photo by Mike Ambs - we have a list going of people who want a #carepackage shipped to them :) but there are still plenty of @FToM buttons and stickers and flyers to give away! help us go through all our old stock via http://FToMfilm.com/care
The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.
- Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online, via courtenaybird, via rachelfershleiser …
The Internet isn’t real to them yet.
photo by Mike Ambs - always watching. always judging. #breaker
via eve merlot, by hellogiggles
Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Laundromat
Save for the technology, little about film schools has changed since 1929. They are trade schools playacting as art schools and moonlighting in remedial business courses. Yet the market for these programs has grown insatiable. For a previous generation, going to film school was an uncommon decision that required real grit and determination.
Today, while film schools remain seductive, they have dropped the grit and doubled down on the glamour; their sharp edges have been carefully filed off and their values have been kid-tested, mother-approved. The still prevailing myth of the film-student-as-rebel obscures the banal truth: These are highly profitable institutions, buttressed by a wildly irresponsible student loan system preying on thousands of starry-eyed individuals all vying for “their shot.”
via ftom film:
In the midst of moving apartments, Erica found that we still have piles and piles of stickers, plus a box full of pins, and, lastly, a Kinko’s sleeve of film flyers!
We’re making care packages and mailing them out to *anyone* who simply emails their mailing address to info@FToMfilm.com - free of charge. Help us run out of stock!
photo by Mike Ambs - had a really great time today behind the camera during a 2 hr conversation with richard sherman. very inspiring character with so many fantastic stories.
Great interview with David Fincher - pt 1
via thrashyerface, by Alex Billington
Billington: What are the defining factors found in this project and this story, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that made you decide to direct it?
Fincher: With this movie [Dragon Tattoo] - do I need to make another serial killer movie the rest of my life? No. But I hadn’t seen these two people [Mikael & Lisbeth]. I hadn’t been asked to direct… A love story is too easy. A story of friendship and personal intimacy, sexual intimacy, they are…
Billington: Something you hadn’t seen before? Or is it just the way…
Fincher: I’ve seen people take odd people from different sides of the street to team up to solve a murder mystery. I hadn’t seen this one. I thought she, in conjunction with him, was a team that was unlike anything that I was prepared for. Then I saw the Swedish movie and I thought, “Interesting… The movie I have in my head is different.” Talked to [screenwriter] Steve Zaillian, he was halfway through a script, and when he sent it to me, it was kind of what we had talked about, which was: “Let’s bring them front and center. Is anybody really keeping track of the Vanger clan and who’s in the drawing room with a pipe? Or is all of this something else? An excuse for something else?”
I think that the modernity, the thing that made it a new take on the locked room mystery, was not the foundation of socialism on the Third Reich war profiteering… That’s perfectly good and that’s perfectly understandable, but that’s what [author] Stieg Larsson was about and what he was up in arms about. He certainly was talking about the dark black liquid underbelly of this other… Sweden is still - I still saw it on the list the other day of the top 10 countries for women to live in. It was number three or something. And yet, Larsson would say, and there are many, many reports that would say to you, there’s a disproportionately high rate of rape in this country.
So all those thing were interesting to me, but that’s all backdrop. I love Chinatown. I’m not really that interested in how water was brought to San Fernando Valley, except in this case it’s a very interesting sort of thematic way to hold this investigation together, and worthy of its place in the pantheon of movies. But the thing to me, ultimately, that was fascinating in the story was him [Mikael] and her [Lisbeth].
