October 2010
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Watchsometimes good music, energy and intentions is all a film needs: “The Commitments“ (1991).
[sorry we didn’t find a clip with better sound quality. thinking this one’s worth owning on disc and playing through your best speakers.]
after “Raising Arizona” (1987), who could doubt the Coen brothers’ gift for visual comedy and tempo?
“WarGames” (1983) steered toward predictable, and drifted into trite, yet its direction and cast betrayed a warm heart in a Cold War.
act one of “The Core” (2003) promised a mediocre action movie lacking original ideas; but it was so much less.
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why we can't be friends
Four years ago, when we created our Facebook Profile, there was no such thing as a Facebook Page. In 2006, Feral Film was just trying out social media, wondering if it was professionally useful. We didn’t really have a product we were actively selling, nor a project we were promoting, because we were on hiatus. We were just curious and experimenting, with no particular agenda or goal. ...
its mysteries a mask, its faces and silences layered with meaning, cinematography half its story: “Wallander” (2008).
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WatchWere nuclear tests the most meticulously documented event of 1946? The wealth of fab footage in “Radio Bikini” makes us think so.
charmed by “The United States of Tara”, from the very first episode. smart writing, gifted cast, flowing easy.
We appreciate documentaries which trust the viewer to stay the course, that hold our attention for hours, without constant repetition.
“In Search of the Trojan War” (2004) takes us on a bookish odyssey, spanning three continents, to Homer’s oral tradition.
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“All that keeps cable coherent is the continuing perception, substantiated only...”
– Doc Searls
Tom Tykwer might better make a documentary about modern architecture, rather than a monumental waste of time: “The International” (2009).
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Watchtonight’s Simpsons open by Banksy
[via Wooster Collective]
extemely dubious of Matt Reeves’ efforts to remake the utterly fabulous Swedish “Let The Right One In” in the English language “Let Me In”.
“Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” (2000) is an ankle deep history of democratic Athens, punctuated with a knee deep ode to Socrates.
“Dexter” only came into its own as a television series once it moved past the storyline of the original novel.
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“like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea…...”
– Lawrence Lessig reviewing The Social Network
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too many TV documentaries smell like old fish hastily wrapped in new paper. and they skimped on the paper.
an excellent example of using @KickStarter to fund a new project. also, a cool looking iPhone gadget for your production kit. http://ping.fm/r5kQ6
reading about @Twitter’s new app for @GoogleTV. http://ping.fm/4qMde (#TweeV)
sometimes, it’s just nice to see a documentary that had a treasure drove of footage and recordings to work from.
if you don’t know how he forever changed recorded music, “Les Paul: Chasing Sound” (2007) will set you straight. (#documentary)