55: Please Do Not Disturb (LAFF 2011)
The triptych is such a stable cinematic and dramatic structure; in your standard-length feature film, two separate stories might seem to shortchange both without really justifying why they’ve been sutured together into one film. And if you have four or more stories omnibus-style, leaning on threadbare characterization and stock plots is almost necessary due to [...]
Tehran to Twitter
And to YouTube, and to Facebook. The crisis in Iran is still unfolding, and everyone is already proclaiming it to be the first revolution brought to you by the Internet. The Nation writes that “the outpouring of texts, tweets and video from Tehran has sparked a worldwide solidarity movement,” while Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic boldly pronounces that “Twitter will doubtless be cast as a protagonal technology that enabled the powerless to survive a brutal crackdown and information blackout by the ruling authorities.” Andrew Sullivan updates his blog constantly with new tweets, even changing his colors to green in solidarity; Meanwhile Jon Stewart makes light of the fact that the CNN newsroom has basically turned into a bunch of people logging into MySpace.
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