Not that we have enough money to shoot in any of these locations…. [via Boing Boing]

I’d like to thank my mom Nancy, AKA Big Nance, for my link of the week.

Thanks Mom!
xxoo
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Majesco Entertainment Acquires Video Game Rights for American Cinema Classic: ‘Taxi Driver(TM)’
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If you haven’t watched the Criterion Collection’s recently released F for Fake, turn off your computer and go get it. F was the last film completed by Orson Welles. It’s as if Welles had the powers of Nostrodamus. He changed the face of cinema with his first film, Citizen Kane, and then predicted where cinema would go with F for Fake. His editing technique pre-dates MTV by a good 15 years. With Fake, Welles created a new genre that Bogdanovich calls a film essay. I could blather on about the film, but you should really just see it for yourself.

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow has an interesting post about Edward Jay Epstein’s new book, The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood.
Link to Boing Boing post.
Link to Epstein’s weblog.

It hit me last night as we were driving away from the cookout. The highest of highs are usually followed by a crushing low. I was in the backseat when the meloncholy set in. Those of you who made it to the show last Saturday know what I’m talking about. One of the most unique semi-annual events in our area will never happen again.

For the past few days Andrew and I have been following the Neil Diamond All Stars around Carrboro. We are making a documentary about their final performance, sort of a Last Waltz meets Gimme Shelter. Both of us were given all-access passes into their rehearsals, their green room, their show, and their lives. This is as close as I will ever be to being a rock-star, it even topped the New Year’s Day hayride with Bret Michaels in Pittsboro. I’m working hard now on getting the thing cut so all you out there can feel the love. Hoping to have a trailer cut for the forum on Friday.

Until Next Time, Later Gator.

Fun with Final Cut Pro
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Many of the photos from this flickr user’s haunted hospital slideshow should look eerily familiar to those of you who’ve seen our film Set.

Steven Hill’s working title.
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So I finally got a chance last night to watch the new Punisher movie. Oh, don’t worry, I didn’t pay for it. I borrowed the DVD from friends who own just about every movie that has ever come out on DVD. I’m a little embarrassed to say it, but I must admit I liked it. I have been collecting comic books since I was a little kid, so I’m a bit biased towards comic book movies, but even I realize when one is a real stinker. Like the original Punisher movie. The production values of the 2004 version of The Punisher were so superior to the 1989 version that I felt sorry for Dolph Lundgren for having to star in that first Punisher crapfest. Not to mention the fact that Tom Jane was much more convincing with dark hair than Dolph, who really should have stopped acting after Rocky IV. Wait a minute, he didn’t act in Rocky IV. He had two lines in the whole movie. My favorite being, of course, “I must break you!” Anyway, this new Punisher movie used a much better formula than the first one. The premise for each is the same; Frank Castle’s family gets killed and he punishes the people responsible. But in the original Punisher it was just Frank’s wife and son that were killed. In the updated version, you get to know Frank’s family for the first act of the movie and then his whole family, including parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews, are killed. John Travolta is the bad guy in the new Punisher movie, which I enjoyed because ever since Pulp Fiction I have always enjoyed seeing him get killed on film. The new Punisher even had something for the few ladies who might watch it; a tacked-on love story and Tom Jane with his shirt off most of the movie. There’s even comic relief, a la Hamlet’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to cut the tension of the alcoholic loner Punisher. So, overall, I think the 2004 version of The Punisher is a much superior film to the 1989 version, but still not worth paying money to see.