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June 27, 2007
Dispatch #190: Full of pride
In This Dispatch:
* The Bow/Kim Ki-duk
* What's New: Chris Marker, Snake Moan, and more.
* What We're Watching: Victor Pellerin, 7 Men, and Darwin.
* Explore: Best Gay films and more.
Read the rainbow flag edition of the GreenCine Dispatch, #190
Posted by cphillips at 12:40 PM
June 21, 2007
Dispatch #189: Goes behind the Iron Curtain
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: If..., WR, and more.
* What We're Watching: Panic, Eating Out, and Sean.
* Explore: East German film, Terabithia and more.
Put them together, and the terms "East Germany" and "cinema" conjure up bleak associations: a gray Berlin, barbed wire, and the soul-frying bitterness of a Hollywood Cold War picture along the lines of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold or a post-reunification lookback such as The Lives of Others. But, as Robert Horton shows in our latest primer, East German Film, there's a fair amount of barbed wire and bitterness in the films of the German Democratic Republic, but there's much more: the subject is ripe for re-discovery, a process helped along in the US by a 2005 Museum of Modern Art series and a steady stream of DVD releases from First Run Features. Click on for a guide to some of the more important works from behind the Iron Curtain: East German Film.
All this and more, in the latest edition of the GreenCine Dispatch newsletter.
Posted by cphillips at 1:43 PM
June 13, 2007
Dispatch #188 salutes new Austrian film
In This Dispatch:
* New Austrian Film primer
* What's New: Glory, Two of Us, and more.
* What We're Watching: Ozu, Planetes, and They Shoot Movies.
* Explore: Ralph Nader doc and a podcast.
Check it all out in Dispatch Newsletter #188 >>
Posted by cphillips at 3:42 PM
June 11, 2007
GreenCine's David Hudson interviewed for Cinematical podcast
The Rocchi Review -- with Special Guest David Hudson of GreenCine Daily!
How much is too much when it comes to online film journalism? Even with your RSS reader and constant connectivity, how do you find new stories and voices? What do readers really want? And is the general public even aware there's actually smart, engaging writing about film on-line? This edition of The Rocchi Review features a guest who's thought about all these topics and more -- David Hudson, the man behind the must-visit news and review roundup GreenCine Daily. David and I talk about these topics and much more - from what films are so big you can ignore them to the fierce fight for eyeballs in an overloaded age. You can download the entire podcast right here -- and we hope you enjoy.
Posted by cphillips at 2:25 PM
June 7, 2007
GreenCine Daily Small Business Blog of the Day (a year ago).
Don't know why it took us so long to come across Brian Brown's nice shout-out to our blog GreenCine Daily, but better late than never.
Green Cine Daily: Small Business Blog of the Day
by Brian Brown
If you like watching movies, and independent film in particular, there is one website that will quickly jump to your top ten list and that website is a blog. Today's blog is the best example I've see yet of a company who decided to blog about their entire industry, and as a result, became the website for that industry. ...Phenomenal. I can't imagine improving this blog, that's how good it is! There are two approaches you can take when creating a small business blog: 1) write a blog that talks about your company, or 2) write a blog that talks about your industry. This is a top example of an industry-focused blog that has been used to affix the company at the top of its niche. The result is the blog commanding absolute authority in their field, in this case resulting in 80,000 visitors a month according to a San Francisco Chronicle article about the company.
Belated thanks from GreenCine, Brian!
Posted by cphillips at 4:27 PM
June 6, 2007
Dispatch #187: Live from Iraq
Abu Ghraib prison is the subject of two different films seeing their DVD debuts this week. And in the new edition of the GreenCine newsletter we feature them both as well as point to two fascinating, connected interviews.
In This Dispatch:
* What's New: Caligari, Maxed Out, and more.
* What We're Watching: Duck, Tunnel, and Hot Summer.
* Explore: Danny Glover and Italian cinema.
Posted by cphillips at 3:08 PM