Film & Television
The L.A. Times offers their list of the 25 films from the past quarter-century best capturing the essence of Los Angeles.
I was most surprised by this little nugget, from the blurb for Speed (#17):
One out of every 31 Americans lives in Los Angeles County.
I’m fine with Jackie Browne at the third spot (instead of Pulp [...]
Think of Arbitron as the Nielson ratings people for radio. It used to measure these ratings by having participants record their listening into diaries.
As of October, it switched to the “personal people meter” (PPM), with participants carrying an electronic recording device.
New York is the third PPM city, and Arbitron has said it is still [...]
The success of The Sims and Grand Theft Auto over competing titles is due largely to their
open ended gameplay where the player explores a large, complex playground and meanders about from non-linear adventure to non-linear adventure. The concept goes back to a couple of decades to early titles such as Elite, Nethack and Paradroid. Each [...]
“The haunted house film mimics the workings of the real estate market”; the displaced homeless haunt the wealthy, urban gentrifiers. Sure, it’s late for Halloween, but I just read it:
Haunted-house escapism allows us to evade two fundamental truths: that on some level we participate in the displacement of others, and that we ourselves are vulnerable [...]
If you like Hitchcock’s Vertigo (it’s his best), you might want to check out this before and after photo-tour of some San Francisco locations on which the film was shot.
Photograph of the staircase from Vertigo by ewar woowar.
The most recent New Yorker profiles David Simon, co-creator of The Wire. The new season centers on the newsroom of the Baltimore Sun and features actor/director Clark Johnson as editor Gus Haynes:
In the season opener, Haynes provides a bitingly funny introduction to newsroom culture. He complains about a photographer who invariably gooses the poignancy of [...]
I guess one upside to the war in Iraq is that, the more movies that are made about it, the more authentic they seem. This trailer for Stop-Loss indicates an attention to detail I haven’t seen in previous films; note the intentional disregard for uniform uniformity during the “you’re going back to Iraq” scene (at [...]
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