February 2012
31 posts
salesonfilm:
What if, as a society, we all just decided to adopt the Scorsese drinking game and that, if you’re at a bar or a party and anyone yells “SCORSESE!” everyone takes a shot.
That’s a world I’d like to live in.
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WatchHi tumblr,
In case I haven’t already told you, here’s a very-short film I made. Please watch it. Thank you.
http://trench-trip.jp →
giacoppola:
New video coming soon!
WatchJuergen Teller: Exposed on Nowness.com.
“There’s William Eggleston who I ADORE, and he says ‘you and I have some things in common. Smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house.”
WatchThe Elevator. A short film by Matthew Robison.
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WatchElevator Bonus Footage
Here’s some top secret bonus footage from a short film we shot last weekend. Enjoy.
bandry.: A short from my friend Cole Schreiber →
barryjenkins:
Really feeling this short, Cole is a buddy of mine who’s made a bit of a left turn, getting out of post-production (at the prestigious MILL NY) and into the director’s chair where his heart has always been pushing him. REST is his first shot at directing, self-financed and attempted as much as a…
Loving this.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
A.H.: Well, the silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant the major changes that sound brought in. In other words, since all that was missing was simply natural sound, there was no need to go to the other extreme and completely abandon the technique of the pure motion picture, the way they did when sound came in.
F.T.: I agree. In the final era of silent movies, the great film-makers--in fact, almost the whole of production--had reached something near perfection. The introduction of sound, in a way, jeopardized that perfection. I mean that this was precisely the time when the high screen standards of so many brilliant directors showed up the woeful inadequacy of the others, and the lesser talents were gradually being eliminated from the field. In this sense one might say that mediocrity came back into its own with the advent of sound.
A.H.: I agree absolutely. In my opinion, that's true even today. In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try first to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between. It seems unfortunate that with the arrival of sound the motion picture, overnight, assumed a theatrical form. The mobility of the camera doesn't alter this fact. Even though the camera may move along the sidewalk, it's still theater. One results of this is the loss of cinematic style, and another is the loss of fantasy. In writing a screenplay, it is essential to separate clearly the dialogue from the visual elements and, whenever possible, to rely more on the visual than on the dialogue. Whichever way you choose to stage the action, your main concern is to hold the audience's full attention. Summing it up, one might say that the screen rectangle must be charged with emotion.
January 2012
26 posts
Watchjennilee:
looking for luck in south texas - alec soth for the nyt
(postcards from america)
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