GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 10/28.

October 28, 2008

Gus Van Sant's Milk premieres tonight at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik thinks Focus Features is "hiding it" and lays out a few possible reasons. Meanwhile, Shawn Levy points to Borys Kit's story in the Hollywood Reporter on Fox Searchlight picking up Van Sant and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's next project, an adaptation of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Related online viewing. Black has directed two Web ads for Republicans Against 8 and Ted Johnson's got them.

Ray Pride's having a hard time taking Belá Tarr's plans for his next project seriously.

"The International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their annual awards today," notes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "The five features to get the nod are Kassim the Dream, Stranded, Man on Wire, Young@Heart and Waltz With Bashir."

Catherine Grant presents an extensive roundup - text, audio, video - on Atom Egoyan's Adoration.

Scott Macaulay's latest entry at Filmmaker is full of sorely needed levity: "Zizek and Henri-Levy on Kusturica."

"Before standardizing the topography of noir with Murder My Sweet, Edward Dmytryk made the nervy little "coming home from the war" film Til the End of Time," writes Erich Kuersten at Bright Lights After Dark. "A lower budgeted cousin to William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives, Dmytryk's film walks and whispers where Wyler's marches and sings."

"How Will Recession Affect the Entertainment Biz?" asks Rebecca Winters Keegan in Time.

Lots of online listening today, for whatever reason:

"In what is something like an appendix to his famous 'The Sky is Falling' LA Film Festival keynote speech, Film Department head Mark Gill is the guest on this week's issue of the The Business film podcast." Scott Macaulay follows up with comments.