Flick Addiction
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?)
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.
Just watched “Amadeus” for the first time. Loved it much more than I imagined I would. Gotta say when it comes to some things I really feel like Salieri.
Always disappointing when you agree with a documentary’s information, but it’s execution is as polemical as the subject it’s critiqing.
Institutional Images in “All The President’s Men”
The film is at once idealistic and nihilistic. Idealistic in its story, the triumph of detective journalism. But nihilistic, or at least despairing , in its imagery. Despite their efforts the characters are constantly enveloped by their environment. They are reduced to objects placed within a institutional systems. This is best shown in the newspaper office and the parking garage (which echoes the newspaper office with its pillars and grid pattern ceiling). Even in outdoor spaces they can’t really escape. They are either framed from overhead as if being watched by an omniscient force, or shot from distant and low angles, where the institutional state buildings are ever-present and dominate.
Bruno in “Strangers on a Train”
As a follow up to my last off the cuff post on “All The President’s Men” I wanted to post this shot from Hitchcock’s film “Strangers on a Train”. This image of the film’s antagonist, Bruno, kept popping into me head.
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.
Photos I took of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Love the comments Hitchcock makes on the transition to sound and “pure” cinema!
Mr Nick tells it like it is.
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Me:I have a cool short film idea/music vid. Wanna shoot one?
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Mr Nick:Short description?
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Me:Hmm. Mostly just images so far. Close on a hand reaching for someone. The closer than hand gets, the more the person slowly disintegrates, becomes particles in the air. The main character desperately trying to capture them, but they slip through his fingers.
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Mr Nick:Not surprising.
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Me:What?
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Mr Nick:That fits with your theme.
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Me:What theme? Amazingness?
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Mr Nick:...reaching/wanting for someone/something as they are pulled away by train/car/forces out of their control. It's your thing.
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Me:I'm sure I have no idea what you are talking about... Though I think I don't need a therapist anymore.
What's a producer do, anyway? →
I definitely feel like producers get a bum rap while writers and directors get all the creative credit. Good producers can just make shit work and usually are the only people there from start to finish.
Awesome video of Marti Noxon I just found discussing death and genre.
