RSSHow do you make money telling stories? Thousands of MFA students ask themselves that question, usually starting a few weeks after graduation when reality sets in and you find out the world isn’t really that much different than it was when you were sitting in a circle reading from a fistful of laser paper. You’ve [...]
Read it all...I’m mulling over a pair of films I watched this weekend, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, which I saw all the way through for the first time, and Sean Penn’s version of the Krakauer book Into the Wild. Both were brilliant films for different reasons, and too much has been written about La Dolce Vita for [...]
Read it all...Friend and satirist Lein Shory of Irate Savant fame is back in form with a new blog. Funny stuff. If the publishing industry weren’t all aflutter with self-pity and panic, they would have snapped up his darkly comic first novel months ago. As far as I know it’s still available. var addthis_pub = ‘vinestress’; var [...]
Read it all...So I’m reading a book on economics and the fall of the Soviet Union last week and one line suddenly jumps out at me. In moments I’m recalling Boris Yeltsin standing on the tank talking about democracy. I still remember the feeling vividly. I’d been thinking of my childhood years in West Berlin and what [...]
Read it all...“We are the tools of our tools,” or so Henry David Thoreau famously said. It’s true. As a species, our single greatest flaw is our obsession with inanimate objects. How many folks died for the shiny yellow metal stuff? What about blood diamonds? How many newspapers did we deliver so we could buy that Red [...]
Read it all..._So with the closing of several mini-majors this year, are indy films dying? Not according to Salon. _Another slate of comics-based films is announced. I’ve never been into comics, but I suppose I should be judging from the percentage of financing that goes into these projects. It’s a natural fit…they’re storyboards waiting to happen, and [...]
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