Posts by Jonathan King
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Plan now for a post-oil city, a chance to do it right.
That's about the most visionary idea I've heard yet. It would be exciting to look at things through as a bold a thematic lens as that ...
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TVNZ running ads with coverage. Classy.
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Curious, anyone out there have a good word to say about Nespresso machines?
I drank a number of these -- for free -- at the, er, Cannes Film Festival last year. The coffee's actually pretty good -- say, better than your average-to-bad local espresso, not as good as a really good one ...
But fuck owning one -- you have to buy their little pre-packed sachet / magazine things and insert them into the machine ... The Gillette, buy the handle and then be locked into the expensive blades, principle.
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UN committee on the rights of the child says 1 in 5 NZ children live in poverty.
Paula Bennett on Radio NZ: "In general NZ is best place in the world to bring up kids," [meaningless cliché] "but I do appreciate that for some people life is hard." [that's just the way things go, isn't it].
So depressing.
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Maybe just The Once and Future King. For now, retired. ;-)
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Anyone notice that Jonathan King has never returned since asking for the access to The Thread of Doooom?
Did I hear my name mentioned?
I've bowed out of all this for my mental health -- the post mortems all too distressing / infuriating / mobius-strip-like ... and now I pretty much feel like I don't really want to talk about The Hobbit again until the day it opens!
I have to say Thread of Doooom was -- after the build up -- a bit of a disappointment: Jeez, it got bitchy real quick, didn't it? :-) Some of the early ones linked to within it were a better read ...
Still -- many thanks for having me. I hope I can contribute again when I have something worthwhile to say.
JK
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Does nobody go to work around here?
I'm a New Zealand film director -- I got plenty of time on my hands!
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I've just had an email that includes the phrase "your treachery will not be forgotten".
Hahahaha -- you'll be getting a piece of paper with a black spot on it next!
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If one, just out of interest, wanted to read this, so-called, 'Thread of Dooooom', where would one find it?
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If you can monetise it (yes, I hate the word too, but it works), downloading offers more opportunity for small film-makers than threat.
Indeed, filmmakers (and musicians) now have ways to move their thing around the world in ways that couldn't be imagined 15 years ago ... The conundrum is how to:
a. Get money to make those expensive fuckers (and maybe pay yourself while you do).
b. Pay that money back.
(Answer to conundrum is not to wish really hard that that online digital copying doesn't happen and persecute / prosecute anyone who isn't wishing hard enough).
No, I told you off about planning based on false assumptions.
There's no question that we're still delaying the inevitable day when our film 'industry' collapses. Hollywood will -- despite what John Key has announced -- not keep coming here. And our domestic industry is nowhere near able to support the hundreds or thousands of people who currently see themselves as professional film crew (and we saw hanging out for The Hobbit).