My friend Rick Goldsmith has just received his second nomination for an Academy Award, this time for his feature length documentary “The Most Dangerous Man in America” which he made with Judith Erhlich.
Rick’s previous nomination was for “Tell the Truth and Run.”
That was back in the days when the web was young (mid 1990s.) Rick and I put together one of the first web sites built around a movie. The site looks pretty primitive now, but pioneering things often do. (We haven’t updated it in at least ten years, but it still gets the job done!)
It’s pretty amazing to get nominated for an Academy Award, even more amazing for it to happen twice.. especially for films made on a limited budget and on serious subjects. Read more…
I like the way HD looks, but for the longest time it seemed like overkill.
I mean do we really need digital transmission and HD quality on our television sets? Really?
But here’s a use of HD that is truly exciting: real time transmission of live performances to theater audiences around the world.
A variation of this has existed for a long time (ex. championship boxing matches), but this is a much more interesting use.
The next best thing to being there
The pioneer of this new approach seems to have been the NY Metropolitan Opera.
Make senses.
Opera is expensive to produce and it’s near impossible to take a Met show on the road which means hard core opera fans (and there are few thing more hard core than a hard core opera fan) were deprived of the Met experience.
Prairie Home Companion is another logical candidate
Much of Prairie Home Companion’s charm is the fact that it’s a LIVE show, but of course, a live show can only be in one place at a time.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of fans listen to the show on the radio every week. It will be interesting to see how this works. I have a feeling it will be a hit. It’s great to people watch, eat popcorn and laugh along with a good show.
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