It's movie making time again over here! Pleased to announce that we're in the throes of pre-production on Greengold's first feature film venture: Perverted Virtue. The film is the brainchild of Tetra Balestri, Los Feliz's poet laureate, and is set to be directed by the inimitable Milenko Skoknic. Summre and I are producing and I'll also be acting in the role of Grossman Bernard, a mystic computer geek. And here's the best part: you too can be part of this production. We've set up a Kickstarter page with the modest goal of raising $2500 (Avatar II this sucker ain't). Take a look here for more info and a silly little video we put together.
'This comic descent takes place under the sunny skies of Los Angeles, a city full of paradoxes and crushed dreams.'
The LA Times update on the news that Jean-Luc Godard is set to receive an honorary Academy Award (thx MKJ):
More than a week after the motion picture academy announced it would give an honorary lifetime achievement award to Jean-Luc Godard, the aging enfant terrible of French cinema managed to respond with a handwritten note, in French of course, saying that--his schedule permitting--he might actually show up later this year to accept the award.
Looks fascinating, and extremely heavy. From Salon:
There are almost too many movies about the Holocaust to count -- it's a genre that has long run the risk of turning the definitive criminal atrocity of modern history into a cliché or a symbol. As far as I know, Israeli director Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" is the first Holocaust movie that's actually about another Holocaust movie, and in some peculiar way it brings us closer to the terror and tragedy of the original event.
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
