- An Examination of the Star Trek: TOS Credits –
- The Aesthetics of High Frame Rate Cinema – Creative COW – For projection frame rate, 60 fps is enough. In principal, there isn’t a big difference between 60 and 120 fps because the motion blur is so small the human eye cannot really differentiate this high frame rate. It will be different if you have a 4K or 8K screen where you look at a wide angle, then this will be different. But in a regular theatre, 60 fps will be enough.” What everyone agrees on is that 48 fps is just not enough. “You see 2K and HFR every night when you watch TV,” Galt says. “Depending on what you watch, it’s 60 fields per second. I don’t think that this is really going to come of age until you’re doing at least 60 fps and you’re doing true 4K acquisition and true 4K projection. Then you’re going to see a significant difference.”
- Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs – MB: I knew there was going to be laughing. The first time I used it was during The Twelve Chairs. There was too much laughter; I couldn’t shoot. So I went out and bought 100 white handkerchiefs and said, “Stick this in your mouth.” And then, with Young Frankenstein, I bought 200—it was a bigger crew, a lot of people. I said, “If you’re not in the scene, take this handkerchief, and when you feel you’re going to laugh, shove this in your mouth.” And every once in a while, I’d be shooting a scene and I would turn, and I could see a sea of white handkerchiefs. So I said, “Okay, this is going to be funny. This is good.”
Arvostelu: Ällöväreissä kylpevä Piin elämä kumisee mukasyvällisiä
Voi Ang Lee, miksi sinun piti taas särkeä sydämeni? Jäämyrsky, Hiipivä tiikeri, piilotettu lohikäärme ja Brokeback Mountain ovat kauniita ja surullisia elokuvia, joista jäi ainoastaan hyviä muistoja. Mutta tämä Piin elämä, oi ja voi sentään – neonsävyillä kuorrutettu höpöhöpöhtävä kirjasovitus, josta jää mieleen digitaalinen tiikeri ja hölmistynyt olo.
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 19.12.2012 – 20.12.2012
- The Black List: Where Are The Top Scripts Of Previous Years Now? – via @liisaleh
- Miami New Times – Pain & Gain (3-part series) – In 1999, New Times published a three-part series called "Pain & Gain" by writer Pete Collins. The story revolved around a gang of local bodybuilders with a penchant for steroids, strippers, and quick cash. They later became known as Miami's Sun Gym gang and quickly developed a taste for blood and money.
- Pekko Pesosen blogaus parhaalle käsikirjoitukselle myönnettävästä Sylvi-palkinnosta –
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 18.12.2012 – 19.12.2012
- Cinematography Mailing List – herrajumala, jo edited discussions -sivujen lukemiseen menisi iäisyys
- Bill Murray could be president (GQ) – That is, if the president were a comedian, acclaimed actor, and beloved personality who's become famous for crashing kickball games, prank-calling his friends' wives, and busting into the karaoke rooms of gobsmacked (and delighted) constituents. And yet now here's Bill Murray playing FDR, bantering through a Hyde Park accent and cigarette holder, batting away murmurs of another Oscar nomination. But has the comic giant just gotten too damn beloved and too damn acclaimed for his own liking?
- The Evolution of Brazil – The story of the evolution of the Brazil script over nearly a decade, accompanied by design sketches, storyboards, photographs of the production, and more.
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 17.12.2012 – 18.12.2012
- Making Blues Brothers With John Belushi and Dan Akroyd—“We Had a Budget for Cocaine” | Vanity Fair – The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession.
- Empire Strikes Back Instagrammed – Since Jan 2012, I have been telling the Empire Strikes Back one scene at a time with toys. All iPhone 4s for photography and composites. No Photoshop.
- Orionin kevät 2013 – siellä taas kaikenlaista