Around the Dial
2007-Aug-29 by Laughcalvin
-The best thing I have ran across so far this week: A gallery of the mad, great Klaus Kinski at Scarecrow Video. Welcome to the Virtual Gallery of Klaus Kinski Paintings!
-Stephen Holden of the NYTS on Aaron Katz's Quiet City:
The mumblecore genre, with its minimalist aesthetics, minuscule budgets, home-movie casting of friends and acquaintances and its fly-on-the-wall, quasi-documentary spontaneity, is so wide-open for parody that it is a sitting duck for the most withering send-up. “Quiet City” is fortunate to arrive just before the inevitable demolition crews arrive to tear it to shreds. Tender and sad, it is a fully realized work of mumblecore poetry
If he just didn't use that infernal word before poetry. "Withering send-up" sounds about right however.
- Don't forget to submit your film to Slamdance.
- Lots of talk about the new digtial camera called the Red One. Apparently it has a chip called a Mysterium that produces images better than film. Here's a clip of Peter Jackson's project about WW I Crossing the LIne in which he used the hyped cam. You be the judge.


