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Mondo Cine
http://mondo-cine.blogspot.com/
An ongoing personal discussion (tinctured with some actual experience) on the world of film exhibition, film preservation, and film appreciation.
- Added on: May 24th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Roger Leatherwood
- Listed in: Cinema Media Production
- Tags: Cinema exhibition digital cinema film preservation movie theatres
Recent Posts
Spectacles Public and Private
Movies seem bigger than ever and less relevant than ever. We're not falling in love with going to the movies. Because we don't go, certainly not as often. They're simply around too much. In too many sizes. "Star Trek" notwithstanding, and even t...
Teen Scream
Teen comedies have changed over the last 10 to 20 years because teens have changed.Of course. The audience is what dictates what's produced, because if a movie shows in an empty theatre, does it make any noise?Around the '70s and '80s there was a ra...
Dark Archives
In film archiving programs much like the one I am in, what you end up learning is a lot more about library studies than actual preservation of film.What's important now is not trying to find an extant copy of an old lost classic. Let's presume that ...
Now
Has there ever been a film more review-proof than Transformers 2? The word is so uniformly and excoriatingly bad, not only from the egghead academic critics from such august publications as the New York Times and Aintitcool.com, but from our friends...
Dogma
About 10 years ago the Dogme movement emerged from Denmark, attempting to assert a new stripped-down aesthetic in filmmaking. Filmmakers such as Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg embraced a new straight-forward, honest (and presumably cheaper) mo...
Independent Days
What I really want to do is direct.What everyone wants to do is direct. Everyone's a closet moviemaker. Everyone's a comedian. Everyone has a screenplay in their bottom drawer, but no one's heard of anyone they know actually making it in Hollywood....
