Blogs in Focus
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Shooting the Breeze
After yesterday's footage of Orson Welles performing magic on I Love Lucy, we move aheadMore »
Coraline Takes the Stage
Neil Gaiman's dark childhood fantasy Coraline is slated for a magical time next year.More »
The Magic of Welles
My last post featured an hommage to the Duck Soup mirror gag performed by LucilleMore »
Just Like Looking in a Mirror
From yesterday's cartoon featuring an array of stars from the classic Hollywood era – includingMore »
Brand upon the Brain
As Peter Bowen notes in a blog post below, Focus CEO James Schamus and ShowtimeMore »
Hell No, I Won't Go!
A few months ago we published Heather Chaplin's profile "Ian Bogost: Games People Play,"More »
The Good Old, Bad Old Days of Hollywood
W.C. Fields, who we saw bemoaning his lack of golfing prowess yesterday, here is featuredMore »
Roasted Schamus
Ron Meyer, James Schamus, and Ang Lee Black ties were out and about last nightMore »
"Try to Hit One With My Swing!"
After yesterday's flirtation with Beckett and Joyce, there were many paths I could have goneMore »
Irish Literature's Dream Team
Following on from yesterday's real-life collaboration between Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett, here is anMore »
Beckett's Silent Treatment
Following last Friday's post about the Radiohead-Buster Keaton montage, here's where the journey now takesMore »
Matt Zoller Seitz: "I'm Out"
Matt Zoller Seitz, who we featured last week as part of our regular series "BehindMore »
Buster Keaton Meets Thom Yorke
As a way of making my blogging in this space a little more adventurous, I'veMore »
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> Guest Blogs
Liz Ogilvie
Liz Ogilvie, is the Head of Programming for Docurama Films®, an independent digital distribution company dedicated exclusively to releasing cutting-edge, critically acclaimed documentary films into the home entertainment market place. She is responsible for a release slate of over 40 documentary films a year.
Keith Griffiths
Keith Griffiths has produced many of the films of the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit. He is currently Executive Producing Dave McKean's second feature Luna and developing an adaptation of the classic graphic novel Signal to Noise by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, as well as a full length animated feature Meathead by the award-winning director of the film Rabbit, Run Wrake. He manages Illuminations Films with Simon Field and is currently developing a major new installation Primitive, with Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the Haus der Kunst in Munich for 2009.
Cary Fukunaga
Oakland native Cary Fukunaga studied history at University of California Santa Cruz and L'Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) de Grenoble and Directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before winning a Student Academy Award for his short film Victoria Para Chino (2004). He is currently working on his debut feature for Focus Features, Sin Nombre, and will be blogging about the experience here at FilmInFocus.
Jenni Olson
San Francisco-based Jenni Olson has been programming, researching, collecting, creating, and writing about lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT) film since 1986 and is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema. She has been closely monitoring the progress of the filming of Gus Van Sant's biopic of Harvey Milk, Milk, and will be sharing her observations on her blog.