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