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Section 181, Film Production Tax Incentive, Reinstated (and Retroactive!) in 2016 Spending Bill
12 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Great news for independent film producers: the omnibus spending bill passed by Congress this week and signed by President Obama contains a reinstatement of Section 181, the tax provision that incentivizes film and television production by allowing for immediate deduction of production costs up to $15 million. What’s more, the provision, which expires December 31, 2016, was made retroactive to include costs spent during 2015. (In recent years, Section 181 was retroactively renewed for the prior year at the beginning of the next fiscal year; in 2015, it was allowed to expire completely, and many observers didn’t expect to see […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Daily | Lists and Polls, Awards and Nominations
17 hours ago | Keyframe | See recent Keyframe news »
George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, Todd Haynes's Carol and Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin are among the handful of titles that are scoring top notches in polls conducted by the likes of Film Comment, Indiewire, the Village Voice and so on. We're gathering lists and noting awards, but, in the long run, the recently announced list that'll count most is that of the 25 films added to the National Film Registry—including Ghostbusters and work by Thom Andersen, Douglas Sirk, Shirley Clarke, John Frankenheimer and Anthony Mann. » - David Hudson »
Review & Recap: ’The Knick’ Season 2, Episode 10, ‘This Is All We Are’
18 December 2015 11:00 PM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
If last week we saw the physical destruction of The Knick, with a fire consuming and obliterating the construction of the new hospital, the season finale, “This Is All We Are,” finds the emotional and personal lives of many of the characters following suit. Whatever glimmers of hope, or shafts of light illuminating suggested innocence there might have been across the season, it's revealed that beneath everybody lies pain and darkness. “The Knick” goes out with a bold finish, one that can only see a radical change, if we are to see a third season. It perhaps speaks to the worldview of Jack Amiel and Michael Begler that the show’s most ethically compromised, and bigoted character, is the one who gets the biggest reward. But that doesn’t mean bad behavior doesn’t go unpunished, nor hubris. From their pen, sympathy is just a recipe for future disappointment, good intentions hide sinister motives, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Video Essay. Two Takes on Strategy in Johnnie To’s "Election"
18 December 2015 9:30 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The tenth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Johnnie To's Election is now playing in the United States through January 17.***Election (2005) marked an unexpected move in the illustrious career of Johnnie To. As a film about organized crime operating across Hong Kong and China, it has scenes of violence, but no guns are fired; as a story of winning, holding, or losing power, it is less about open, bloody confrontations of gangs or sovereign individuals (the law of the urban, gangster jungle) than backroom manipulations of opinion and allegiance (i.e., politics). And it is a movie in which To’s regularly vertiginous, experimental style is pared right down to a minimalistic concentration on the utterance of words, the performance of small gestures, the conveyance of signs and objects that always have a precise, codified role to play in the proceedings. »
- Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin
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