question of the day: How would great female filmmakers describe their work in ways comparable to the machismo of male filmmakers?
The male dominance of filmmaking sometimes smacks at you from a direction you weren’t expecting.
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: Is Hollywood imploding?
Are we seeing a seimic shift in how Hollywood operates, perhaps akin to the shift to blockbusters in the late 1970s? Can Hollywood endure making only movies for kids? What will Hollywood look like in 10 years?
question of the day: How much do posters influence your decision to see a movie (or not)?
When was the last time you saw a movie poster on the side of a phone kiosk or even at a multiplex for a movie that you hadn’t previously known about… or for one that you hadn’t already made a decision about seeing?
question of the day: What is the greatest opening for a movie ever?
Entertainment Weekly has just posted its picks for “30 Classic Opening Movie Scenes” — and a few of them would rank among my favorite opening scenes ever…
question of the day: What actor/director team-ups would you like to see?
Terrence Malick with James Franco? Woody Allen with Clive Owen? Quentin Tarantino with Kate Winslet? And what kind of project would your dream team do?
question of the weekend: The space shuttle program is over, NASA’s budget is getting slashed: what’s the next big thing in space?
I feel that unless the U.S. realigns its priorities away from endless war and back toward science and exploration, it’s over as a spacefaring nation. The 21st century in space will be Chinese, I suspect: I bet they’ll put a man (and probably a woman) on Mars by 2025.
question of the day: What’s the next “bad” or “horrible” high-concept comedy?
Unpleasant Sanitation Worker? Irritating Bus Driver? Terrible Therapist?
question of the day: What actors have you been surprised to discover were a different nationality than you’d believed?
BBC America’s Secretly British is tongue in cheek, of course: no one is actually hiding their nationality. But sometimes we’re surprised anyway…
question of the day: What is the appeal of steampunk?
This is my theory: Steampunk is about looking ahead and seeing magnificent airships plying blue skies, not global warming or nuclear war…
question of the day: Which will come first: a non-British James Bond or a non-British Doctor?
And what non-British actors can you imagine or would you like to see in either or both roles?
