Tag: home video

A Short-Short Film: “The Magic Beta Case”

January 11, 2014 | By
A Short-Short Film: “The Magic Beta Case”

  The production of this short-short film was purely spontaneous: I wanted some extra tie-in between my reviews of the 2013 doc Rewind This!  about VHS collecting and the history of home video, and my watching a Betamax tape of the 1987 film No Man’s Land – not the critically acclaimed 2001 Bosnian war film, but the 1987 Charlie Sheen-D.B. Sweeney suspense flick about Porsche stealers. The idea also stemmed from me preferring to make a demo video done in the antiquated […]

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New Production Diaries at Big Head Amusements / Thoughts on International Independent Videostore Day

October 22, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
New Production Diaries at Big Head Amusements / Thoughts on International Independent Videostore Day

In the latest Editor’s Blog: some compact thoughts & digressions about International Independent Videostore Day, which marked its second year this past Saturday October 2th. Yes Virginia, video stores still exist. Quite a few of them, really.

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The Oscars, and the quiet emergence of the Standard International Edition

February 28, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
The Oscars, and the quiet emergence of the Standard International Edition

Pure Editorial Blather on this weekend’s Oscar telecast, Norm Wilner’s piece on the Dardennes’ The Kid with a Bike premiering as a DVD-only release, and what may be the quiet emergence of the Standard International Home Video Edition of movies on Blu.

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