ONE - ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Film Noir Cinema, NYC starting 7/12/24

waiting to take a look at 3 more shorts tomorrow, after that we'll have the list of all the shorts that will play at the Capital City Microcinema screening on Fri June 26. currently 4 CCM screenings are planned - 1 for each month in June, July, August, & September. The July, August, Sept. shows will be of features ( Texas Snow in August ). screenings will be happening in Kensington, MD, at Kensington Row Bookshop . more info. very soon; here and at the CCM site/blog . - sujewa

Read about it here . Congrats to the next President of the US (most likely, I think) & all his supporters. - Sujewa

According to filmmaker, blogger & indie film industry developer (that's a new title that I just created for A.J. - a small gesture of recognition & appreciation; since he worked hard & pulled together the Cinema Eye awards ) A.J. Schnack, an item (revenue sharing between fests & filmmakers; including screening fees) I've always (for the last couple of years at least) seen as something that will be common practice in the near future (5 years?) is already happening at some film festivals; from A.J.'s An Annual State of the Industry Post and Some Festival Advice for Filmmakers post: "PART TWO - SCREENING FEES The not-so-secret secret of the festival world is that someone is probably being paid, even if you aren't. Fees vary so greatly that it's difficult to come up with a standard, but many films are paid $500, $1000 or more to screen at fest. Some even split box office revenues with the festival - a nice incentive for filmmakers to work hard to g...

Since new gear & program updates come on the market every few months, and also new methods of doing business/production/distribution get adopted by the scene periodically, indie filmmakers are perpetual students; there's always something to learn. So, studentfilmmakers.com might be one good source to see what kind of learning tools are available when you are trying to master Final Cut Express HD, etc. Thanks Hollywood Is Talking for the link. - Sujewa

Partially driven by Kurt Loder's review of Sex and the City movie , I went and checked it out today. There were a couple of good moments in it. Good cinematography as always/as seen in the TV show. But the verve & freshness of some of the early episodes of the TV series is pretty much not present in the movie. However, since I am not a part of the target audience for the movie, and tons of people are checking out the movie, according to media reports, I guess the movie is a marketing & sales success. Good for the business side of things, but I personally was not entertained the same way I was by some of the early episodes of the TV series (me & my girlfriend did laugh at the movie a lot, which is not - I assume - the kind of response the makers of the movie necessarily wanted). I found the Diane Arbus line to be funny, but no one else in the Silver Spring Majestic 20 theater did (or at least I didn't hear them laugh out loud). All in all, kind of...

When I was in NYC this past weekend it occurred to me that it would be cool & useful for there to be a site that lists all or a lot of indie film events that are happening in the city (screenings, fests, other relevant events) so that both visitors & locals can easily figure out what's happening on a given day or week & explore further to see if a certain event is something they want to check out. So I started the Indie Fabulous NYC blog. I hope to have it be fully operational (at the moment it is not unlike the partially constructed Death Star of the Star Wars movies) in a month or so; w/ new stuff being added on a regular basis in the coming days. - Sujewa

Get all the info. here . Movie is coming to theaters from Magnolia Pictures this fall.

Between this month - June - and December 15 or so, I need to get a DVD out, do some screenings, & make a new movie or two; so, I think a lot of my blogging for the next few months will happen, as things get done, at: Wild Diner Films blog Date Number One '08 site/blog Actress Movie site/blog Capital City Microcinema site/blog With major items being linked to from this blog or being mentioned at this blog in some length. When the weather gets cold & or when things slow down for the year end holidays, I should be back blogging a lot once again at this blog; covering all kinds of indie film & other stuff. Of course will blog about SilverDocs '08 when the fest happens later this month. Other than that, will be busy with lots of WDF stuff while the weather is good. See ya around. - Sujewa

Here is the trailer for the new film Able Danger; pretty good as entertainment (as for the 9-11 conspiracy angle, nothing I have not heard before - a lot of smoke; but a good starting off point to an at times campy but generally engaging noir type drama), great photography; saw that movie at the opening night of the 11th Brooklyn International Film Festival - at a great/very interesting venue called the Lyceum, on Fri 5/30 night. Able Danger trailer: - Sujewa

be back on mon.