Introducing my new web comic, Rémy Brick-Head, based on a character I created years ago. Once upon a time, I made an animated short based around him. Now I think it makes sense to turn it into a (hopefully) regularly-updated comic strip. After all, the original genesis of the character took the form of a comic.
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I (along with Braxton Pope and Ross Bigley) was recently interviewed by Jennie Kermode for Eye For Film on the subject of funding a film with Kickstarter. Here's the piece.
Avengers Press Screening Deleted
Maybe at first this seems like evidence supporting the idea that it's stupid to take everything digital. Then, when you think about it, you realize that when your 35mm print gets shipped to the wrong place, you can't just download another one in two hours.
Side Note: Who cares? It's yet another damned superhero movie.
Le déplaisir du texte
The "beautiful plastic bag" scene from American Beauty has become one of those cultural moments with which we post-millennial cynics bludgeon the bloated corpse of our (former) zest for life. I suspect we mock it not because it has some essentially childlike earnestness in it, but because we sense in it the same kind of calculated self-mockery we all so love to wallow in. It's an infinitely recursive, intentionally unfunny in-joke. It's the cultural equivalent of a self-loathing fat kid puking upon his own myriad reflections in a funhouse full of shattered mirrors.
Here again, for your mocking "pleasure":
Put Up And Shut Up
Let's recognize the fact that no beautiful thing was ever created by anyone who decided that he was just like everybody else. No one ever invented anything while striving toward humility. Agreeability is nice at a party, but nothing is ever built at a party. Gregariousness is pleasant, but pleasantries are the antithesis of the kind of willed friction that work requires. An inventor hews a trail across a solitary island. And when he connects the islands of an archipelago, he does so because he can. An inventor is not antisocial. An inventor is extrasocial.
Judy Verona Joseph Interviews me for ON THE TOWN.
Here's the full video of an interview of me conducted by Judy Verona Joseph of the San Jose TV show On The Town. In it we discuss the world premiere of my film THE GLASS SLIPPER at the 21st Cinequest Film Festival in early 2011. The video is presented here with the permission of the producer.
Find The Cohens.
In 1989, Vahe Katros (who incidentally played the lead in The Glass Slipper) bought a photo album--which dates from 1938--from a guy who had spread a blanket at a park in Brooklyn. The man who sold it to him suggested that he discard the photos and use the cover for some other purpose, but Vahe decided he wanted to attempt to track down the children of the photos' subjects. Maybe you can help him find them.
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Errol Morris Is A Cheap Huckster, Not A Documentarian
The following was written at the request of Patrick Ripoll for the Director's Club Podcast.
When The Thin Blue Line was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 1989, supporters of the film were outraged. The Academy's reasoning, reportedly, was that the extensive use of re-enacted scenes made the film something other than a documentary. Rather than getting bogged down in a sophistic discussion of the semantic shortcomings of that particular word, I'd like simply to make the point that our definition of the term has shifted in the last twenty-two years--thanks partly to (or perhaps partly because of) none other than Errol Morris, the director of The Thin Blue Line.
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