The Railrodder by Gerald Potterton
Source: The Railrodder (English Version) by Gerald Potterton – NFB
1965 | 24 min
Terry Gilliam’s deleted animations from Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam, you magnificant bastard.
Here is the book he apparently used for this animation: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/margins_manuscripts/
The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino
The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino
Afterward, Tarantino and I are standing outside, when kids milling about start gathering up the nerve to approach him. After one does, a line forms. Tarantino talks to everyone, his grin never faltering, as fans profess their thanks and gratitude — for his movies, for the theater, for just talking to them. It seems as if he could keep this up all night, but he is hungry and his favorite nearby restaurant will stop serving soon.
Before he heads off, I mention how remarkable the communal experience of watching a movie on a screen with a large and willing audience is — and with an actual print — after seeing so much television alone or renting movies online. Tarantino nods, and uses our last few moments together to rally one more time against the »
Clive Owen on The Knick Finale, Cocaine, and the Plan for Season 2
…we shot the thing in 73 days. It was like the length of a really big movie. Apart from the amount we were getting through each day, which was an awful lot. We moved so quickly. I think our record was 13 pages of dialogue in one day.
A record of thirteen pages in a day is amazing in its own right, but a marathon of 73 days resulting in ~600 minutes of screen time is bonkers. To put it in perspective, the extended edition of the lord of the rings is about 650 minutes.
The feet are where you’re judged
Being able to do the feet extremely well with all the nuances and shifts – that separates the boys from the men. There are foley artists who’ve been doing this for 15-20 years who still can’t do it. It’s not something you can learn. It’s just a feel thing. The feet are where you’re judged as a Foley artist.
Gregg Barbanell
How to Structure a Video Essay
Final video essay from everyframeapainting discusses one of the coolest movies ever to wrap up year one. I could not be happier about this, nor more excited to see how year two goes.
“Anyone nostalgic for those halcyon days can now thank digital archivist and filmmaker Jason Scott for BBS: The Documentary, a five-and-a-half-hour paean to the era when computers were named Stacy and Lisa, and tech loyalists fought bitter battles over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas.”
– Wired
All 8 parts are available as a single playlist.
How Motion Picture Film is Made – Gear Patrol
How Motion Picture Film is Made – Gear Patrol
GP writer Ryan Cavataro visited Kodak’s factory and spoke with industry experts to find out why some filmmakers still prefer film over digital.
Blade Runner Set Polaroids
Gotta post this. Too good not to.
Vertical Cinema @ SXSW
jasminesafaeian Vertical Cinema at SXSW.
I love this so much. Nothing wrong with shooting vertically, so long as your audience experiences it that way.
David Cross On Why and How He Decided to Self-Distribute Hits
David Cross On Why and How He Decided to Self-Distribute Hits
As the days went on, the producers and I were fielding other offers from a handful of distributors – they were all uninspiring, to say the least – all of them following the industry standard template for indie film distribution that has become the norm. That is to say, open for a week in Los Angeles and New York (add a couple additional cities from a list of about 10 or so (Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Chicago etc.), then if it does amazingly well, it can be expanded to another 10 or so cities from there. If not, then it’s straight to VOD and Apple iTunes a couple weeks later. So technically, yes, it would have a theatrical run, but I wanted as many people to see »
I’m not sure which part of this is most impressive, the steadicam, the boom operator, or the wall/chair sliding combo.
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So much talent in here.
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I bet you eat food on a daily basis don’t you? But how much do you actually know about where your food actually comes from? Go see Food Chains to have a better idea about the humans who pick all those juicy tomatos everyone loves.
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Interstellar’s dangling wormholes
Interstellar’s dangling wormholes
Some more obvious and other less obvious issues with interstellar.
A vampire film that doesn’t look like every other damn vampire film.
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The 50 Weirdest Movies Ever Made
The 50 Weirdest Movies Ever Made
A Lynchian renaissance is happening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where David Lynch studied painting before his surreal entry into filmmaking with 1977’s Eraserhead. The school is the s…
Putting this here for future reference
Mobile’s march to eat all of media production continues to get louder and louder. The canon footage is certainly better than the hyperlapse, but that has mostly to do with the size of the sensor I would argue.
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Can’t wait to see this.
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