Category: #DeepFocus
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Banned #Iran Director Wins Berlin Film Festival’s #GoldenBear
from theguardian.com: The Iranian dissident film-maker Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival for his Tehran road movie Taxi in what critics described as a victory for freedom of speech and the art of cinematic storytelling. Panahi, who is banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling…
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Sony Brass Denounces ‘Vicious’ #SonyHack
from natmonitor.com: Top Sony executives have condemned the “vicious” cyber assault that forced the company to hastily postpone the Christmas day release of its satirical film The Interview. During his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas today, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai publicly reprimanded the Guardians of Peace (GOP) hackers who…
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‘Whitey’ #Documentary Indicts More Than Just James J. #Bulger
from latimes.com: The bad guy in “Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger” is ostensibly Bulger. But Joe Berlinger’s densely detailed new documentary about the legendary Boston mobster is disturbing on so many levels it’s hard not to wonder why Bulger was the only one on trial.
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#Interstellar: Why Christopher Nolan Made It On Film
from businessinsider.com: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is in theaters now and available in six different formats including 35mm. Despite the fact the format is almost dead, Nolan, along with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, J.J. Abrams, and a few others, vow to keep the format alive by continuing to shoot on film the old-fashioned way.…
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11 Powerful Netflix Documentary Films About Food
from policymic.com: Food porn, #cleaneating, Instagrams of each and every meal of your day: We are living in a culture of food obsession by way of voyeurism. We rarely dine without documenting the experience, and in response to the timeless question “who runs the world?” one look at social media will give you the answer:…
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#Amazon Announces Its Own Streaming Device
from businessinsider.com: Tomorrow, Amazon will amp up its bid to take over your living room. At a media event in New York City, the company is expected to announce a new gadget — either a dongle or a box — that will let users stream video to their TVs from Amazon’s video library, as well…
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With ‘Drone To Home’ Service, Netflix Uses Satire Against Amazon
from nytimes.com: Netflix on Tuesday released a satirical video promising “Drone to Home” delivery of DVDs to customers, taking an obvious swipe at Amazon’s plan to deliver items to consumers via small octocopters, a.k.a. drones… Barely a minute long, the video purports to show a Netflix warehouse with cute little copters flying off carrying the…
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Before You Watch the New ‘House Of Cards’, See the UK Original
from theatlantic.com: I’ll watch anything Kevin Spacey is in, so I’ll be among the early downloaders of the second installment of House of Cards, which will be out via Netflix touchingly on Valentine’s Day. But now I’ve done something I should have done earlier, and that will put Spacey-style House of Cards 2, 3, any…
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Legendary Screen Darling Shirley Temple Dies at 85
from nytimes.com: Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled, precocious and determined little girl in the 1930s sang and tap-danced her way to a height of Hollywood stardom and worldwide fame that no other child has reached, died on Monday night at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85… Mrs. Black returned to the…
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#Parody Trailer Perfectly Skewers Indie #Film Clichés of #Sundance
from adweek.com: Ever get the feeling that if you’ve seen one piece of schlocky Sundance festival fodder, you’ve seen them all? If so, you’re going to appreciate the many tired tropes folded into the faux trailer for “Not Another Sundance Movie.” Even if you don’t consider yourself an indie film aficionado, you’ll quickly see the…
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Netflix profits rise fivefold as streaming service hits 44 million subscribers
from theguardian.com: Online movie and TV streaming service Netflix announced it had over 44 million subscribers worldwide by the end of last year, and revealed on Wednesday that profits had risen more than fivefold. The company, which delivers DVDs by mail as well as offering movies and TV shows online, had about 33.4 million paying…
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End of Film: Paramount First Studio to Stop Distributing Film Prints
from latimes.com: In a historic step for Hollywood, Paramount Pictures has become the first major studio to stop releasing movies on film in the United States. Paramount recently notified theater owners that the Will Ferrell comedy “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which opened in December, would be the last movie that would it would release…
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#Oscar Nominations 2014: The Complete List
from latimes.com: “12 Years a Slave,” “American Hustle,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” received top honors as the nominees for best picture when Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning. “American Hustle” and “Gravity” led the field with 10 nominations each, with both films also earning…
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‘Lone Survivor’ Cast, Director Worked With Navy SEALs On Set
Every War Movie Is a Pro-War Movie from articles.latimes.com: “Lone Survivor” writer-director Peter Berg is a man who values accuracy. In adapting former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s nonfiction account of a disastrous military mission in Afghanistan, Berg enlisted a group of the elite force as technical advisors and granted them an uncommon degree of authority…
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Oscar Screeners: Long Tolerated, But Only Official After Next Week
from variety.com: Oscar ballots have all been safely delivered to PricewaterhouseCoopers, but the schmoozing and subtle campaigning will still be in high gear this weekend, thanks to the Golden Globes, AFI Awards, BAFTA/LA tea, Q&A’s and studio parties. But all this drum-beating only works if the voters have seen the film. Screeners have been a…
