Thought this would be of interest to some of you... [log in to unmask] wrote: > I was perusing Zeitgeist films' website recently and happened to > notice that the venerable Greenaway had been added to their extended > film catalogue (and Greenaway's "The Falls" is listed as 'coming soon > to DVD'..unfortunately, there is no further elaboration: no date, > no details..).. Zeitgeist do not master their own discs, but work in > conjunction with Winstar/Fox Lorber (and on the rare occasion, Kino > and Criterion).. Hopefully, we can expect this sometime within the > next decade.. (I think Wayney will be particularly pleased with this > news, unless he already knows) > > Also worth noting, Zeitgeist have acquired Guy Maddin's latest 6 > minute long short, 'Heart of the World', in which he fuses Dziga > Vertov, Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, and DW Griffith (a sublime tip of the > hat to the silent era of agitprop).. Maddin's short was included > among > 10 preludes created specifically for the Toronto International Film > Festival's 25th anniversary..(other filmmakers that were included : > Atom Egoyan, Michael Snow, David Cronenberg..a strictly Canadian > affair) I have viewed all of them, and Guy Maddin's film was easily > the best, and most inspired.. -- Scott Andrew Hutchins http://members.home.net/scottandrewh "It's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself, and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat."--John Merrick, _Aunt Jane's Nieces_, by L. Frank Baum ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]