Released on: 1991
Rating: 6.50
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"The Greatest Movie Ever Sold," Reviewed
How did we ever live before TiVo and DVR? I honestly don't remember. I seem to vaguely recall talking to people more. It was horrible.
TiVo and DVR have given us the freedom to control our tevision experience: to record and save our favorite shows or fast-forward through the stuff we don't want to watch. That freedom, though, is such a complicated thing. We certainly don't need more marketing in our cluttered lives, but that marketing pays for most of the content on television and the Internet. And as TiVo and DVR have made commercials easier to avoid on television, people have become more resistant to traditional advertising in all cultural contexts. Again, not a terrible thing... except for the people who make their money by creating content for websites that make their money selling advertising. If you won't look at the ads, the site can't sell the ads. If they can't sell the ads,»
- Matt Singer
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Chickens, Vinyl And Lost & Found In Austin: Jeanie Finlay At SXSW
My name is Jeanie Finlay and I’m an artist and filmmaker from the U.K. I’m in Austin for my very first SXSW and the world premiere of the feature documentary Sound it Out which I produced and directed.
Sound it Out is a documentary portrait of the very last record shop in Stockton-on-Tees in Teesside, my home town. It’s a small shop in a small town. It’s a film about men and music and passion and the North East of England. It’s the most personal film I’ve ever made for the lowest budget and I’m frankly still a bit gobsmacked that my Diy microbudget film with a big heart will be premiering later on today at SXSW.
It was an adventure just getting here — one lost (and then found again) passport at Lax, one missed flight, one unscheduled evening in La, two»
- Jeanie Finlay
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