Martine Pagé

Le sc�nario sur lequel je travaille depuis environ un an, Mafiaboy, se retrouve dans les nouvelles aujourd’hui. Cano� en parle, la page 61 du Journal de Montr�al y est consacr�e (entrevue avec la productrice et bons mots pour moi!) et on me dit que l’�ventuel tournage du film a fait les nouvelles � la radio de Radio-Canada de m�me qu’� l’�mission de Robert Gillet � Qu�bec.

C’�tait il y a trois ans, le 12 septembre 2001, que l’adolescent montr�alais recevait sa sentence, un �v�nement m�diatique se d�roulant dans l’ombre du 11 septembre.

Mise � jour: La nouvelle fait aussi les manchettes du Carnet Techno de Radio-Canada.

M�me chose � LCN.

Un autre article, un peu plus long, sur Branchez-Vous!.

At 2pm this afternoon, I met a fellow Yulblogger at the corner of Mont-Royal and St-Denis. We exchanged greetings, then he gave me the movie Takedown – based on the book about the arrest of hacker Kevin Mitnick – and we parted.

Because of poor test screenings, the movie was only released in France. I had been wanting to see it for months, without any luck. Thanks to a chance meeting at the last Yulblog, I was finally going to be able to see this controversial movie.

I came back home tonight (after seeing a great movie), and decided to do a bit of reading about Takedown to refresh my memory. That’s when I found out that the news came out yesterday that nearly 6 years after it was filmed, Takedown will finally be released in America as a DVD at the end of September. Talk about weird timing.

« The film languished without a US release date amid rumors of poor test screenings and a re-shot ending. Perhaps hoping to recoup some of their losses, Miramax finally released the movie to French theatres in March, 2000, as Cybertraque. It was generally panned by critics: a reviewer for the newspaper Le Monde noted the film’s problems in translating a virtual manhunt to the action-adventure genre. « Can the repeated image of faces sweating over keyboards renew the principles of the Hollywood thriller?, » the paper asked. »

I wonder why they decided to distribute the movie in America now? I’m dreaming there might be a current surge of interest in hacker movies…

Maintenant que j’ai deux v�hicules (auto et scooter) et que j’habite en dehors de l’�le de Montr�al, je ne prends presque plus le m�tro et �a me manque un peu.

Je pourrais toujours copier ce fichier audio sur un cd et le faire jouer dans la bagnole! La qualit� de l’enregistrement est �tonnante. On peut m�me entendre les gens bavarder en fran�ais.

Tiens maintenant que j’y pense, mon job de r�ve serait de faire la voix qui annonce les stations de m�tro: « Prochaine station, Mont-Royal ».

(lien trouv� chez Montreal City Weblog)