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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 November 2018
Monday, 19 March 2018
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Saturday, 27 January 2018
Labels:
art,
artist,
design,
fauxsaic,
graphic,
illustration,
illustrator,
mosaic,
timelapse,
video
Sunday, 5 March 2017
FILM 1624: REWIND THIS!
Home video changed the world. The
cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces
the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were
altered by the creation of videotape.
Sunday, 7 August 2016
A really beautiful example of this here:
http://eliseblaha.typepad.com/golden/2016/07/six-months-of-one-second-every-day.html
Monday, 30 May 2016
FILM 1537: BEFORE I GO TO
SLEEP
TRIVIA: In the novel, Christine's
diary is in the form of a journal / notebook, whereas in the film it is a
camera.
This is one of two 2014 on screen
collaborations for Mark Strong and Colin Firth, and the fourth overall, The
others being Kingsman: The
Secret Service (2014), Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy (2011), and Fever Pitch (1997)_.
Nicole Kidman studied amnesiacs in
preparation for this film, including watching a documentary on Clive Wearing.
Director Rowan Joffe's own mother
suffers from amnesia.
Labels:
amnesia,
colin firth,
film,
film list,
hospital,
mark strong,
memory,
movie,
nicole kidman,
psychiatry,
video
Saturday, 20 February 2016
FILM 1475: ME AND EARL AND THE
DYING GIRL
TRIVIA: The parody movies made by
Greg and Earl, include: -1. Anatomy of a Burger (Anatomy of a Murder) -2. Ate
1/2 (Of My Lunch) (8 1/2) -3. A Box O'Lips, Wow (Apocalypse Now) -4. The Battle
of All Deer (The Battle of Algiers) -5. Breathe Less (Breathless) -6. Brew
Vervet (Blue Velvet) -7. Burden of Screams (Burden of Dreams) -8. Can't Tempt
(Contempt) -9. Crouching Housecat, Hidden Housecat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon) -10. Death in Tennis (Death in Venice) -11. My Dinner with Andre the
Giant (My Dinner with Andre) -12. Don't Look Now, Because a Creepy-Ass Dwarf is
About to Kill You!!! Damn. (Don't Look Now) -13. Eyes Wide Butt (Eyes Wide
Shut) -14. Hairy, Old and Mod (Harold and Maude) -15. La Gelee (La Jetee) -16.
Gone with My Wind (Gone with the Wind) -17. Gross Encounters of the Turd Kind
(Close Encounters of the Third Kind) -18. Grumpy Cul-de-sacs (Mean Streets) -19.
It's a Punderful Life (It's a Wonderful Life) -20. The Janitor of Oz (The
Wizard of Oz) -21. The Lady Manishness (The Lady Vanishes) -22. Monorash
(Rashomon) -23. My Best Actor is Also a Dangerous Lunatic (My Best Fiend) -24.
Nose Ferret 2 (Nosferatu) -25. Pittsburghasqatsi (Koyaanisqatsi) -26. Pooping
Tom (Peeping Tom) -27. The Prunes of Wrath (The Grapes of Wrath) -28. Raging
Bullsh*t (Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980) -29. Rear Wind (Rear Window) -30.
Rosemary Baby Carrots (Rosemary's Baby) -31. Scabface (Scarface) -32. Second
(Helpings of Dinner) (seconds) -33. Senior Citizen Cane (Citizen Kane) -34. The
Seven Seals (The Seventh Seal) -35. A Sockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange) -36.
The Complete Lack of Conversation (The Conversation) -37. The Last Crustacean
of Christ (The Last Temptation of Christ) -38. The Rad Shoes (The Red Shoes)
-39. The Turd Man (The Third Man) -40. The 400 Bros (The 400 Blows) -41. Um (M)
-42. Vere'd He Go? (Vertigo) -43. Wages for Beer (The Wages of Fear) -44.
Yellow Submarine Sandwich (Yellow Submarine) -45. ZZZ (Z) -46. 2:48PM Cowboy
(Midnight Cowboy) -47. 49th Parallelogram (49th Parallel)
The film was acquired by Fox
Searchlight for $12 million dollars at The Sundance Film Festival in January
2015. This was the biggest buy in Sundance history.
The screenplay for this film was
featured in the 2012 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade
scripts of the year.
Greg's father's cat's name is Cat
Stevens which is a British musician's stage name.
Labels:
cancer,
director,
film,
film list,
film making,
foreign,
friendship,
high school,
movie,
video
Saturday, 12 December 2015
Thursday, 12 November 2015
FILM 1406: THE WOLFPACK
Locked away from society in an
apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about
the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,'
the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using
elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the
brothers escapes and everything changes.
Monday, 11 May 2015
Saturday, 10 January 2015
FILM 1274: NIGHTCRAWLER
TRIVIA: Jake Gyllenhaal lost 20
pounds for his role. This was Gyllenhaal's own idea, as he visualized Lou as a
hungry coyote.
Jake Gyllenhaal's in character,
blink very rarely. Gyllenhaal has used this method in his work before with his
role as title character Donnie Darko.
Actor Riz Ahmend rode along with
"actual" nightcrawlers in LA to prepare for his role.
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