This coming Saturday, Not Coming to a Theater Near You presents Jia Zhangke's rarely screened 2007 documentary, Useless, at the 92Y Tribeca. Leo Goldsmith opens a new series, Jia Zhangke's Migrations, for which Not Coming contributors will be reviewing all of Jia's features:
Jia's vision of China is both a gritty appraisal of a lurching economy and massively destabilizing reconstruction projects, and a phantasmagoria of the intimate desires of its ordinary citizens. Documentary realism vies with the simulacra of contemporary life: cellphone daydreams explode in flash animation, UFOs rise above the Three Gorges Dam project, everyday banalities mix alchemically with the glimmering seductions of popular culture. Jia's is a cinema of contradictions, of fact against fiction, of bitter memory against the utopias of post-socialism. But most of all, it's defiantly a cinema of the present — not a forecast of the glories of the China to come, but an ode to a...
Jia's vision of China is both a gritty appraisal of a lurching economy and massively destabilizing reconstruction projects, and a phantasmagoria of the intimate desires of its ordinary citizens. Documentary realism vies with the simulacra of contemporary life: cellphone daydreams explode in flash animation, UFOs rise above the Three Gorges Dam project, everyday banalities mix alchemically with the glimmering seductions of popular culture. Jia's is a cinema of contradictions, of fact against fiction, of bitter memory against the utopias of post-socialism. But most of all, it's defiantly a cinema of the present — not a forecast of the glories of the China to come, but an ode to a...
- 5/24/2011
- MUBI
Nielsen//NetRatings has paid $12 million for a majority stake in RedSheriff, a privately held company that uses a patented technology for accurately measuring traffic at Web sites. Australia-based RedSheriff boasts 1,000 clients, including News Corp., America Online, Yahoo! and the NHL. Clients who incorporate RedSheriff's browser-based measurement technology into their sites can tell, for example, the exact number of times a user has visited each Web page during an online session. Nielsen//NetRatings, which mostly relies on panel data for the preparation of its measurement and analytical reports, purchased 58% of RedSheriff, though it intends on buying the rest of the company early next year, Nielsen//NetRatings spokesman Tim Wong said. The final price tag is expected to be $20.7 million. "Our clients have been calling for increased clarity around the metrics provided by panel-centric and site-centric research to support the growth of online advertising," Nielsen//NetRatings president and CEO William Pulver said. "We expect this transaction to be accretive in 2004." RedSheriff has 63 employees and said its 12-month trailing revenue through Sept. 30 was $7.5 million. Nielsen//NetRatings is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol NTRT. It is owned by VNU, parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.
- 12/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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