matt Damon’s Eternal Role – A-List Character Actor (NY Times) –
- Dickens’s Victorian London Ventures Into Robert Zemeckis’s Digital Realm (NY Times) –
- Katsaus District 9:n erikoistehosteisiin – ennen–jälkeen-kuvat on kiinnostavia
- The Cup of Tears -ninja-samurai-ronin-whatever pätkän traileri – joku on taas vähän suhrannut greenscreenien kanssa
- Bill Moyersin David SImon -haastattelu tekstinä –
- Bill Moyers haastattelee David Simonia tunnin verran (video) – via viilee
- Seesamtien tekeminen on hitusen hankalaa Palestiinassa (NYT Mag) – Awadallah had been working on revising his Gaza segments. The new script began with Saleem, the handyman character on the show, watching the Gaza coverage on TV. “Saleem is sad and worried, so he calls his sister in Gaza,” Awadallah said. “She is O.K., but her friend Tariq is missing.” […] Awadallah nodded. “Yes, I want him to find his friend at the end of the episode,” he said. “It will turn out that Tariq was missing for an unexpected reason.” Maha Atmawi, a 30-year-old teacher from Qalqilya, objected. “You can’t lie to children,” she said. “Most people in Gaza who are missing will not be found. This can’t be a trick. We have to show reality.”
- Screenwriter Carleton Eastlake takes us from a Farscape to The Outer Limits –
- Pieni tarina siitä, millaista elokuvalavastajan työ voi joskus olla – avainsanoina alkuperäinen tapetti, lavastetapetti ja "ei saa vahingoittua"
- Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology at the Cinema – iso linkkikasa
- The Prisoner julkaistaa blu-raynä –
- Questions for Seth MacFarlane – Family Man (NYT Mag) –
- TV-kriitikko Alan Sepinwall käy läpi Jenkkien tämän syksyn sarjatarjontaa –
- The Wolfman -traileri – Benicio Del Toro on… susmiäs!
- MIT Comparative Media Studies: Theses –
- Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Big Screen (NYT Magazine) – “Where the Wild Things Are” is arguably of a piece with Jonze’s earlier works; it features moments of transcendent beauty and moments of profound silliness. Just as in “Jackass,” characters smash things and throw things at one another. But it is clearly Jonze’s most personal film to date, and it is also his most ambitious.
- These Questions Need Answers: An essay on the Veronica Mars pilot –
- Joel & Ethan Coen: World Cinema (YT) – Chacun son Cinema -kokoelmasta
- Modernisoituja versioita vanhojen leffojen julisteista – via @leonblank
- Napoleon Dynamite, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic – on hankala ennustaa, mitä mieltä dvd-katsojat niistä on (NYT Mag) – Juttu Netflix-skabasta, jossa huomioni kiinnitti tämä hauska kohta: A list of his 25 most-difficult-to-predict movies, I noticed they were all similar in some way to “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”
- Mario Kassar ja Andy Vajna, oman aikansa supertuottajat – Rambo, Total Recall, The Doors, Terminator 2, Basic Instinct, Cliffhanger, Showgirls, Cutthroat Island…
- Terminator Salvationin tuottajien seikkailut ovat ainakin yhtä kiinnostavia kuin itse elokuva – The two men were presented with the chance to buy one of the best-known franchises in American cinema, the "Terminator" series, even though their entire producing experience consisted of one low-budget comedy that never made it into theaters.
- A funny and warm reworking of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry? It could only happen in Bollywood – tunnustan ennakkoluuloni: en ole nähnyt Chuck & Larryä, koska se haukuttiin läpipaskaksi
- Termistösekaannus Terminaattorissa: T-101 vs T-800 – vihdoin se selvisi!
- Tarantino meinaa leikata Inglourious Basterdsia vielä uusiksi (Daily Beast) – And after three months of editing, he delivered a dripping-wet print to Cannes—a place he considers “Cinema Nirvana,” where “cinema matters, it’s important”—at a running time of two hours, 27 minutes: 13 minutes less than Pulp Fiction and 19 minutes less than he needed to retain final cut. Now the director can go back to America and give the movie a proper preview outside California—which was always the plan—and tweak the timing with “an audience pruning cut.”
- Piiiiiitkä juttu Conan O'Brienistä eilen, tänään ja huomenna (NYT Mag) – After 16 years and 2,725 shows, O’Brien would be moving, along with almost all his staff, to Universal City in California to take over “The Tonight Show.” He’d had time to ponder his farewell. In 2004, when O’Brien’s contract was up and other networks were aggressively wooing him, NBC promised him their flagship. “But they wanted me to wait five years to be the host of ‘The Tonight Show,’ ” O’Brien told me. “And in 2004, 2009 sounded absurdly far away. I thought that in 2009, we’d be flying around with jet packs and our dinners would be in pill form."
- 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.
- Paolo Pellegrin Great Performers -kuvagalleria NYT Magissa – Jopa on paljon vinoja otoksia. Melkein maneerilta tuntuu.
- NYT Magazine: The Oscar Issue –
- Hyvät, pahat ja rumat -homage hiekka-animaationa (YT) – wau (via SLIFR)