- Watchmenin blurayn kommenttiraidalla nähdään Zack Snyder puhumassa leffasta – näyttää oikeastaan aika hauskalta
- Iron Man origami –
- ILM teki Transformers 2:n efektit IMAX:ia varten 4K-resoluutiolla – Nörtteilyn lisäksi ("During the height of production, ILM dedicated 80 percent of its total rendering capacity to Transformers 2, one time even hitting 83 percent. “We broke all the ILM records,” Smith says. “Everyone else squeezed into 17 percent.” How much is that? ILM’s render farm has 5700 core processors, the newest of which are dual processor and quad cores (eight cores per blade), with up to 32 GB of memory per blade. In addition, the render farm can access the 2000 core processors in the artists’ workstations, which ups the total core processors to 7700. As for data storage, the studio’s data center currently has 500 TB online. Transformers 2 sucked up 154 TB, more than seven times the 20 TB needed for 2007’s Transformers.") on kiinnostavaa se, miten IMAX:in käyttö efektikohtauksissa vaikuttaa kuvan kompositioon
- Naururaidan historia – The concept actually goes back at least five hundred years. History tells us that there were audience “plants” in the crowds at Shakespearean performances in the 16th century. They spurred on audience reactions, including laughter and cheering—as well as jeers.
- Verkkodigiboksi pysyy laillisena USA:ssa – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of a consortium of Hollywood studios looking to block the service. Cablevision said it plans to begin the roll out this summer. Cablevision’s remote storage DVR system will allow users to record and store programming on centralized servers owned by the New York-based cable operator.
- Dna nappasi teräpiirtotelevision lähetysoikeudet – minullahan olisi yhdessä purkissa hd-viritin dvb-t-protokollaa varten, mutta eipä siitä ole hyötyä
- Ryan, Oscar-lyhäri 2005 –
Eläviä kuvia, television kuvia
Arkistot / kuukausi: kesäkuu, 2009
Mary Zophres, Big Lebowskin pukusuunnittelija kertoo Jesus Quintanan vaatteista:
There was another element that we didn’t end up using, and that was a penis enhancement we made out of birdseed encased in a thin, stretchy fabric. It was in the shape of a penis. I had a mock-up of one for my meeting with John. He put it down there and really liked it because it helped boost the effect when he thrust his hips forward.
He wore it for the flashback scene, but when he had it on under his jumpsuit, Joel said, ‘Jesus, this is really obscene.’ He felt that it might be the thing that tipped us over into NC-17, because the jumpsuit was so tight, it made the fake penis very visible. I’m glad he didn’t end up wearing it. It would have been too much.
Lähde: Robertson & Cooke: The Big Lebowski
[ big+lebowski, elokuva, kirja, trivia ]- Herzogin Fitzcarraldo-muistelmat käännettiin englanniksi (NY Times) – It’s always personal: fire ants rain down upon him spitefully. Hens treat him diffidently. A cobra stares him down.
- What is Jeff Goldblum doing on Law & Order: Criminal Intent? (Slate) – For reasons unknown, Nichols generally eschews the customary overcoat in favor of—in one key episode—a ski parka over a leather jacket over a fleece over a tie over a shirt, performing a number of his civil duties with his arms hanging slightly out and down, like a 4-year-old bundled up for a snow fight. In warmer climes, he glides behind his colleagues with his hands stuck in his pockets and a wan, dubious grin imprinted on his face. Words are exchanged. The words are normal Law & Order words, but you wouldn't know it: Goldblum turns dialogue inside-out with stylized speech and a range of pregnant pauses, looping his eyes around the room with each caesura as if tracking an imagined hummingbird.
- Fan-made Arrested Development documentary gets a trailer – oho wau jee
- Michael Jackson bit cut from Bruno – geez, guys
- Tales from the Script -dokkarin traileri – John Carpenter, Frank Darabont, Shane Black, Paul Schrader…
- M. Night Shyamalan: The Last Airbender -traileri –
NFB:n blogista löytyi pari aika vinkaa merkintää, joissa esitellään Kanadan elokuva-arkistoa – siis sitä fyysistä varastoa, jossa filmikeloja säilötään. Ensimmäisessä mainitaan, että varastossa vallitsee normaalia suurempi ilmanpaine, jottei ovenavaus päästä likaista ilmaa sisään. Lisäksi minua viehätti kovasti maininta sinisestä tarramatosta, joka imee itseensä töhnää. Toisessa merkinnässä paneudutaan elokuvien restaurointiin.
[ arkisto, elokuva, nfb ]- Richard Kelly: The Box (traileri) – Southland Tales oli sellaista tuubaa, että odotusarvot on aika matalalla, mutta ehkä…
- // SURFACE : An Experimental Film from Underneath // –
- Palm Springs Short Fest Program Opener -lyhäri – hauska kokoelma erilaisia tyylejä
- The Magic – miten The Prestige -kirjasta tuli elokuva? – kirjoittajana romaanin kirjoittaja
- 80s Toys As Action/Horror Movies (video) – via http://twitter.com/HenriBlock/status/2301224728
- Director Jennifer Lynch dishes about ‘Surveillance’ and dad David –
- The Soundmen (YT) – 1950 documentary short about the behind the scene dapper men who bring sound to feature films.
- B-kuvien kunkku Roger Corman kertoo Targets-leffan synnystä – Peter Bogdanovich had been my assistant. (My assistant before that was Francis Coppola and after Francis had worked for me on a few films, I gave him a chance to direct.) I did the same thing with Peter. I said, 'Here's the problem: The picture must star Boris Karloff, but he can only work for these days.' And Peter came up with the idea of Boris as an actor doing a traditional horror film, and in that way we could take some footage out of some of the horror films that Boris had done for me before, and also cut away to the boy and tell a parallel story.
- Zhang Yimou tekee uusintaversion Coen-veljesten esikoisleffasta Blood Simple – m i t ä ?
- Animaatioelokuvia tehdään entistä enemmän (NY Times) – In 2009 14 animated movies — most of them computer-generated — will have a wide release, compared with 8 such films in 2005. –– “We learned with ‘Igor’ that a long and consistent and strong marketing campaign is a requirement for a family title,” said John D. Eraklis, chief executive of Exodus. “The nag factor is a very real thing.”
- Hiekka-animaatiota livenä (YT) –
- Jim Capobianco on pitänyt 3,5 vuoden ajan blogia lyhytanimaationsa syntyvaiheista – this blog is about a short film that's been in the works for some time now. officially 1999 to give a rough start date. it's title is LEONARDO. it is about 8 minutes long and drawn by hand. done completely in off hours from the day job,
- The Secret of Kells on irlantilais-belgialais-ranskalainen animaatioelokuva –
- Mahtava videokokoelma: näyttelijä Mike Doyle esittelee kuolinkohtauksiaan (NY Times) – Mike Doyle narrates his final moments from various TV movies and series, including his death scene from the season finale of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
- Action! Kathryn Bigelow makes movies that go for the gut (NY Times) –
- A.O. Scott: Iranian Directors Like Abbas Kiarostami Foreshadowed Current Tension (NY Times) – From the early 1990s until the middle of this decade, the work of Iranian filmmakers caught the attention of critics, cinephiles and festival juries around the globe as Iran’s historically rich movie culture, largely dormant during the Islamic revolution and the long war with Iraq, entered a remarkable period of rejuvenation. Two directors in particular, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, earned worldwide renown for their elusive, self-reflexive and lyrical films about Iranian life.
- What is the documentarian's responsibility when the story changes? – aika kiintoisa tapaus
- Ricky Gervaisin haastattelu (Big Issue) – "People ask me why I always go for the comedy of embarrassment,” he says. “Well, it’s because I haven’t got an ‘ism’. I’m not fighting against prejudice of any kind. When you’re in a nice safe society where you’re not being shot at and your firstborn isn’t dying, the worst thing that happens to you is rudeness or embarrassment.
- The Cryptic Canvas – 50 Movies Hidden In A Painting (Empire) –
- Greatest Film Misquotes –
- Coppola battles Biskind on the high seas (The New York Observer, 2000) – Easy Riders, Raging Bullsin jälkimaininkeja: "An angry Francis Ford Coppola injected the high-seas idyll with a few moments of tension when he became rather aggressive with journalist and author Peter Biskind during one of the cruise's daily "salon" discussions."
- Harold Ramis gets the last laugh (GQ) –
- TV show bibles – Galactica, Carnivale, Dr Who, Farscape, Freaks & Geeks, Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Wire
- Battlestar Galactica Series Bible (pdf) – vuodelta 2003
- Ron Moore Master Class at Banff – You can tune into the first ten minutes of a show and know what the last ten minutes are going to be. I try to destroy that. You've seen this story, and you know our character is going to turn right, but no, he turns left. Any time you can pull that off you've surprised the audience. And storytelling is about finding surprises.
- Bollywood for Beginners | Mother Jones – If you're daunted by the prospect of sorting through 900 films per annum, consider this your beginner's guide to Bollywood: a 5-video cheat sheet of what to see first.
- If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing… (YT) –
- The Final Destination -traileri – mulle tulee Final Destination -sarjasta aina vaan mieleen The Incredible Machine -peli
- The Cove -traileri – dokkaritrilleri delfiineistä, nuff said
- Fifty Dead Men Walking -traileri – undercoverkyttänä IRA:han soluttautumassa
- Unmistaken Child -dokkarin traileri – Lama Konchongin reinkarnaatiota etsimässä
- Hillcoat/McCarthy/Mortensen: The Road -traileri –
- Scorsese & DiCaprio: Shutter Island -traileri –
- LOTR julkaistaan jouluna blu-rayllä, mutta ei extended editionina – vanha juttu, mutta vasta nyt huomasin
- 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies – Aliens, Spider-Man, Back to the Future…
- 12 minuutin videonäyte Ron Mooren Virtualitystä – laeaeh
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