Poor, rural, uneducated Depression-era audiences to thread.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I work at a video store, and believe me they do. A LOT more than shows that are off the air.
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost Wow!!
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
cos without dialogue or action, you have something like an empty screen.
this sounds like the best movie ever!
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't imagine just renting the show for the show itself. Weird.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Now plz to continue blatantly ignoring everything I say and making snarky comments elsewhere, it silently entertains several people and quite frakly me at this point.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), April 13th, 2006.
oh! the pwnage!
how to come back, i just don't know...
― enrique's wounded pride, Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Is it really that weird? The only TV I watch is music videos (or stations I wish were playing music videos), so if I do bother to watch a show, it's through DVD. Admittedly I get to see them for free, but it's a lot more enjoyable than waiting once a week to catch a show with ads. People also get to see another episode immediately on the same disc. I assume it's more popular to watch shows on DVD than on TiVo.
x-post Family Guy is kind of the classic example (Though adult swim helped too)
― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
and while we are at it, go read Ebert on BI:2
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Nicole Kidman is great in The Portrait of a Lady.
See the Seitz blog link comments for multiple angles on TV, film, distribution.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2006/04/cinema-dead-and-alive-interview-with_15.html
"...The rise of documentaries is related to the decline of European auteurs, and the failure of significant American auteurs to arise from and remain in the independent world in very significant numbers. If you look at the whole Sundance phenomenon, there was such promise there, but while you’ve got a few interesting directors coming up, most of them just go on to the majors or whatever. In the past, people would go to the independent theaters and art theaters for foreign films, and specifically the great tradition of European films. That has dried up."
Also, Seitz quotes Dave Kehr in the Comments: "In other words, ‘straight-to-video’ once meant ‘not good enough to be shown in theaters.’ Now it means ‘too good to be shown in theaters.’ That’s the reality.”
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
this is only wrong insofar as the studio/star system that made grahame/lombard possible died 45 years ago; but kidman is certainly 'as good'.
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
the studios were quite happy to let them make lots of basically quite similar films though, cos that's how genres work. there's something to be said for it, i guess, but not that much.
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Ignoring for a moment that 'straight-to-video' still pretty much means the former -- it's still largely a ghetto for no- to mid-budget genre stuff by nobodies and for stuff that didn't get picked up by distributors -- what he's leaving out is the potential it has to increase the audience for this stuff. Twenty five years ago, people who didn't have access to indie/arthouse/repertory/etc. theaters would never, ever, ever get to see these movies. Now they might be able to get it off of Netflix or at Hollywood Video or what have you, if the movies are properly advertised, marketed, reviewed, etc. (The potential for reviews by key critics increases, too, if they don't have to wait for a screening that might never happen but can review from wherever they happen to be via DVD.)
All that, too, is eliding the fact that a lot of these movies are far, far, far from "too good" for theaters or anyplace else. Sturgeon's Law, etc.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
that's interesting. in the uk lots of films get a nominal theatre release just so the film will get reviewed: my hunch is no-one bothers to review dtv stuff unless the marketing dept gets their act together.
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
The studio system would definitely have made a film in which AIDS is barely mentioned and the lesbianism is "tasteful" (see The Children's Hour)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
This looks like a terrific fite, I wish I had got in earlier. On the TV / Cinema ?Mobile Phone debate, I think that certain media tend towards certain shot choices (TV is almost by nature more close up friendly) but this does not apropos lead to firm TV / Cinema / Mobile Phone / Play aesthetic choices when it comes to storytelling. Nevertheless, the play - cinema/TV dynamic does lead to certain ways of telling a story which cannot be done easily on stage (time lapse, multiple viewpoints, close-up) which can influence the semantic language of the presentation.
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
But those aren't the ones he's talking about. That Assayas' Clean -- an English language film, with 2 different types of 'names' in Maggie Cheung and Nick Nolte -- took THREE YEARS to get distributed here is a scandal.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
what the fuck?
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 9 October 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― theodore (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 October 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not sure how the syndication model works for New Times - I can read most of next week's Dallas Observer reviews today on the Voice site. If I don't need to pick up their paper, how's that going to effect their hooker-ad sales?
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://armonddangerous.blogspot.com/
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link