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Microsoft is passing out a new ad campaign image. It highlights the gist of a new trade-in program it’s offering for potential Xbox One gamers.</div>
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As the ad suggests, you’ll earn $100 if you bring your <a class="vglnk" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=playstation+3" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #28a0ff; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">PlayStation 3</a> into a Microsoft store and <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/01/30/microsoft-offering-100-if-you-ditch-your-ps3-for-an-xbox-one/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #28a0ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">trade</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> it in towards an Xbox One. Further investigation lead us to <a href="http://content.microsoftstore.com/en-us/offers/beachwoodplace#offer-trade-console" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #28a0ff; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none;">this link on the Microsoft Store’s official site</a>.</div>
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The deal is indeed legitimate, though it extends to more than just the PlayStation 3. Here’s a bit of the fine print regarding what you can trade-in for $100 towards an Xbox One.</div>
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For a limited time, bring in your PS3, Xbox 360 S or Xbox 360 E and receive $100 of Microsoft retail store credit.</div>
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Are you willing to ditch an aging system for a brand new one? If the Xbox One shipped with <a class="vglnk" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=xbox+360&x=0&y=0" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #28a0ff; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">Xbox 360</a> backwards compatibility, I bet a lot of gamers would be all over this in a heartbeat.</div>
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As it is now, they’ll need their previous generation machines in order to play the likes of<em>Grand Theft Auto V</em>.</div>
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Any takers?</div>
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Since last Fall when ARRI first unveiled the AMIRA, everyone in the industry has been dying to know just how much the ENG-style ALEXA would cost. Today, ARRI sent out a press release announcing that they are now accepting orders for the AMIRA with the most basic configuration starting at €25,980 (approximately $35,444 USD).</div>
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<span id="more-1713"></span>In <a href="http://www.arri.de/about_arri/press/english/english_single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1427&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7581&cHash=2e553adc8957baacea3048dc61c9735d" style="color: #1982d1; text-decoration: none;">their press release today</a>, ARRI broke down the three different AMIRA configurations that are currently available:</div>
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<li>“Entry-point” (<strong>$35,444</strong>) allows Rec 709 ProRes 422 recording up to 100 fps</li>
<li>“Advanced set” (<strong>$39,537</strong>) adds features such as Log C, ProRes 422 (HQ) at 200 fps, in-camera grading and a pre-record function, among others.</li>
<li>“Premium set” (<strong>$44,994</strong>)<strong> </strong>incorporates features for high-end productions perhaps using AMIRA as a companion to ALEXA, including ProRes 4444 and 2K up to 200 fps, as well as limitless color control on set and in post with custom 3D LUTs.</li>
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It should be noted that we took the prices the AMIRA is selling for in Europe and converted it to USD. It is quite possible that when US sellers begin offering the AMIRA, the price could be a little lower.</div>
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While ARRI didn’t give an exact release date for the AMIRA, they did say it should begin shipping in Q2 of this year.</div>
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We plan on offering the <a href="http://www.strayangel.com/la-rent/cameras/arri-amira-camera-rental.html" style="color: #1982d1; text-decoration: none;">ARRI AMIRA for rentals</a> as soon as it becomes available. Check back here on the blog, or <a href="http://www.strayangel.com/la-rent/cameras/arri-amira-camera-rental.html" style="color: #1982d1; text-decoration: none;">on our website</a> for availability.</div>
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Awards Spotlight: Alfonso Cuarón, the Fearless Leader</h1>
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Following his beloved apocalyptic thriller "Children of Men," Cuarón decided that for his next project, he wanted to go to space. The problem was, to get him there new technology would have to be invented. Instead of throwing in the towel, Cuarón and his team worked tirelessly for four and a half years to make Cuaron’s dreams a reality.</div>
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As part of VEVO's CERTIFIED series, will.i.am provides his thoughts about ongoing tech advances. He discusses doing his famous first hologram interviews with CNN, and explains his ideas about global connectivity.</div>
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Varona Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07727374814820919036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376128965082130121.post-82860766354854401662014-01-27T16:10:00.003-08:002014-01-27T16:10:36.165-08:0021 Films I’m Anticipating at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival<br />
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21 Films I’m Anticipating at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival</h1>
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These lists get harder and harder. You know more filmmakers, you hear more buzz and honing in on pre-festival favorites with any kind of concision becomes more an act of exclusion than a celebration of possibility. (In other words, this list’s length is more determined by the pokiness of Delta’s on-flight wi-fi and the festival opening-day deadline than my enthusiasms for the selections of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.)</div>
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Below are 21 festival picks, beginning with a favorite project I’ve been wanting to see realized for years. As you’ll note, I’ve paid particular attention to folks from our 25 New Faces list, particularly the ones from the last two years who landed on the list by virtue of our belief in the projects that are premiering here. I’ve left out a ton of people, many of whom are listed at the end, and I also haven’t noted some of the other cool stuff at the festival, like the chance to try an Oculus VR headset, or some of its fantastic music events.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter</em>:</strong> You know how you know when a screenplay sticks with you? When it inspires your <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">passwords</em>. The script for the latest by the Austin-based Zellner Brothers passed through my New York Forensic Films production office quite a few years ago, and we all took to it. My old interns still talk about it and, yes, for some time after it’s arrival you’d key past our alarm system or log on to our Gmail by typing the name of the film’s eponymous and unassuming Japanese seeker-of-riches. (Plus, of course, some random number at the end. And maybe the “o” in “Kumiko” was typed as a “0.”) We tried to help out a bit in the early days, getting the script to one possible cast member, but for too long this has always been one of those “what if” films we have all just wanted to see on screen. So, I was thrilled to see it in the Sundance Dramatic Competition line-up.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little Accidents</em>.</strong> Here’s the second feature expansion of a short on this list: Sara Colangelo’s debut drama, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little Accidents</em>. Like Hodierne, Colangelo is <a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/boyd-holbrook/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">a 25 New Face</a>, and she also attended the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs with this story of the disappearance of a teenage boy and its effect on three people in a small coal-mining town. The short was powerful drama, and Colangelo has amassed a stellar cast and crew here, including Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook (<a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/boyd-holbrook/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">another 25 New Face</a>), and<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fruitvale Station</em> DP Rachel Morrison.</div>
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To fill you in, the story follows thirteen-year-old, Jacob, obsessed with motocross and heavy metal. In the wake of his mother’s death, he’s stirring up trouble across town and butting heads with his emotionally absent father, Hollis. Eventually, his behavior gets his younger brother, Wes, taken away and Jacob and Hollis must take responsibility for their actions in order to get Wes home.</div>
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It gets much more complex than that, it’s a world where refineries, the prison system and high school sports rule. Where young boys set fires to skate rinks, smoke cigarettes in drainage ditches and tear up construction sites on their motocross bikes. It’s a film set to ’80s thrash metal and inspired by films like <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the Edge</em> and <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord of the Flies</em>.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/14076/my_52_tuesdays" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">My 52 Tuesdays</a>/52 Tuesdays</em>.</strong> At Sundance there are the (hopefully) cool movies, and then the cool New Frontiers stuff — the multimedia, transmedia, interactive work. But often there’s little overlap — few films trying to take advantage of both sorts of experience. So, that’s why I’m particularly interested in these two works. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">52 Tuesdays</em> is a feature film by Sophie Hyde and <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My 52 Tuesdays</em> is a New Frontier piece by Hyde, Sam Haren and Dan Koerner that mysteriously promises viewers access to a place allowing them to contemplate their own lives on successive Tuesdays.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear White People</em>.</strong> Debuting filmmaker <a href="http://justinsimien.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">Justin Simien</a> cites influences ranging from Spike Lee to Robert Townsend to John Landis to Robert Altman when discussing his campus comedy,<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear White People</em>. It’s the story of four black students, each navigating their racial identity in different ways at a predominantly white Ivy League college, and it’s a comedy. In addition to a cast mixing newcomers with vets like Dennis Haysbert, it has top producing talent involved, including Stephanie Allain (<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hustle and Flow</em>) and Effie Brown (<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Real Women Have Curves</em>).</div>
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<a href="http://www.richhillfilm.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich Hill</em>.</strong></a> Speaking of horror, <a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/andrew-droz-palermo/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">25 New Face Andrew Droz Palermo</a>‘s most well known credit is for lensing Adam Wingard’s<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You’re Next</em>, but he makes his own directorial debut, along with his cousin, Tracy Droz Tragos, with <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rich Hill</em>, a documentary about three youth growing up in the economically stressed town of Rich Hill, Missouri. “There are no outside experts – the kids themselves tell their story,” writes Droz Tragos on the project’s Kickstarter page.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life Itself.</em></strong> There are some films you believe will be great, but you just don’t catch them at a festival like Sundance. “I can see it later,” you say to yourself. Again, no slight to the films, it’s just that you’re not sure the context of Sundance will add much to your viewing experience. The above is not an issue that will come into play when deciding to see the latest from <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hoop Dreams</em> and<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stevie</em> director Steve James. He’s made a feature documentary about the late film critic Roger Ebert, whose eulogies are still appearing in <a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/83046-thoughts-on-roger-ebert-35mm-and-peter-wintonick/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">pages like ours.</a> Ebert was an indefatigable and enthusiastic presence at Sundance over the years. I can’t think of a better cinematic chronicler of his life than his Chicago neighbor Steve James, and I can’t wait to this film.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Leos CaraX</em>.</strong> Speaking of director portraits, here’s another: Tessa Louise-Salomé’s picture about the chain-smoking visionary of French cinema, Leos Carax. In 2012 Carax’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy Motors</em> was my favorite film, and just recently I’ve spoken to a number of young filmmakers who caught his astonishing second feature,<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mauvais Sang</em>, when it was revived at the Film Forum. Carax is a complicated talent who is consistently proven by his challenging and often brilliant pictures.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Song One</em>.</strong> Kate Barker-Froyland makes her directorial debut with one of the higher-profile titles in the Dramatic Competition. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Song One</em> is a drama about a woman, Franny (Anne Hathaway), drawn back to New York by her comatose brother’s accident and who connects with a musical idol in the Brooklyn music scene. Barker-Froyland shot in real venues like Pete’s Candy Store and Bowery Ballroom, and, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-preview-anne-hathaway-finds-669087" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">she told Hollywood Reporter</a>, her family’s cinephilia (she is the daughter of Sony Classics head Michael Barker) and love of filmmakers like Wim Wenders and Louis Malle inspired her to become a director.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Land Ho!</em>.</strong> Quick, what’s a Gamechanger film? You know,<a href="http://gamechanger-films.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">Gamechanger,</a> the new film fund for woman directors whose launch has been part of the recent dialogue about the paucity of female directors in Hollywood and female-centric stories in theaters. Well, whatever your vision of “a Gamechanger film” is is likely to be challenged by the company’s first picture, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Land Ho!</em>, premiering in Park City just a few months after the launch of the company itself. First of all, the film is about dudes — two older retired guys trekking around Iceland. And it’s co-directed, by a woman <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</em> a man. They are Aaron Katz (whose <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quiet City</em>remains a favorite of mine) and Martha Stephens (<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Passenger Pigeons</em>). It’s easy for companies to fall victim to their own mission statements, and the fact that Gamechanger is interpreting theirs in expansive, interesting ways is, I think, a good sign for the long-term health of this company.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Foxy Merkins</em>.</strong> What a title! <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Foxy Merkins</em> is Madeleine Olnek’s follow-up to her Gotham-nominated <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same</em>, a film everyone at <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Filmmaker</em>fell in love with a few years ago. Despite the presence of actors like <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Girls</em> star Alex Karpovsky, who returns here, that film didn’t get the recognition it was due. I’m hoping Olnek’s latest — about lesbian hookers — is as good and does.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://appropriatebehaviormovie.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">Appropriate Behavior</a></em>.</strong> As mentioned, quite a few of our 25 New Faces have films at Sundance. Here’s another: <a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/desiree-akhavan-and-ingrid-jungermann/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">Desiree Akhaven</a>, whose <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appropriate Behavior</em> is an autobiographical comedy of identity in which director/actor Akhaven tries to reconcile hers as “an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite.”</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart.</em> </strong>Jeremiah Zagar’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a Dream</em> is, I think, one of the more influential documentaries of recent years, and what seems interesting about his feature follow-up, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Captivated</em>, is that it’s not just about a famous tabloid tale but also its retelling and commodification by the media. For those who only know this story through its dramatization in Gus Van Sant’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To Die For</em>, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Captivated</em> promises to tell it from Smart’s point of view.</div>
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<a href="http://www.20000daysonearth.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20,000 Days on Earth</em>.</strong></a> Nick Cave has still got it. On the last night of his Bad Seeds show earlier this year at the Beacon Theater, an audience member shouted, “You’re old enough to be my grandfather!” Then, in the show’s fiery finale of “Stagger Lee,” Cave approached the front lights, thrust his pelvis forward, and ad-libbed, “Oh, Stagger Lee, you can suck your grandfather’s….” Well, you get the idea. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20,000 Days on Earth </em>is some kind of hybrid pseudo doc starring and about Cave by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/27/day-in-the-life-nick-cave" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">the filmmakers say</a> is influenced by Godard’s<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One Plus One</em> and Led Zeppelin’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Song Remains the Same</em>. It’s also one of four British films premiering at Sundance <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/us-buyers-offered-p-a-670133" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">the BFI is offering U.S. distributors</a> financial P&A support.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boyhood</em>.</strong> Rick Linklater’s latest is, along with <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kumiko</em>, my top title on this list. It’s been whispered about for years, and Linklater elaborated a bit when he talked with James Ponsoldt for our Summer issue. Briefly, it’s a narrative film that deals with time’s passing by using an approach more often found in documentaries such as Ken Loach’s <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Up</em> series (and, I guess, Linklater’s own<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before</em> pictures). Star Ethan Hawke <a href="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/13/richard-linklater-boyhood-sundance/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #e1691f; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out, border-bottom 0.2s ease-in-out;">explains to Entertainment Weekly:</a></div>
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Richard Linklater and I have made a short film every year for the last 11 years, one more to go, that follows the development of a young boy from age 6 to 18. I play the father, and it’s Tolstoy-esque in scope. I thought the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before</em> series was the most unique thing I would ever be a part of, but Rick has engaged me in something even more strange. Doing a scene with a young boy at the age of 7 when he talks about why do raccoons die, and at the age of 12 when he talks about video games, and 17 when he asks me about girls, and have it be the same actor — to watch his voice and body morph — it’s a little bit like timelapse photography of a human being.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sleepwalker</em>.</strong> Norwegian music video director Mona Fastvold makes her feature debut with a U.S.-shot co-production about sisters, family history, inheritance and conflict. What’s interesting, aside from the co-production angle and Fastvold’s impressive visual style, is the screenplay collaboration. Fastvold wrote the movie with actor Brady Corbet, who is about to have his moment, I think. After playing memorable supporting parts for directors like Lars Von Trier and Michael Haneke, toplining Antonio Campos’s recent <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Killer</em>, and starring in great shorts by young filmmakers like Laure de Clermont-Tonnere and Andrew Renzi, he is set to direct his own first feature — also co-written by Fastvold — this summer. And it stars Juliette Binoche! A major career seems about to bust out.</div>
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Of course, this list could have been twice as long. I tried to stay away here from a lot of the names we’ve cited in similar lists of the past, so apologies to a slew of filmmakers I’m just as excited about, including Ira Sachs, Joe Swanberg, Carter Smith, Damian Chazelle, Stuart Murdoch, Lynn Shelton, Jim Mickle, Mike Cahill, Jeff Preiss and Anton Corbijn, among many others.</div>
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Varona Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07727374814820919036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376128965082130121.post-79782718690093824252012-08-01T12:09:00.002-07:002013-01-16T00:47:35.991-08:00Prodigy- "LIVE"- Music Video<iframe width="500" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AOJDjW1C4ng?list=PL2F83E8ACC209CA94" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Varona Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07727374814820919036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376128965082130121.post-6137916813635397702012-06-12T13:55:00.001-07:002013-01-16T00:47:55.253-08:00Waka Flocka ft. Meek Mills- "Let Dem Guns Blam"<div style="text-align: center;">
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