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Au revoir Kodak! Bonjour Digital!

  • April 18, 2012 12:01 am

(Once the tool of my existence)

When Kodak filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, it was a definite signal to the end of an era—the era of 35mm & 16mm filmmaking. As an independent filmmaker, I have to admit that I have little nostalgia for 35mm or 16mm filmmaking. I was lucky enough to be part of the generation who started making films on celluloid and have pretty much “upgraded” to digital filmmaking. Nevertheless, that process has been an invaluable and forever memorable experience. Filmmaking has “evolutionized”.

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Sorry, No Disc Count For You

  • November 10, 2009 5:38 pm

A little over four months ago in mid June, I along with tens of thousands of hapless like-mindeds — inconsolable and defeated — mourned like the covert Scottish patriots at William Wallace’s public execution in BRAVEHEART as the last two American Virgins were sacrificed in New York and Hollywood.

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More specifically, the last two Virgin Megastores. That, coupled with the shuttering of the venerable and iconic Tower Records chain, had the subtle effect of a Muay Thai elephant kick to the already deflated psyches of recorded media collectors worldwide. In a few fell swoops of corporate bottom-lining, the record store experience: Venues to escape and lose oneself filtering through bins, discovering a semi-obscure album and/or an underappreciated director, actor and film, became critically fewer. This was the day we all had been foretold and dreaded actually experiencing happen.  Read more...

Movies on USB?

  • August 19, 2009 2:28 pm

Boing Boing reported today of an emerging trend in the very broken system of film distribution. Ron Mann, a Canadian documentarian, is releasing his latest doc, Knowing Your Mushrooms, on a customized USB stick. It’s shaped like a cute, tooth-filled ‘shroom.  Mann says: “We did this as a fun project. It wasn’t a commercial venture.” Mann is also thinking of distributing his great 1999 doc, Grass, on USB.

Indie filmmakers are not the only ones, testing the waters in digital distribution. A UK company called PNY partnered with Sony Home Entertainment and released Ghostbusters on a specially designed 2GB USB last fall.  Read more...