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The Price of Free: What will happen to TV if we all stream shows from the Web
"The smartest, most creative TV shows ... tend to be the most expensive to produce. They have large, talented casts, top-notch writers and directors, elaborate sets and generally high production values. If the changes in our viewing habits stanch the flow of money back to studios, producing those kinds of programs may no longer be possible." nytimes.com -
Happy Robert Ryan Centennial, Everyone
Robert Ryan, in your film editor's opinion the greatest actor in the history of cinema, was born 100 years ago today, in Chicago. thelmagazine.com -
Interview with John Cusack
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J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen and Andrea Gronvall
Festival of New Spanish Cinema
New narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental films from Spain, at Facets November 13-19
Film Daddy Dourest
Posted by J.R. Jones on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM
On the web site of the Museum of the Moving Image, Jonathan Rosenbaum has an interesting review of Chris Welles Feder's memoir In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles. Pictured below: Chris Welles in 1945, flanked by Welles on her left and stepmother Rita Hayworth on her right.
Film / Free Shit Free screening of John Woo's "Red Cliff"
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in "Red Cliff"
After 16 years in Hollywood, Hong Kong action auteur John Woo made his triumphant return to Asian production with the two-part Chinese historical war epic Red Cliff, the first half of which was the most expensive and most successful film in Asia, ever, on its release last year.
The Western release, a condensed version that combines the two parts, has a free preview screening Monday 11/16 at Landmark's Century Centre.
Film / Dance Arch of Repose and On Falling...
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Nadia Oussenko in "On Falling..."
The dance films Arch of Repose by Jan Bartoszek and On Falling... by Nadia Oussenko, which sold out their Wednesday premiere at the Music Box, get an encore screening Friday 11/13 at Alliance Francaise of Chicago.
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