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Big Business is the new Hays Code

October 9, 2012By

The documentary Tapped was scheduled to run during Guelph Water Services’ Documentary Nights in September as part of a series of films on water conservation. Then John Challinor, director of corporate affairs at Nestle Waters Canada sent them an angry letter and mentioned the many jobs his company provided. Suddenly, Documentary Nights in September was looking for a new film to play…

Tapped is a documentary that looks at the bottled water industry. It is particularly critical of the ecological problems associated with bottled water, since 40% of it is just tap water bottled up and shipped elsewhere. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Guelph’s favorite company, Nestle, get particularly criticized for their roles in the issue. The fact that Guelph caved so fast when the mayor got an angry letter is a sad state of affairs. Nestle is also weighing in on other bottled water documentaries, like FLOW: For the Love of Water.

But it’s not just random towns in Canada where corporate power is flexing its muscles at the big screen…

Matt Damon’s new film Promised Land isn’t even out yet, and it’s already got the energy industry in a panicked uproar. The main concern is the film deals with the controversial process of fracking, which has become a big environmental concern in the past few years. Fracking is not just a swear word on Battlestar Galactica, it is the technique of inducing hydraulic fracturing at a natural gas deposit in order to get more of the hydrocarbons than other methods. But it also has a nasty side effect of contaminating groundwater (sometimes even turning the water flammable!) and polluting the air. There is the added problem that most of this happens in small isolated towns and then the companies move on, leaving ruin in their wake.

The energy industry is worried that it will be presented in a critical light and is preparing possible responses, such as providing film reviewers with scientific studies, distributing leaflets to moviegoers and launching a “truth squad” initiative on Twitter and Facebook

The energy industry previously had a problem with the documentary Gasland, and went so far as to have a huge PR blitz when it was heading to theaters. They even made their own documentary called Truthland, which has started screening in June. If you think this is starting to sound a bit scary, welcome to the world of giant media companies making long documentaries about how their poison is good for you. So grab a heaping spoonful, people!

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The Canyons trailer has Lindsay Lohan go grindhouse

October 9, 2012By


The trailer for Lindsay Lohan’s flick The Canyons has hit, and it’s all retro grindhouse seventies exploitation. This neonoir flick is directed by Paul Schrader and written by Bret Easton Ellis, but let’s be serious, people have only heard of The Canyons because Lindsay Lohan stars in it, and her costar is porn star James Deen. The only suspense is if it will be a trainwreck or not. I personally don’t have anything against Lindsay Lohan, but it is obvious to everyone that her life is on a downward spiral, and there is no one who can stop it except Lindsay Lohan. Watching the same thing happen over and over with various young actresses and singers becomes tiresome. But maybe something will happen that pulls Lohan away from the abyss. I am rooting for her in that aspect, but I think it’s best if she wasn’t starring in movies or doing anything fame related. Though I doubt that will ever happen by choice. Then again, she’s an adult and capable of making her own decisions in life. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but check out the trailer, anyway.

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Check out the canyons outside the window! Well, you could if the shades weren’t down. The Canyons!

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Awesome story of presumed lost all-Indian cast silent film recovered and shown again

October 8, 2012By

The discovery of a rare lost film with an All-Indian cast has become a great story of film preservation and history. The Daughter of Dawn is the earliest and probably only silent film with an all-Indian cast. Long thought lost after the film’s 1920 premiere, the film disappeared from the public’s consciousness until in 2003 a collector paid a private investigator with reels of the film instead of cash. The film then was sold to the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS), and film restoration began to protect the rapidly-decaying print. The reason the film survived was this was a “Paper Print Collection” copy made for the Library of Congress’s Copyright Office, as films were required to make copies there to get copyright protection.

It took only a few months to restore the film and after the intertitles [dialogue text pages inserted into the film between cuts] were added, the footage expanded out to the full movie and the original six canisters.” The completed film has a four-way love story and includes two buffalo hunt scenes, a battle scene between the Kiowa and the Comanche, scenes of village life, tribal dances, hand-to-hand combat and a happy ending.

Gee, way to spoil that 90 year old film!

The all-Native cast was mostly made up of Kiowa and Comanche, who lived on nearby reservations. Former Vaudeville performer Norbert A. Myles was hired to direct for Richard Banks’s Texas Film Company. The film then disappeared after the premiere, despite good reviews.

Blackburn, clearly thrilled with the interest the film is drawing from audiences and historians, describes its appeal this way, “The Daughter of Dawn is all Oklahoma. Acted by Oklahoma Indians, filmed entirely in Oklahoma, in a story of Oklahoma’s Kiowa and Comanche nations, scored by a Comanche and played by the Oklahoma City University Philharmonic students, even the film was restored by an Oklahoman working in Hollywood for the Film Technology Lab.”

Much more information at Indian Country Today Media Network

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Baywatch will soon be running down the beach in slow motion to a theater near you!

October 5, 2012By

Spamela Hamderson

Once upon a time, there was an announcement of a Baywatch movie that then seemed to go nowhere, and the world rejoiced. But that cheer was too much, too soon, as our hopes and dreams became crushed upon the announcement that the Baywatch film is still going forward and has hit the point where a script is written and a director has been are being hired! Luck may be on our side, because the director hired is Robert Ben Garant, who is actually pretty good at giving us entertaining Hollywood fun. The script is written by Peter Tolan, but as Garant is a good writer himself, things might get polished up a bit. In any case, we should be having people in red swimsuits jiggling up and down the beach sooner than later! I can only hope that this film does well enough that we get a Baywatch Nights movie. Now that is a show that needs an ongoing film series!

If you haven’t read Garant and Thomas Lennon’s book Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can Too!, you need to, as it hilariously exposes and skewers how Hollywood writing is done.

via Vulture

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The Guy From Harlem – RiffTrax VOD

October 5, 2012By

RiffTrax is back with yet another VOD title that I wish I had time to view, but I’m already several titles of theirs behind! Not that I’m complaining, I’d rather have too much than to be starving. The Guy From Harlem is the first blaxploitation riff, though Cinematic Titanic followers know they did East Meets Watts, which was both blaxploitation and kung fu!

There is a sample video at the link, and the description makes this sound like another classic!

The Guy from Harlem is the first blaxploitation film we’ve ever riffed. Why? To quote the temperamental yet ultimately quite sensitive gangster Harry De Bauld, a character you will grow to love as much as we do – “well, it’s…it’s kinda personal.” Okay it’s not actually personal at all, it’s just that the movie is really, really funny. It trades most of the sleaze, grime, and, well, exploitation that you expect from the genre for dopiness, sexual situations that fail to lead to actual sex, a clumsy confused sweetness, and more botched lines per minute than anything we’ve ever seen.

As you’d expect from the title, The Guy from Harlem is set entirely in Miami. The makers of Casablanca almost used the same approach, with early drafts titled The Dude from Somewhere Other Than Casablanca. It’s the story of private eye and titular Guy, Al Connors. Al’s a man with such a reputation that when it’s time to protect an African queen/princess/wife of a chief of state (her title changes pretty much every time it comes up) the CIA goes straight to his dingy shag-carpeted office and begs for help. Later, when gangster Harry De Bauld’s daughter is kidnapped by the sinister Big Daddy, and his own criminal organization is just “too upset!” about the whole thing to deal with the situation, where do you think he goes? That’s right. To the guy who’s the best at being from Harlem there is, baby.

Join Mike (what you say?), Kevin (that cat’s a bad duuuude), and Bill (get on down!) for The Guy from Harlem!

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