FilmBuff

Home Media Magazine recently posted the results of a study of the all-time top-selling titles on cable VOD. [READ MORE]

Earlier this week, Criterion released on Blu-Ray the second volume of "By Brakhage: An Anthology". [READ MORE]  

I spent this past weekend in Baltimore, where I attended the Maryland Film Festival and participated in its Filmmakers Taking Charge Conference.  Hosted by CinemaTech's Scott Kirsner, the conference featured several interesting panels, each of them essentially riffs on the same theme of a challenging but promising indie film landscape.  [READ MORE]

In my first blog post, I wrote about some of the quirks of my cable-less life.  Since cutting the cord over a year ago, I've been evangelical on the virtues of getting my entertainment exclusively on-demand, through Apple and Netflix systems.  Yet, I've never craved cable more than I do right now. [READ MORE]

This past Friday, I spoke on a "State of the Doc" panel at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. (READ MORE)

Yesterday's Huffington Post included a guest column that gets to the heart of Eric Proulx's wonderful film "Lemonade", available for free on Hulu. [READ MORE]

It's no giant leap to predict 3D is here to stay (and that docs are tough these days theatrically), but I hope the following isn't the harbinger of things to come. [READ MORE]

Friday will mark my third straight SXSW (and first one with sunglasses-excellent weekend purchase). But it's our first South By as FilmBuff and we're thrilled that two of our titles, "Crying with Laughter" and "Erasing David," will premiere on iTunes and Amazon VOD during the festival.Today, we premiered the trailers on Hulu. We couldn't be prouder.

Roger Ebert has always been one of my favorite film critics: unpretentious, humorous, personal, economical in his words and unflagging in his support for movies that matter.  [READ MORE]

There's a cool article in the current Atlantic about how, with the coming opening of the Grateful Dead Archives, in Santa Cruz, CA, management and business theorists, among all academics, could have the most to gain. [READ MORE]