- Reverse Shot’s 11 Offenses of 2009 – kannattaa lukea myös aiempien vuosien merkinnät
- A-Team-traileri – sarjahan ei ole koskaan merkinnyt minulle mitään
- Miksei Bollywood-hiteistä tule suuren yleisön hittejä? – monia hyviä ajatuksia, mm. This need for inclusivity means that a typical Bollywood film is a romance, comedy, family saga and action movie rolled into one. That, Shridhar acknowledges, gives westerners the impression that they are "loosely written, meandering and don't make sense". But Indians are instinctively forgiving. "People will watch a film and know that the next 15 minutes isn't going to be for them. It might be a dance sequence, or a 'hand of God' scene that's for the grandma sat next to them. Bollywood films are more like a live circus or a variety show than a western three-act concept of a movie."
Eläviä kuvia, television kuvia
Arkistot / asiasana: guardian
- The Guardian: The top 10 films of 2009 you probably won't have seen –
- Composer Carter Burwell on his creative process and his favorite scores – These songs were in the script, and that was basically what I had to go on at first. Joel and Ethan had no suggestion about what the score should be. They just said, "Well, this is what you've got. You've got Jefferson Airplane and F Troop and Sidor Belarsky."
- Chris Nolan: Inception-traileri –
- YT: Matrix mykkäelokuvana – "Sininen vai punainen pilleri?" "Mistä minä tiedän, tämä on mustavalkoinen elokuva!" (via @mikepohjola)
- From Metropolis to Blade Runner: architecture that stole the show – lisänä kuvagalleria
- Review: Alien (Movietone News, 1980) – hauska lukea aikalaiskommentti: "But none of that saves the film from cliché and distraction. The fact that Scott’s camera is a working element in Alien’s good and bad times suggests his complete fidelity to the film’s disappointingly limited ambitions. And that, in turn, belies conviction and any very satisfying degree of directorial control."
- Dokumentintekijän 10 käskyä à la Viktor Kossakovsky – 2. Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.
3. Don’t film, if you already knew your message before filming – just become a teacher. Don’t try to save the world. Don’t try to change the world. Better if your film will change you. Discover both the world and yourself whilst filming.
4. Don’t film something you just hate. Don’t film something you just love. Film when you aren’t sure if you hate it or love it. Doubts are crucial for making art. Film when you hate and love at the same time.
- Darling Nikki [Finke]: New Yorker Profile Sparks Profane Response – jatkoksi edelliseen
- Why Hollywood fears Nikki Finke (The New Yorker) – Hollywoodin tärkein bloggaaja New Yorkerin jutun kohteena
- Charlie Brooker: I'm not buying these things for myself any more. I'm hoarding them for future generations. – DVD and book purchases fall into two main categories: the ones you buy because you really want to watch them, and the ones you buy because you vaguely think you should.
- Miltä Heatin iso ammuskelukohtaus näytti käsikirjoituksena? – John August siteeraa sopivan pätkän. Mukana myös video
- Samantha Morton, Gillian Wearing and other women artists and academics give their opinion of Antichrist – Guardian selvitti naisten näkemyksiä Von Trierin leffasta
- A comic reworking of Sherlock Holmes, relocated to 21st century London, greenlit by the BBC –
- Mario Kassar ja Andy Vajna, oman aikansa supertuottajat – Rambo, Total Recall, The Doors, Terminator 2, Basic Instinct, Cliffhanger, Showgirls, Cutthroat Island…
- Terminator Salvationin tuottajien seikkailut ovat ainakin yhtä kiinnostavia kuin itse elokuva – The two men were presented with the chance to buy one of the best-known franchises in American cinema, the "Terminator" series, even though their entire producing experience consisted of one low-budget comedy that never made it into theaters.
- A funny and warm reworking of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry? It could only happen in Bollywood – tunnustan ennakkoluuloni: en ole nähnyt Chuck & Larryä, koska se haukuttiin läpipaskaksi
- Termistösekaannus Terminaattorissa: T-101 vs T-800 – vihdoin se selvisi!
- Tarantino meinaa leikata Inglourious Basterdsia vielä uusiksi (Daily Beast) – And after three months of editing, he delivered a dripping-wet print to Cannes—a place he considers “Cinema Nirvana,” where “cinema matters, it’s important”—at a running time of two hours, 27 minutes: 13 minutes less than Pulp Fiction and 19 minutes less than he needed to retain final cut. Now the director can go back to America and give the movie a proper preview outside California—which was always the plan—and tweak the timing with “an audience pruning cut.”
- Piiiiiitkä juttu Conan O'Brienistä eilen, tänään ja huomenna (NYT Mag) – After 16 years and 2,725 shows, O’Brien would be moving, along with almost all his staff, to Universal City in California to take over “The Tonight Show.” He’d had time to ponder his farewell. In 2004, when O’Brien’s contract was up and other networks were aggressively wooing him, NBC promised him their flagship. “But they wanted me to wait five years to be the host of ‘The Tonight Show,’ ” O’Brien told me. “And in 2004, 2009 sounded absurdly far away. I thought that in 2009, we’d be flying around with jet packs and our dinners would be in pill form."
- William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet – The documentary William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet concerns the attempt to create a ballet based on Shatner's 2004 album Has Been, produced by Nashville resident Ben Folds.
- Planete Doc -festarin leffat näkyvät toukokuussa netissä – This year film lovers will be given an opportunity to watch the films screened at the Planete Doc Review Festival from the comfort of their homes! For the first time ever, all the festival films will be available also online.
- Ronald Bergan on reviewing the films of people you know – Generally, however, whether charmed by the interviewee or not, I still find it almost impossible to write negatively about someone I have met socially. It's not that any of them would even be aware of what I might write or give a toss if they were, but I would still pull my punches.