- Tim Smith: The Attentional Theory of Cinematic Continuity (pdf) – The intention of most film editing is to create the impression of continuity by editing together discontinuous viewpoints. The techniques used to achieve this, the continuity editing rules are well established yet there exists an incomplete understanding of their cognitive foundations. In this essay I will present the Attentional Theory of Cinematic Continuity (AToCC). AToCC identifies the critical role visual attention plays in the perception of continuity across cuts and demonstrates how perceptual expectations can be matched across cuts without the need for a coherent representation of the depicted space. The theory explains several key elements of the continuity editing style including match-action, matched-exit/entrances, shot/reverse-shot, the 180° rule and point-of-view editing. AToCC formalizes insights about viewer cognition that have been latent in the filmmaking community for nearly a century and demonstrates how much vision science in general can learn from film.
- Podcast: David Simon, A.C. Thompson talk about fictionalizing a real Investigation into a Treme storyline – En ole kuunnellut, koska spoilerit ja Treme katsomatta ja ja ja
- My Novel, Their (German Film) Culture –
Lokakuinen elokuvainen teatterinen
Jos olisi sellainen olo, että tekisi mieli katsoa elokuvia elokuvateatterissa, valitsin seuraavista. Kino Engelissä pyörii kaksi oikein mainiota kuvaa:
- Ranskalainen viikonloppu hurmaa stereotyyppisellä ranskalaisuudellaan
- Cosmopolis kiihottaa kuin limusiinissa tehty peräsuolen tähystys: kulmikas + määrätietoinen
Finnkinon valikoimissa on monta hyvää kuvaa sielläkin:
- Moonrise Kingdom on Wes Andersonin onnistunein elokuva aikoihin
- Brave on luotto-Pixaria
- Killer Joe vääntää nupit yhteentoista
- Sinivalkoinen valhe vakuuttaa aiheellaan
- Rahalla saa 2 rullaa yhtä rattoisasti kuin ykkösosakin
- Cabin in the Woods on nokkelasti kauhia
- Magic Mike sopii Soderberghin suvantovaiheen ystäville
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 1.10.2012 – 4.10.2012
- Why Avengers super-fans should assemble for Marvel’s second-screen experience – dvd-ekstrat siirretty erilliseen iOS-ohjelmaan
- BFI to launch online player with 10,000 films from its archives – siitä Kavalle haastetta
- AV-kääntäjän työ helpottuu, kun käsikirjoitus on perinpohjainen –
Muutama sananen syyskuisista kuvista
COSMOPOLIS (EU/CA’12): The rat has been devalued. A lurching stilted layer cake of death. This is true. Fucking loved it.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 5, 2012
MAGIC MIKE (US’12): My mancrush with Channing Tatum deepens. Could’ve done with even less story, tho.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 6, 2012
HOLY MOTORS (FR’12): ”Trois! Douze! Merde!” I believe the technical term would be ’bugfuck crazy’. Rather funny, too. #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 6, 2012
CRAZY HORSE (FR?11): T&A, exquisite lighting, T&A, art versus commerce, T&A. Did I mention the tits and the ass? #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 7, 2012
SIDE BY SIDE (US’12) is actually a pretty decent overview of the whole digital vs film issue. #hiff #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 7, 2012
KÖNIG DES COMICS (DE’12): Overlaps with ’…ind das mit links’ but not completely. Prolly not for ppl who don’t know his work#hiff #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 8, 2012
FIVE STAR EXISTENCE (FI’11): Hey y’all, didya notice them computers have changed the way we live? No? Then watch this film. Otherwise… #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 10, 2012
SNABBA CASH 2 (SE’12): Like the plausibility-pushing audacity and multiple storylines. Some music cues sound like T2 & Tron remake.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 10, 2012
TABLOID (US’10) takes its time to get started, but boy oh boy it’s worth it just to see and hear Joyce McKinney. #hiff #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 9, 2012
KING OF PIGS (KR’11) feels like there’s a strong story buried underneath the lacklustre animation. Frustrating. #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 10, 2012
BOURNE LEGACY (US’12): Franchiselitis? Renner packs a punch, but it’s not like you can make out most of the action, esp. in the latter half.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 12, 2012
GIMME THE LOOT (US’12): How much do you enjoy watching Bronx kids talk bullshit? I did quite a lot. #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 13, 2012
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE (US’12): Curious how much it focuses on the ppl instead of the games & ending feels sluggy; still recommended #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 13, 2012
TABU (PT’12): Gorgeous Academy ratio (?) b/w cinematography; I’ll freely admit I didn’t get much out of it–layers, stylized, languid #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 17, 2012
INTO THE ABYSS (US’11) could be the least Herzogian documentary Herzog has done in a while, as he mostly stays out of the picture #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 18, 2012
WHORE’S GLORY (AT’11): Glawogger’s documentary about prostitutes is unflinching and unsentimental. I’ll go chop off my penis now. #hiff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 19, 2012
KUNINGAS LITMANEN (FI’12): Cracks on the hagiography let a little light shine through but not much. It’s all about the game, I guess.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 21, 2012
PREMIUM RUSH (US’12): It certainly zips ahead efficiently enough. A full house of cyclists made for a lovely audience.#HIFF2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 21, 2012
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (SE/UK’12): Wonderful recordings. Too bad we don’t hear Heikki’s Suburbia Bus Tour sugarman.org/afterlyrics.ht… #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 21, 2012
A ROYAL AFFAIR (DK’12): Inbred king + lovelorn queen + ambitious outsider = triangle; sprinkle in some palace intrigue. #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
BEYOND THE HILL (TR’12): Slowly bringing to boil a conflict out of nowhere. #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
ROUVA PRESIDENTTI (FI’12): All the mundane bits of a presidency make for an interesting docu; the DSLR footage hurt my brain #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
PLAY (SE’11): Östlund’s (mostly) static long take aesthetic bears more fruit than in Ofrivilliga; esp impressive w/kid actors #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
PLAY: The intercut cradle bit felt too much on the nose. Also not sure about opening up the world so late in the film… #HIFF2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
PLAY: Meaning maybe that could’ve been done earlier or not at all. Now it kinda felt like a letdown after the hermetic kids’ world #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
PLAY: Also something dodgy about the visual quality. Did they use shitty zoom lenses or was the zooming & panning done in post? #HIFF2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 23, 2012
KEYHOLE (CA’11): Not sure if this fever dream is a yahtzee. Maybe a full house? Udo Kier ghostfellating the Cyclops. #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 24, 2012
BERNIE (US’11): Black’s finely controlled mugging feels perfect for a character like Bernie-for once. Antistiff cinema, as it were #hiff2012
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 24, 2012
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE (US’09): John Landis should be interviewed in every documentary about movies. The chronological walkthrough… meh.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) September 28, 2012
Jossain välissä oli myös SUOMEN MARSALKKA, josta auoin päätäni radiossakin.
Luku: 141
Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 30.09.2012 – 1.10.2012
- The wayward charms of Cinerama – For the most part neither Smilebox nor digital restoration has removed the peculiarities that, perhaps perversely, fascinate me about this unique format.
- David Simon on Treme (Salon) – "I have very little threshold for melodrama. Probably too low to not get kicked out of television at some point."
- Lynn Hirschberg on Quentin Tarantino (NYT Mag, 1997) –
- Xan Brooks’s interview with the anxiously defeatist Leos Carax – Perhaps it’s the fate of all enfants-terribles to burn too brightly and then wink out.