Article Archive for September 2010
by Richard von Busack
LET’S LEAVE aside the social problem of Facebook as a privacy violator. I’m not up to the depths of tireless radio investigator Dave Emory, who reached for his Foucault when titling a …
Mallu movies, movies produced in malayalam, are one of the most popular movie segments, crossing multiple genres. Mallu movies have been growing in popularity, following an arc greater than the overall growth of the film …
by Richard von Busack
SOME WRITERS work from the ending backward, and the newest Woody Allen film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, shows signs of such reverse engineering. The ending neatly matches elderly pessimism …
It’s a Wonderful Life is not just one of the greteat holiday movies of all time – it is one of the all time best movies period!
The story behind It’s a Wonderful Life begins …
by Richard von Busack
The Spike and Mike New Generation of Animation (now playing in limited engagements) continues the good work done in recent years. As for the parallel Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Fest, …
by Richard von Busack
The new Oliver Stone film starts with a critique of capitalism that doesn’t really want to critique capitalism and keeps going. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps unfolds into a good father/bad father/“but …
Rocking the Boat is a fantastic not for profit in the Bronx Section of New York, that inspires young people through traditional wooden boat building. For years we have been trying to find the right …
by Richard von Busack
The new documentary Catfish does for social networking what 1999’s Blair Witch Project did for hand-held film. In Blair, a fictional group of filmmakers was done for by the unseen. Heather and …
There are many film programs from which to choose for all aspiring filmmakers. The majority of the film programs offered by universities and art schools throughout the USA and Canada are very similar to one …
Film director salaries have certainly evolved a great deal in Hollywood since the beginning of commercial filmmaking. While some directors were paid next to nothing in the early years, many film director salaries eventually came …
