- 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 years I have known him as a good friend, a spiritual mentor, and one hell of a partier. Inside the epic life of Weatherford, Texas’s most famous son.
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 Lantz studio, an office prank firing papers clips across the aisles resulted in Avery’s losing sight in his left eye. Some critics have hinted that this lack of depth perception contributed to the flat plane look in his seminal work, although almost from the beginning, he and his animator ilk supported a deliberately flat-plane technique. It was a style that was the antithesis of the Disney Studios’ hyper-engineered multi-plane animation evident in their feature length films such as Snow White.
- Never-Before-Seen 1980s Photos of Famous Directors –
- A Three Act Journey In The Land Of The Screenwriting Gurus – Among qualified experts, the screenwriting guru stands alone in his level of exaltation and influence. To obtain his title, the guru must have mastered the elusive craft of screenwriting, which sometimes, though not always, entails the actual selling of a screenplay. Always, though, it involves writing a book.
- The White Shadow (1924) – AD/editor: Alfred Hitchcock – ilmeisesti vanhin säilynyt leffa, jonka kanssa Hitch on ollut tekemisissä
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 are harder to argue with because they’re matters of fact, not politics.
- Larry Clark: Marfa Girl – $5.99 online stream – aikaa katsomiseen 24 tuntia
- Blacklist: The Hollywood Reporter Addresses Role After 65 Years –
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 been at moments when these countries reached their mercantile zenith.
- Xena ja Tiernapojat – tuota, tämä… tämä… mitä tämä on?