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

- Sujewa

I want to have an x amount of $s saved & an x number of my DVDs selling per month, plus debt paid down to an x level, before I quit my day job (and this'll probably take another 2 years or so, to achieve those goals). In the meantime, this is how I am going to manage having a day job & needing to get a lot of filmmaking & related work done: Mon - Thu: Primarily day job work, w/ a couple of hours each day for filmmaking & distribution related work. Fri - Sun: Primarily for filmmaking & related work. With filming happening at most 2 weekends out of a month, usually, so that I will have a day off from everything every couple of weeks. Editing & publicity work can happen on a weekly basis (publicity stuff even on a daily basis) since those two kinds of filmmaking related work is not as intense as filming/shooting. That's the new plan. - Sujewa

Scientific American interviews E. Paul Zehr, "associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do", about his upcoming (October) book Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero . From the interview : " How long would Bruce Wayne have to train to become Batman? In some of the timelines you see in the comics, the backstory is he goes away for five years—some it's three to five years, or eight years, or 12 years. In terms of the physical changes ( strength and conditioning), that's happening fairly quickly. We're talking three to five years. In terms of the physical skills to be able to defend himself against all these opponents all the time, I would benchmark that at 10 to 12 years. Probably the most reality-based representation of Batman and his training was in Batman Begins. Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing me

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Still have not seen The GoodTimesKid , sounds like something I'd enjoy. Not in a hurry to see Moma's Man (i tend to put off watching family related films, still have not watched 51 Birch Street ; i do however catch the 51 Birch DVD watching me sometimes, from on top of a pile of DVDs in my room), but I hear it is good. Check out this new Village Voice interview article about Jacobs . - Sujewa

This interview is from January of this year, but I just got around to reading it. Zhangke's (or is it Jia's? - which one is the last name?) movies sound very interesting. Check out the interview article by Anthony Kaufman at Village Voice . Sujewa

From indieWIRE : "The shoe and apparel company will fund a five market launch for the film, including prints & advertising support." Read the rest here . - Sujewa