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"An obscure world of celluloid intrigue" | MetaFilter

"At a time when most old films were still protected by copyright and studios were urging the FBI to prosecute individuals owning copyrighted films, movie collecting was a largely underground and somewhat dangerous activity." In 1977, for example, a 20 year old film collector was visited by the FBI. The agents, posing as fellow collectors, entered his home and seized his collection. His case wasn't unique. Even the stars — most famously, Roddy McDowall — were subject to the legal wrath of the very studios they worked for. Still, some collectors got away with it (including one J. D. Salinger).

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15 days ago by fjordaan

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CINEMETRICS

cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side. read more ...

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september 2011 by fjordaan

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‪A Day In The Life of John Lasseter‬‏ - YouTube

25 years ago he revolutionised the animation industry. (25-minute film following a man who loves hugging almost as much as Hawaiian shirts)

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july 2011 by fjordaan

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becoming the alien: apartheid, racism and district 9 « a subtle knife

Well, I’ve been to see it and I personally think it is the best movie I have yet seen about South Africa – and specifically, one of the most pentetrating, disconcerting and subversive meditations on the nature of racism and repression in the post-colonial world.

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april 2011 by fjordaan

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leaving the world: avatar « a subtle knife

As my friend Liezel said, it’s not Woody Allen, is it? I know what she means. Not that Allen’s movies are particularly cool or cerebral these days anyway; and Emmerich knows there are plenty cruder, more clichéd films. But there are few movies on the commercial circuit that convey their clichés with such starry-eyed conviction, or where the stakes are quite as high.

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april 2011 by fjordaan

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Bat, Bean, Beam - A Weblog on Memory and Technology: War Is Hell (for other people)

Jonathan Liebesman’s World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles is set in an irony-free zone

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april 2011 by fjordaan

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Rango Film Review | The Film Pilgrim

From its first moments it’s clear Rango is going to be an intelligent ride. A Greek Chorus of a Mexican owl quartet sing about the lead character’s inevitable death; a long one-man play complete with script notes self-parodying the film’s premise, a slow-motion, and highly metaphorical, shattering of glass on concrete; a ridiculously sophisticated literary reference; an afterlife dream sequence; and an grotesquely injured armadillo offering spiritual advice about crossing the road – and we’re not even a reel in.

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march 2011 by fjordaan

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Design With A Purpose, An Interview With Ralph Eggleston

Production designer on Pixar's WALL-E.

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november 2009 by fjordaan

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The 100 Best Films of the Decade

Art house or Blockbuster? Juno or Jason Bourne? Is The Bourne Supremacy really better than Brokeback Mountain? And if Finding Nemo made it, what the hell happened to Shrek? Tell us where we got it wrong, or right, and post your alternative lists below

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november 2009 by fjordaan

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Open Subtitles

The open subtitle market today is focused on popular films and TV shows, but there is no reason why it won't eventually grow to support everything from last night's Jon Stewart show to a viral video on YouTube. As the tools get easier to create .srt files and the various video players start to support them, the possibilities are endless. And the world will get just a little bit smaller as a result.

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october 2009 by fjordaan

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ABOUT | ...:::kindertrauma:::...

KINDERTRAUMA is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It’s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that’s traumatic to a tyke!

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june 2009 by fjordaan

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Pixar doesn't care about Disney's investors

Disney investors are getting a little antsy with Pixar and their irritating need to make movies that are good without worrying about their commercial success or how many action figures of the main characters can be sold. Says Disney's CEO: We seek to make great films first. If a great film gives birth to a franchise, we are the first company to leverage such success. A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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spacesick: The "I Can Read Movies" Series

Since most of the amazing artists I followed on Blogger have gotten into Flickr too, I probably won't be posting here for a while. But if you WANT to, you can always find me there! Just click here or on any of the awesometastic book covers below.

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february 2009 by fjordaan

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The Art of the Title Sequence -

Blog celebrating excellent movie title sequences

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december 2008 by fjordaan

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Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Little Nemo test film

The tortured history of the TMS feature film Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland (1992) could rival that of Richard Williams The Thief And The Cobbler. It was an American/Japanese joint project, with no less than Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata involved in the pre-production stage (1982-83).