Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 28.11.2012

Frames Cinema Journal, issue 1 – Thompson, Stork, Lee, Shambu, Petersen… Moonrise Kingdom -käsis (pdf) – 1970-luvulla opiskelunsa aloittaneet näyttelijät, dramaturgit ja ohjaajat kokivat monta murrosta –

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 25.11.2012 – 27.11.2012

Today’s television production resembles the old studio system—particularly its B-level – Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma – Spike Jonze’s (camera phone?) footage – Larry Hagman’s Curtain Call (Texas Monthly June 2012) – The world knows him as J. R. Ewing, the star who made Dallas into a global hit and changed television history. But for thirty …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 24.11.2012

The Unhinged Animator: “Tex” Avery – Fred “Tex” Avery came to Hollywood at age 20 with friends from his hometown. Not finding employment, they soon went back home but Avery stayed in the film capital, loading produce on trucks and sleeping on the beach at night. Several years after landing a job at the Walter …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 20.11.2012 – 23.11.2012

Affleck and the Argonauts – Fiona loved it, I admired and enjoyed it, and then I got into a Twitter debate with Mark Cousins, who was impressed by the filmmaking but disgusted by the portrayal of Iran. Joining the tweeting was Ehsan Khoshbakht, who brought me up to speed on the film’s many inaccuracies. These …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 18.11.2012 – 19.11.2012

How to Write the Next James Bond Song – The Story of the Eye – From Painting to Pixar’s RenderMan (Frieze 1996) – When western visual art has come closest to optical verisimilitude – in Renaissance Italy, from the 15th-17th century in the Netherlands, in the late-19th century Britain of the Pre-Raphaelites – it has …