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<br /> In the latest episode of Filmmaker IQ (previously), host John P. Hess traces the history of the auteur theory, a concept in film criticism that celebrates the director as the primary auteur (from the French word for “author”) of a film’s creative vision. Simply put, the Auteur Theory holds that a film is…
‘Five very different kids, struggling to define themselves against the stereotypes projected onto them by parents and peers, spend Saturday detention together in the school library.’ Photograph: c.MCA/Everett / Rex Features/c.MCA/Everett / Rex Features The year was 1985. I was drinking a shandy, a lukewarm mocktail of beer and lemonade that proclaimed to the world,…
The MP3, the file type of most songs you listen to on a computer, is compressed. Part of the reason people love vinyl records so much (even though they don’t necessarily sound “better” than digital formats), is that they are closer in format to the way you would actually hear a song if you were standing…
From the time the first commercials aired during the American pro football championship game last month, CSI: Cyber has been one of the more talked-about and least-anticipated shows in recent memory. At least in tech circles. For normal viewers, it’s one of those shows that you wake up in the middle of at 10:27 after…
Akira is wonderful. The Simpsons is wonderful. Put them together and you get something pretty special. This is Bartkira. As Kotaku first mentioned when the crowd-sourced project first launched, Bartkira is inspired by artist Ryan Humphrey‘s art (see below) and spearheaded by cartoonist James Harvey. With over 500 hundred artists worldwide, each contributor works in…
HBO’s online-only service will cost $15 per month, report says ‘Game of Thrones’ received its first Golden Globes nomination since Season 1. Image: HBO By Jason Abbruzzese2015-03-04 20:26:40 UTC Details about HBO’s online streaming service emerged on Wednesday, including that it will be called “HBO Now” and cost $15 per month. The service could launch…
Watching Gotham continue its complete and utter lunacy in “Everyone Has a Cobblepot” last night, I was struck with a single, amazing thought. What if Gotham is an origin story not for regular Batman, but for the old Batman TV show from the ’60s? Because the ridiculousness is reaching that level. In fact, there are…
Start Article Post Content Women and minority writers have seen minimal progress in television, the Writers Guild of America West has reported.The guild’s television staff brief found that female writers accounted for 29% of TV staff employment during the 2013-14 season, down from 30.5%. Minorities accounted for 13.7% during the 2013-14 season, down from 15.6%….
Razing Williamsburg Who pulled the plug on America’s hippest music scene? “Peak Brooklyn” is what they’re calling it: the ubiquitous saturation of Kings County-related prose blanketing the internet. Brooklyn has become a touchstone for comparison with places the world over, based on superficial qualities like the presence of busking musicians or so-called “artisanal” retailers. And…
The free video-streaming upstart is starting to rival the larger site for traffic in some countries, but it isn’t necessarily doing anything illegal. Popcorn Time In January, Netflix, the online video streaming site, used its quarterly letter to shareholders to take aim at a rival. Not the premium-cable channel HBO, with which it’s locked in…