question of the day: O Hollywood, where art thou?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
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question of the day: If you were filthy rich, how would financially support the arts?
I’d start a foundation to support education in arts appreciation from elementary school onward, so that even little kids begin to learn why the arts are vital to our culture, and how to interpret and understand all kinds of art. And I’d be a patron of artists with promise, from filmmakers and writers to musicians and painters. I’d be such a generous millionaire, if only I had the opportunity…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: all the Doctor’s journeys in a gorgeous graphic
Graphic designer Wayne Dorrington has created a gorgeous infographic based on Information is Beautiful’s crowd-sourced collection of details on the Doctor’s travels through time.
question of the day: Can a Buffy movie be any good without Joss Whedon?
One fan suggests it’ll be like fan fiction, but not as interesting. Sounds about right to me, when Hollywood seems committed these days to generally distancing itself from any hint of cleverness or originality…
question of the day: What makes a movie great?
If a film must stand the test of time, is there an optimal age for a great film before it starts to feel dated? What are you personal criteria for cinematic greatness… and does it bother you when other film fans use different criteria?
“God hates nags”: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert bring it…
…in a nice, nonconfrontational way. I confess that I wasn’t sure whether more than a handful of rabid Daily Show/Colbert Report fans would turn up for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but the Mall sure looked really packed on TV this afternoon.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a review of ‘Doctor Who’: Live at Wembley Arena
Anorak has pictures from opening night, including one of Matt Smith smooching his girlfriend, model Daisy Lowe, in the audience. No Daleks were harmed.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor is now immortal, so there
Thirteen regenerations, and that’s it? So old Who, now that the prospect of a 13th Doctor doesn’t seem so far away…
question of the day: Can ‘The Taking of Prince Harry’ have any purpose beyond sheer titillation?
Later this month, the U.K.’s Channel 4 will air a ‘dramatized documentary’ about a fictional kidnapping of Prince Harry by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Can this film have any purpose beyond lurid sensationalism? And if that’s the only purpose it serves, is that okay?
question of the day: Who is the greatest British filmmaker working today?
It’s the obvious followup to Friday’s QOTD — about great American filmmakers — and corollary to the Guardian’s new list of most powerful people in British film…
