"Outrage," a new documentary from filmmaker Kirby Dick, takes issue with the secret lives of closeted gay politicians -- especially conservative Republicans who outwardly oppose gay rights.

The film, which premiered last week at the Tribeca Film Festival, features tell-alls from men who say they've had relationships with various Republicans, including Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Bush strategist Ken Mehlman and former Senator Larry Craig.

[...]



Whoo. Boy.

What do you think of "outing" closeted gays?
Justified if they're publicly bashing gays and gay rights?
When is privacy a right and a given? When not?

[found through a mention on Huffington Post]

Labels: film, politics

   posted by Sal Towse at  5:58 PM|| |

First heard about Smashing Telly over at Sour Grapes, where SG offered up a link to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.

Man, what a resource Smashing Telly is.

Everything from Jean-Luc Godard to this forty-one minute interview with Buckminster Fuller ("Everything I Know") to over an hour with George Carlin to Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten to interviews with Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio for The Making of Koyaanisqatsi.

David Galbraith explains: Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly.

Many of the items that I'll be putting up on a regular basis are documentaries, since that's what tends to be out there at the moment.

Labels: film, media, URL, video

   posted by Sal Towse at  11:16 AM|| |

Senses of Cinema: an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.

Articles, festival reports, DVD reviews, book reviews, links, lists.

The great directors archive is stashed full of information, as is the annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque.

e.g.

Comments on David Lynch's Eraserhead by Catherine S. Cox.

Alfred Hitchcock by Ken Mogg
Hitchcockian articles in Senses



[found while I was looking for something Hitchcockian ...]

Labels: film, media, URL

   posted by Sal Towse at  4:09 PM|| |

from YouTube, a 4.5 min compilation of every Harryhausen critter and contraption, in chronological order.



[Caution: "soundtrack" of sorts. You'll probably want to lower your sound or turn it completely off.]

More Ray Harryhausen:

• Ray Harryhausen Creature List
  
• Ray Harryhausen Profile from scifistation.com
  
• A chat with Ray Harryhausen (Feb 2000)
  
• Of Harpies, Hydras, and Harryhausen by Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman

Labels: film

   posted by Sal Towse at  5:19 PM|| |

I'd never seen this video before.

His nibs says, oh, that one. That was making the rounds a couple years back. Well, it's news to me, and I like it.

Thanks, Halsted.

per her latest post (which I wholeheartedly agree with, which the younger younger guys can attest to, being crappy spellers in their youths) I had to check back to an earlier post to make sure I spelt her name right. Did. Phew.

Labels: film

   posted by Sal Towse at  12:56 PM|| |

I don't see many films, but this seems a worthwhile exercise.

It is estimated that 50 percent of the films produced before 1950, and 80 to 90 percent made before 1920, have disappeared forever. The Library of Congress is working to stanch those losses by recognizing, and working with many organizations to preserve, films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today [26Dec2006] added 25 motion pictures to the National Film Registry (see attached list) to be preserved for all time, bringing the total number of films on the registry to 450.

Press release with list of twenty-five films just added

• National Film Registry
  
• List of prior entries by title
  
• Chronologically
  
• Some films not yet named
  
• Publicly-nominated films not yet named

Nominate films for the film registry

Labels: film, libraries

   posted by Sal Towse at  2:56 PM|| |