Teenage filmmakers: students at the Ghetto Film School are learning how to make movies.
The next big thing in movies might not come from a Hollywood bigwig. It may be made at the Ghetto Film School (GFS) in New York City. GFS is a film school where students learn to write scripts, act, direct, record, and edit their own movies. A...

The sound & the fury: the movies learn to talk.
The silent film had created a world of persuasive reality despite the absence of voices and natural sound. Indeed, much of the art of the silent film lay in circumventing these artificial limitations. A story had to be told with images alone and directors like Frank Capra, John Ford,...

American Acoustic Development C880 Loudspeaker.
Manufacturer: American Acoustic Development, 8559 Page Ave., St. Louis, MO 63114; 314/814-4660; www.aadsound.com Price: $1,600/pr Source: Manufacturer Loan Reviewer: Gary Lea The storied life of bassist and designer extraordinaire Phil Jones is the stuff of legends to be sure. I certainly...

TCM's 8th Annual Young Film Composers Competition Kicking Off Jan. 1 to Feature Beau Brummel.
Chance to Score Feature-Length Film for Debut on TCM and $15,000 Up for Grabs in 2007 Competition 2006 Winner Darrell Raby's Score of The Show to Premiere Monday, Jan. 29, 2007 ATLANTA, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Beau Brummel (1924) -- matinee idol John Barrymore's portrayal...

SRS Labs Provides Premium Audio Solution for New HP Notebook PCs.
SRS Premium Sound Suite, incorporated in HP Pavilion and TouchSmart tx2 notebooks, deliver an immersive high-quality audio experience from all multimedia related PC applications SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRS Labs , the industry leader in surround sound, audio, and voice technologies, announced today that...

SRS Labs Provides Premium Audio Solution for New Dell Laptop PCs.
SRS Premium Sound(TM) Audio Solution Incorporated in Dell Studio XPS Laptops to Deliver an Immersive High-Quality Multimedia Audio Experience SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRS Labs, Inc. , the leading provider of surround sound, audio and voice technologies, today announced that Dell, the No. 1...

Burden of Dreams.
Burden of Dreams A film by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling; directed, photographed and produced by Les Blank; featuring Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale. 1982. DVD, color, 95 mins. A Criterion Collection release, distributed by Image Entertainment, www.imageentertainment.com. Werner Herzog says he never dreams...

Mega Movies. Warning! Mega Sound Effects.
Mega Movies. Warning! Mega Sound Effects. Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Telarc SACD60535. There will never be an end to movies, so I guess there will never be an end to movie soundtrack scores. Moreover, there never seems to be an end to audio innovations, so...

A bed and several dreams: a short history of Iranian Cinema.
Iranian cinema has a turbulent but otherwise fascinating history, one influenced by religion and politics. Iranian cinema originated on August 18, 1900, when Mirza Ebrahim Khan, the special photographer to Mozaffareddin Shah Qajar's royal court, shot his first footage with a French Gaumont camera. Unlike other countries,...

Reissue Roundup: Recent Remasters.
There was a flurry of reissues in several genres to mark the coming of the last Christmas season of the second millennium. Some of these resulted from still more corporate mergers, making MCA, now Uni, one of the two largest publishers in the music business. There were lots of...