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Fan Rant: Truth Be Sold
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Disney », Paramount Classics », Warner Independent Pictures », Cinematical Indie », Paramount Vantage », Fan Rant »
It wasn't that long ago that documentaries carried the stigma of being educational first and entertaining second. As with foreign-language fare, an audience for them lingered on the fringe, and an industry was willing to offer them their very own awards, but they really weren't terribly high-profile box-office prospects... that is, until the '04-'05 summer successes of Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins made it seem perfectly okay for audiences to see, and for studios to market, a film without so much as one measly explosion in it.
But then along comes American Teen: a film openly marketed as - and arugably assembled to be - anything but a documentary that finds itself underperforming in its current limited runs (it goes wide this Friday). Last May, I witnessed a group of young women leaving whatever indie they caught at Washington D.C's Landmark E Street Cinema as they approached the film's poster and wondered aloud if someone was remaking The Breakfast Club, with a tone that suggested neither horror nor concern, nor any great interest in the big, fat what-if scenario placed before them.
What I wonder now is, at what point did we begin to craft documentary filmmaking specifically to the masses, and then what happens when the masses simply don't show?
Breakfast Club cast to reunite
Filed under: Awards », Celebrities and Controversy »
Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, and Anthony Michael Hall are set to reunite at the June 9 MTV Movie Awards. Emilio Estevez hasn't confirmed yet because he's busy...um...wait, what is he up to again? I was 19 or 20 when the movie came out, and MTV played that Simple Minds video "Don't You Forget About Me" constantly, but it was a good song so we didn't care. Note to kids: there was a time when MTV actually played music videos, and these videos contained something called music.
God I sound so old. Now get off my lawn!
Indie Roundup: 'Sweetgrass,' 'Clarkworld,' 'Broken Embraces'
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Peter Jackson Says Spielberg's 'Tintin' is Done Filming, but...
Interracial Harmony: 'Ninja Assassin' vs. 'Blind Side'
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