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By Andrew Horn
I remember once reading what I thought was an amusing quote by Joseph Campbell which was something about how he thought computers were like religion - you expect them to solve all your problems but in fact they drive you crazy.
The same could be said for the whole so-called digital filmmaking thing. That Continue Reading

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- I don't have the final figures (I couldn't: this is being written Monday as registration is theoretically still going on, and so far there have been 15,000 last-minute walk-ups), but it now appears that SXSW Interactive is outdrawing SXSW Film and SXSW Music. Not surprising, considering that the ubiquity of the digital Continue Reading

I stopped using pop music lyrics to guide my life long ago, but boy, I should at least have figured that Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" would have some wisdom in it. Yes, folks, it stops at 59th St. going uptown and the next stop is Harlem: 125th St.
 
That's what I was thinking as Continue Reading

The past decade has been a rough one for me (and for a lot of other writers, of course), as work dried up, magazines and newspapers died, and the publishing business started going off the rails. Fighting off eviction, termination of telephone and electrical service, and trying to find enough to eat are all too Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
I used to be a big fan of Guy de Maupassant and in fact I once made a film based on three of his stories - I used to describe it as a story within a story, in which one of the characters tells a story. So I, of course, also read Continue Reading

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger knew of each other's existence because they went to the same school, but they didn't actually speak to each other until the day Keith noticed that Mick had a pile of impossible-to-find blues albums with him. (He'd been ordering them directly from Chess Records in Chicago). Obviously, this kid was Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn

Leave it to the Forum to program a film about concrete. All kidding aside - actually only some kidding aside - the film "Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi" is about the architect, Nervi, insofar as it documents his various buildings, all designed for his material of choice, poured concrete (concrete in German is Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn

I started off Saturday with “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present” playing in the Panorama. During "Iron Sky", I met a critic friend of mine and asked her if she had seen it. She acknowledged that it was ok but semi dismissed it as “typical HBO”. But okay, I’m interested in Marina Abramovic Continue Reading

A long time ago, in a newsroom far away (as far away as Austin, Texas is from you right now, anyway), a newspaper columnist sat typing blurry green letters on a black screen when he felt a presence next to him. Turning, he saw Jimmie Vaughan, one of the best guitarists in a town loaded Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn

With literally 100s of films on offer at the Berlinale, it’s always hard to know what films to go see based on just the small descriptions given in the catalogues. Sometimes films that appear dire can turn out to be interesting and sometimes things that look like a must-see turn out to be Continue Reading