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Underwater Footage Key To 'Cove'
Much of the impact of “The Cove," which collected the documentary feature Oscar on Sunday night, comes from underwater footage that could not have been captured without help from Lucasfilm spinoff Kerner Optical. Kerner runs a hush-hush “skunk works" that solves high-tech problems for private industry, government contractors and the occasional three-letter agency. Since Kerner's expertise ...
Japanese politicians pan Oscar winner "The Cove"
The Oscar win for documentary “The Cove" is not getting much applause in Taiji, the port city in western Japan where helmer Louie Psihoyos and his crew secretly filmed the annual dolphin slaughter. “This film has mistakes of fact," mayor Kazutaka Sangen told local press. “I'm surprised that it won the award even though its content ...
Disney/ABC/Cablevision Save Oscar for NY
It came down to the wire, but New York-area Cablevision viewers got their Oscar fix. Disney/ABC restored service of its New York flagship, WABC, to Cablevision customers 10 minutes after the Oscars began, ending a day-long standoff. “We've made significant progress, and have reached an agreement in principle that recognizes the fair value of ABC7, with ...
Disney Pulls NY TV Signal on Eve of Oscar's
Walt Disney Co. silences WABC-TV for many New York City-area viewers on the eve of the Oscars, part of an ongoing dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. over carriage fees. Potentially leaving millions of New York City-area homes unable to watch Sunday's Oscar telecast, Walt Disney Co. pulled its WABC-TV signal off Cablevision Systems Corp. at ...
Oscar's Sunday Tune in Early
The people behind Sunday's Oscars show are urging people to tune in early for one of the program's best sequences. Bill Mechanic, who is producing the awards ceremony with Adam Shankman, promised “the most dynamic opening, from drama to spectacle to humor, that has ever been staged." Shankman said the show will be funny, lively and ...
Jazz-Infused Film 'Handsome Harry' Starring Jamey Sheridan to be Released by Paladin Films on April 16
Handsome Harry is the latest film by Bette Gordon, whose 1983 feature Variety remains a signal work of the early American “indie" movement. Heading an impressive ensemble cast, Jamey Sheridan (The Ice Storm, Syriana) portrays the title role -- a divorced man, alienated from his grown son, whose life is defined by a number of casual ...
St. Louis Musicians for Haiti Concert Telecast Re-Running This Month on Hec-TV
HEC-TV has scheduled reruns of the telecast of last month's St. Louis Musicians for Haiti benefit concert for 5:00 p.m. every Saturday night in March. HEC-TV can be found on Channel 26 of cable systems in the St. Louis area and on AT&T U-Verse's channel 99.The event at the Sheldon Concert Hall raised more ...
Oscar "In Memoriam" segment tough to produce
“It gets close to agonizing by the end," produce Bruce Davis says of the editing process for the Oscar “in memoriam" segment. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It's just not comfortable." The Kodak Theatre goes quiet as the big screen at center stage begins flashing images of actors and filmmakers who have died. ...
Who Will Replace Kevin Eubanks?
Who Should Replace Kevin Eubanks On 'The Tonight Show'? Doesn't seem like such a terrible job. The most prominent jazz guitarist in America is quitting his job -- or as Bill Braginsaid this morning over Twitter, perhaps he's finally going back to his job. The announcement that bandleader Kevin Eubanks will soon leave 'The Tonight Show ...
No Concessions: Scorsese, Polanski Still Crazy After All These Years
Film culture today, I muttered, as I waded through (and into) an unusually bothersome post on the usually half-annoying (but compulsively readable) Hollywood Elsewhere site. Look: Its OK not to get, or to enjoy, Douglas Sirk pictures like All That Heaven Allows (1955) or Imitation of Life (1959). Im not all that crazy about Terrence Malick ...
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