Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 1.11.2013 – 3.11.2013

iOS 7 and the Iconography of ‘Alien’ – The Cineaste’s Guide to Watching Movies While Stoned – Tripping at the movies was, in my experience, profoundly distracting—the screen melted into an Op Art vortex of stroboscopic mandalas or, overshadowing the film, the theater became a sideshow populated by orcs and hobbits and drooling salamander dwarfs. …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 20.02.2013 – 22.02.2013

Suomalaiselokuvien musiikki tehdään yhä useammin Slovakiassa – syynä raha (HS) – Alien Unseen: Part One – Ridleygrams – During Alien's pre-production, Ridley Scott drew up a story board presentation of Alien for 20th Century Fox. Impressed with what Ridley had presented they doubled the budget from $4.5 million to $8.5 million. These storyboards are known …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 6.06.2012

Guitar is Hand-Carved Homage to Giger’s Alien – The Scenic Rhythms of TV Series – Rhythm is a hard thing to analyze and measure, but one idea I’ve been toying with involves a little quantification: Scenes per Hour (SpH). Essentially, count the number of distinct scenes (which I’d roughly define as a continuous presentation of …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 8.05.2012 – 10.05.2012

Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver – mukana MZS:n analyysi Alien Explorations: 20th anniversary DVD Ridley Scott commentary edited – the vfx show #146: Alien and Aliens – In anticipation of the release of Prometheus Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson dissect the original Alien and Aliens films.