SAW producer dies at 42. Shocking news. Gregg Hoffman, a key creative force behind the SAW (which we saw at Sundance) horror franchise, died in Los Angeles on Sunday. [Film Unlimited]
Terrence Malick. Eye on the Oscars: Director: The New World — Perhaps it’s the artistic leeway he gives to his collaborators, or his background as a Harvard grad and Rhodes scholar who later taught philosophy at MIT, but those who have worked with Terrence Malick regard him with distinct awe. [Variety.com]
‘Podcast’ announced as Word of the Year. In a press release issued yesterday, and as noted on several Web sites today, editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected “podcast” as the Word of the Year for 2005… [MacMinute]
The Science of Sundance’s Selection Process. John Clark gives a glimpse into Sundance’s programming process in Sunday’s New York Times. Obviously their method of selecting films for the country’s most important film festival is far more political and complicated than this seemingly straightforward chart illustrates, but it also shows the challenge in choosing films from a daunting number of entries: 1,004 American features 936 international features… JUMP CUTS by James Israel. [blogs.indieWIRE.com: Independent Film]
