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Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloid

Baltimore City Paper | June 24, 2008

Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."

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Tags: Cloverfield, experimental, filmmakers, Diary of the Dead, Redacted, blair witch project, celluloid, digital video

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Conference Brings Together People Working Toward Redefining the Urban Spacenew

For activists who long struggled to fight developers and speculators, the recent halt in economic activity has been an opportunity to rethink what the city means and can become, and this weekend's radical conference in Baltimore, The City From Below, addresses those concerns.

Baltimore City Paper | Martin L. Johnson | 03-31-2009 | Housing & Development

Tags: City from Below, Development, urban planning

Philadelphia's Peter Rose Remaps Urban Topography in His Experimental Filmsnew

He started making films in 1965, an era when experimental filmmakers sought to escape the confines of narrative and expectations of aesthetic beauty through making work that returned ceaselessly to the basic questions of the medium.

Baltimore City Paper | Martin L. Johnson | 09-09-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: experimental film, Peter Rose

Blogs Tell the Story Behind Baltimore Sun Buyouts and Changesnew

Behind the scenes, journalists at the Sun and other papers owned by the Tribune Co. have launched an angry (if only online) revolt against staff layoffs, management decisions, and what they see as a wholesale dismantling of the Chicago-based company's newspapers.

Baltimore City Paper | Martin L. Johnson | 09-09-2008 | Media

Tags: media, newspapers, Sam Zell, news industry, Baltimore Sun, Tribune Co.

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Think Table Talk Pienew

City Paper talks Apple, Ashton Kutcher, and the tiny pie with Jobs folk.

Baltimore City Paper | Joe MacLeod | 08-26-2013 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad

MacGrubernew

Another movie from a Saturday Night Live sketch, this time set free from the constraints of Network Television and the usual PG-13 rating of Guaranteed Comedy Safety and Mediocrity.

Baltimore City Paper | Joe MacLeod | 05-21-2010 | Reviews

Tags: Jorma Taccone, MacGruber, Val Kilmer

Jameel Saleem's Debut Feature Follows a Guy's Romantic Misadventuresnew

What makes Cream Soda work is how vulnerable his male characters are willing to be. When talking about his love life, he admits that some things were funny then, and some were only funny in hindsight.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 03-23-2010 | Reviews

Tags: Cream Soda, Jameel Saleem

Novelist Michael Kimball Pieces Together a New Kind of Narrative in '60 Writers/60 Places'new

On one hand, 60 Writers is little more than a series of vignettes featuring authors reading an excerpt of their works in some setting, shot with a static single-camera set up. On the other hand, it is a single-viewing experience composed of 60 completely different elements.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 02-09-2010 | Reviews

Tags: 60 Writers/60 Places, Michael Kimball

Matthew Porterfield Talks About His Latest Projectnew

The second feature by filmmaker Matthew Porterfield is almost finished, though not the one you may have heard about. Putty Hill is making its world premiere at the Berlinale's International Forum for New Cinema in early February.

Baltimore City Paper | Bret McCabe | 02-02-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Matthew Porterfield, Putty Hill

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