The cinetrix supposes that if there's an item about it in Variety this morning, she can finally direct your attention to Random House, Faber & Faber, and Focus Features' new joint venture, FilmInFocus, "a destination point and a haven for film lovers around the world."
I've been surreptitiously monitoring the site in beta via its RSS feed for a couple of weeks now. There's some interesting content up there, but I'm not entirely certain how I feel about these strange bedfellows and their fearful synergy. Yes, I realize that Atonement must be publicized via as many platforms as possible. And Schamus is not a bad sort. But Faber & Faber has long held a special place in my black heart--they not only employed T.S. Eliot for most of his adult life, they also published the Projections series and Hal Hartley's early screenplays, pivotal texts in the cinetrix's film geek development. When I was a wee young thing I wanted to work for them. [Hell, still do.]
Caveats dispensed with, I can at last point you to my favorite FilmInFocus feature: Behind the Blog. The first two subjects couldn't be finer [even if I wasn't biased]: David Hudson of GreenCine Daily and Andrew Grant of Like Anna Karina's Sweater. Now you can peer behind the cyber curtain and learn what their blog days are really like. Truly, it's good reading [and I would say so even if Filmbrain didn't namecheck me].
