oh, snap
The most satisfying thing I've read all week comes, not surprisingly, from Walter Chaw:
Anymore, the Sundance imprint is a promise that a movie is going to be self-satisfied, laborious, and incompetent in that special way that independent films have become since getting co-opted by big money and directors looking to make a résumé instead of a film. You can call this shit "alternative," but alternative to what? Hustle & Flow is the same kind of underdog bullroar that mainstream producers who never met a pre-chewed master plot they haven't massaged introduce into the pool at every turn.
Read the full review
here.
See some of the best new docs without leaving your couch!
The PBS series
POV (aka my recent favorite source for documentaries) has been nominated for three Emmys for
the Lost Boys of Sudan and
Every Mother's Son (both co-directed by ladies).
Next month they will be showing Jessica Yu's
In the Realms of the Unreal as well as the Film Light favorite
WATTSTAX.
Just another punk doc
Susan Dynner is directing a documentary called
Punk's Not Dead which will reportedly "cover the punk scene from its inception in 1976 to the present... [A] release in 2006 which will also represent the 30th anniversary of the genre."
I'm disappointed with the decision to primarily address if 'punk can survive the mall?' when if you're going to take such a
white-bread tact the answer is already quite clear.
xox
Also see:
AfropunkBending the EquatorPunk Rock in the Holy LandRock n Roll Camp for GirlsRock n Roll MamasAtom & His Package
