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Sundance Channel Blogs Sundance Festival

Thursday January 15, 2009

If you're hungry for a mouthful of that movie feeding frenzy known as the Sundance Film Festival, tune into Sundance Channel's full-time festival blog for the latest, tastiest, fresh-from-the-scene morsels of information and opinion about 2009's roster of films, reeling and dealing, festival parties and party-goers, ski slopes and bunnies. The bloggers are Kim Masters and Ryan Kearny.

Yes, Sundance Festival is a premier place for select and juried documentaries, Read more...

SXSW 2009's Documentaries Line Up Rocks!

Tuesday January 13, 2009
The 2009 SXSW Film Festival, schedued from March 13 to 21 in Austin, Texas, is one of the world's premier events for premiering documentaries. This year's docs roster includes:

The Ascent of Money on PBS - Preview

Monday January 12, 2009
In The Ascent of Money, author and Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson takes a 'Money 101' approach to enlightening viewers about what establishes the value of money, and how it is used to fuel the world's financial engine.

Ferguson traces the history of money from ancient times, when inscribed clay tablets were used as promisory notes that gave the bearer the right to collect a sum upon presentation of the tablet, to the present, when paper money still gives the bearer the right to collect a sum upon demand. In other words, there is no inherent value in paper money or, for that matter, the base metal coins we use. As Paul Volker comments in the film, paper money's value is based on "a con game--or a game of confidence" that tests the public's faith in the system itself on a daily basis. Read more...

Helvetica: You Are What You Read!

Saturday January 10, 2009
Helvetica profiles the world's most-used typeface. You see it everywhere: subways and highways, on tax forms and doors to public toilets, logos and labels for clothing, airlines, food, electronics, department and discount stores. It's so commonplace, you probably don't even notice it--let alone give it a moment's thought.

But, as designers and historians comment in Gary Hustwit's fascinating documentary, this 50-year old typeface shapes much of what the world thinks about. Helvetica has an imposingly stylish and seductive attitude, it clearly effects lifestyle and is ubiquitous.

It's clearly time to take a closer look at the typeface that implies you are what you read. Helvetica, the documetary, is the perfect way to do that. It's playing as part of the Independent Lens series on PBS and is avaiable on DVD.

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