The great film blog
Green Cine, which is something of a daily imperative for any literate cinephile, has so many interesting links up today that I might as well give them props for all of the below:
An interview with video director
Johan Renck on the eve of his first feature,
Downloading Nancy, a story about a woman who arranges for herself to be killed by a guy she meets on the interet but changes her mind when she falls for him. Stars Holly Hunter, and the interview is linked to downloadable videos from Madonna and New Order, among others.
For those of you who need to learn about independent films from someplace other than the cover of
Vanity Fair, here's the very arresting trailer for
An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore-global warming doc.
Director Adam Curtis
interviews Errol Morris in
The Believer.
And finally,
this great piece by James Wolcott about Fassbinder and impulse buys:
aturday I was standing in the checkout line at the Barnes & Noble across from Lincoln Center, which was lined with DVDs for last-minute, late-decision purchase. But the DVDs weren't the usual Blockbuster hits. One whole rack was alloted to German Language DVDs, and among them was a cluster of Fassbinder movies.
I have to admit I did a mild double take. Even if I had been able to foresee DVDs and digital downloads back in the Seventies when Fassbinder was pumping out films as fast as Joyce Carol Oates novels, I never would have reckoned that someday they would be handy checkout items--collectibles. Even then Fassbinder movies were relative rarities on the art circuit until the breakthrough hit The Marriage of Maria Braun, and these B&N items weren't even the best-known Fassbinders--we're talking Satan's Brew and Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven as an impulse buy! What it italicized for me is how much of what's considered underground/fringe/outre/rarified migrates--matriculates--into the mainstream until it's part of the cultural ecology....
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The Spring/summer issue of DoubleTake Magazine (www.doubletakecommunity.org) 2007 features an interview with documentary film maker Onyekachi Wambu. He discusses his work, including his most recent documentary "From Nollywood to Hollywook- Africa Mine." His documentaries have been aired on BBC , Channel 4, and PBS.
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posted by Sabrina @ 3/30/2007 11:21 AM
