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eVoting for Oscar
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Sep 2012
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is offering—for the first time ever—electronic voting for this year’s Oscars. COO Ric Robertson says, “It’s a big project for us, since we’ve been using the same process for 84 years.”
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Hopper’s Lost Prints
Via ap.org
Sep 2012
A trove of late actor Dennis Hopper’s 1960s photographs were recently discovered by his family. The Lost Prints—”a very intimate portrayal of his thought process as an artist”—are now on display at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau museum.
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Still Dots #81
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
The look that graces Holly’s face today is one of dynamic determination, that is to say, we can see Holly’s strong moral fiber working to change his personality and this expression is a sign of his change in character. The naive and romantic figure we have simultaneously admired and lambasted throughout the film thus far […]
The look that graces Holly’s face today is one of dynamic determination…
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Cinecitta Strike
Via bbc.co.uk
Sep 2012
For two months, workers at Italy’s famed Cinecitta Studio—which supported the work of auteur Fellini—have been camped out in protest. Employees say that management’s desire to restructure is a thinly veiled plan to end filmmaking at the studios.
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Professor Franco?
Via galleristny.com
Sep 2012
James Franco—a modern art “jack of all trades”—will now teach a small course at CalArts. His eight-student class will be a year-long collaboration that results in a film based on D.J. Waldie’s Lakewood memoir, Holy Land.
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First Color Film
Via telegraph.co.uk
Sep 2012
The National Media Museum in England has unveiled the world’s first color film. Made in 1903, the find makes unknown photographer Edward Turner “the father of moving colour images.” Paul Goodman, the museum’s head of collections, also says, “This rewrites film history.”
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Still Dots #80
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
Holly and Harry have finally disembarked from the Ferris Wheel voyage that has revealed so many disconnections and fallouts between them: in the time it takes to revolve once on Vienna’s Riesenrad, Holly and Harry discover (if they weren’t already aware of it) that their once intimate friendship can no longer be rekindled. With seemingly […]
Holly and Harry have finally disembarked from the Ferris…
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Bowie’s Archive
Via the artnewspaper.com
Sep 2012
The Victoria and Albert Museum has gained special access to David Bowie’s immense archive—selections from which will make up the London museum’s first spring show of 2013. The exhibition will feature some 300 objects, around half of Bowie’s complete archive.
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Still Dots #79
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
We catch Harry, master actor that he is, with a particular slackjawed expression as he gazes from the side of the Ferris wheel’s gondola. Holly has just charged Harry with something that must rankle them both at the base of their Catholic upbringing. In response to Harry’s nihilistic monologue on the inhumanity of all of […]
We catch Harry, master actor that he is, with a particular slackjawed…