film & television
New Yorker, Adventures in film narrative past and present
In this upcoming New Yorker, David Denby has an interesting in-depth article on the use of time in film narrative, covering the recent popularity of non-traditional narrative structures and some of the significant events in film history. Very comprehensive and a great read.
The New Yorker: The New Disorder: Adventures in film narrative.
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Roy Smeck, rocking the ukelele
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The Funnest Interview I’ve ever seen
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A Prairie Home Companion Movie
Garrison Keillor and his radio show the Prairie Home Companion are familiar to anyone who has listened to PBS in the last 30 years. Keillor and director Robert Altman (M*A*S*H and Nashville) teamed up to create a movie based on the show. The premise of Keillor’s script is suitably Altman-esque - we see the radio show performed as it has been every week for 30 years, in front of a live audience at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater, in what turns out to be its final night, as the show has been unexpectedly cancelled by a Texas radio executive (Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman).
The cast includes Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Virginia Madsen, Tommy Lee Jones.
Links: Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes
This is what a Honda sounds like…
I’ll take their word for it. While we’re on the subject, check out this unbelievable Rube Goldberg-inspired Honda commercial.
Deepa Mehta’s movie Water
Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s new movie Water is now in theaters. The third of her elements trilogy, the original filming of Water in India was prevented by violent protests by Hindu extremists who destroyed the set and burned images of Mehta in effigy. Mehta took up the script again five years later and relocated the shoot to Sri Lanka with a different cast. Seeing Salman Rushie interview Deepa Mehta on the Charlie Rose Show finally pushed me over the edge to put this one on the list of things to see in the theaters.
Water is currently playing at the Landmark River Oaks Theater. Click for showtimes. Google Map It.
Links: Trailer and ‘Making of’ videos, RottenTomatoes.com Aggregation of Reviews
WikiLuke
Geekiness knows no humility. If it wasn’t vainglorious enough to have an eponymous website, I’ve just added WikiLuke to the mix. A wiki is a free for all style of website format. Every page in the site is editable by anyone, yes even you, as ill-considered as that may be. Blather away.
Discovery Channel Documentary, North Korea - Children of the Secret State
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Documentary, North Korea - Children of the Secret State
Filmmaker Errol Morris
Errol Morris is a very interesting guy, so it makes sense that he would have an equally interesting website. I discovered Morris through Thin Blue Line (1988), one of the most remarkable documentaries I’ve ever seen. Long story short, the publicity of the film helped get a wrongly convicted man off death row. If you […]