Editor’s column/daily commentary welcoming feedback and opinions.
Fortunately, to this day I have not been lynched by the AP Style Society. No one has picketed my house. Justina, my wife, has not had her invitations to the sewing circle rescinded. Okay, there is no sewing circle. And if there was one, I’d deliberately make some more grievous AP Style errors in order to get her kicked out because that would be totally rock n’ roll, right?
Is the Amazonianzation and Netflixication of independent film basically just the latest “reset” of what we used to think of as the hierarchy of studio films versus independent films?
We don’t need more Clooney, Kidman, Lawrence, Adams, Streep, Cruise coverage. Monkeys can do that by this point. We need to find the new talent in film, and TV, and VR, etc. We need to give the new voices a forum to discuss their work. We need to help people find the golden film needles in the haystack of VOD titles we scroll past on Amazon and Netflix now.
Is Dallas’ Film Community Giving Up Its Film Incentives Without a Fight? State Representative Matt
A Master: Liener Temerlin and the Dallas International Film Festival “It’ll knock your hat in
Film festivals and the pure love of people that make movies — Tallgrass Film Festival
Ana Lily Amirpour ’s THE BAD BATCH: The Second Toronto FF Report For the most
Andrea Arnold ’s AMERICAN HONEY Highlighted among Toronto Film Fest Report FILMS GONE WILD –
