ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Saw Be Kind Rewind last night, good movie. *

2008 is Year 0 of the New Sri Lanka. stream of consciousness/trance like writing/blog entry, relatively unedited, flowing down from past/present/future through my brain to the keyboard to the screen in one session - more to be enjoyed as an inspirational work of art as opposed to being something - a manifesto? that needs to be explained away & or corrected or commented on

From the recent Time magazine article Immigration-No Correlation With Crime : "Driving these statistics, researchers believe, are the same factors that drive immigration in the first place. "People who make the decision to come here from another country want to get ahead, establish a better life," says Harvard sociology professor Robert Sampson. "That dream is not something they're likely to risk by getting arrested." Read the rest of the article here . - Sujewa

The article is aimed at music makers, but there is a lot in there that can be adapted for indie filmmaking & distribution, check it out . David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists - and Megastars , at Wired Thanks peterbroderick.com for the link.

Someone needs to invent the machine that takes the script from my computer & quickly turns it into a completed movie & burns it on to a DVD within a couple of hours. That would be nice. Maybe Apple is working on that machine. Until that machine comes out on the market we still have to go through budgeting & crews & props & editing & all that good stuff if we want to make a feature. Even though the 3 movies (The Living End, Laws of Gravity, El Mariachi) that Broderick looks at were all shot on 16 MM, this page is a useful one to review before you go out & shoot your no-budget DV or HD feature. The ABC's of No-Budget Filmmaking

JACK BLACK BEATS MICHEL GONDRY WITH HIS RUBIK'S CUBES on FunnyOrDie.com

Not real (or IS IT???), and funny: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Found this Washington Post web article while doing some research on Barack Obama's views on Israel and on the Muslim world. I am quoting only two paragraphs, but the whole article is worth reading for full context and additional information on the topic: Under section heading " On opening up dialogue with Muslim world :" Barack Obama : "...I am not naïve. There is a hard core of jihadist fundamentalists who we can't negotiate with. We have to hunt them down and knock them out. Incapacitate them. That's the military aspects of dealing with this phenomenon. Now, somebody like a Richard Clarke would estimate that the hard-core jihadists would gladly blow up this room -- maybe it's 30,000 people, maybe it's 40,000 people, maybe it's 50,000 people. But it is a finite number. And that is where military action and intelligence has to be directed. So all the things I've talked about in the past -- improving our intelligence capacity, improving our

As far as I know this is the first time in US presidential politics that over 1 million people have donated money to a campaign. To become a part of this awesome story, click here or on the pic above & donate some $s to the Obama campaign. Your country might thank you for it down the road, most likely. - Sujewa

FAMILY INC-WIDESCREEN TRAILER Add to My Profile More Videos * for more on this doc, go here . thanks asianamericanfilm.com for the link. - sujewa

From Obama '08 site: "Washington, DC – Two more superdelegates have endorsed Barack Obama today. Shadow United States Senators Paul Strauss and Michael D. Brown endorsed Obama, citing his longstanding commitment to the rights of DC residents and his ability to unite Americans to bring change. Senator Paul Strauss said, “I am excited to endorse Barack Obama today. Barack Obama has been a leader for promoting unity and equality for all Americans, and has shown a steadfast commitment to the DC voting rights and full representation in Congress. “We feel strongly that we should use our vote to uphold the will of the people who by decisive margins chose Barack Obama in contests across the country and by our region’s voters in the Potomac Primaries. Barack Obama inspired voters from every part of Washington, DC to turn out on Primary Day and give him victories in every single voting precinct. His diverse experience, from his days as an urban community organizer, to his service in

Check out this Smoking Gun story about 2 relatives and their argument regarding presidential politics. - Sujewa

This sounds like an interesting movie : "The Homeless Home Movie" interweaves the stories of five very different homeless people over the course of a year. They range from a pregnant 15 year old runaway Tina to a couple who live in their car Ken and Debbie as well as a Vietnam Vet West Side who lives out year round, and a man Greg bankrupted after his daughter's long fight with leukemia. Their opinions, actions, and histories come together to expose the harsh realities and problems of homelessness." Read more about the movie here . From the Making Of page: " For years I'd wondered why homeless people were talked about on television but not heard from . In the world of television, as in the world in general, they seemed to be on the outside looking in, the passive recipients of temporary shelter and occasional TV sound bites. From my own experience , I came to believe that they