Results for "TV / Film"

Subprime Goes Hollywood

April 11, 2010

The Wall Street wizards who gave you credit default swaps want to turn the movie industry into their next casino. If you thought the mortgage-backed securities and other complex financial instruments that crashed the economy were risky, you'll love Wall Street's latest brainwave: a new financial market in which players can gamble on whether upcoming Hollywood ...

World Premiere Words and Music...Singing the Great American Songbook Documentary Film

April 10, 2010

Dear friends, I wanted to let you know our film will be making it's world wide debut and can be viewed as a live streaming event on the following dates. If any of you have any contacts or leads and referrals with your local community tv stations please let me know. I want our film to ...

Larry Blumenfeld on HBO's "Treme," in the Village Voice

April 10, 2010

Treme, the new HBO series created by David Simon (The Wire) is the subject of this weeks Village Voice cover story, penned by jazz journalist Larry Blumenfeld. He goes deep with the long, thorough piece, examining how and why Simon seems to be getting everything right with the series, which focuses on musicians and others in ...

Nicolas Cage's Bad Lieutenant Performance All Miles Davis's Fault

April 10, 2010

“I went on Dick Cavett many years ago and met Miles Davis. And I was talking about things like art synthesis and Picasso and you can do with acting what he did, or with music, and Miles came out and he got it, you know, he was looking at me, he gave me this, like--he nodded ...

Blu-Ray Review: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

April 8, 2010

I know this is absolute heresy for a guy in my line of work, but Ive never been a big fan of Wes Andersons filmmaking. There's a difference between developing real, honest characters with believable flaws and simply loading up the screen with quirk for quirks sake, and I think Anderson too often falls back on ...

Doors Documentary Won't Light Your Fire

April 5, 2010

Tom DiCillo's “When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors" means to answer the more loony flights of fancy taken by Oliver Stone in his 1991 Doors biopic, but, in the process, creates a formal exercise in redundancy, offering no new insights into the much mythologized rock band. The documentary does boast unseen archival footage of ...

Is Dr. Teeth a Jazz Muppet?

April 5, 2010

OK, its been too long since Ive posted anything at the blog again but rather than shut things down entirely (as I did in September) I am trying a slightly different strategy for combating the chain of events (too busy to read other jazz blogs, focus my writing energy elsewhere, too tired to write at the ...

Apps for iPad from Some TV Networks, Not All

April 5, 2010

Television networks are taking sharply different approaches to the iPad. One network, ABC, has readied a fully functional app for the eagerly awaited Apple tablet. Another, NBC, has ditched its plans to stream full television episodes onto the device. From MSNBC.com to People.com, buyers of the iPad will be able to watch plenty of ad-supported video ...

Christian Scott TV Interview

April 3, 2010

Music Biopics Struggle to Make It to the Big Screen

April 2, 2010

From “The Buddy Holly Story" to “Bird" and from “Walk the Line" to the current “Runaways," the lure of biopics about famous music figures is undeniable. The performers and their stories come loaded with a built-in awareness factor, anticipation among fans provides ready-made promotional fodder and such pics have proven to be Oscar bait for both ...