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Pandora’s digital box: Art house, smart house
The Art Theater, Champaign, Illinois. Photo by Sanford Hess, reproduced with permission. DB here: Theatres’ conversion from 35mm film to digital presentation was designed by and for an industry that...
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More of the world in a multiplex: another dispatch from Vancouver
Kristin here: Latin America In my first report, I mentioned that the Iranian film A Respectable Family was an unexpected gem. I’ve come across another, the Brazilian film, Neighboring Sounds (2012)....
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Tony and Theo
Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004); The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos, 1991). DB here: In January of 2012, while shooting The Other Sea, Theo Angelopoulos was struck by a motorcyclist and...
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16, still super
From Lost & Found Film Club. DB back: While I was semi-snowbound in Evanston, IL, messages kept rolling in. Many of them were responding to my account of surrendering my 16mm movies and gear. That...
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Silent films, old and new
Blancanieves Kristin here: February and March have been good to silent cinema. Time for a round-up of some highlights as we impatiently anticipate Il Cinema Ritrovato, coming up in a little over two...
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Screenplaying
Design by Christina King. DB and Kristin here: Two years ago DB reported on the gathering in Brussels of the Screenwriting Research Network (here and here). This year, thanks to our colleagues J. J....
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Weaponized VOD, at $50 a pop
Ant-Man 2: This time it’s personal. Not that it wasn’t before. But now it’s personal and expensive. DB here: Sean Parker, the Napster founder who taught everybody that digital piracy means never...
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Venice 2018: A dazzling second feature
Kristin here: In my first report from the Venice International Film Festival, I described the excitement of seeing three excellent and quite varied films right in a row, at consecutive early-morning...
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Venice, virtually
Careless Crime (2020) Every September over the last three years, we’ve immensely enjoyed visiting the Venice International Film Festival. There David has participated in the Biennale College Cinema...
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Vancouver envoi: What happens in movies happens between your ears
Summer 85 (2020). DB here: One of the nicest things anybody ever said to me came from Jacques Aumont, the distinguished French film scholar. He was visiting us in the early 1980s and I showed him a...
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