Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 27.07.2012 – 3.08.2012

007 – The Business of Bond – Investigate how budgets and box office returns have varied over the 22 Bond films thus far and adjust by inflation to see the data in real terms. "Discovering Dad" aka delving into Terry Gilliam’s personal archive – Fargo documentary (YT) – Minnesota Nice is a 25-minute documentary about …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 10.07.2012

Dredd-traileri – Niinko poikien kanssa aikanaan puhuttiin (http://secondact.fi/jakso/judge-dredd-usa-1995/), Dredd-leffassa ehkä olennaisinta olisi saada kiinni sarjiksen satiirista. Tämän trailerin perusteella… oi voi Side Letters, One Of Hollywood’s Brilliant New Money Machines – Kenneth Lonergan on "You Can Count on Me" –

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 26.04.2012 – 30.04.2012

Post-Continuity Film – In my 2010 book Post-Cinematic Affect, I coined the term “post-continuity.” I used this term to describe a style of filmmaking that has become quite common in action films of the past decade or so. In what I call the post-continuity style, “a preoccupation with immediate effects trumps any concern for broader …