BY LINDSAY ROBERTSON |
This Week's Best Online Film Writing: Secret Industry Tweeters & the Shame of Binge-Watching
A round-up of this week's best discussions, discoveries, provocations, backlashes, calls to arms and all-out wars about film on the Internet.
- "I haven't seen Moneyball but can you make this more like Moneyball?" - A roundup of the best of @NetworkNotes, a Twitter account made up of actual script notes from TV execs that names names (or at least networks.)
- Speaking of execs, the anonymous Tweeter known as @MysteryExec wrote his first column for us this week, about taking risks and kicking Hollywood in the metaphorical crotch.
- "Binge-watching is the classy way of watching too much TV, the rebranding of a previously disdained activity that makes the sedentary life palatable to those people...who would once have foresworn it." Slate's Willa Paskin makes a compelling argument that binge watching is just a fancy word for what we used to call being a couch potato. (Ouch!)
- Vulture dredges up what critics thought of Christmas classic Love, Actually back when it came out ten years ago. They didn't love it, but surely they've been legally forced to accept its dominance since then like the rest of us.
- "And then I did a film that was a horrible experience, Great Expectations (1998). That is a film that I should have not done. I passed many times, and then I ended up saying yes for the wrong reasons." - Alfonso Cuaron says he regrets making Great Expectations in a Hollywood Reporter directors round table. (Lots of other great stuff in there, too.)
- Lena Dunham interviewed Mindy Kaling about a lot of things, but our favorite part was when Mindy Kaling explained why so many interviews with her focus on her gender: it's because it's the only thing journalists ask her about . :(
- PBS's POV blog has a post on everything you need to know about Impact Producers and what they do.
- 5 Classic Movies Made By People Who Wanted Them to Fail includes the tidbit that Roger Ebert's review of Three Kings called it "Some kind of weird masterpiece."
- 30 Great Movies You Probably Haven't Seen
- 10 Embarrassing Brushes With Celebrities
- Quora: Who Is Your Favorite Female Director and Why?
- Reddit: Can You Be a Cinematographer Without Going to Film School?
And finally, we leave you with the trailer for Heaven is For Real, starring Greg Kinnear as the father of a little boy who has been to heaven, and the town that this fact somehow threatens to ruin, coming to theaters Easter 2014. Sweet heartwarming family drama or the latest entry in the horror canon? You decide: