News You Might Even Be Able to Use
Sep 17th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: News & Comment
Peet Gelderblom’s sly comic strip “Directorama” is back on the Web, in a shiny, brand-new blog named, appropriately enough, Directorama. Peet’s a filmmaker from “the heart of Holland,” as he puts it, who directs commercials and TV programs for an Amsterdam company. There’s a few bugs yet over at his new home, but I hope you’ll stop in over there and see what he’s up to.
A couple of things via girish: Seems they’re having issues over at the venerable French journal Cahiers du cinéma. Some of the employees, editors and such, have put together a bid to buy the magazine, to presumably return it to some kind of stature in the film world. Now, a competing bid from a conglom has arisen, and threatens to turn it into a multimedia powerhouse for the i-pod generation. Yecchh! Read more about it over at Craig Kellor’s place.
And speaking of Cahiers, you can see the latest film by its greatest living alum Jean-Luc Godard here. It’s the trailer for Viennale 2008, and it’s Godard classique. Which, of course, means “charmingly incomprehensible.”
Finally, Burn After Reading did something that no other Coen brothers film has ever done: it won its opening weekend. This despite mixed critical reviews . . . Perhaps it’s the canny release schedule, in that dead zone between the Summer block-busters and the Fall prestige pictures. After all, the only real competition it had was another Tyler Perry paint-by-numbers movie. Steven Zeitchik at Risky Biz analyzes the situation. Long live the Brothers Coen!
[You can read my review of Burn After Reading here.]
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I’m going to go ahead and risk wrath by saying I don’t find this strip all that funny (is it supposed to be funny? Or is it more humorously intelligent, as in you enjoy reading it but you don’t laugh?). You keep singing it’s praises, however, so I’ll keep checking it out. Perhaps I don’t have enough cinephile cred to appreciate it. I dunno.
I don’t think its cinephile cred, you’ve got a lot more than I do, I think … it’s just a matter of taste … the humor is more situational and irony-based than laugh-out-loud funny. Something tickles my fancy about all these “atheist” filmmakers going to heaven.
And this is only the third time I’ve mentioned it. So there.
Me? More cinephile cred than you? Not so sure about that…
I think so … you probably see a lot more flicks than I do, that’s for sure.