industry/insider sources
trade press & related sources
various film blogs, online journals, resources
- Audiovisuality – online video essays
- Bright Lights Film Journal
- Cineaste
- David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson, Observations on Film Art
- Film Courage
- Film Studies For Free
- FilmSlate magazine
- Indiewood/Hollywoodn't
- j.j. murphy on independent cinema
- Jump Cut
- Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
- Open access film studies books available online, list from Film Studies For Free
- Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
- Raindance resources
- Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies
- Screening the Past
- Sense of Cinema
- The Chutry Experiment – Chuck Tryon
- Wide Screen
- Zigzigger: On the Audiovisual and Beyond (Michael Z. Newman)
Category Archives: Industry practice
Moonrise update
That straight-from-Cannes strategy seems to have worked with Moonrise Kingdom, then. Scott Macaulay of Filmmaker magazine tweets: ‘Wow! Half a million dollars on only 4 screens. “Moonrise Kingdom,” our print issue cover, is biggest limited release debut of all time.’
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‘indie’ blockbuster franchise??
‘Indie blockbuster franchise’ is not an oxymoron, argues Kristen Thompson in a detailed blog entry about The Lord of the Rings films, the Twilight series and The Hunger Games. It’s a useful piece about the industrial provenance of these titles. But I wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Straight out of the Cannes
Notable that two high-profile films premiered at Cannes in the last two weeks are opening almost immediately in the US and/or UK. Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is already showing in both countries while Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share opens in the UK on … Continue reading
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Free online screenings lead to sales
Nice example of how free screenings online can be used as part of an indie campaign leading to successful sales on DVD (and in this case recipe books!) in case of the documentary Hungry for Change, a critique of the … Continue reading
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