February 2012
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January 2012
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Primer
When El Mariachi was originally released no one believed that someone could make a film for $7,000 dollars. It seemedinsane. Then a couple of years later, The Blair Witch Project comes out and does the kind of box office business that Hollywood films like Death to Smoochy wish they could have had. That witch changed everything.
There was a flood of movie made on no budgets at all, and plenty...
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December 2011
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Some of the greatest times I’ve had in a theatre occurred at The Silent Movie Theatre, now housed by The Cinefamily. I don’t live in Los Angeles anymore but I’m I’m on their email list. Week after week I see amazing things going on hundreds of miles away from me.
This is one of them.
Starting December 17th at 12:00pm, and continuing until we drop, this space will...
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Watch Young Woody Allen Realizes He’s Mortal on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS.
From the wonderful American Masters series on PBS, that I know you’re watching, right?
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Stanley Kubrick’s New York and Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago prints are for sale. Might make a nice Christmas gift.
(via daringfireball)
November 2011
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“I always wanted to give a lecture at filmschools. You go in and you see all...”
– — David FIncher
(via FincherFanatic)
So, get to work.
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Watch(via SoundWorks Collection | Exclusive Video Profiles of the Sound World » Blog Archive » The Sound and Music of “The Social Network”)
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Watch(via SoundWorks Collection | Exclusive Video Profiles of the Sound World » Blog Archive » The Sound of “The Social Network”)
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Watch@jamieswb Raiding the Lost Ark: A Filmumentary - Part 1 (by jambe davdar)
Stunning work. I’d love for nerds to be making more of these. It’s just perfection.
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Thoughts during "Go All Day"
Go All Day from Colin Kennedy on Vimeo.
A few thoughts while watching this:
Oh, it’s like…
Gus Van Sant’s Elephant
..and a little like Donnie Darko
Pootie Tang is a security guard?
October 2011
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Danny Yount has often been the shining beacon in otherwise dismal cinematic productions. It’s no simple task to rise above mediocrity.
Kudos to Mr. Yount.
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(via the wonderful David Friedman)
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August 2011
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Watch Woody Allen aggression.
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Kind of Blue
Extremes teach heavy lessons. Debra Granik’s 2010 film adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name lives in the harsh world of lessons taught in pain. Initially seen by critics as a neo-noir, Granik’s film strikes tones that are more Aesop’s fables and Greek tragedy than Ralph Meeker.
WInter’s Bone begins with images of restraint, and tension. Dogs chained...
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Bark At The Moon
It’s more than just a little wonderful that Werner Herzog, a mad-man in his own right, made a film with Nicolas Cage.
In recent years, Cage has been mocked and ridiculed for the types of films that he’s starred in. The consensus being that the films he was in were either beneath him or he was inherently too odd for them and distracting as an individual....
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Academics vs. Critics | Filmlinc.com | Film... →
A piece of cinephile criticism typically focuses on evaluation and appreciation. The ideal cinephile critic has wide and subtle tastes and tries to expose the distinctive qualities he or she finds in the film. Through the skillful use of language, the critic tries to convey the film’s unique identity and to summon up, by a kind of tonal mimicry, the effects that the film arouses. Here, for...
July 2011
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Coloring Outside the Lines
There’s a thing that I do when I write fiction. As I’m writing I see different ideas display themselves to me, not necessarily answers to the what if… question, but paths that I might not have considered. It’s a paranoid process, because the biggest what if is What if I get it wrong?, What if down that road is the right way? Generally, movies...
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Stone (2010)
Growing up, Robert De Niro meant a lot to me. His work in the 70’s, filled with an alienation and pain, made him more human being than movie star in my eyes. Generations were affected by his soul-scraping work. Edward Norton was clearly influenced by him. His work in John Dahl’s Rounders is his homage Mean Streets Johnny Boy; his nameless character in Fight Club carries the names of...
June 2011
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Fuller_Pacino_Screentest from Heiko van der Scherm on Vimeo.
SAM FULLER AUDITIONS FOR ‘THE GODFATHER II’ WITH AL PACINO via Dangerous Minds
A few things:
Sam Fuller. Sam Fuller. Wow.
I think as a character, Fuller looks amazing, but seems to be reading the script for the first time. He’s also a little wonky physically. He leans in, leans back, changes inflections in his speech,...
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May 2011
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Watch Spoken of previously
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Sometimes Things Break
Blue Valentine (2010)
There’s an episode of This American Life in which host Ira Glass fulfills the wish of a listener who, having recently broken up with her boyfriend was surprised at not being able to find any break-up stories in the archives. Something similar is true in cinema. There are a great deal of films with relationships as their focus but the trials and pain associated with...
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via Film On Paper
Film on Paper is an archive of original film posters featuring the collection of me, Eddie Shannon, an interaction designer, cat owner and film fan currently living in London, UK.
The collection began seventeen years ago after a friend who worked in a local cinema gave me a stash of used posters. Like any teenager, I’d always had art of some kind on my bedroom walls...
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Watch Alessandro Pacciani’s BV-O1 as discussed here.
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The Tin Man's Heart
Neil Blomkamp’s Tetra Vaal
Neil Blomkamp hasn’t developed the following of a Robert Rodriguez or Peter Jackson quite yet, but he’s a visual stylist worthy of high praise. I first became of aware of him back when he was rumored to be in talks to direct the Halo movie. Blompkamp, unknown to me, seemed to me at the time became the perfect choice for the film after watching the...
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THE UNITED MONSTER TALENT AGENCY - Greg Nicotero by davehouseofhorrors
Greg Nicotero and His United Monster Talent Agency
From being killed off in George Romero’s Day Of The Dead to telling hilarious stories about Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell on the set of Evil Dead 2, it’s always been a blast to see the N of KNB Effects group doing his thing.
What’s an especially great...
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“But, uh, the production studio issued a ninety-second teaser, which I’ve...”
– An excerpt from What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Converations of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick was one of the greatest thinkers his generation and his observations of film are fascinating. Things passed through a mental filter with him and what came out the other end was a fascinated...
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This Band Could Be Your Life
We Jam Econo (2005)
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The Minutemen were a rock band from San Pedro, California. Through interviews with members Mike Watt (bass) and George Hurley (drums), the band’s story is revealed. Commentary from other performers such as Flea, Greg Ginn, and Henry Rollins illuminates the band’s place in the Southern California music scene and their contribution to music. Concert footage...
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Ours Is Not To Wonder Why
Stalingrad
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“Stalingrad” follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain, the Lieutenant of the platoon leads his men to desert. The men of the platoon attempt to escape from the city which is now surrounded by the Soviet...
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The Implosion Of A Son
RISING SON: THE LEGEND OF CHRISTIAN HOSOI
There have been a few documentaries on skateboarders and skateboarding culture over the last few years. All of them feature guys who’ve grown up and look back at their day in the sun as a glorious time.
It started with Dogtown and Z-Boys directed by the phenomenally talented Stacy Peralta, and without a doubt Peralta’s doc is the template for all of...
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It Takes A Village To Run A City
Ever Since the World Ended
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Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the...
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“…As I said before, I do think we live in a nightmare and I feel the same...”
– Woody Allen on Inspiration | FiveBooks | The Browser
April 2011
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