- Mahtava videokokoelma: näyttelijä Mike Doyle esittelee kuolinkohtauksiaan (NY Times) – Mike Doyle narrates his final moments from various TV movies and series, including his death scene from the season finale of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
- Action! Kathryn Bigelow makes movies that go for the gut (NY Times) –
- A.O. Scott: Iranian Directors Like Abbas Kiarostami Foreshadowed Current Tension (NY Times) – From the early 1990s until the middle of this decade, the work of Iranian filmmakers caught the attention of critics, cinephiles and festival juries around the globe as Iran’s historically rich movie culture, largely dormant during the Islamic revolution and the long war with Iraq, entered a remarkable period of rejuvenation. Two directors in particular, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, earned worldwide renown for their elusive, self-reflexive and lyrical films about Iranian life.
- What is the documentarian's responsibility when the story changes? – aika kiintoisa tapaus
- Ricky Gervaisin haastattelu (Big Issue) – "People ask me why I always go for the comedy of embarrassment,” he says. “Well, it’s because I haven’t got an ‘ism’. I’m not fighting against prejudice of any kind. When you’re in a nice safe society where you’re not being shot at and your firstborn isn’t dying, the worst thing that happens to you is rudeness or embarrassment.
- The Cryptic Canvas – 50 Movies Hidden In A Painting (Empire) –
- Greatest Film Misquotes –
- Coppola battles Biskind on the high seas (The New York Observer, 2000) – Easy Riders, Raging Bullsin jälkimaininkeja: "An angry Francis Ford Coppola injected the high-seas idyll with a few moments of tension when he became rather aggressive with journalist and author Peter Biskind during one of the cruise's daily "salon" discussions."
- Harold Ramis gets the last laugh (GQ) –
- TV show bibles – Galactica, Carnivale, Dr Who, Farscape, Freaks & Geeks, Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Wire
- Battlestar Galactica Series Bible (pdf) – vuodelta 2003
- Ron Moore Master Class at Banff – You can tune into the first ten minutes of a show and know what the last ten minutes are going to be. I try to destroy that. You've seen this story, and you know our character is going to turn right, but no, he turns left. Any time you can pull that off you've surprised the audience. And storytelling is about finding surprises.
- Bollywood for Beginners | Mother Jones – If you're daunted by the prospect of sorting through 900 films per annum, consider this your beginner's guide to Bollywood: a 5-video cheat sheet of what to see first.
- If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing… (YT) –
- The Final Destination -traileri – mulle tulee Final Destination -sarjasta aina vaan mieleen The Incredible Machine -peli
- The Cove -traileri – dokkaritrilleri delfiineistä, nuff said
Muualla noteerattua 16.06.2009
- Fifty Dead Men Walking -traileri – undercoverkyttänä IRA:han soluttautumassa
- Unmistaken Child -dokkarin traileri – Lama Konchongin reinkarnaatiota etsimässä
- Hillcoat/McCarthy/Mortensen: The Road -traileri –
- Scorsese & DiCaprio: Shutter Island -traileri –
- LOTR julkaistaan jouluna blu-rayllä, mutta ei extended editionina – vanha juttu, mutta vasta nyt huomasin
- 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies – Aliens, Spider-Man, Back to the Future…
- 12 minuutin videonäyte Ron Mooren Virtualitystä – laeaeh
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Muualla noteerattua 9.06.2009
- What Goes Up -traileri – blaa blaa voice over blaa blaa soundtrack blaa blaa STEVE COOGAN
- The Wild Bunch -käsis – written by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah
- Will Warner Grow Tired of New Line, Its Pet Indie? (NY Times) – Almost 16 months into its adventure, New Line has been surprising those who thought the rump operation — it has only about 50 employees, down from nearly 600 before Warner absorbed it — would be crushed by corporate politics and the sheer weight of Warner’s own, blockbuster-oriented moviemaking machinery.
Muualla noteerattua 8.06.2009
- Transcript of the LA Times Envelope Battlestar Galactica Discussion Panel –
- Flashin käyttö scifi-elokuvien käyttöliittymien suunnittelussa (video) – ei siis niinkään esimerkkejä leffoista vaan tarinaa siitä, miten homma toimii
- Tarantino tahtoo ostaa Stieg Larssonin dekkareiden leffaoikeudet uusintaversiota varten –