Pinboard: bookmarks for dsankey tagged 'film'

if you reminisce about Robocop, I will link to that. As for the title, a theory: like film musicals getting replaced by music videos, action films were replaced by video games.
(<a href="http://whatadaythatwas.blogspot.com">via</a>)

film
9 weeks ago by dsankey

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Digital Bolex

prolost is "skeptimistic" about a new Kickstarter campaign to fund a Bolex-style cheap HDcam

camera film production
10 weeks ago by dsankey

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On the Movie Set of Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's Dau

just released this from Instaprison - it's totally crazy, like a real life Synecdoche, NY.

film
12 weeks ago by dsankey

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Movie: The Movie

giant trailer parody by Kimmel (thanks, Steve!)

film ads comedy
february 2012 by dsankey

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Movie academy: Oscar voters overwhelmingly white, male

"Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male" and "have a median age of 62"

film usa culture
february 2012 by dsankey

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Patton Oswalt gets kicked out of the Alamo Drafthouse

(<a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/patton-oswalt-and-jason-reitman-makes-their-own-no,66548/">via</a>)

comedy psa ads film
december 2011 by dsankey

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Film Studies Ryan Gosling

(<a href="http://www.chutry.wordherders.net/wp/">via</a>)

film web comedy image
december 2011 by dsankey

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The Year In Film 2011

it's that time of year... Listmas!

film
december 2011 by dsankey

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Atlas Shrugged Part 1 (My World Of Flops)

"handcuffs amateurish, borderline-incoherent pulp to juvenile, unfeasible ideology"

film comedy politics
december 2011 by dsankey

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Sweet emulsion: why the (near) death of film matters

heh. I used to post a lot of "death of film" stuff 5-6 years ago, when digital projection systems were just getting started, and now it's actually here.

film tech futuremedia
november 2011 by dsankey

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Movie Poster Archetypes

"Tiny People On the Beach, Giant Heads in the Clouds" (thanks, Steve!)

film ads
november 2011 by dsankey

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Steven Spielberg says you should blame George Lucas for that last Indiana Jones movie
film
october 2011 by dsankey

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The 30 Harshest Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults In History

aka Vincent Gallo is a pig piece of s#!% and should shut the hell up

film comedy
october 2011 by dsankey

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10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster
business film futuremedia
september 2011 by dsankey

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Ghosts With Shit Jobs
film ideas future
september 2011 by dsankey

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George Lucas Speaks Out Against Altering Films in 1988

yet he added "NOOOOOOO!" to Jedi for the Blu-Ray release

film history starwars scifi
september 2011 by dsankey

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What is the post-cinematic?
film ideas culture
august 2011 by dsankey

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Digital distribution, participatory culture, and the transmedia documentary by Chuck Tryon
film futuremedia
august 2011 by dsankey

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The Tree of Links: Terrence Malick Studies

a lot of good article about Malick films here. Saw The Tree of Life about a week ago and am still thinking about it.

film theory
july 2011 by dsankey

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George C Scott watches the Jack and Jill Trailer‬‏
youtube comedy film mashup
july 2011 by dsankey

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In Situ

an interactive doc about urban artists (<a href="http://popupcity.net/">via</a>)

film documentary art cities
july 2011 by dsankey

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Toronto’s Bloor Cinema to reopen as documentary theatre
film toronto documentary
july 2011 by dsankey

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Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X

Pogue essentially has a FAQ for common 'pro' gripes about FCP X, with answers given by Apple reps.

film production
june 2011 by dsankey

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FCPX 1.0 "It will not be ready for professional use" says Larry Jordan

strictly for the cutterz out there

film production
june 2011 by dsankey

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Prolost - Blog - What I Do With My iPad Part 1: Storyboarding

featuring the quote of the day, "Expensive things are expensive". For reals tho I totally want a stylus now.

ipad film production
june 2011 by dsankey

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Spend an Hour with the Coen Brothers as They Explain the Opening Scenes of Their Films

Interviewed by Noah Baumbach. They almost never do interviews.

film
june 2011 by dsankey

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Duplass brothers look to put a 'Pitchfork' in it - latimes.com

"it's a dramatic thriller about the middle-aged mother of an indie rocker who, after her son is killed in a car accident, seeks vengeance on an online blogger who had peddled snark about her son (on the music site Pitchfork...) Things take a turn, though, when she finds out the snarker is just a teenager"

film
june 2011 by dsankey

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Hollywood Starts to Worry as 3-D Fizzles in U.S.

(NYT) plus assorted other woes including industry down 10% from last year, and an astounding 36% drop in video store rentals

film business
june 2011 by dsankey

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Elite Game Nerds Team Up for Original Animated Project at Paramount

Penny Arcade has idea optioned, "The New Kid"

games film
june 2011 by dsankey

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Fincher's Dragon Tattoo Lady trailer

leaked trailer. Pretty great.

film ads
may 2011 by dsankey

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Teens and Moviegoing

bad news for Hollywood - their biggest customers are losing interest in theatrical

film
may 2011 by dsankey

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Guillermo del Toro’s Amazing Creatures

had this in my instapaper cue for ages. Anyway it's pretty fascinating.

film
may 2011 by dsankey

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Converting Mamet

David Mamet is now officially right wing. Contains this gem: 'When the battery of his hearing aid failed during our lunch, he yanked the earpiece from his ear, looked at it sternly, and said: “F— you.”'

politics writing film usa
may 2011 by dsankey

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says - Galactic Empire Times
film comedy scifi
may 2011 by dsankey

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Your New TV Ruins Movies

Prolost on the superiority of plasma TVs and the need to properly calibrate LCD TVs

film tech
march 2011 by dsankey

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Outside In

a homebrew IMAX film that uses only photographic images from space probes to create a long-take tour of the solar system. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/101555/Aeterna">via</a>)

space film tech
march 2011 by dsankey

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Criterion jumps from Netflix to Hulu

in the US, obviously, as Canuck Netflix doesn't come close to having Criterion in it.

film tech futuremedia
february 2011 by dsankey

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Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration

for anyone who makes things, or wants to, this is an incredible interview.

art film writing ideas
february 2011 by dsankey

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Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk

"This is a very real film about what it means to ‘keep it real’."

graffiti film art documentary
february 2011 by dsankey

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Should We Accept That Indie Film Is Now A Hobby Culture?

by Ted Hope, who produced some of the most significant indie films of the 90s.

film business futuremedia
january 2011 by dsankey

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Scene from Enthiran (The Robot)

dear sweet lord I need to see this film.

film comedy
january 2011 by dsankey

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Interviews > David Mamet

from this badly punctuated interview you will get Mamet's views on marriage, the knowledge that he wrote a script entitled "Joan of Bark," and his choice for greatest document in western civilization (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, for a pretty amazing reason).

film writing ideas
january 2011 by dsankey

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Oscar nominations 2011: the full list

I'm pretty sure I should just ignore the whole damn thing, but what the hell: the nominations. At least Winter's Bone picked up a few, and Dogtooth is up for best foreign.

film
january 2011 by dsankey

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Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.

Walter Murch writes a letter to Ebert about the perceptual problems with 3D. I don't like 3D either; it's unnecessary - our brains do a fine job interpreting 2D films as 3D worlds. Half an hour into Tron I forgot it was 3D at all.

film
january 2011 by dsankey

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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There

By Errol Morris, commissioned by IBM

Film documentary tech business
january 2011 by dsankey

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Banksy Says His Movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" Is All True

but if people already think it's fake, not sure they'll believe him

art film documentary
december 2010 by dsankey

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‘45365′ takes inspiration from art, books, music albums

sounds like a fascinating non-narrative documentary

film documentary
december 2010 by dsankey

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New music: David Lynch – Good Day Today

electropop single from America's favourite surrealist

music film
november 2010 by dsankey

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Toronto streets to be living movie set

imitation New York, Chicago and London neighbourhoods that people will actually live in. Next we will replace the CN Tower with a replica statue of liberty.

toronto simulacrum cities film ideas
november 2010 by dsankey

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Getting Made The Scorsese Way

those involved with Goodfellas talk about its creation. Includes Scorsese, De Niro, Liotta, etc.

film production
november 2010 by dsankey

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Mark Zuckerberg tells the biggest difference between “The Social Network” and what actually happened
facebook film web
october 2010 by dsankey

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Documentaries Get Even Harder to Define

A. O. Scott considers the heterogeneity of the genre that contains "Catfish" as well as "Waiting for Superman" as well as "Jackass 3D". That's one of the things I love about documentary.

film documentary
october 2010 by dsankey

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MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos

Algorythm automatically adds / subtracts height, weight, muscles - total craziness. Expect a lot of actors to really let themselves go now.

film tech software
october 2010 by dsankey

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PS3 Pushes Blu-ray Into Nearly 20% of U.S. Homes

just above the percentage that have Netflix. I read somewhere else that owners of Blu-Ray hardware are only buying 1.5 discs per machine, though, which is sad but reflects how obviously overpriced the discs are.

futuremedia film hometheatre tech
october 2010 by dsankey

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Interview with Waiting For Superman director Davis Guggenheim

This doc was at the fest but I had a feeling it would get a wide release so I skipped it. Sounds interesting. Not sure how I feel about charter schools though.

education documentary film
october 2010 by dsankey

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A Steadicam for Your iPhone

Wonder if DSLRs are too heavy for this?

Camera iPhone tech film
october 2010 by dsankey

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The New Halo Game Is a Hit — So What’s the Status of the Halo Movie?

Details of the development hell the Halo flick has been through to date, which are fascinating, and rumors of it's current status, which is that Spielberg is trying to take it over.

Halo microsoft film
october 2010 by dsankey

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THE MICHAEL BAYIFIER
comedy web film
october 2010 by dsankey

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Oscar-O-Meter™: The A.V. Club’s fourth annual guide to the fall prestige movies, part one

"a complex matrix that factors in elements like actorly showiness, grating self-importance, middlebrow sense of grandeur, and the varying degrees to which a movie flatters its audience."

film
september 2010 by dsankey

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Redrock announces DSLR electronic viewfinder

not sure about all this Redrock stuff. For one, it's expensive (compared to the cost of the DSLRs, if not to pro film equipment). For two, it adds a lot of bulk. But I do wish I could afford all of it nonetheless.

camera tech film production
september 2010 by dsankey

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Coming-attraction attractions: 24 movie trailers that function as standalone works of art

pretty good list from the AV Club. Two Kubrick trailers on there.

film ads video
september 2010 by dsankey

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Gaspar Noé Interview

Sounds like Enter the Void is finally getting a release. Saw it at the TIFF last year. It's a heckofa thing.

Film
september 2010 by dsankey

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Netflix launches in Canada with limited selection

it's here finally - $8 a month. Selection does seem limited, especially new release films and TV series, but there is still a shit ton of stuff that I would watch.

futuremedia canada tv film internet
september 2010 by dsankey

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Panasonic Lumix GH2 Announced

The successor to my beloved GH1. The video bitrate is upped to 24MBPS from 17, it has a touchscreen and touch focus, and allows stills while recording video. They're also releasing a $250 3D lens.

camera film production video
september 2010 by dsankey

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Detroit Lives

It's a strange time when a boot company covers an issue better than any media source. A three part doc where Johnny Knoxville tours some sites in Detroit, showing the hopeful creative development going on as well as the fabulous ruins.

Detroit cities documentary film
september 2010 by dsankey

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Letters of Note: Okay, you lazy bitch

I may have linked to this before, Hunter S. Thompson's rant to a studio exec about the stalled Rum Diary film. So many great lines: "We are not even spinning our wheels aggresivly" ... "I'd much rather deal with a Live asshole than a Dead worm with No Light in his Eyes" ... "I'm in the mood to chop yr. fucking hands off."

film comedy writing
september 2010 by dsankey

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Geek Studies » Scott Pilgrim vs. the Cultural Critique

"the pop culture image of the nerd is finally catching up to the self-image of the nerd"

nerd film culture
august 2010 by dsankey

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YouTube - Return of the Jedi Missing Lightsaber Scene

would have been the opening scene

film scifi starwars
august 2010 by dsankey

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Simon Pegg on the merits of slow zombies

"speed simplifies the zombie, clarifying the threat and reducing any response to an emotional reflex ... a quick thrill at the expense of a more profound sense of dread."

film horror
august 2010 by dsankey

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The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel

The protags from "Once". His facial expressions while singing are so intense.

music film video
august 2010 by dsankey

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The Hot Blog: New Toys

David Poland on the cable alternatives like Hulu, Netflix streaming etc.

tv futuremedia film
august 2010 by dsankey

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Tron Legacy soundtrack leaked (Daft Punk)

probably not the whole thing