October 10th, 2008

Video crisis

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Hard times

I read in the Financial Times that the independent art movie industry in California is suffering.

Sales of their videos are falling fast as customers turn to the web for entertainment. On the web people might get onnly two or three minutes of free video, but this is enough to satisfy them without further need for plot or character development.
I see a 30% annual fall in video sales mentioned, and predictions that many studios (a grand name for two guys and a video recorder) will go out of business.

I haven’t seen the male-male part of the industry mentioned specifically. But is there any reason to think it is different from the breeder segment?

What will happen to the “PSST SEX DVD VCD PORNO” sellers on Silom road?

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August 4th, 2008

Chris & Don the movie

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Two lovers. Same gender. Age difference 30 years.

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood’s Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany (the inspiration for his most famous work) to the couple’s first meeting on the sun-kissed beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life by a treasure trove of multimedia. Bachardy’s contemporary reminiscences (in the Santa Monica home he shared with Isherwood until his death in 1986) artfully interact with archival footage, rare home movies (with glimpses of glitterati pals W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky and Tennessee Williams), reenactments, and, most sweetly, whimsical animations based on the cat-and-horse cartoons the pair used in their personal correspondence. With Isherwood’s status as an out-and-proud gay maverick, and Bachardy’s eventual artistic triumph away from the considerable shadow of his life partner, CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is above all a joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple.

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July 22nd, 2008

No Regret in the US

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Korean gay movie (1)

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Korean gay movie (2)

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Korean gay movie (3)

A PR agent for the gay movie No Regret wrote to ask if I would blog about the release of this movie in America. As the nice guy I am I said I would do that. Here is the info I got from the agent:

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