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When Documentarians Go Bad

By Daedalus Howell | September 30th, 2009
Been reading producer David L. Wolper’s autobiography, Producer, wherein the author details how his production company essentially invented the “dramatic re-enactment” in their television documentaries of the 1950s. It’s interesting to consider that such scenes, now ubiquitous on cable and beyond, were once considered verboten by networks and journalists alike. I’ve appeared in similar reenactments [...]
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Adapting Lethem’s Biosphere

By Daedalus Howell | August 13th, 2009
Pleased to announce that I’ll be adapting Jonathan Lethem’s story If Their Was the Biosphere for the wee screen (meaning this one) as part of the author’s experiment in open-source collaboration, the Promiscuous Materials Project. Lethem is perhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (a National Book Critics Circle Award-winner) and The Fortress of [...]
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Feel Like a Tramp

By Daedalus Howell | February 27th, 2009
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you feel like a little tramp, consider Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog’s Life, screening as part of a silent triptych of moving pictures presented by the Sonoma Film Institute. As the top dog of the silent era, Chaplin’s depiction of a dog-day afternoon spent with a rescued mutt was the [...]
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Matinee Idyll: Indie Screening in Wine Country

By Daedalus Howell | January 9th, 2009
Once upon a time, at some party or other in Hollywood, the host proudly showed off his expansive DVD collection, after claiming to have dumped his books to make space. “DVDs are the new novels,” he crowed proudly, unaware that he had offended not only this particular writer, but nearly everyone within earshot who [...]
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Alan Rickman gets Bottle Shocked

By Daedalus Howell | August 17th, 2008
As part of a new podcast series produced for the Arts Council of Sonoma County, dig on this chat about wine biz flick Bottle Shock with star Alan Rickman. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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Best Friend’s Girl

By Daedalus Howell | November 2nd, 2005
Perhaps you were smart, listened to your high school guidance counselor and forewent film school for a real education that resulted in a real job in the real world. Now you’ve got some real dough and can partake of the Criterion Collection’s DVD releases, all of which seem to hail from under the banner “Everything [...]
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The Aviary Soars to the Silver Screen

By Daedalus Howell | July 19th, 2005
The Aviary, the only film about flight attendants penned by an actual flight attendant, premieres at 8 p.m., THIS Friday, July 22 at the Lark Theater in Larkspur. The feature film was produced and written by Sonoma County native Silver Tree, a flight attendant on a major US carrier the past five years — and, [...]
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Of Love and Layovers

By Daedalus Howell | May 26th, 2005
The Aviary, the recently released feature film lovingly crafted by my pals Silver Tree and Abe Levy (writer and director respectively) is proving to be the “little plane that could.” Inspired by Silver’s experience as a flight attendant, the duo has created a romantic comedy that both takes wing and remains grounded in what truly [...]
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