links for 2009-11-15

"Der Kurzfilmcharakter, den Musikvideos in der Blütezeit der Gattung in den 90er-Jahren hatten – erinnert sei an die Clips von Madonna und Michael Jackson – ist heute selten anzutreffen. Auch Dank Internet laufen auf MTV nunmehr Reality Shows und Klingeltöne. Was wird aus dem Musikfernsehen?" Themenseite mit mehreren Beiträgen

Die Rezension des Independent zur Michael Hanekes "Das Weiße Band" fällt fast eindeutig aus: "One has to concede, however reluctantly, that it is a masterpiece – although my worry is that that is precisely what Haneke intends it to be."

"Over the last two years, NBC's Thursday comedy block [Office, Parks, 30 Rock] has matured into a lineup almost as formidable as that of its 1990s heyday." (…) "'Community,' though, feels like a fourth wheel." (…) "All together, "Modern Family" ends up riskier and stranger than "Community" but never feels forced."

"The News Corp. subsidiary's low-risk approach to creating scripted dramas — which normally are costly to produce — could become the new model for network TV." (…) "Fox Television Studio's strategy, on the other hand, is to co-produce shows with international partners willing to commit to a series right from the start — bypassing the expensive and uncertain pilot process — and sell the completed shows to a U.S. network."