June 2012
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Girl With the ANSI Tattoo
Great blog post by Oracle WTF on MySQL
in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
We see her tapping at her laptop as she hacks effortlessly into the Swedish police database, interspersed with green-tinted tracking shots of scrolling text as she types in keywords like ‘unsolved’ and ‘decapitation’, though never quite the whole query:
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May 2012
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Great video and article by the New York Times. Zombie tech alive and thriving, albeit in a much smaller scale.
(via the candler blog)
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This video of director Robert Downey Sr. is a treasure. I don’t know if there’ll be more of this on a future Criterion release, but The first in a series of four, it’s certainly a pleasure to watch Downey in discussion with Paul Thomas Anderson.
The influence on PTA’s work that Downey had has been acknowledged by the director of Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love....
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From The Candler Blog:
The director emailed photos of the film’s 65mm negative being cut by hand to Anderson fan-site Cigarettes and Red Vines. From his verse-styled accompanying text:
These shots include our lovely
Negative Cutter, Simone, imported
all the way from France to cut 65mm
negative. She does it all with a pair
of scissors from Staples.
(via the candler...
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At a glance it would seem that Rope of Silicon’s What I Learned Listening to David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Commentary post was little more than snippets of clever Fincher witticisms culled from the film’s commentary track. On the contrary, Brad Brevet did some fine research into tracking down Fincher’s claim of inspiration and placed them...
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Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) video directed by Jake Nava [wiki] is a testament to the power of simplicity.
Borrowing liberally from Bob Fosse’s work in Mexican Breakfast[wiki], choreographer Frank Gatson adds power and strength to the comedy routine. Nava, adds a shifting lighting scheme — and the best use of a zoom I’ve seen in a while — to create a rock...
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“Purveyor of the porn groove, the great-granddaddy of global discomania, Giorgio...”
– Great profile of the Giorgio Moroder over at thecreatorsproject. Lovely collection of tunes and small bits of trivia.
Original Creators: Disco’s Smoothest Operator Giorgio Moroder | The Creators Project
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Coppola is one of the first to articulate the inherent commercial problems with being a filmmaker today.
Q: How does an aspiring artist bridge the gap between distribution and commerce?
A: We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron,...
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"This Must Be The Place"
“This Must Be The Place” achieves a sensibility I don’t think I’ve seen before: a post-nostalgia. It seems to be coming from an age where our ties to the material world have been disconnected and fragmented. Material things break. Digital things either work, or they don’t
Only the old can be nostalgic about something. The man featured in the film, one supposes,...
April 2012
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I’ve thought about this, and I can say with great pride and certainty; Primer is one of my favorite films of all time.
It’s great that it’s now available for viewing on youtube. I’ve watched it twice this week already.
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Hillman Curtis Passes Away
Hilman Curtis passed away on April 18, 2012. His videos brought an austerity and craftsmanship to filmmaking on the net.
Watching his films I remember thinking that he was creating a new forum and language for online filmmaking and filmmakers. His confidence and relaxed assuredness was a fresh welcome after the loud, bombastic fare that characterized online filmmaking at the time.
Watching...
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We love the medium and we aim to see as many films as possible, often bragging to one another about how many and how often because we really want people to know. We can’t afford to own every film ever (though some try to) so we go out of our way to be able to see films on the cheap. We spend a day at the multiplex theater-hopping, we get credentialed at festivals, we write for free in exchange...
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“Paint It Black” is a brief PDF essay about the use of color in the films of David Fincher. Most of the topics and points covered are discussed on audio commentaries, but the effort of organizing and juxtoposing images side by side does serve in percolating thoughts about Fincher’s mastery of the frame.
“Paint it Black” is part of the “Fincher Film...
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A Compelling Motive For Pirating Movies
When I was given the opportunity to pay a reasonable fee to rent, I happily did so, and was more than willing to kick in the Blu-ray surcharge that both sites imposed. Now that that option has been withdrawn, my non-piracy choices are (a) spend $30 or so to purchase a movie I don’t (in most cases) wish to permanently own, or (b) not watch the movie. Neither of those is acceptable to...
March 2012
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Watch5757 (by David Berry)
Excellent and endearing home movies featuring Dennis Muren and other ILM alumni on the set of a now famous flick.
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“When he was 27, Fincher was asked to direct Alien 3. It proved to be a disaster....”
– W Magazine’sDavid Fincher Profile and Making of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
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“During David’s visits to the studio we would brace for impact, because he has a...”
– Blur Studio’s Tim Miller on working with David Fincher on “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
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“David [Fincher’s] initial creative brief was frighteningly vague – it...”
– Art Of the Titles ‘Dragon Tattoo” interview and profile
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"All In" Trailer
I watched “The Adjustment Bureau” a few nights ago. Unforgivable junk. This trailer — which even includes This American Life’s Ira Glass — looks like a return to cool for Mr. Damon. Should be fun.
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Watch Just great. Guy Pierce seems to be channeling a mix of John Hurt and Daniel Day-Lewis.
February 2012
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Drive (2011)
Drive is certainly part of the pantheon of films that treat Los Angeles as a character and make it worthy of adoration. Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s brings an alien quality to Los Angeles. Bearing strong similarity, and perhaps borrowing heavily from other hallmark Los Angeles films like Michael Mann’s Thief, William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. and Walter...
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“Cronenweth says the locations took him back to his days as an apprentice with...”
– Girl, Interrupted : ICG Magazine / Showcasing the members of the International Cinematographers Guild
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Fear Produces Art
(via DanielClowes.tumblr.com)
“Nostalgia And Paranoia” (2002)
“Nostalgia and Paranoia” is a short television documentary on comic book writer and artist Daniel Clowes. Like many films about comic book creators it struggles with framing it’s subject — individuals who spend a great deal of time alone staring at their work — in a compelling and entertaining...
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