News - Written by twhite on Thursday, January 28, 2010 22:00 - 0 Comments
White at Sundance: Day 1–The Demon Lobbyist of K Street
Thanks to my colleague and part-time condo-mate Tamara Krinsky for taking us this far. I arrived for the second half, hit the ground running, getting my press credz at Sundance HQ, hightailing it to the Sundance Channel party, where the passed hors d'oevres included s'mores, that summertime, sing-around-the-campfire treat. Spotted among the revelers were Sundance Channel's Sarah Eaton, BBC's Nick Fraser, TV-2 Denmark's Mette Hoffman-Meyer, Participant Media's Dianne Weyermann, and filmmaker/doc juror Ondi Timoner.
With some time to kill between the party and my first screening, I crossed the street to the New Frontier on Main, an always fascinating and bracing ...
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Book Reviews - Jul 15, 2008 12:40 - 1 Comment
Book Review: Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0
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Documentary Film Reviews - Jul 18, 2008 10:46 - 0 Comments
New Documentary: Man On Wire
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. [1]
He used a 450 pound cable to do so and also a custom made 26 foot long, 55 pound balancing pole. Tight-rope walker, unicyclist, magician and pantomime artist, Philippe Petit was also one of the earliest modern day street jugglers in Paris in 1968. He juggled and worked on a slack rope with regularity in Washington Square Park in New York City in the early 1970s. Petit is one of the Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Other famous structures he has used for tightrope walks include that Cathedral, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Louisiana Superdome, and between the Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower. Petit currently lives in Woodstock, New York. A documentary film named “Man on Wire” by UK director James Marsh dealing with Petit’s WTC performance won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Filmfestival 2008. The film also won awards at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C.
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News - Mar 10, 2010 1:56 - 0 Comments
‘The Cove’ Team’s Sting Operation Revealed
Now we know what he was talking about.
The Oscar-winning crew discovered that popular Santa Monica sushi restaurant Hump, was serving whale. A sting operation involving tiny cameras, surveillance equipment and the whole bit revealed that the restaurant ...
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