Thanks to Michael Moore and others on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors, documentaries must be reviewed by the New York Times or Los Angeles Times to be considered for awards. That’s right; they’ll depend on the newspapers to cull the documentaries for them.
Tag: 01.08.12
From Flinty Media Gal To Successful Author, With Chickens
Jeannette Wells, author of The Glass Castle: “Secrets are like vampires — once they’re out of the darkness they can’t hurt you anymore.”
Akira ‘Harry’ Mimura, Recording The Aftermath Of Nuclear War
Akira “Harry” Mimura became the cameraman for Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the rest of post-war Japan in 1946, but that’s because he already had a long career in Hollywood – one that encompassed an early talkie, a Howard Hughes film and “Around the World in Eighty Days.”
Authors, Tweeting: Why?
“Many authors have little use for the pretension of hermetic distance and never accepted a historically specific idea of what it means to be a writer. With the digital age come new conceptions of authorship. And for both authors and readers, these changes may be unexpectedly salutary.” Just don’t expect Jeffrey Eugenides to agree.
The Tweet Seats Ruin Performances, And Harm Audiences
“Having a point doesn’t seem to be important in today’s text-as-you-view entertainment scene. It’s all about the experience and the moment.” And how many people are just playing Angry Birds, anyway?
Forty Years Of Award-Winning Music For Williams And Spielberg
“When Johnny played me the ‘Jaws’ score on the piano, I thought he was pulling my leg,” Spielberg said. “And he played it again. And then he played it until I stopped laughing.”
Architects Face Up To Facts: Humans Still Want To Live In Trees
Surveying new buildings and public spaces designed to look like the forest, an architecture critic wonders, “Why should tree metaphors appeal to architects? Why should they be useful, even good, for people?”
Bill Moyers Un-retires, But Not On PBS. What’s That All About?
“Some public television executives, who would not publicly comment on a sensitive issue, said they believed that PBS did not want to realign itself with Mr. Moyers, a longtime target of some conservatives, as it was fighting to keep its federal financing.”
Gustavo Dudamel’s Monumental ‘Mahler Project’ – Crazy? P.R. Stunt? Even Possible?
Maybe.
The Three Faces Of Stephen Colbert
“There used to be just two Stephen Colberts, and they were hard enough to distinguish. The main difference was that one thought the other was an idiot. … Lately, though, there has emerged a third Colbert. This one is a version of the TV-show Colbert, except he doesn’t exist just on screen anymore. He exists in the real world and has begun to meddle in it.”