Editorial
9 articles
Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
"So the guys who started this business all cheated somebody to get there, and now they're being cheated, perhaps, by all these crazy, geeky people all over the internet. I must say, my anguish level is not great." Richard Dreyfuss
"although iTunes has 70% of the pay to download music market - only 1 in 40 of all tracks downloaded on the web are ever paid for. That's 2.5%"
For many years now p...
From Free Film Movement to Cluetrain: the importance of personal filmmaking
"As filmmakers we believe that no film can be too personal. The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments. Size is irrelevant. Perfection is not an aim. An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude.”
Lorenza Mazzetti, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reiz, Tony Richardson - The Free Film Movement, February 1956
"For every entry in the encyclopedia, there is now a Web site. For any idea you c...
We're back - early spring blossom
"We have killed all our Gods, they offer us nothing that a scientist cannot dismiss or add doubt to. Yet our hunger for a force or parental energy bigger than ourselves or our all-too-human parents has moved to a religion of capitalism, which requires only that you attend regular services at the Church of TV and pay homage through diligent consumption. Spirtualism exists enough to al...