Or rather: maybe some people are making some money again. Some…
This week brought some signs that things were picking up in some sectors.
Month: October 2012
SORRY! THIS LINK WAS TAKEN DOWN. NONETHELESS THE QUESTIONS REMAIN…..
How do you free yourself from the burdens of the past? How do you enter the present when the past shackles your every move? How do you move culture forward?
Hat tip (again) to Open Culture.
Scarlet Street: produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson.
Evidently the link was taken down for copyright reasons. I was told Walter never made a penny on this one as he had to sell off the rights to pay some bills. I was hoping everyone could then see it, but…
You missed it at SXSW? You missed it at Locarno? You read the great reviews and you want to see what it is all about. Well you can check out Sean Baker’s latest at:
A moving and fun speech by Lana Wachowski
Chris Dorr’s recent post on MoviePass helped me recognize the world as it truly is today. It wasn’t MoviePass that I needed to recognize. It was that the same thing that allowed Independent Film to flourish is the same thing that is now spurring on innovation everywhere. Once filmmakers stopped asking for permission to tell their stories, the floodgates opened to a far more diverse approach to culture generation. To the powers that be the end of permission looks like anarchy, but to the leaders to come, this is the stepping stone to necessary change. And we are seeing that now.
