http://www.artsjournal.com/media.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:23:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Rex Reed called it "a film without a single redeeming quality"; Chuck Palahniuk called it "the best date flick ever"; professors write about its "rhetoric of masculinity" and "economics of patriarchy"; Dennis Lim says it "is surely the defining cult movie of our time."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/appalling_addic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/appalling_addic.shtml media Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:38:19 -0800 "Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content. The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/eu_to_give_teen.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/eu_to_give_teen.shtml media Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:54 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/disney_moves_to.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/disney_moves_to.shtml media Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:12:34 -0800 In a move that "sets up an immediate conflict" with film exhibitors, "[t]he Motion Picture Assn. of America is seeking government approval of technology that would allow Hollywood studios to deliver firstrun movies directly into American households on their televisions, perhaps even while a film is still in theaters."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/firstrun_films.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/firstrun_films.shtml media Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:03:07 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_berkeleyfic.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_berkeleyfic.shtml media Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:05:24 -0800 With St. Louis poised to lose its sole classical station, officials at Southeast Missouri State University "say that with a power increase and antenna upgrade at a repeater station in Farmington, the goal is to get classical music to the St. Louis region."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/station_100_mil.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/station_100_mil.shtml media Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:59:26 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/matrix_producer.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/matrix_producer.shtml media Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:28:39 -0800 "Fox on Saturday launches a weekly showcase for African-American comic Wanda Sykes. Next week" on TBS, "George Lopez becomes the first Latino to host a nightly late-night comedy series on a major network.... And last month saw the arrival of 'The Mo'Nique Show' on BET. Is this the Obamafication of the late-night wars?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/latenight_tvs_n.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/latenight_tvs_n.shtml media Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:30:46 -0800 "Regulated by the government, Gaul's release window schedule ensures that theater exhibitors, DVD distribbers and TV channels each have their own window of exclusivity." Exhibitors say their new, smaller window "will cause the downfall of cinema attendance in France and the 'degrading of theater owners' economic conditions.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/french_cinemas.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/french_cinemas.shtml media Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:52 -0800 "An imagined conversation in a movie theatre last night..."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/whos_on_first_u.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/whos_on_first_u.shtml media Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:06:58 -0800 "Disney in 2003 announced that it was abandoning traditional animation in favor of computer-generated imagery, after a string of hand-drawn flops," but it "didn't exactly strike pay dirt with its new all-computers, all-the-time approach." Now the cofounders of Pixar are overseeing Disney's return to the technique.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/disney_returns.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/disney_returns.shtml media Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:24:07 -0800 Turns out TV viewers, DVR owners included, want to lounge, not expend precious energy skipping commercials. "Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars and beer."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_dvrs_have_h.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_dvrs_have_h.shtml media Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:59 -0800 "Film festivals have sprung up in the Gulf Arab region in recent years with events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The latest, Robert De Niro's Doha Tribeca, just ended a four-day run in Qatar's capital. But despite the heightened exposure, Arab filmmakers say the focus is still on Hollywood and European films with little attention -- or funding -- given to homegrown films."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/arab_films_find.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/arab_films_find.shtml media Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:59:29 -0800 "Ratings are up 2 percent after falling for several seasons. I'm not suggesting the suits break open 11,000 bottles of champagne, but there is plenty of cause to pop a can of ginger ale. Freshman shows have reinvigorated a medium that once seemed headed the way of the typewriter, or Amy Winehouse's career."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/us_tv_ratings_s.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/us_tv_ratings_s.shtml media Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:07:21 -0800 "After a series of meetings last week, the two companies reached a tentative agreement on Friday over the main points of a deal, these people said. Comcast would own about 51 percent of NBC Universal, contributing several billions of dollars in cash and its own stable of cable networks to the new venture."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/comcast_close_t.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/comcast_close_t.shtml media Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:51:43 -0800 "For years PBS has been trimming back its high-culture programming, partly because it doesn't do well in the ratings and partly, I suspect, because such lofty fare has lost favor with the intellectual elite. The notion of devoting a 13-hour TV series to the glories of Western art would now be thought comical--or contemptible--by those well-placed eggheads who regard the West as the source of all evil in the postmodern world. Among such enlightened folk, "Civilisation" is regarded as an embarrassing relic, painfully slow-moving and politically retrogressive."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_culture_wa.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/when_culture_wa.shtml media Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:30:11 -0800 According to totalscifionline.com, it's The Shining. Stanley Kubrick's film "scared off fierce competition from Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and British cult classic The Wicker Man."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_scariest_mo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_scariest_mo.shtml media Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:19:14 -0800 Google's new music search feature, unveiled Wednesday, "was applauded by the music industry, which ... is hoping the search feature will direct users to legitimate digital music outlets and in turn help them compete with free but often unauthorized sources of music." It may also aid iTunes' competitors.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/google_search_c.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/google_search_c.shtml media Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:02:35 -0800 Tomorrow "the Stuart Street Playhouse reopens as a movie theater and Boston gets its first art house cinema in years." But, at least to start, it will not be a first-run house; it will open with movies that "have been playing in local theaters since last month."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_arthouse_ci.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/the_arthouse_ci.shtml media Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:08:18 -0800 "A film version of a book about a man's true-life experiences in post-Katrina New Orleans would seem sufficiently pregnant with artistic possibility. Still, Jonathan Demme plans to take his adaptation of Zeitoun, the best-selling Dave Eggers work, one step further by making it as an animated feature."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/demme_plans_ani.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/demme_plans_ani.shtml media Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:48:20 -0800 "Angela Washelesky, a partner at Reed Smith who heads that law firm's trademark practice in its Chicago office, called ripping library CDs 'total and complete copyright infringement. The fine for that kind of thing is $250,000 per copyrighted work. It is amazing to me that people do not know this.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/another_popular.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/another_popular.shtml media Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:02:15 -0800 "The Business Secretary, speaking at the digital creative industries conference c&binet, said that if the amount of illegal file-sharing taking place in the UK hadn't dropped by 70 per cent a year on from April 2010 measures to cut off file-sharers' connections would come into place from July 2011."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/uk_sets_a_date.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/uk_sets_a_date.shtml media Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:58:47 -0800 "The new service will be featured within a standard Google search. Just enter the name of the band or musician, then things like bios, videos and images pop up. Google itself is not selling the music."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/latest_google_o.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/latest_google_o.shtml media Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:35:47 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/memo_to_hulu_ma.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/memo_to_hulu_ma.shtml media Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:12:11 -0800 "Leafing through the literature is like letting the Cookie Monster loose in a Mrs. Fields franchise: You delve in excitedly before realizing there's more here than any single creature can digest."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/studying_and_st.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/studying_and_st.shtml media Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:33 -0800