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Attention: Filmmakers With Websites

Posted in Short Ends on November 27th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

Please, please, please, don’t embed Flash, you’re killing us. [via Making The Movie]

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M.I.A

Posted in Personal on November 26th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

I haven’t been posting much. It seems that my time has been taken up by more personal issues lately. My girlfriend Linda had bronchitis which in itself isn’t earth shattering news but it brings me to my next point which is the more monumental news in this post. She’s 20 weeks pregnant. There it is, out there for everyone. The last few weeks have been pretty stressful on the both of us due to seeing a lot of doctors and figuring out how to deal with the illness under these circumstances.

You question and dissect everything. Every decision you make and what the repercussions could be for the child. Linda was having a hard time breathing so she needed to take antibiotics which I wasn’t thrilled with but lack of oxygen is an even greater risk. Ya see, I come from a household that fought off illness with the great immune boosting powerhouse, garlic. Linda is allergic to garlic. This obviously was a more serious situation.

It makes you nervous to make some decisions but I guess that’s what being a parent is really all about. Making decisions for someone who isn’t equipped to do that yet. It’s all one big learning curve for us as a couple and individually. While dealing with all of this a lot of creative work has taken a back seat and that makes me very nervous and uneasy. I’ve been introspective about the future of my work, questioning if there even is one, what all this change is going to mean for me in terms of creative output. No, I’m not giving it all up to change diapers but my time will be an issue and I’ll need to learn how to distribute it correctly without getting lost. This is important and it will take much discipline. Linda says I’m one of the most discipline people she knows. I just don’t see it.

Change is usually a good thing and this is one of the biggest changes a person can go through. With some planning and scheduling it can work.

It has to.

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Heretical Epiphanies

Posted in Short Ends on November 23rd, 2007 by William Speruzzi

A Pasolini retro is going on at Lincoln Center. Go see Salo, I dare you.

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Peckinpah/Mailer

Posted in Short Ends on November 23rd, 2007 by William Speruzzi

Yeah, sounds about right.

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MOMA Screens Frownland

Posted in Short Ends on November 16th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

If you missed the recent NYC screening of Frownland you have another chance. [via Tully] Matt Zoller Seitz gives a review at The House Next Door.

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Scab City

Posted in Short Ends on November 15th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

While 12,000 WGA members walk the picket lines, 80 scabs come out of the woodwork to answer New York Press writer Matt Elzweig’s ad. [GreenCine Daily]

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Is Avid Going Down Hard?

Posted in Short Ends on November 15th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

After recently pulling out of NAB 2008 some people want some answers.

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Picket Duty

Posted in Short Ends on November 11th, 2007 by William Speruzzi

Support the WGA East writers on the front lines.

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