{"id":644,"date":"2005-12-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2005-12-02T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T23:54:00","slug":"indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2005\/12\/02\/indies\/","title":{"rendered":"Indies???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a link<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.co.uk\/features\/50greatestindependent\/50-41.asp\">http:\/\/www.empireonline.co.uk\/features\/50greatestindependent\/50-41.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from my good friend Eripsa. This link lists the top 50 or so &#8220;Independent Films&#8221;. This term has been in dispute ever since the mid 90&#8217;s when Mirimax made a name for themselves by distributing these films that were not seen as being part of the studio system: MGM, Universal, etc. Soon the Independent Film Channel followed and later another Sundance. They were seen as a place to showcase the independet sprit of filmmaking and all that. However, along the way as is to be expected and in a perfectly sensibly fashion following the success of Mirimax&#8217;s indie hook, a whole new crops of autuers appeared and the independent label perhaps got a little blown out of proportion. It is my firm belief that &#8220;gay cowboys eating pudding&#8221; is not inhernently indie. I do not prescribe to this ideal about the &#8220;sprit of independent cinema&#8221;. Today I think, more so than not, what people might think of as independent cinemas just isn&#8217;t. For my two cents a film is truly independent if it is produced and financed outside of the Studios (i.e. the big Corporation with money) entirely. It is the sort of film like Kevin Smith&#8217;s <em>Clerks<\/em> or David Lynch&#8217;s<em> Eraserhead<\/em> where they had difficulties getting the money and where the likelyhood of  the film getting made, let alone distributed and released to the public, was not at all certain. We&#8217;ll that&#8217;s my new rant have at it! I have to go finish my own independent film now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a linkhttp:\/\/www.empireonline.co.uk\/features\/50greatestindependent\/50-41.asp from my good friend Eripsa. This link lists the top 50 or so &#8220;Independent Films&#8221;. This term has been in dispute ever since the mid 90&#8217;s when Mirimax made a name for themselves by distributing these films that were not seen as being part of the studio system: MGM, Universal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}