• Steve Pond talks to AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis about the Oscars’ “crisis point.” [The Odds]
• Redefining the cinema alien with “District 9.” [Daily Telegraph]
• Spike Jonze and his latest gets close to 7,500 words in the Grey Lady. [New York Times]
• Why Park Chan-Wook’s “Thirst” isn’t worth the hype. [Film School Rejects]
• Anne Thompson wades out into Telluride. [Thompson on Hollywood]
• YouTube in negotiations with studios to rent full movies… [Wall Street Journal]
• …to which Joe Flint suggesting cutting out the middleman and learning from ESPN’s rise to power on the backs of sports leagues. [Company Town]
• Roger Ebert gets cranky re: movie trivia. [Chicago Sun-Times]
• In defense of “The Road.” [The Playlist]
• Eric Gutierrez sits down with “Fish Tank” and “Inglourious Basterds” star Michael Fassbender. [The Times]
• Tom Cruise wanted to appear in Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” but was turned down. [Vulture]
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3 responses to “9/4 Web Round-up”
I doubt that District 9 “redefines” anything. Yes, it was successful, but so was Transformers and G.I. Joe. I am reminded of a Woody Allen quote. “The avaricious studios couldn’t care less about good films – if they get a good film they’re twice as happy, but money-making films are their goal. They only want these $100 million pictures that make $500 million.”
Read the actual piece, James. It’s an aesthetic argument.
great spike jonze piece