New York City is a place where shops and restaurants come and go. But in Greenwich Village, the former bohemian enclave that has never lost its mythological aura as a neighborhood of freedom and beauty (tourists now line up to gawk at the Stonewall Inn the same way they walk in the Beatles’ footsteps across Abbey Road), the last decade has given rise to a ritual that’s become depressing in its familiarity. A local eating establishment — a diner, a trattoria — that’s been there for years, and that you prize in every way, seems to be thriving. Then you’re meeting someone there for dinner, and…poof! It’s gone. Shuttered. Maybe it moved to a different part of town, but in most cases it’s gone forever.
Why? Even beloved restaurants have to play by the rules of capitalism, but these places have done that; they were popular and profitable.
Why? Even beloved restaurants have to play by the rules of capitalism, but these places have done that; they were popular and profitable.
- 10/26/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – Morgan Spurlock walked into the interview room with his special suit. The black business suit is festooned with product logos, representing the companies that financed his latest documentary, “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.”
Spurlock, best known for his breakthrough eating documentary, “Supersize Me,” is cheekily at it again, this time exposing American marketing and advertising by literally making a film about getting a film sponsored. In fact, the full title of the “Doc-Buster” (as Spurlock calls it) is “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” Pom Wonderful, a pomegranate drink, paid to have the name above the title.
The film essentially follows Spurlock as he convinces the sponsoring companies to sign on, interspersed with commentary from academic luminaries like Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader, plus film directors J.J. Abrams, Peter Berg, Brett Ratner and Quentin Tarantino, commenting on product placement in the movies.
Amazing Techni-Logo Dreamcoat: Morgan Spurlock...
Spurlock, best known for his breakthrough eating documentary, “Supersize Me,” is cheekily at it again, this time exposing American marketing and advertising by literally making a film about getting a film sponsored. In fact, the full title of the “Doc-Buster” (as Spurlock calls it) is “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” Pom Wonderful, a pomegranate drink, paid to have the name above the title.
The film essentially follows Spurlock as he convinces the sponsoring companies to sign on, interspersed with commentary from academic luminaries like Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader, plus film directors J.J. Abrams, Peter Berg, Brett Ratner and Quentin Tarantino, commenting on product placement in the movies.
Amazing Techni-Logo Dreamcoat: Morgan Spurlock...
- 4/20/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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