February 2012
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Love is in the air over here at Zeitgeist… and it’s made us uncharacteristically generous. Not only did we make TWO valentines for you to print out for that someone special - we also compiled a list of movies we think you’ll find ultra-romantic (in different ways).
First, the cards. This one’s from Vision, because nothing says “I love you” like a vow of...
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Essential Movie Tumblrs →
Flavorpill has put together a great list (link is in the title of this post, just click) of great film blogs, including some that we love to follow like The Final Image, and Movie Poster of the Day which is curated by our designer Adrian Curry!
And if you like Movie Poster of the Day, we highly recommend its goofy cousin Movie Posters Separated at Birth, like the duo here.
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AARP Declares BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK One of Best...
AARP The Magazine named Bill Cunningham New York the best documentary for grownups of 2011. And Bill’s in good company (including Queen to Play as a runner up for best foreign film too)!
January 2012
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Year of the Dragon off to a Long Start
You’re probably aware that yesterday was the first day of the Chinese New Year - this one being the Year of the Dragon (coincidentally, both Zeitgeist bloggers were born in another Year of the Dragon - we’ll let you guess which).
You might not have known that the Chinese New Year is the reason for the largest annual human migration in the world. Ready for some crazy stats? It’s...
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Harvey Weinstein: sternly rude, but maybe right →
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On Adapting Margaret Atwood →
As part of their coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Salt Lake Tribune published this Q&A with director Jennifer Baichwal about working with and adapting the work of Margaret Atwood, as well as the concept of debt (the subject of Baichwal’s film, Payback).
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Definitely Not a New Mom
Things in the Zeitgeist office are off to a weird start this year, mail-wise. We’ve received a magazine to which no member of this office subscribes, which in itself wouldn’t be so strange of an occurrence - subscription slip-ups happen all the time (thank you thank you thank you to whoever it was whose Entertainment Weekly came to my apartment for the first two months after I moved...
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Growing Up Yeezy
The internet is still blowing up about the Kanye West tweet-athon from the other night (most succinctly contained here), and for good reason. As someone who was awake to witness as it unfolded live… I mean… it was mesmerizing. I didn’t know if it would ever end, and more importantly, didn’t know if I wanted it to. What started out as a resume (in 140-character chunks, of...
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December 2011
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Gifts, so many gifts
Look at this. No, look at it.
This is the kind of thing that’s been staring us in the face for the past few weeks, due to the thoughtful inundation of holiday sweets our many friends have sent our way. Thank you friends, thank you. We may now be in dire need of a metabolic miracle, but we regret not a single calorie.
Similarly touching (but infinitely more forgiving re: our collective...
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Two days, so many choices.
If you are anything like me (Rachel), you woke up today and spent the entirety of your 50 minute D train ride being really disappointed in yourself for STILL not being over that stupid Adele song while mulling over the fact that you haven’t purchased a single Christmas present, and then you felt even worse because people (your mom) keep(s) texting you things like “santa is really...
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We've got a new movie! →
We’re so excited to finally be able to share the newest acquisition over here at Zeitgeist - Payback by Jennifer Baichwal. It’s a documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s book by the same name, about how debt and reciprocity govern us - whether or not we realize it.
We’ve previously collaborated with the director on Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary on the work of...
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UPDATE: Paul Goodman's GROWING UP ABSURD coming... →
If you read the whole post, you’ll see that there is a “fucking printed copy” coming out in June 2012.
If you can’t wait til then (and who can blame you), there are also quite a few “fucking printed cop[ies]” on Amazon and Abe Books, available as fast as your fingers can type 2 DAY SHIPPING.
We hope you can all now dog-ear, highlight and annotate to your...
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Daddy Longlegs now on DVD
Put those not-long-for-this-world holiday discounts to good use and pick up a copy of Josh and Benny Safdie’s semi-autobiographical Daddy Longlegs, out TODAY for the first time EVER on DVD.
The film follows Lenny during a rare two weeks with his young sons, who spend most of their time with their mother - the evidently polar opposite to Lenny, who takes his sons on chaotic adventures...
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Vote for Bill Cunningham New York - Audience... →
We’re honored to have been nominated - but it’s up to you to make sure Bill (and filmmakers Richard Press and Philip Gefter) continues to get the recognition he deserves.
Please vote!
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Bill Cunningham and the Culturati Caucus
Bill Cunningham makes a double appearance in this month’s New York Magazine! Among the various subheadings of NYMag’s “Culturati Caucus” are “Movies I Wish I’d Made” and “Best Film Performance”. In the first, Colum McCann (author of the 2009 Booker Prize forLet the Great World Spin) wishes (via arrow infographic) that he’d made Bill...
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Paul Goodman's GROWING UP ABSURD coming soon as an...
Paul Goodman’s seminal book has been out of print for a while—only after scouring Amazon and Abe’s Books was I able to find a used paperback 6 months ago that didn’t break the bank. After opening Jonathan Lee’s documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life, the Film Forum carried several copies of the book for sale as well. Still, it was shocking at how impossible it was to find...
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PARTY!
Have you seen Daddy Longlegs yet? It’s not too late!
Little synopsis for ya, in case you’re unfamiliar:
“Divorced and alone, Lenny (the perfectly cast Ronald Bronstein) is the father of two young boys he gets to see a couple of weeks a year. He cherishes these days with the kids, being both stern parent and lovable buddy, inventing myths and somehow living them, all while...
November 2011
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The Most Beautiful Bar Code of All Time
Sooooo… there’s this Tumblr where some creative person/people (it’s a mystery!) somehow take each frame from a film and smoosh them all together to make a barcode-like image.
We have no idea how long this takes or if it is fun or artistically rewarding on a personal level, but hey, people seem to like these images.
This one:
is from Derek...
CYBER-MONDAY WEEK-LONG HOLIDAY SALE! →
All DVDs and box sets are 40% off through December 5. Enter code ZG2011HOL at checkout to get this great deal!
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The United States of Documentaries
PBS’s POV Docs blog just posted this fun “The United States of Documentaries” map (click through for larger image and list of films) - “A state-by-state breakdown of the best, most representative and most unique documentaries from the 50 states and Washington, D.C.”
It’s good to see Flag Wars (Ohio, 2003) and Trouble the Water (Louisiana, 2008) up there!
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BILL CUNNINGHAM Makes the Oscar Short List for... →
This time, the vague and ubiquitous ‘we’ is true: everyone here at Zeitgeist is completely thrilled to see Bill Cunningham New York on the short list for Best Documentary of the year! Cutting the huge list of qualified docs down to just 15 films, we’re incredibly proud to see it among some fantastic work from this year. Congratulations to filmmakers Richard Press and Philip...
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Joss Whedon and The Laydeez
That Indiewire post below reminds us of this wonderful Joss Whedon quote.
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Indiewire List - Women Directors of 2011
Indiewire just released a list of the lady-helmed films of 2011 (not including documentaries). Among the (disappointingly few) was our own Julie Bertucelli, of whom we are very proud!
Let us or Indiewire know if you think they’re missing anyone:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/women-directed-movies-in-2011
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Metacritic's Best Directors of the 21st Century!
Metacritic created some fancy system for ranking directors, and put that system to use, ranking the best directors since 2000 (they also made a list of the worst directors since 2000).
Now, we love judging, but love it even more when someone does the judging for us. Even MORE than either of those things, we love when judgey people like the things we like. It’s validating, okay?
So imagine...
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WatchFilmmakers Jesper Bundgaard & Per Henriksen are working on a new documentary about the West Village Halloween Parade through their company, Out of Sync. We were chatting with them about Bill Cunningham New York a few days after Halloween, and they showed us this great moment they captured from this year’s parade.
The guy gets 1000+ points for adding “child” in his response...
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Derek Jarman at the Victoria & Albert
Our own Adrian Curry happened upon this at the Victoria & Albert Museum last week:
Here’s the actual model itself:
Though Derek Jarman began his career as a set designer, he soon began working in film, eventually directing many features and shorts of his own. The first of his features, Sebastiane (1975) was recorded entirely in Latin - the first film of its kind.
Jarman also...
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WatchSome people in the Zeitgeist office escaped from their desks long enough to see Almodóvar’s newest flick, La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In), this past week… and were pleasantly surprised to see part of this clip from Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (as well as other images of Bourgeois’ work) featured in the film!
According to Wikipedia, Louise...
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Napa Valley Film Festival - aka There Will be Wine
November is here, ladies and gents. It is cold and it is terrible - unless you live in California! (We* hear there are parts of California that do get cold, but refuse to believe).
You’re probably looking for a way to zip through this, the second-most pointless of months (if you have to ask what the first is, you’ve clearly never lived through an April). Well. Well well. If you happen...
October 2011
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From the (minimum security) Vault
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater by CC Goldwater (granddaughter to Barry), Julie Anderson, and Tani Cohen.
“[Barry Goldwater] transformed the Republican Party from an Eastern elitist organization to the breeding ground for the election of Ronald Reagan.”
- John McCain
CC Goldwater’s documentary takes you behind the scenes of the 1964 election (she was five at the...
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Halloween Advice
With Halloween less than a week away, you’re probably reading this from the line at one of Manhattan’s 22 Ricky’s locations. I was there last year. It took 35 minutes to purchase a feather boa… which I never ended up using.
Finding the right costume is never easy. You want to be unique, recognizable, and comfortable even when you start feeling tipsy… a balancing act...
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Fun Friday (this time with curse words)!!
Inspired by her *bewitching* twitter account, this week’s post, another Six Degrees of Separation (THEY’RE JUST SO FUN), begins with the Bronx-born wordsmith (and actor!) Ellen Barkin. Take a moment, if you will, to pay homage to those sequins. Take a longer moment to appreciate the creative strap deployment on that dress. Now take as much time as you need to reap the sweet, sweet joy...
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A Post About Winning Things
I hate to brag (false) but we’ve had a very exciting 24 hours at Zeitgeist.
First, Paul Goodman Changed My Life opened at the Film Forum last night to a sold out crowd (and fabulous reviews) at the 6:30 show, which was followed by a great Q and A with director Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed (there’s another Q and A tonight after the 8:30 show, if you can make it!).
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Zeitgeist Co-Presidents' Official "Paul Goodman"... →
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FUN FRIDAY: Gwyneth "GOOP" Paltrow
It’s heeeeeeeeeere: FUN FRIDAY!
This week we bring you another round of everyone’s favorite game - Six Degrees of Separation - starring everyone’s favorite actor-cum-blogger-cum-country singer… Gwyneth “GOOP” Paltrow! We were inspired to start with her because of blogger Molly’s night at the New York Film Festival’s Tenth Anniversary screening of...
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author Arlene Goldbard's review of "Paul Goodman... →
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WatchIf you’re like me, you probably find money really confusing (other things you find confusing: most things). Making it, saving it, not spending it on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath or some other book I’ll never get to (so I can, I dunno, PAY MY RENT) - these concepts are only peripherally familiar to me. Directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller (both responsible for the...