June 2012
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The First Films of Great Directors
Quentin Tarantino’s 1987 debut film My Best Friend’s Birthday
Francis Ford Coppola: a 75-minute, black-and-white psychological horror film called Dementia 13 (1963)
Matin Scorsese: What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This (1963)
Full movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWs1SM0xYiI
Stanley Kubrick: Day of the Fight, a 1951
François Truffaut: The 1957 film, Les...
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Film's Spine
The following are spines for Felline’s film 8-1/2
Film’s spine: to seek an authentic life
Guido’s spine: to live a life without a lie
Guido’s wife: to have a marriage that is not a lie
Carla: to be loved (by Guido and her husband)
Gloria: to seek salvation in abstractions
Screenwriter: to seek meaning in art
Cardinal: to seek union with God through the Church (the...
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Free Film Archives
Australian Screen Archive: The Australian National Film and Sound Archive provides free and worldwide access to over 1,000 film and television titles – a treasury of down-under video 100 years in the making.
Europa Film Treasures: Thanks to Europa Film Treasures, you can spend hours looking back through an archive of European film. Theses films range from “comedy to science fiction, from westerns...
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Open Culture: The Best Animated Films of All Time,...
The Mascot, a 1934 film by the Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz.
Cartoon 1943 ” Red Hot Riding Hood ” – Tex Avery by Petites-Cocottes
Vanderbeek’s 1963 film Breathdeath
Walerian Borowczyk, his 1964 film Les Jeux des Anges
Svankmajer’s stunning 1982 claymation short, Dimensions of Dialogue,
Brothers Quay,Street of Crocodiles, 1986
Other films mentioned in Gilliam’s...
May 2012
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mcneon-saves asked: im sure you get this quite often, but i'm also really into movies so i was just wondering what your favorite movie of all time is. mine is a tie between pulp fiction and v for vendetta.
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Hunter S. Thompson-Gonzo Journalism
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary (1998), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (1973), The Curse of Lono (1983), and Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966).
He is credited as the creator of Gonzo...
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blanketsofsnow asked: just to clarify: drive overrated? what? and - the seventh continent is actually haneke's 10th feature film (which only few people seem to realize).
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derkreisel asked: YES! Imo, It's a masterpiece! As a suggestion, your next Haneke step: his first feature film, The Seventh Continent, that's a strong one...
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derkreisel asked: Anything Tarkovsky?
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The Camera As a Narrator
Angle
Image size ( which affects scale and field of view)
Motion (up, down, tracking)
Depth of field (normal, compressed or deep, affected by focal length of lens and f stop)
Focus (Selective within the frame)
Speed (normal, fast or slow motion)
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derkreisel asked: indeed, Drive was overrated, but where's Michael Haneke?
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What Becomes of Thinking on Film?
AK: You've written the idea that films think, and further the idea of films thinking philosophically. One can imagine this sounding obscure. How can films think?
SC: Well, of course, that is to begin with just a somewhat provocative way of saying: Don't ask what the artist is thinking or intending, but ask why the work is as it is, why just this is here in just that way. The implication that the way the work is is a matter of its own thinking or intention may be brought out by notting that to ask 'Why has the artist done that?' is a function of wanting something. My formulation employing the work's thinking or intending or wanting something, is meant to emphasize the sense that the work wants something of us who behold or hear or read it.
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EISENSTEIN'S MONTAGE THEORIES
Download Eisenstein’s Montage Theories as PDF file
SERGEI EISENSTEIN’S MONTAGE THEORIES FOR EDITORS Peter Thompson Revised 5/15/02
CONTENTS
EISENSTEIN’S BACKGROUND “THE UNEXPECTED” (1928) “A STATEMENT” (1928) “THE CINEMATIC PRINCIPLE AND THE IDEOGRAM” (1929) “A DIALECTIC APPROACH TO FILM FORM” (1929) “THE FILMIC...
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Adding Value to a Project
The good director moves beyond the choices made by the competent director with regard to:
1. Complexity of narrative
2.Approach to characterization
3.Approach to the narrative
4. Issue of surpris e
5. Point of view of the director
6.Camera placement
From an article called The Director’s Idea which I am currently reading.
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califailure asked: Have you ever watched a film called Le feu follet? Also, I love your blog. :)
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unculturedshock asked: ALSO (I couldn't fit everything) I wanted to take the time to say that I really appreciate your postings that are helping me get the film education (especially your love for Existential film) that I could only take a few brief brush over classes on.
unculturedshock asked: Hello, thank you for the follow! Thought I'd stop by and tell you that you have a LOVELY blog. I found you from your free film courses post. I am actually a projectionist at a very small art theater in Ohio where we are DEVASTATED that Sony Picture Classics (and many of the other distributors, but have been the first) will no longer be releasing films in 35mm and now strictly digital in...
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12 Great Articles that Inspired Films →
suedujour:
theatlantic:
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
Four Good Legs Between Us by Laura Hillenbrand - Seabiscuit
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner - The Insider Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild The Muse of Coyote Ugly Saloon by Elizabeth Gilbert - Coyote Ugly Racer X by Kenneth Li Rafael - The Fast and the Furious The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson - American...
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allmycheatedhearts replied to your post: what I have seen for the last months
So… What is your favorite movie of Almodovar?
hey! my fav movie of Almodovar is La mala educación. What is yours?
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what I have seen for the last months
I have seen all these movies for the last months, here are my very very short opinions on them, how many of them you have seen guys, let me know what you think.
Carnage (2011) by Roman Polanski was a good exercise for me to see for my curiosity on how to make a movie in one location, but I wasn’t satisfied with this one.
Contagion (2011) by Steven Soderbergh boring
Contempt (1963) by...
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“Identify your own obsessions, then figure out how to make them interesting to...”
– ~ ScreenwritingTips (#984)
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21 Free Hitchcock Movies Online
Bon Voyage - Free – A French language WWII propaganda film by Alfred Hitchcock. Also see Aventure Malgache. (1944)
Downhill - Free – In this silent film, a public schoolboy “takes the blame for a friend’s theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.” Also released under the title, When Boys Leave Home. (1927)
Easy Virtue - Free – Early silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock....
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thelamplightersserenade asked: The Apartment takes place mainly in Jack Lemmon's apartment and his workplace. There are a few minutes for a few different locations, but the majority is in with that. Also from Mr. Wilder is the Seven Year Itch. And from Danny Boyle is 127 Hours. If you haven't sen any of them, I think they're what you're looking for.
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noirdesirhcs asked: For your One Location-One Movie: El Angel Exterminador from Buñel and La Casa Muda,
andreas-strauss asked: Got some more for you (maybe): The Breakfast Club, Dag och Natt (Day and Night) and Ambulancen(all scenes are either inside or featuring the ambulance)
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airbornesubmarines asked: Out of the list of Orson Welles films you posted, which one would you choose as your favorite?