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June 01, 2006
The Web's 12,043rd Movie Blog Digs In at Nerve--and It Is a Good One
The inbreeding enthusiast in me always rejoices at the sight of a new movie blog, especially a good one with some time, taste and intellectual weight behind it. I think all three attributes apply to Nerve's new ScreenGrab, edited by writer/filmmaker Bilge Ebiri and emphasizing news from the world of independent and international film. Ebiri's first few weeks, in fact, bounced furiously from Cannes reports (featuring Zelda Rubenstein!) to business dealings to a particularly toothsome review of the reviewers (Armond White's curtailed word count fuels his "exasperation"? Come on--that is just his grinning, overworked contrariness). Its ambition is matched only by its execution, which reminds me of my own virile, pre-arthritic salad days.
Anyway, as long as Ebiri and his crew stay off my Weinstein beat, they can consider themselves endorsed. ScreenGrab rocks.
Posted by stvanairsdale at June 1, 2006 12:02 PM
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