http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector.jpg The Film Blog of Brian Trenchard-Smith, Quentin Tarantino's favourite Director. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en             WEBISODES…the movie maker’s answer to diminished funding and short attention span, coming soon to a wristwatch near you! No, aficionados of quality drama, the sky is not falling. It’s just the delivery system to the customer that is changing. Once again. Silent to Sound. Nickelodeon to Picture Palace. Big Screen ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/11/17/distributing-content-without-the-suits/ In 2005, I wrote this opening scene. EXT.  WASHINGTON    DAY An American flag fills the screen, rippling gently in the wind, as credit titles and stirring music begin.                         Dissolve to an aerial montage: the Washington Monument, the White House, the Capitol Buildings, etc. (Stock). A morning news broadcast fades up.                              NEWSREADER (VO) In an historic unanimous vote, ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/11/10/did-my-lesbian-rambo-predict-the-election/ Oliver Stone and I have one thing in common. We are the only two directors to have made a film about a sitting Administration. Like still in Office. Perhaps gasping for breath, as the air outside grows thick with scorn.                           I thoroughly enjoyed W. It is both thought provoking and fun. Every ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/10/28/bush-movie-director-endorses-obama-what-explain%e2%80%a6/                             A blue cheese hamburger in one hand, a microbrew ale in the other, a comfortable seat, and a big screen in front of me…does Cinema get any better than that? After my week of Fantastic Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse, my local multiplex pales by comparison. Today’s post will conclude my ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/10/20/genre-movies-the-really-smart-ones-are-no-longer-in-english/ Message to Russell Crowe: please don’t gossip. As a frequent victim of gossip, you should know this. “You know, I worked with Leonardo when he was 17 on ‘The Quick and the Dead [1995],’ ” says Crowe. “He was a virgin, and he’d talk about that constantly. So I’m hoping we ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/10/13/movie-gossip-omg/ More about the movies I saw at Fantastic Fest. Here’s bit of a Trailer Park (embedded in the many posters), that distills some of my Fantastic experiences that week into a few minutes. You will get a sense of how Horror has evolved over the last 50 years. From "Boo!" ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/10/03/upcoming-horror-movies%e2%80%a6/   Fantastic Fest is the most fantastic, satisfying festival I have ever been to in 35 years of sporadic attendance at such events. Located at the Alamo Drafthouse, a stylish new breed of multiplex in Austin, Texas, FF does not cater to cinema snobs or pretentious culture vultures, rather it provides the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/09/29/five-days-of-fantastic-sex-food-wine-cinema-more-wine-gore-and-more/ Must be brief, because my presence is required at another film festival. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it… After a fantastic reception at the Toronto International Film Festival, Mark Hartley’s NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of Fantastic Fest! in Austin, Texas. ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/09/22/my-crimes-against-cinema-on-display-at-fantastic-fest/ Dare I say - take a long, hard look at that picture, which brings a new dimension to the term woody? Dr. Freud, your slip is showing. As you can see, I am a sick puppy with a twisted sense of humor. Somehow, I want to believe that the decision by the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/09/17/guns-testicles-coke-more-adventures-in-co-production-hell/ Probably my fondest memory from a train wreck of a movie I shot in Mexico 28 years ago. That, and doing a line of coke with THE RIFLEMAN, the law and order TV icon of the 50’s, who decided to cheer me up one night near the end of the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2008/09/10/glenn-ford-squeezed-my-balls-dispatches-from-the-dark-side-of-co-production-part-1/