THE ARIZONIAN (1935) is a wonderful anomaly: a 1930s Western B-movie that scrapes the mindless sunny-side-up of Buck Jones or Gene Autry into the slops and rustles us up something more like Marxist spaghetti or the bitter winter rye of Joseph H. Lewis. [
Bellona Times]
In the Role of Manhattan, Toronto. New York's film workers say that Canadian government subsidies are luring thousands of production jobs away from the city. By Glenn Collins. [
New York Times: Movies]
This too shall pass... or will it?
If we're talking about intellectual property "passing into the public doman," then maybe not. At least not if the Content Kings have their way. I agree with Donna Wentworth. She agrees with Larry Lessig, and the title of her post pays homage to his book The Future of Ideas. I myself try to pay homage to that book at least once a week. [Ernie the Attorney]