I'm new at this game...

I've been reading enough engaging, credible film blogs since I got back from Sundance that I've been inspired to start my own. Ideally, it would be through a host like sixapart (they do Moveable Type...Hey Aaron... *wink to you indieWIRE folks*) but I figured that depite the tragic template choices, I'd try it out for free to see if I can keep up with it before spending money on it.

*****

I can't seem to come up with the proper words to express just how much I admire and respect Eugene Hernandez. Being the editor-in-chief (and cofounder, no less) of indieWIRE, he was running all over the place at Sundance to screenings, panels, press conferences, and the like, so I didn't get to know him...well, at all. James, who hired me for the festival, keeps sending me links to film sites and random 60s and 70s videos, so I'm quite pleased that I found Eugene's blog through my own searching, and despite its simplicity (or, partly because of it), it just blew me away. It was mostly the photos that did it. This guy is brilliant, truly brilliant.

Of course, James is wonderfully impressive in his own right. He and his (twin!)brother Jeff have their own film company, Back and Forth Films, and have had their work (mostly shorts) screened around the globe; The Tourist (their latest) has been published in Volume 2 of The Journal of Short Film. My only html-nerd criticism is that they need to get rid of the tables in their website source code and start using their CSS properly -- the JSF site is a gorgeous example. But despite that, James (well, all three of these guys) makes me wish I was about ten years older. Jump Cuts (his blog) is here.

I have yet to find any sort of webpage that Brian may have, but if there is one, I'm awfully interested in seeing it. Because frankly, Brian Brooks rocks.