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Jules Dassin 1911-2008

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 31, 2008 at 8:13pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

Jules Dassin, the American director of Naked City, Rififi, Night and the City and Never On Sunday died in an Athens hospital after a short illness on Monday aged 96.

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myspace.com/martinscorsese

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 31, 2008 at 5:40pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

Someone in Marty’s camp signed him up and hell yeah, I added him.

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WordPress 2.5 Up And Running

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 29, 2008 at 7:28pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

wordpressI just upgraded to the new version and things might be running a little out of wack for a while especially with some of the plugins not upgraded for 2.5. Not all of them are 2.5 compliant like the Print This Post plugin for example.

I’m pretty impressed with this upgrade and I know a lot of work went into it to make it load faster with a lot of other built in enhancements. Thanks to the WordPress team and all the developers for creating an excellent publishing platform.

Feel free to contact me if something isn’t working correctly.

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WordPress 2.5 Available

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 29, 2008 at 12:36pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

This is a big one so read up before installing or maybe just do the prudent thing and wait a week or two. The hell with that, install now.

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Richard Widmark 1914-2008

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 27, 2008 at 8:24am   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

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A villain is a guy with a frailty.”

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Exquisite Corpse

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 21, 2008 at 2:27pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

Via Filmmaker, a collection of shorts from the Exquisite Corpse film project. Here are interviews with the filmmakers.

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New Edit Blogs

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 21, 2008 at 9:28am   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

Shane from Little Frog in HD tips us off on two very cool blogs about editing – Editing Organazized and Hollyn-wood.

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Got Scripts?

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 19, 2008 at 5:00pm   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

Does anyone out there have PDF versions of Into The Wild and The Darjeeling Limited? It seems that the studios who so generously posted scripts for download on their sites have made them all unavailable.

Please contact me if you do.

[imdb Into The Wild] [imdb The Darjeeling Limited]

Update: Got The Darjeeling Limited PDF from Paul and Into The Wild from Gil. Thanks again guys.

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The Film Panel Notetaker

Comments   1   Date Arrow  March 19, 2008 at 10:33am   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

The is a great educational resource for everyone involved in film [via Filmmaker.]

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Being?

Comments   5   Date Arrow  March 19, 2008 at 8:09am   User  by William Speruzzi | Print This Post

malkovichA case of the chicken or the egg. I was watching Being John Malkovich the other night and one thing always perplexed me about the film’s concept. The Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze strange creation seemed like a film that was virtually impossible to green light but somehow slipped through the cracks. Aside from the fact that I am in awe every time I see it I always wondered how this actor dependent screenplay was approached in the writing stage. Did Kaufman originally think of Malkovich when writing it? Was the deal struck before a page was written? What if he backed out? After all, it’s his heeeeeead! Could this concept have worked with say Al Pacino? Tom Cruise? Or what I think could have been another, just as wacky alteration on this theme; Being Christopher Walken!

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