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For info. on Zombie Girl: The Movie , go here . Here's the trailer for ZG:

The new doc Gogol Bordello Non-Stop will play at the AFI Fest in LA on Nov. 1. Here's the trailer:

indieWIRE's got a new first person piece , text from a speech given by Ted Hope, kind of an anti-"the sky is falling" speech. From the article: "I can't talk about the "crisis" of the indie film industry. There is no crisis. The country is in crisis. The economy is in crisis. We, the filmmakers, aren't in crisis. The business is changing, but for us -- us who are called Indie Filmmakers -- that's good that the business is changing. Filmmaking is an incredible privilege and we need to accept it as such -- and accept the full responsibility that comes with that privilege." Read the rest of the article at iW . - Sujewa

At TrustMovies blog . Here's a little bit: "But is true film criticism in any more of a crisis now than at any earlier time? The panel seemed not all that concerned with the "crisis now" attitude." Read the rest of the post here . - Sujewa

"NEW YORK—Citing unsafe practices and potential toxic contamination, the Environmental Protection Agency shut down a small ghost- entrapment operation in downtown Manhattan today, and had four of the business' spectral-containment specialists arrested in the process." More here .

From the interview : " There are a lot of people speaking in their native languages in this movie. I could not make a WWII film with Nazis speaking English. I made the decision that everyone speak their native language. This film is about barriers, language, culture, all that stuff. So how you gonna have a scene where Train is teaching [Angelo] to communicate by tapping on his chest if they're both speaking English? Where is going to be the conflict, the drama, with these four black American soldiers stumbling into a small Tuscan village if everyone is speaking the same language?" Read the rest at Salon . - Sujewa

Cinematical 's got a nice review of Spike Lee's new movie Miracle at St. Anna . So far, since She's Gotta Have It, I've liked every Spike Lee joint that I've seen - I think I've seen most of them - perhaps all but 2 or 3, so I am looking forward to checking out Miracle, and I like it already. I like the idea of Miracle because the lead characters are four non-"white" World War II US soldiers. As far as I know hundreds of thousands of non-"white" soldiers (coming mostly from colonies in Asia & Africa, and of course the segregated US) fought on the side of the Allies but, over 60 years after the end of the war, their stories have barely begun to be told in fiction films. I enjoyed the recent French movie Indigenes , which dealt with a group of non-"white" soldiers from French colonies fighting for the Allies in WWII - even though the ending of that movie was kind of depressing (but then war in general is depressing & the movi...

Kinda nice being too busy to blog 'cause I've been editing like 8-10 hours a day (& working at the bookstore when not editing or sleeping) for the last 5 days or so (better than the opposite situation; blogging too much & not putting enough time into filmmaking). But, very soon I should be done with both Indie Film Blogger Road Trip (IFBRT) editing & fest submission #1 & Date Number One DVD production (on that project just need to finalize the DVD cover design & order the DVDs), & then will be back for some blogging. Also nice to have '08 projects #1 (DNO DVD) & #2 (IFBRT) very near completion at this point, so that I can plan on starting work on '08 projects #3 & #4 (two feature length, ultra-ultra low budget & superdelicious comedies) in October in NYC. Until I get back to blogging, check out the blog links at IFBRT's blog , on the right side - scroll down - it's like a mini iW blogs page over there - headlines from about...

Nice, some extra web publicity for this blog from the FilmInFocus interview , check it out here . Also check out the Movie City: Washington, DC section at FilmInFocus ; several interesting articles about DC & the movies. - Sujewa