February 3, 2007

Weekend online viewing.

American Revolution II: Battle of Chicago A few shortish views here, but more than half aren't. For example, this from Ray Pride: "American Revolution II: Battle of Chicago, one of the sources for footage for Brett Morgen's Sundance 2007 opening attraction Chicago 10, is a cinema vérité-style doc shot on the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention." Phenomenal stuff. Why isn't this happening now? Slate editor Jacob Weisberg had some thoughts on this question back in December.

Chuck Olsen: "This week I put my entire documentary feature film online. It's called Blogumentary and it documents the rise of political and personal blogs, from the early days up through the Iraq War and Dan Rather's downfall - not to mention a bloggy love story or two." And here it is.

The Doomsday Code. Via Brian Flemming.

Looks like this was a fun premiere: The Scratch.

John Waters sells a record.

Whatever you think of Roberto Benigni now, he used to be funny. As he is in this segment of Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth, via TickleBooth.

The trailer for Across the Universe. Very iffy. Maybe, maybe not. Hm. Via Moriarty at AICN.



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Posted by dwhudson at February 3, 2007 1:01 PM

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from the looks of the trailer, "across the universe" looks like another desperate attempt on the part of studio executives to cross a love story with a "sign o' the times" historical epic, in the hope of currying favor come oscar time. the only thing that remotely redeems it in my eyes is that it is directed by julie taymor, which means it probably will look real pretty.

but if out of boredom i do wind up seeing it, and they actually do play "hey jude" while of the main character, surprisingly named jude, looks pouty, i am leaving the theater.

Posted by: jordon at February 3, 2007 3:55 PM