Awards Watch: Directors Roundtable -
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…
Did Christianity Cause the Crash? -
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…
Unofficial 2009 Spec Market Scorecard – Deadline.com
“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.” — ] What does “blue moon” really mean? via Daring Fireball
“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.” —
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
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November 2009: Jason Zinoman on Robert Mckee | vanityfair.com -
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.
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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.
The Watcher: Sex, secrets and 'Dollhouse': Joss Whedon talks about the end of his Fox show