Blogs & articles
articles
-
14 articles
-
14 articles
-
39 articles
-
5 articles
Essays
-
11 articles
-
15 articles
-
22 articles
-
9 articles
columns
-
4 articles
-
11 articles
-
2 articles
-
5 articles
-
8 articles
-
10 articles
-
12 articles
diaries
-
14 articles
-
11 articles
-
2 articles
-
2 articles
-
2 articles
-
5 articles
-
5 articles
Random selection…
The beautiful music of Elgar could be heard amongst scrap metal, bin bags and shrieking gulls yesterday as players from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra played a recital in their most unusual venue ever - a London rubbish dump.
The special concert was held to promote the new Channel 4 series
Dumped, which starts on Sunday night (Sept 2nd, 9.00pm) and sees elev…
So I finally hit the big time and moved up a decimal place in my daily Web Monetization payouts.
As I mentioned last month I've added Web Monetization here and a few other sites (FundYourFilm.com, Visuali.st – my work site, and screen.is). After a daily trickle of a penny or two, I got an email on the 15th "You received 1.77612 XRP from Interledger Network", which based on today's price of the c…
The opposite of Ultimate Improv's NYC Grand Central Station freeze, with a wink to T-Mobile's Liverpool Street Station antics. To promote a Flemish reality TV show.
Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89.
Cissi Elwin, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, comments on Ingmar Bergman’s passing.
"Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera" Woody Allen
"This is a day of sorrow in the world of film. One of the world’s most prominent f…
Aimed at first time visitors, Shizana Arshad and Laura Horowitz at 6 Degrees Film have put together a Cannes Guide
containing information on the festival itself, how to submit your film
and obtain accreditation along with useful numbers and info...
What do you need to know about
attending the Cannes Film Festival? What should you expect? Who gets
accreditation? Find out the answers to…
The man who once forced to Klaus Kinski to take direction at gun point has been shot at during an interview with the BBC. The bizara incident is reported on the excellent cinematical.net Werner Herzog shot with air rifle during interviewPosted Feb 8th 2006 11:02PM by Jay Allen Filed under: Documentary Just in case you haven't gotten your quota of movie-related bizarre today, here's one…
I recently heard from a music industry insider that Radiohead make some 80% of their income from touring, which opened up the question of why they put so much effort into packaging, selling and protecting albums. A question that has now been answered. Free from a record label after their six album deal with EMI had come to an end, one of the most revered bands of the last 20 years have taken th…
As the season finally closes in on us, for those tired of the same
old re-runs on TV or wanting to avoid the family warzone of the living
room and watch TV on a computer under your bed - or better still are
looking for films to share during the post-dinner
web video show-off - I've pulled together some of our favorites of the
year.
In the first bundle I've focussed on anima…
“The reality is a single stream only amounts to 0.003p, which means I would need millions of streams to earn at least the minimum wage” Ayanna Witter-Johnson, singer-songwriter
Last weekend The Guardian published some great insights from 25 figures across the music world around the state of subscription-streaming, as Spotify passes 155 million Premium subscribers and ahead of a uk.gov report…
I would like to say: when was the last time you gave antibiotics to a whale that had had no prior contact with humans and had swum to chelsea and was obviously a little stressed - and who doesn't get stressed in chelsea? when was the last time you did that? Never? Well why did you think now was the time to run an experiment? It's not like this whale shouldn't have had access to the best poss…
How Do I Sell My Film Part 2 - Delivery Format
Netribution and film distributors WYSIWYG have joined forces to present on-line WYSIWYG's Filmmaker's Toolkit....
Okay. So you now know who will watch your film. Well, that means you can also estimate how many people you have as potential audience. That gives you an idea of how much money you can spend. It also tells yo…
If the 80's were epitomised by the Action film and the 90's were the domain of the more thoughtful independent film, then the early 21st century could easily come to be defined by the dominance of the comic strip adaptation. Ever since 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' hit the cinemas, Hollywood has been desperately trying to find the Next Big Thing. Even multi-award winning directors like Sam Mendes and…
Similar to the 'video essay' Iran a Nation of Bloggers by Kate Tremills at the Vancouver Film School, comes this effective new short animation/essay, Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip, from Leo Murray and the Royal College of Art about the planetary tipping point. From his website :
It’s
much, much later than you think
This
really isn’t about polar bear…
How Do I Sell My Film Part One - DEMOGRAPHICS
Netribution and film distributors WYSIWYG have joined forces to present on-line WYSIWYG's essential Guide to Film Distribution.
We're both interested in building a strong industry for independent filmmakers. This means creating films that people want to see and buy. It does not mean sacrificing creative integrity, but it means business. To do the b…
It’s not often that you hear a director
ask an actor, “Can we get a few grunts from you? Can you just get
that grunting? Okay, now how about some heavy breathing? And where’s
Zombie Number Two? We need you!” So begins a hectic day of filming
a five-minute thriller for the Sci-Fi-London 48-hour Film Challenge.
Director Vicki Psarias , who won last…
The first time. I can never forget that. Shunted to the outskirts of
town to watch Robert LePage juggle love and war in his heartstopping
multimedia devised play the Seven Streams of the River Ota,
which would eventually run at 7 hours by the time I last saw it at the
National, years later. Stuart Lee and Richard Herring in pre Jerry
Springer the Opera days chumming with Jenny Eclair…
Amateur: barely a few letters from Auteur - but what, in our social media world, is the difference? If there was a dividing line of the 51st Krakow Film Festival, it was between the crowed-sourced YouTube world of Life in a Day and the personal journeys of documakers turning their lives and experiences into art. Less a debate between high and low art, as between the home movie and the knowingly…
the horror film franchise is still surprisingly resilient and not really showing signs of slowing (some would say that the current incarnation has outstayed it's welcome). The question i ask is if there is space for a real rough and ready old school horror film that does what it says on the tin? The last good horror for me was Outpost. It didn't make you think too much and had a great genre story…
Roy Disney, nephew of Walt and general protector of Disney, has passed away. I was lucky enough to meet Roy in 2000 at the Belfast Cinemagic Conference, and it has stood as one of the more memorable encounters of my working life. I was quite nervous beforehand yet without need - he was warm and genuine in his convictions, unassuming with a quiet strength.
[Netribution, Dec 2000] Roy worked for…
Just before lunch yesterday I read of a report by the WWF that the number of species on the planet has reduced by 31% in the last 35 years. If the planet continues at its current pace of using natural resource, by 2050 two earths would be needed to meet current demand, with an almost inevitable consequential environmental collapse.
Then while munching away on my fried eggs on toast, I read…
Following
the success of Brokeback Mountain and Capote, 2006 has been called by
some, the gayest year in recorded history. But one man has gone further
still. Josh Tenttrow is Professor of Gender Studies at the University
of San Francisco. Often called the most flamboyant academic in the US,
Tenttrow has written a string of books examining gender and sexuality
issues in mainstream cinema…
It should have won an Oscar for best animated short,
but its use of copyrighted images prevented that (albeit printed onto paper and folded into origami shapes). When I briefly met
Virgil Widrich, whose Copyshop did stretch to Oscar glory, at the Hull International Short Film Festival, he
thought that Fair Use laws would be enough for this film to get a US
release and Oscar nomination. But…
It's 3 AM in central London - dark and quiet except for the odd car and the hum of generators huddled round the outside of Westminster Cathedral. But here, inside, light is flooding in through the windows as though it was midday. And in the minds of the 150 or so people here it is midday and this isn't London, it's the Escorial Palace in Spain in the year 1588. King Philip…
A record number of films are getting release in British cinemas without any cuts being needed to get approval. Figures released by the British Board of Film Classification show that during the past decade less than three percent of the 4,951 films released into cinemas had to have cuts in order to achieve the classification they wanted.
This is a substantial fall from the…