July 2010
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No-Budget Film Production Commandments to Live By →
Jul 21st
Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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The quiet hell of 10 years of novel writing. - By... →
I actually find the article less hellish and more inspirational, if only because it’s nice to read about someone else’s creative frustration rather than feeling my own.
Jul 17th
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Digital Erasure →
Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, but the film geek in me still feels it needs to be said. “Remastering” should be clean up, not alteration. I don’t mind some dustbusting and digital erasure of marks and scratches on film (though to be honest I think they also have they’re own warmth and suggestion of historical character on a film print). But for the love of God...
Jul 13th
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Who's this suit tailored for? My "Mad Men"...
Aside from having one of the most amazing opening credit sequences ever, I have a confession: I just can’t get into Mad Men. I’m working through season 2 and plan to finish it, but really, I question my drive to. The production design, period detail, and costume are all impeccable. So glossy and beautiful I want to run out and buy a thin black tie and learn more about scotch. But...
Jul 12th
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Jul 11th
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June 2010
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Liam Neeson on a Taken sequel: "It’s just hard to... →
Yeah, no shit. I’d say that mark got missed the first time around too.
Jun 12th
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Flash Foward
With the exception of film noir, where it’s expected out of convention, I generally find flash forwards and framing devices to be weak and dramatically inert. Like the writers knew the material’s first half wasn’t strong enough to carry me through. Even more perplexing is when otherwise well written films and episodes use it. What the hell.
Jun 7th
Trove of Long-Lost Silent Films Returns to America →
Jun 7th
May 2010
7 posts
May 28th
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Screenwriting Tip #300
screenwritingtips: Remember why you’re doing this. I recommend writing screenplays because it’s fun and you can’t imagine doing anything else. That way you can’t lose.
May 28th
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Interesting talk on copyright. I wonder how the talk’s logic might translate to film. Seems like the knock off industries enhance the authenticity of the original creator, and by extension their value and marketability. Not sure if this would in the same way for digital copies, which in theory are exactly the same as the original, versus material copies which are by definition “not the...
May 25th
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Bret Easton Ellis, douchebag. →
As if he could make my skin crawl even more. Seriously Bret, Mary Harron actually turned your novel into a valid critique, as opposed to gory misogynistic revelry.
May 19th
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The Adjustment Bureau. If Richard Kelly made a romance.
May 14th
Amazing detailed article on film preservation. →
May 6th
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Conan O’Brien’s 60 Minutes Inner Monologue
May 5th
April 2010
8 posts
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The Horror of Standard Def TV
Nick: That disc reset my AV settings. I've been displaying 480 video with stereo sound for who knows how long.
Nate: OMG 480!!!! The humanity!
Nick: It might as well have been in 4:3 over coax passed through a VCR with bad v-hold!
Nate: Ew, coax. Stop. I'm going to be sick.
Apr 30th
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Third full Last Airbender trailer is out.
Apr 24th
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why I won't torrent anymore
Me: Hello? Finally, I've been on hold for an hour.
Cable Provider: How my I help you.
Me: Why the hell was my internet shut off suddenly without notice?!
CP: Let me see. Oh. Let me transfer you to network security.
(another hour)
CP: Hello.
Me: Yeah, I've been transferred around and waiting forever. I would just like to know why the hell you guys shut off my cable. And without any notice. Seriously, who does that.
CP: We noticed activity on your account.
Me: Still no notice? I used to work in IT. My network is pretty secure.
CP: No. On 3 months ago sir.
(typing)
Me: What?
CP: We show someone at your IP downloading torrents of... Gossip Girl Season Two.
(long silence)
Me: Uhhhh.
(more silence)
Me: Yeah. I'll, uh. I'll talk to my roommate about that.
Apr 23rd
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Is Marvel's Continuity Plan Beginning to Backfire? →
Personally I’m open to the trade off of individual hero’s franchises lacking slightly, hoping the sum will be greater than the parts in the end. No doubt there will be problems (like Norton potentially not returning for Hulk), but ultimately I think it’s a really ambitious plan I’d like to see play out.
Apr 15th
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Forgot how incredible this scene was. Just kidding, I could never forget.
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Beautiful short film.
Apr 10th
March 2010
5 posts
Literal Oscar Posters. →
Mar 17th
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I dig the Tron: Legacy trailer. Of all things to note, I think the sound design of the trailer is really good. I love how the lower end sounds bridge into electronic distortion.
Mar 9th
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“A director only makes one film in his life. Then he (or she) breaks it into...”
– Jean Renoir
Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
February 2010
6 posts
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Me: "Don't test my patience!"
David: "What patience?"
Feb 26th
Feb 20th
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Feb 16th
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Loving the new Airbender trailer.  Visually it looks like a great live action interpretation of the cartoon.  Hopefully the complex narrative will get translated too!
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
“its from batman returns, the most sensitive of all the batmans”
– 6mastera9 on Seal - Kiss from a Rose (via awesomeyoutubecomments)
Feb 9th
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January 2010
13 posts
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I have a hard time coming up with good character names, or as I like to call it “namestorming.”
Jan 20th
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Go see "Off and Running" ! →
I was fortunate enough to see this fantastic documentary last July when it made the rounds at festivals.  It’s an amazing portrait of a family and a young woman’s search for her birth parents.
Jan 20th
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Just finished “World’s Greatest Dad”.  What a dark, twisted and completely surprising film.  The trailer does not do it’s content justice. (Did I mention it was dark and twisted?)
Jan 16th
Lionsgate rumored to purchase Terminator rights →
For what its worth I think Lionsgate, known for darker fare and genre films, would be a great company to produce any future content for the franchise.
Jan 15th
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Zero Effect: One of my favorite underrated movies →
Jan 14th
Jan 9th
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. And monkeys kill people (if...”
– Eddie Izzard
Jan 8th
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Always disappointing when you agree with a documentary’s information, but it’s execution is as polemical as the subject it’s critiqing.
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
My Favorite Movies from 2009
Close call between the first two… 1. Fantastic Mr Fox 2. A Serious Man 3. Star Trek 4. Hurt Locker 5. Drag Me to Hell 6. Inglorious Basterds (just the opening scene, after that no thanks…) 7. District 9 8. Hangover 9. Up 10. 500 Days of Summer *I have not yet seen Precious, An Education, The Cove, Up In The Air, Avatar, Moon, In The Loop, Broken Embraces, or Bad Lieutenant.
Jan 7th
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December 2009
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Dec 15th
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