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I’ve been WAITING to see this film since I first saw the UK trailer 8 months ago. And now it opens Dec. 18th. Yes yes yes.
5 days ago
"21 Guns" «
I wish I could just post the audio, but alas I am unable to. SO. Go to this link, and listen to the American Idiot cast sing “21 Guns” along with Billie Joe Armstrong. Because it is uh-mazing. And yeah, I have friends in the cast. So what, yo?!
(paintyhands:salemome:currrzio:On the set of A bout de souffle)
The scale of it looks remarkably similar to what’s often called “no-budget” filmmaking now-a-days, no? Camera’s about the size of an EX3. Lit by household lamps. Director pushing a wheelchair for the “dolly”.
And well shit, while I’m waxing authoritative about indie filmmaking and A bout de souffle (and I know most of you already know, but for those who don’t, the english title is “Breathless” and it’s mandatory viewing for artsy fartsy film snobs like us), here’s an already widely known tidbit that I’ll hereby take heroic credit for spreading a teency weency wider.
The filmmaker pictured above, Jean-Luc Godard, was a film critic before he made movies. He and a bunch of other thinker/writer/cineastes upkept a periodical called Cahier du cinema. Nowadays, historians tend to attribute these guys with beginning to convince the world that film was not mere pulp and circus but was indeed a form of art.
The story continues that one day, some filmmaker who had perhaps received some negative criticism from the Cahier, or perhaps not, I don’t really know, I’m half making this up, put the question to them. If you guys have so much to say about movies, why don’t you make some yourselves?
So they did. Of course, they didn’t have the resources had by the standard filmmaking endeavors of the day. But they didn’t try to imitate the glossy look of Hollywood’s golden age. Instead, they embraced their limited resources and created what everyone now calls the “New Wave” that spread out into the crop of American masterpieces in the late 60s and 70s — Raging Bull, Badlands — all the way into the “Independent” movies of the 90s — Pulp Fiction, Sling Blade.
It seems to me that this is a pertinent story to tell here among the internauts for a couple reasons. First is the obvious analogy of adapting limited resources into a new genuine aesthetic rather than imitating the established one. Second, there sure are a lot of critics online. Now writing comments about movies and videos is cool and all. But for my bet, RECords are way more fun to make than Remarks.
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Voulme 37 of “Everyone-Thinks-I’m-Insane-For-Thinking-This-Dude-is-Dead-Sexy.”
6 days ago
Preach.
1 week ago
Jim Jarmusch's Golden Rules «
My personal favorite:
Rule #4: Filmmaking is a collaborative process. You get the chance to work with others whose minds and ideas may be stronger than your own. Make sure they remain focused on their own function and not someone else’s job, or you’ll have a big mess. But treat all collaborators as equals and with respect. A production assistant who is holding back traffic so the crew can get a shot is no less important than the actors in the scene, the director of photography, the production designer or the director. Hierarchy is for those whose egos are inflated or out of control, or for people in the military. Those with whom you choose to collaborate, if you make good choices, can elevate the quality and content of your film to a much higher plane than any one mind could imagine on its own. If you don’t want to work with other people, go paint a painting or write a book. (And if you want to be a fucking dictator, I guess these days you just have to go into politics…).
1 week ago
i want to not post this. in part because i’m so sick of the kitten community’s cultural reign of terror, and in part because i feel as if it might jeopardize national security. because i swear to jesus this was engineered in a top-secret government lab to completely and systematically disarm al-qaeda. you can’t hate america after watching this - you can’t really hate anything after watching this. the mayans warned us about this kitten, but we just didn’t listen, and now woody harrelson is going to have to die (spoiler alert?). this will soon be the most popular video on youtube. soon LED technology will ensure that an endlessly looping gif of this will replace George Washington on every dollar bill. when Obama runs for re-election, this will be his new logo. this is the New World Order.
happy monday.
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