BEAUTIFUL - NYC FREE ADMISSION FEB. 9

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 7pm

Korean Cultural Service will be screening FREE KOREAN MOVIES

at Tribeca Cinemas
FREE ADMISSION
54 Varick Street, NYC

(on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops) Price? Free. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Or if you want to guarantee a seat, just RSVP to info@koreanculture.org or call 212-759-9550

BEAUTIFUL
(2008, 88 minutes, New York Premiere)

First timer Juhn Jai-Hong took an unfinished screenplay by his mentor, Kim Ki-Duk (The Isle, Bad Guy), and turned it into this insane slice of grand guignol social critique that sends up Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery with a side helping of maximum carnage.

Kim is a pretty young woman often mistaken for an actress. Men are always hitting on her, and she’s uncomfortable being the object of their sexual fantasies. Her discomfort deepens when she’s attacked by a stalker who thinks he’s in love with her, and then the cops accuse her of leading the guy on by looking sexy. Even the doctor at the hospital hits on her. Her only hope: to erase her beauty by any means necessary. A big budget, 35mm production, BEAUTIFUL is a queasy
mix of body horror, sexual politics, eating disorders, self-mutilation and homicidal rage.

Watch highlights from the critically acclaimed Korean film 'Beautiful' directed by Juhn Jaihong.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!

Directions To thetvnews.tv/combridges
Super Bowl Commercials Rating Party!

Specific directions on how to get into and participate in the hottest virtual party for the TV industry on Super Bowl Sunday.
It all begins at 7pm eastern / 4pm Pacific.
Be there!

"This Ain't Gilligan's Island XXX" and "The Devil Wears Nada"

Who will surf 3D TV?
If history has the answer, look to porn, vidgames

Enthusiasm for 3D television has taken off in just the last few months, with the explosive box office success of "Avatar" that has doubtless fueled some of the new-found belief that 3D TV's time has finally come.

The problem is that theaters are selling 3D at a premium because it's an experience, not necessarily a way of life. People watch TV differently -- pausing, channel surfing, going to the bathroom -- which alters that dynamic, no matter how much the sets improve and the cost diminishes, as they inevitably will.

Any such discussion about greater immersion in video games or porn fosters a rather unappetizing image of young men sitting alone in living rooms sounding like Beavis and Butt-head, but let's face it, without "Star Trek" and porn, the Internet would not have gotten off the ground nearly as fast.

READ MORE By BRIAN LOWRY - http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014821.html?categoryid=1682&cs=1

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Good Luck, Paramount!

My email box was ablaze this past Friday with news that Paramount was forming their own micro-budget film division. The goal is to make twenty $100k no-budget features a year. After their success with “Paranormal Activity,” (a film they DID NOT PRODUCE, by the way), this sounds like a case of ‘give the guy a rope and now he thinks he’s a cowboy.’ All I can say is, “Good Luck, Paramount!”

As someone who has devoted most of the last 15 years to no-budget filmmaking and spent the last six years specifically working on this kind of a multi-film model, not to mention the last five years teaching no-budget filmmaking and making my own no-budget features, I have this cautionary note for Paramount: it’s harder than it looks.

READ MORE - http://www.filmradar.com/indie_blog/item/good_luck_paramount/

DVD FLICK: Simple, Streamlined DVD Burner

Normally. I just use Windows Movie Maker when I need to burn the occasional video DVD, but this weekend I ran into a predicament: I already had videos on my computer (rather than using the utility to download the video from the camera directly) and the clips were in a variety of formats: MPEG, AVI, and even QuickTime, a year's worth of little snippets of the kids playing and acting insane. Windows Movie Maker couldn't even open most of the clips.

Solution: DVD FLICK, a freeware utility that can make DVDs (and ISO files) from whatever video clips you have lying around and takes minimal effort to figure out.

READ MORE By Christopher Null: The Working Guy - http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111614;_ylt=Apze_G53qdadoN6Ob_1b7PzxLJA5
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Make Your Own Video Mashups

Make Your Own Video Mashups for YouTube

LEARN MORE By Rick Broida, PC World -
http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/make-your-own-video-mashups-for-youtube/205867;_ylt=Avhc21rdsdnPH6N8B9WCuGqmLZA5

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