- Oikea Frank Serpico kommentoi leffaansa –
- Jason Mittellin mainio (ja pitkä) artikkeli "Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory" – Managing a multi-year narrative universe is difficult enough for television writers, but they also face significant challenges to ensure that viewers can follow the action without falling into either confusion or boredom from redundancy.
- The Dark Knight In The Loop (YT) –
Eläviä kuvia, television kuvia
Arkistot / asiasana: new+york+times
- The Dungeon Masters -traileri – ropenörttejä hihihihi
- The Story of Gilberto Sanchez, the Man Who Leaked ‘Wolverine’ –
- Komppaaja, efektitehtaiden tuntematon sotilas (Variety) – For example, in one slow-motion shot in "Sherlock Holmes," Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) runs from a burning warehouse straight toward the camera. Explosions surround him. He catches fire. Downey was shot separately from the fire; to complete the shot, compositors spent seven months layering objects, explosions and flames onto the footage of the actor.
- Mitä yhteistä on John McClanella ja Israelin armeijalla? Molemmat menee seinistä läpi. – His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the material structure of the building. The film could perhaps have been subtitled "lessons in the inappropriate use of architecture," were that not deliberately pretentious. (via @vuokko)
- Ask Me Anything: Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi –
- ‘The Big Lebowski’ and its Dude get the Academic Treatment – (If the phrases “Nice marmot,” or “You’re entering a world of pain,” or “I can get you a toe” mean anything to you, then “Lebowski” has entered your private sectarian world.)
- 1970- ja 1980-lukujen aikana Jyväskylässä vaikutti viisi merkittävää elokuvateatteria –
- The Decade in Film: A Timeline (Village Voice) – via Kalle Kinnunen
- And the boy, now grown, has begun to realize that many of his foundational TV memories were just tricks of the eye – nostalgia on yleensä parempaa kuin tarkka muisto
- Avatar: The Making of … the Bootleg (YT) – via @Gerosimov
- The Case of the Weird Sherlock Holmes Movies – videokooste erilaisista Sherlock-tulkinnoista
- Jacob Weisberg talks to Werner Herzog about Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done – No, I think his acting is absolutely formidable. Nothing is over the top. The situation is over the top. You see actors over the top, the famous face twisters, who are not really actors. He is not a face twister; there is always something extraordinary bursting out of him.
- Oikein kiinnostavan oloinen traileri: Across the Hall – jonkin sortin jännäri kai, mutta harvinaista että traileri on näin jänskä
- Kick-Ass-traileri – supersankarinuorisoa
- Björk tekee uuden biisin seuraavaan Muumi-leffaan –
- Slate: Retracing the path of Easy Rider on its 40th anniversary – This summer, I drove out of San Diego and into the desert on a journey from Southern California, through long stretches of Arizona and New Mexico, and on to New Orleans. I'd decided to work my way along the path of Easy Rider, a road movie full of searching, shot-on-location images.
- Me and Orson Welles (traileri linkin takana) – kas, Linklater on ohjannut uuden leffan
- Author of ‘Me and Orson Welles’ is a teacher in Summit (NY Times) – Linklaterin uuden leffan perustana olevan kirjan kirjoittaja
- Mathematicians find the formula for a hit film sequel (The Observer) – The research, which will be published in the Journal of Marketing this month, examined data from all 101 movie sequels released in North American theatres between 1998 and 2006 and a matched subsample of stand-alone films with similar characteristics. According to the formula, upcoming sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon should be expected to return $34m more for the producers in its US run than a comparable vampire/ teen romance movie with the same characteristics that is not a sequel.
- Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles (io9) – Bat-autoja, Akira-prätkä, Mad Max -rasseja, KITT, DeLorean jne.
- Fight Clubista on 10 vuotta, blu-ray tulossa Jenkeissä (NY Times) – Not only has “Fight Club” performed exceptionally well on DVD — it has sold more than six million copies on DVD and video, and is being issued in a 10th anniversary Blu-ray edition on Nov. 17 — but it has also become a kind of cultural mother lode.
- Charlie Brooker arvioi The Execution of Gary Glitter -dokudraaman – It's illegal to laugh at this, see; it's not a comedy show, but "an intelligent and thought-provoking examination of the issue" which "confronts viewers with the possible consequences of capital punishment in the UK". There's going to be an online debate afterwards and everything, which should help clear up all our thoughts about the death penalty.
- The Audacity of ‘Precious’ (NYT Magazine) – amerikkalaiset kohkaa elokuvasta, jossa on väkivaltaa, insestiä ja lihava näyttelijä pääosassa
- Matt Damon’s Eternal Role – A-List Character Actor (NY Times) –
- Dickens’s Victorian London Ventures Into Robert Zemeckis’s Digital Realm (NY Times) –
- Katsaus District 9:n erikoistehosteisiin – ennen–jälkeen-kuvat on kiinnostavia
- The Cup of Tears -ninja-samurai-ronin-whatever pätkän traileri – joku on taas vähän suhrannut greenscreenien kanssa
- 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.
- Monty Pythonista on tehty uusi, kuusituntinen (!) dokkari – “I’m proud to be a Python. It’s a badge of silliness, which is quite important. I was the gay lumberjack, I was the Spanish Inquisition, I was one-half of the fish-slapping dance. I look at myself and think that may be the most important thing I’ve ever done.”
- Toy Storyt 1 ja 2 pamahti Jenkeissä uudestaan teattereihin – 3D-versioina – “We had to have some very, very smart people at Pixar go back in and write some software and figure out a way to make it so that those files would render on our current computers,” Lasseter said.
- Peter Lynchin Project Grizzly -dokkari ilmaiseksi – In this feature-length documentary, Troy James Hurtubise goes face to face with Canada's most deadly land mammal, the grizzly bear. Troy is the creator of what he hopes is a grizzly-proof suit, and he repeatedly tests his armour – and courage – in stunts that are both hair-raising and hilarious. Directed by Peter Lynch, the film has become a cult classic in the United States and is rumoured to be a favourite of director Quentin Tarantino.
- *Crash! Boom! John Travolta! Bang!* eli From Paris With Love -traileri – "From the director of Taken and the producer of Transporter"
- Wall-E:n värisuunnittelusta –
- Cinesiten showreel näyttää, mihin erikoisefektejä nykyään leffoissa käytetään – on arkista ja vähän fantastisempaa effua
- Steven Soderbegh ei ole perinteinen auteur vaan kokeellinen ohjaaja (NY Times) – If auteur status is conferred, as its early theorists argued, by a recognizable and consistent set of themes, gestures and motifs, then Mr. Soderbergh’s résumé can start to look like a deliberate attempt to refute the theory. Mr. Soderbergh may have zigzagged in and out of the movie-industry mainstream in the course of his career, but he has remained, throughout, to an extent matched by very few of his peers, an experimental filmmaker. By this I mean that he seems to approach each film as a problem, a hypothesis to be explored and tested in the course of production.