10 Things I Actually Know

David Poland | October 18, 2020

If This Is A 30-Film Oscar Season, Your BP Nominees…

David Poland | October 1, 2020

29 Weeks To Oscar, Maybe: The Entire “Movie” Award Season

David Poland | September 30, 2020

2010 U. S. Michelin Guides Delayed Indefinitely

October 22, 2020

Skeptic-Magician James Randi Was 92

October 22, 2020

Alex Abramovich: "There’s​ a lot more Ken Burns gets wrong, or sweeps under the carpet, and that may be unavoidable, given the scale of his projects. (He tends to work on several at a time.) 'Country Music' took six years to make, whittling six hundred hours of footage down to sixteen. The credits are 174 names long, not counting the interviewees. Surely, any mistakes must pale next to the effort and service that these films provide. (‘More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than from any other source,’ Stephen Ambrose is supposed to have said, and for better or worse, I believe him.) But you notice, after a while, that the errors all face in a certain direction, and serve to make the same points, while all the things that are supposed to stay under the carpet keep reappearing. That may be unavoidable, too, when you try to make apolitical films about highly charged subjects. But country music is about as politically charged as an American cultural subject could be because, in a sense, it’s the Lost Cause set to a I-IV-V chord progression: the broken heart longing for simpler times, mother and home, and some sense of stability (stand-ins for the old Southern manse, where the log cabins were also slave shacks); the lip service paid to Christian values (coupled with belligerence, blood-lust, knee-jerk patriotism, and a native distrust of authority); the lingering persistence of minstrel-show stereotypes, melodies and songs."

October 22, 2020

"Hollywood's methods of nurturing talent and ideas are not working, say Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Can their app, a LinkedIn-meets-Slack for the entertainment industry, help? The Creative Network launches this week with 800 screenwriters for hire and 300 available projects. The app is born of Impact Creative Systems, which Imagine Entertainment founded two years ago as a Y Combinator for film and TV scripts."

Twitter | October 21, 2020

DP/30 Audio: Bombshell, Jay Roach

David Poland | December 13, 2019

DP/30 Audio: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Jonathan Majors

David Poland | December 4, 2019

DP/30 Audio: The Mustang, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

David Poland | December 4, 2019