The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. This week we celebrated some of our own favorite top 10 bloggers who work night and day to provide us up-to-date info on films, literature, and feminist news. Don’t miss these exciting and informative blogs, as well as some of our most popular stories of the week.

Katie:

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Top 5 Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Under $50

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Nicole:

Top 10 Literary and Book Blogs

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Giulia:

Top 10 Feminist Blogs

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Gina:

Top 10 Film Blogs

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Kerry:

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Here on Takepart, I blog a lot about films and so do the rest of the ladies on the Takepart blog team. We’re just little fish in the big pond of film blogging though, thus I present to you the Top 10 Film Blogs. The order is somewhat random, I mostly tried to mix things up and show you a variety of the different types of film blogs that are out there.

Did I miss one? Let me know and leave the left out blog in the comments!

1. GreenCine Daily : http://daily.greencine.com/

A great blog about indie cinema, classic cinema, foreign cinema etc… They are always covering the latest festival and films that aren’t always in the mainstream. More than that, they have reviews, interviews, previews and lots of good old regular views on films, directors and all the other folks who help to bring us great cinema. Give a read and also be sure to check out their sister site, http://greencine.com - an awesome online rental service.

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One of the things I love about the internet how it allows people to actively engage in debates and share information. For example, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote a review in The New York Times about the film Opera Jawa.Jonathan Rosenbaum head critic at the Chicago Reader, read her review and decided to blog about his distaste with it. Then GreenCine Daily linked to Rosenbaum’s post in their discussion of Opera Jawa. Following which, a New York City movie blog, The Reeler, also wrote about Rosenbaum’s piece. And now I am writing about it!Not to mention all the folks who have commented on all of the above posts/articles,

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When choosing which movie to see, a lot of people turn to newspapers and magazines to help them determine what they should spend their hard earned money (and time) on. They often turn to a source that should give honest opinions about the quality of a film and more specifically on what the films is about and who might enjoy it. But as celebrity becomes more and more of a factor and as movies continues to run from art straight towards big business, our “news” sources are becoming less reliable when it comes to objectivity. Interviews happen with publicists in the room, stories are only given to news outlets who promise the cover and any attempt to hold on to credibility means being shut out of opportunities to talk to the folks who star in and make movies.The Reeler has an interesting editorial from Lewis Beale, “Flack From All Sides”, on this very subject and how it effects readers and the world at large :

Except for a handful of publications — The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and occasionally Entertainment Weekly — almost no one is covering the film industry as an industry anymore, and even fewer are dealing with it as a cultural force whose images influence billions of people around the globe. Needless to say, all of this is shortchanging you, the reader, who is being force fed a steady diet of warmed-over, surface-thin interviews — gossip disguised as news and cheerleading pretending to be criticism.

On the subject of filmmakers being interviewed, The New York Times recently featured a piece on painter, sometimes director Julian Schnabel and his Miramax distributed film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (out this December). The piece isn’t anything special (the film on the other hand really is - check out the trailer below), but give the article a read and be sure to take note of the ending anecdote about Mr. Schnabel, an assistant and some water.