Reservoir Dogs

SYNOPSIS An organized gang is hired to rob a company and take some diamonds. However, before the alarm sounds, the police already there.Some band members killed in the confrontation with law enforcement,and others gather at the appointed place.


By, Caridad Brito

SECOND REPORT

Greeting: 

CARIDAD: Good morning.

                  Welcome to a new presentation of our program Cinema Hello!.

Presentation of the critics present in the set: 

CARIDAD: Today I am accompanied on set with two independent film critics very important, they are: Linda Rodriguez and Juan Herrera, both are people his opinion in the independent film world has a great influence.

Introduction to Independent Film: 

CARIDAD: To all our viewers that we report tuning, both domestically and internationally, and do not know independent film, I would say that this genre is characterized by films that are not produced in large film studios, productions are usually budget of a small producer. Well, our guests have the possibility of extend a little more about these issues and other more independent film.

CARIDAD: Why not start our program by talking a bit about the history of independent film...

LINDA: In 1920, as a result of high taxes they had to pay, the filmmakers decided to unite to create their own organizations. Called themselves independents, but were called illegal. With the crisis of 1929, the filmmakers began making films class B, because they represented less expense. Subsequently, their organizations grew and became the great film industry. The first production of an independent character what managed to be distributed by a major was Easy Rider (1969), distributed by Universal. Independent productions have always been far from the "big" Hollywood blockbusters.

CARIDAD: Now we have some more ideas in the history of independent film, not to speak about the directors and film major independent film throughout history.

JUAN:

There are a lot of indie directors, however, most of the renowned directors around the world are from United States and Europe, ironically many of them began as independent directors but later became famous Hollywood directors, an example of this are John Waters and Quentin Tarantino.  The funny thing about this is that basically nobody can say that is a director if they dont have at least enough funding for their productions. Out there are a lot of confussion about this indie topic, one of the differences are the low budget film and other is where a film came up without the support of any famous studio. Also, the sad about this is that for some filmakers the word 'independent' is just an adjective that inpire style,irreverence and market more that anything else. 

Other director is Robert Rodriguez, from El Mariachi a movie from 1992. This movie launched rodriguez into great studios, and later in 1994 he release Desperado, another success far from the indie scene. 

Sofia Coppola, the daughter of Francis Ford is probably the most deary writer and director right now. One of her movies is The Virgin suicides. 

CARIDAD: We've talked a lot about what happened in independent films, We haven't talked about today, the latest movies in this genre:

LINDA: According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) the top 5 independent film is:

1.      "Pulp Fiction" (1994) by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Samuel L.Jackson and Uma Thurman.

2.      "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). The film was directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson

3.      "Usual Suspects" (1995), directed by Bryan Singer and starring Suzy Amis, StephenBaldwin, Gabriel Byrne and Paul Bartel.

4.      "How I, Dr Strangelove" (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers,George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Keenan Wynn.

5.      "Psycho" (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles and John Gavin.

CARIDAD: Finally and finalizing our program, why not tell us what Linda and Juan have recently seen movies that we can recommend?

JUAN:There are a lot of important films, i just want to mention a couple of them.

City of God, City of men, Nosferatu, Memento, run lola run, The secret in their eyes. Most of this films films are remembered by the revolution that led in their moment due by the conceptual load, or experimental techniques.

Here i have a couple of trailers showing the work of another directors.

The first is from a German movie directed by Wim Wenders, who explore in this film the new way of making movies, new effects, new camera movements...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8uDNkOLHM

And the last one is from John Waters... Pink Flamingos, not for everybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH3fPlpRcs

LINDA: My favorite independent film is “Zeitgeist, The movie” directed by Peter Joseph because its content is very interesting. It shows another side of reality.

Farewell: 

CARIDAD:unfortunately we ran out of time, we hope to have you on another occasion in our Film program Hi! Thank you very much to all our viewers, and do not forget to place your views on our blog: http://independent0film.blogspot.com/

Farewell, and until our next program.

WHITE POLLEN: SHORT INDEPENDENT FILM

A short film created and edited by Brunella Pisani.Love grows even from tears.

BY: Linda Carolyne Rodriguez Marin

BUENOS AIRES INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL

This video was maked to Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival.

The journalist, critic and editor Marcelo Panozzo (pictured in the center between the outgoing director Sergio Wolf and Minister Hernán Lombardi) is the new Artistic Director of BAFICI, where as part of the team of programmers in previous editions. The official announcement was released at noon on Thursday 10. Means an orderly transfer and agreed with the previous driving shown in FIG Sergio Wolf. Panozzo is a recognized professional with a proven track record of more than two decades: it began as a journalist specializing in music and movies in the youth supplement of the newspaper El Tajo South. He later served as chief of Clarin Entertainment and as editor of the supplement Yes, that day, and also served as head of Entertainment Critics of the newspaper in Argentina. He also worked in the cultural magazine DNA, the daily La Nacion, in magazines TXT, Rolling Stone, The Hand, The Lover-cinema, d-mode, Remix, Ego, and helped XXIII Page 12, Official Profile, FM Spika, Pop and Rock FM goes on-television film the Lover, channel to, and Hard lunch, on channel 13. He was editor of the International Film Festival of Gijón, Spain. He currently serves as editor of the hallmark Debate, published by Random House Mondadori (South America).

BY: Linda Carolyne Rodriguez Marin

Stay tuned with independenf film.

In this entry i´ll share a site where we´ll find many useful information about the independent film right now. 

There you can browse all the latest short film uploads from filmmakers around the world. Watch some trailers, read reviews about the films that other users from around the world has written to you to read. 

http://www.imdb.com/sections/indie/ 

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Shared by Juan Herrera

FIRST REPORT

What are you going to do?

We will have a Talk Show.

Tabla of content:

Caridad start talkin a little about who is the Indpendent Film, Linda continue talking about some facts of the history o Independent Film, then Juan opine on some of the most prominent directors, and so will play out the interview.

Content:

Greeting

Presentation of the critics present in the set.

Introduction to Independent Film.

Brief history of Independent Film.

Prominent directors.

Featured films

Currently Independent Film.

Latest movies

Comments.

Farewell

Who is doing what?

Presenter: Caridad Brito

Film Critics: Linda Rodríguez

                       Juan Herrera

SOMETHING ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILM'S HISTORY

Resistance to the Edison Trust

The roots of independent film can be traced back to the filmmakers in the 1900s who resisted the control of a trust called the Motion Picture Patents Company or "Edison Trust." The Motion Picture Patents Company, founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major film companies, the leading distributor and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak.

At the time of the formation of the MPPC, Thomas Edison owned most of the major patents relating to motion pictures, including that for raw film. The MPPC vigorously enforced its patents, constantly bringing suits and receiving injunctions against independent filmmakers. Because of this, a number of filmmakers responded by building their own cameras and moving their operations to Hollywood, California, where the distance from Edison's home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents.

The Edison Trust was soon ended by two decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States: one in 1912, which canceled the patent on raw film, and a second in 1915, which cancelled all MPPC patents. Though these decisions succeeded at legalizing independent film, they would do little to remedy the de facto ban on small productions; the independent filmmakers who had fled to Southern California during the enforcement of the trust had already laid the groundwork for the studio system of classical Hollywood cinema.

The studio system replaces Edison

In early 1910, director D.W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and others. They started filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles. While there, the company decided to explore new territories, traveling several miles north to Hollywood, a little village that was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, In Old California, a Biograph melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it belonged to Mexico. Biograph stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York.

During the Edison era of the early 1900s, many Jewish immigrants had found employment in the U.S. film industry. Under the Edison Trust, they were able to make their mark in a brand-new business: the exhibition of films in storefront theaters called nickelodeons. Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers (Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack) had switched to the production side of the business. After hearing about Biograph's success in Hollywood, in 1913 many such would-be movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Edison. Soon they were the heads of a new kind of enterprise: the movie studio.

By establishing a new system of production, distribution, and exhibition which was independent of The Edison Trust in New York, these studios opened up new horizons for cinema in the United States. The Hollywood oligopoly replaced the Edison monopoly. Within this new system, a pecking order was soon established which left little room for any newcomers. At the top were the five major studios, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Warner Bros. Beneath them were Columbia Pictures, United Artists, and Universal Studios. Finally there was "Poverty Row," a catch all term used to encompass any other smaller studio that managed to fight their way up into the increasingly exclusive movie business. It is worth noting that though the small studios that made up Poverty Row could be characterized as existing "independently" of any major studio, they utilized the same kind of vertically and horizontally integrated systems of business as the larger players in the game. Though the eventual breakup of the studio system and its restrictive chain-theater distribution network would leave independent movie houses eager for the kind of populist, seat-filling product of the Poverty Row studios, that same paradigm shift would also lead to the decline and ultimate disappearance of "Poverty Row" as a Hollywood phenomenon. While the kinds of films produced by Poverty Row studios only grew in popularity, they would eventually become increasingly available both from major production companies and from independent producers who no longer needed to rely on a studio's ability to package and release their work.

By: Linda Carolyne Rodriguez Marin