Sunday Reads: 6th October 2012
How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott discuss the move from film to digital. Cadre of film buffs helps Netflix viewers sort through the clutter Why does Netflix categorise films in such a bizarre way? Who comes up with those categories? This article has the answers. Beyond The Matrix: The … Read more
Todd Solondz Interview for Dark Horse
The film’s theme of infantilization, particularly of the American male. It is, as I’m sure you’re aware, very popular in TV and films such as The 40 Year Old Virgin and so forth. So you I suppose you could see this as a kind of response, as a kind of alternative to that moviegoing experience. … Read more
Sunday Reads: 9th September 2012
David Lynch Interview at Pitchfork David Lynch discusses the sound in Eraserhead. Comedians using their fans for co-ordinated, safety-in-numbers bullying Twitter Goes to the Movies How Hollywood is using Twitter as a vital part of its marketing approach for films such as Ted. Beyond praise 5: Still more supplements that really tell you something Kristin Thompson reviews the … Read more
On the Road Review
In Big Sur, a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, Kerouac explicitly engaged with the success of On the Road and the celebrity he experienced as a result of the book. On the Road hangs heavy over the novel and clearly did over Kerouac too, a unavoidable behemoth, impossible to ignore. Fifty years later and the … Read more