Archive for category: Industry

Warner Archive Collection – New Access to Old Movies

27 March, 2009 (18:00) | DVD, Industry, Technology, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

Warner’s launch of the Warner Archive Collection, its new DVD on Demand site, was well covered earlier this week (see The New York Times’ The Carpetbagger, Susan King at the LA Times and Lou Leminick at the New York Post) but there’s been little follow-up in the days since. Maybe that’s because [...]

DVD for the Week – Remembering New Yorker Films 1965-2009

23 February, 2009 (13:14) | DVD, Essays, Industry, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

I got the news from Girish Shambu (via Facebook), who directed me to a report on IndieWire by Eugene Hernandez, who confirmed it: New Yorker Films is closing its doors. The devastating news is on the New Yorker homepage.
Anyone who was active in film culture in the days before the video business gave us access [...]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Up For Sale, Up in the Air

10 January, 2009 (13:54) | Commentary, Industry, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

[Published in conjunction with the blog seanax.com]
You could say it came as a complete surprise when, on Thursday evening, local TV station KING-TV announced that, according to unnamed sources, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would be put up for sale. The P-I staff had no news of it and the Hearst Corporation, which owns the P-I, would [...]