How many times do I have to tell you, we had nothing to do with any of these either.
Day: February 14, 2011
This won’t be the only time I don’t know what I am blogging about.
Still though, this looked like something some of you would want to know about. Chip Roughton of Rough Pictures wrote in and hipped me to this deal. For what I can tell it looks like an opportunity to get a $500 studio level animation software set up for $10.00. My quick scan for reviews also makes it look like a good deal. So if enough people sign up, you can get Messiah 2.o for $10.
The NYTimes has a nice article on Matt Porterfield’s truly free film PUTTY HILL. I got to moderate a discussion around the film last year after its Berlin premiere and again this year for our screening series at Goldcrest — yet the movie had a significant change during the time that passed. The Times piece touches upon it: The Rolling Stones wouldn’t even enter into discussions about licensing “Wild Horses” to Matt and his team.
Why is it if you are an artist whose art is singing other people’s songs, our culture has worked it out in the most frictionless way manageable? But if you are an artist whose art is filming artists whose art is singing other people’s songs, you have to go to herculean tasks to gain permission?
This pretty much sums it all up. Thanks Mr. Cheyefsky! Thanks Mr. Lumet! (and thanks Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom for the tip!)
