Publisher’s Weekly recounts the unlikely journey of novice Bay Area filmmakers and identical twins Logan and Noah Miller:
“In January 2006, Logan and Noah Miller’s father, a homeless alcoholic, died in jail. The twins, aspiring filmmakers with no meaningful experience, had for years wanted to make an autobiographical film about their dad, and on the day [...]
Stories in Movies:
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Writers’ strike optimism abounds
From this morning’s LAT: “The Writers Guild of America leadership recommended Saturday that striking writers approve a contract offer from television networks and movie studios, signaling a likely — but not immediate — resolution to the crippling labor impasse.”
And the Washington Post: “Jubilant screenwriters declared victory Saturday in their 14-week-old strike, hailing the [...]
Deal or no deal?
Writers vote tonight on a tentative pact to end the three-month-old strike, sez Mark Lacter at LABizObserved.
Couch potato pick
We recently stumbled upon Outsourced, a charming indie film (just out on DVD) about a West Coast call center manager who learns that his department is being outsourced to India and that he must travel overseas to train his own replacement. The NYT calls Outsourced “a wonderful surprise.”
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
Freedom writers
Some folks in Long Beach are peeved at their town’s portrayal in the new Hillary Swank movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. From today’s LAT:
Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach is one of the [...]
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Writers’ strike optimism abounds
From this morning’s LAT: “The Writers Guild of America leadership recommended Saturday that striking writers approve a contract offer from television networks and movie studios, signaling a likely — but not immediate — resolution to the crippling labor impasse.”
And the Washington Post: “Jubilant screenwriters declared victory Saturday in their 14-week-old strike, hailing the [...]
Deal or no deal?
Writers vote tonight on a tentative pact to end the three-month-old strike, sez Mark Lacter at LABizObserved.
Couch potato pick
We recently stumbled upon Outsourced, a charming indie film (just out on DVD) about a West Coast call center manager who learns that his department is being outsourced to India and that he must travel overseas to train his own replacement. The NYT calls Outsourced “a wonderful surprise.”
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
Freedom writers
Some folks in Long Beach are peeved at their town’s portrayal in the new Hillary Swank movie based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. From today’s LAT:
Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach is one of the [...]
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July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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