AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency
AVATAR: James Cameron...
AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency Posted by: John Marks on 12/04/2009 @ 9:49 am  (http://john.purplestateofmind.com/?p=836) Is James Cameron’s new movie Avatar sympathetic to the Taliban? If it is, will anyone over here care? Am I insane? Here’s why I ask. Once, long ago,...
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Sundance Tries to Hone Its Artsy Edge
Sundance Tries to Hone ...
Sundance Tries to Hone Its Artsy Edge  In “Howl,” one of the films accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, James Franco portrays the young Allen Ginsberg as he is creating his signature poem. By BROOKS BARNES , The New York Times Published: December 2, 2009 LOS ANGELES —...
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When Children Fail, When Parents Love: Keys to a Good Christmas in Everybody’s Fine
When Children Fail, Whe...
When Children Fail, When Parents Love: Keys to a Good Christmas in Everybody’s Fine by Susan Giffone I don’t know about you, but when the subject of Christmas comes up, a lot of people tell me that they plan to spend the holiday with their extended families. And yet, very few...
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Windrider Friends on Academy “short list”
Windrider Friends on Ac...
Windrider Friends on Academy “short list” by John Priddy Gregg Helvey The ”short list” for the Academy Awards (live action short films) include Gregg Helvey’s Kavi and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12. Helvey’s masterful work was a...
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Deconstruct Your Cinema
Deconstruct Your Cinema...
Deconstruct your cinema by Greg Bayne (http://thislovelymachine.com/gregorybayne/) If in this year of our Lord 2009 you are self identifying as an ‘independent filmmaker’ it is quite likely that you are expending an overwhelming amount of headspace on the ’state of the industry’....
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AVATAR ANTICIPATION
AVATAR ANTICIPATION...
AVATAR ANTICIPATION by Craig Detweiler (originally posted on Craig’s blog on the Purple State of Mind website) Anticipation is building for the December 18th arrival of James Cameron’s first feature in 12 years, AVATAR. Reports about the budget rising above $300 million have...
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Welcome to the WINDRIDER INSTITUTE
Welcome to the WINDRIDE...
Welcome to the WINDRIDER INSTITUTE We believe independent filmmakers are among the poets and sages of our time … The Windrider Institute endeavors to intersect with a conversation already taking place in our  culture — one with which people of faith can engage, and thereby...
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