- Albert Brooks on Being Neurotic, Tweeting, and This Is 40 – Sometimes undersold, always ahead of his time, Albert Brooks has made a festival’s worth of classics—Modern Romance, Lost in America, Defending Your Life, etc. The Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director gets into it with Judd Apatow, who directed Brooks in this month’s This Is 40, on topics great and small: his neuroses, his marriage, his Twitter feed, John Lennon, death, and integrity.
- Spatial Suspense: A Conversation with Christian Petzold –
- Restoring the Enterprise-D bridge while saving a piece of our memories. –
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- 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.
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- 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 –
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- 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.