January 16ths

1/16/1999

Lyric line: No one ever woke up one day and said, “I'm glad I'm a star.”

 

1/16/2006

On cell phone cinema: it will give us tolerance for shorter, exformed movies that we can watch privately, and spend some contemplative time with, like a snapshot in your wallet, like a short story or aphorisms that inspire us.

[1/16/2025: This seems to be a perennial wish: recently the ReelShort app has been in development. It still has yet to be used in a serious way by filmmakers, except perhaps as a conceptual idea. The metaphor I’ve always used is as a “single”, sometimes with 2 “sides”].