film
01/24/2007
IndieWire at Sundance
This daily Sundance coverage manages to pull your focus away from the parties and multi-million dollar deals, compiling a series of brief webisodes (including "Emerging Talent" and "60 Second Film Reviews") that cover the independent film being celebrated this week.
For a series with such short turn-around, the coverage is pretty insightful, with a broad scope and interesting insights from both the well-known and the newbies. By covering both the smaller and bigger films playing, viewers get a solid survey of this year's Sundance experience. And any time you can get emo indie icon David Gordon Green to talk about going Hollywood to indulge his "comedic impulses", the better off the world is.
11/28/2006
Cinema Psychic
You know how some people can predict the end of a movie about three minutes deep? Well Charlie Baker, “Cinema Psychic”, has the same uncanny foresight... but he doesn't even have to cough up the ten bucks to know how it all ends. In this new podcast, psychic powers are borrowed from the hands of local Colorado gypsies and finally put to good use: predicting box office receipts.
The first episode of this new series aired last Friday, and I'm already in love with Charlie and his witty “psychic” perceptions. The podcast has great pacing and offers intelligent insight into this weekend's “do’s” and “don’t” of box office. A new installment comes out this Friday; the “viral psychic” in me thinks that this web show is going to develop a strong and loyal following.
