the last of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Awards Roundtable series, THR’s Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni gathered six A-list directors — Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”); James Cameron…
22
Dec
... finding the art in all things.
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stu willis:
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22
Dec
America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has…
22
Dec
“ Surprisingly, while just about every year between 1972 and 1999 required a leap second to keep the clock synchronized with the Earth’s rotation, there have only been two leap seconds added in the last ten years. The Earth has sped up just a bit, and no one knows why.
18
Dec
“ The ability to create compelling, beautiful cinema using performance tools that used to only exist in the world of live theater is a paradigm shift for this art.
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Eric Escobar has been following the development of “improvised” cinema in the American Indie film scene. These developments interest me for obvious reasons ie i’m a filmmaker and an improviser.
I’m filing this articles for future reference - thinking I’ll do a improvised short next year as a practice run for a feature.
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/12/joshua-leonard-director-lie.html
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/12/katie-aselton-director-freebie.html
http://prepshootpost.blogspot.com/2009/04/money-meet-mouth.html
14
Dec
He spends very little time in the seminar exploring the nature of suspense, an essential element of horror. Instead, McKee draws a distinction between what he calls the Cheap Surprise—a sudden shock out of nowhere—and the True Surprise, which includes a revelation. “It’s hard to imagine a satisfying horror film without a Cheap Surprise,” he says. This is snobbery masquerading as hipness.
11
Dec
Artemis, a directors viewfinder app for iPhone, is rocking my world. Expensive as far as apps go, but a helluva a lot cheaper and more useful than the optical kind… but sadly without the instant cred.
