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January 31, 2007
Dispatch #169
The GreenCine Dispatch newsletter says farewell to January in noir style. Read on, MacDuff:
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Catch a Fire, The Motel, Viva Pedro.
* What We're Watching: Cousin Bette, Kenneth Anger and Martha Ivers.
* Explore: Aces, Farley Granger and Grindhouse 4.
Posted by cphillips at 4:09 PM
January 25, 2007
GreenCine Dispatches 167 and 168
We were at Sundance this past week so that flavored the most recent edition of the newsletter. For your benefit, here they are!
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Moustaches, elephants, and more.
* What We're Watching: Animation, Freedom and Monday.
* Explore: More Grindhouse, GC Daily at Sundance.
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Kurosawa, Film Rated, and more.
* What We're Watching: Monsters, Woods and Manhattan.
* Explore: Zoo, China Blue, Romántico and more.
Posted by cphillips at 11:27 AM
January 22, 2007
'24 Hours on Craigslist', via GreenCine, is Film.com's debut movie with a new film featured each week
Press Release Source: RealNetworks, Inc.
RealNetworks Announces Film.com Will Offer Free Streaming of Independent Full-Length Movies
Sunday January 21, 10:30 pm ET
'24 Hours on Craigslist' is Film.com's debut movie with a new film featured each week
PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sundance Film Festival -- RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK - News), the global leader in digital media and entertainment, announced today that its new film and entertainment information site, Film.com® is introducing the Film.com Movie of the Week, which includes free streaming access to full-length movies along with information, interviews, and background on the movie and its creators. Film.com will showcase established and up-and-coming filmmakers and their films throughout 2007.
The Film.com Movie of the Week will be supported by in-movie sponsorship and advertising allowing the movies to be free to site visitors. The initial catalog of movies are provided to Film.com through its relationship with GreenCine, a San Francisco-based company with extensive library of independent, international and documentary films. GreenCine offers more than 50,000 titles in over 250 genres for sale or rent with 10,000 of these films available on-demand for streaming or download.
Read the Real/Film.Com press release in its entirety >>
Posted by cphillips at 12:13 AM
January 11, 2007
Dispatch #166
Enjoy the latest issue of the GreenCine Dispatch, our newsletter covering all the DVD and film news that's fit to e-print.
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Idiocracy, Quinceañera, and more.
* What We're Watching: Siberiade, Dreamland and more.
* Explore: Ellen Bruno, character actors, GC Daily.
Posted by cphillips at 12:00 PM
GreenCine Mention in SF Chronicle
GreenCine was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on exercise videos, which tied in with New Year's resolutions (of course).
WORKING HARD FOR LITTLE MONEY
When exercising to DVDs, try before you buy
Camper English, Special to The Chronicle
Excerpt:
Netflix, GreenCine and Blockbuster each carry dozens to hundreds of workout titles, available for rent by mail without late-return fees. (Members can work on their no-procrastinating resolutions later.) Exercise DVDs are somewhat hidden on these sites, usually filed away under the "Sports and Fitness" category, if they're categorized at all. It's easier to find them by searching for words like "workout" or "yoga" than by scrolling through the endless list of sports documentaries.Perhaps the reason these DVDs don't merit their own category is that they're not very popular. Craig Phillips, an editor at San Francisco's GreenCine.-com, says, "We do have some people who are interested in Pilates and yoga videos, so we do have a variety. They rent pretty well. Any other kind of exercise or fitness videos don't rent very well through us. My general sense is that people would rather own (the DVDs), just as they want to own 'Toy Story' for their kids because their kids want to watch it 500 times."
One thing that was cut out of the above quote is our emphasis on the fact that GreenCine also does sell exercise titles and they're fairly cheap. [Some pilates DVDs for sale; some yoga titles for sale]
Posted by cphillips at 11:50 AM
January 2, 2007
Dispatch #165: Happy New Year edition (and #164)
We've made a resolution to get the GreenCine newsletter, the Dispatch, to you in timely fashion every Tuesday afternoon even if it kills us. So here's the first one of the year:
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Seven Swords, "mother------" Snakes, and little else.
* What We're Watching: Sex & Fury, Agnes and more.
* Explore: Del Toro, Tykwer and Grindhouse, chapter 2.
* Service Highlights: Faster search.
Oh yes, we neglected to put up the previous edition of the Dispatch, which went out right before Christmas.
Posted by cphillips at 4:34 PM