Sweet 16. REcreation (Robert Breer, 1956); T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G (Paul Sharits, 1969).
DB here: Snows and thaws and refreezing, amplified by a torrential rain, gave water a new path into our basement. We’ve spent about two weeks emptying bookshelves, drying them out, and shifting books to other places. No volumes were damaged, but we had to make space in the dry areas for the migrant titles. That meant facing up to the problem of 16mm. The solution was drastic. Narrow-gauge movies My film collecting started with 8mm. Not until I went to college and joined a film club did I lay my hands on 16mm. Film Society of Lincoln Center. An ever-growing list of films you'll never get to see As ranked by our contributors, a list of the greatest films never made.
The criteria for this survey is that the projects were all at one time planned or attempted by one or many directors. Film Studies with High Production Values: An Interview with Janet Bergstrom on Making and Teaching Audiovisual Essays. Q: When and why did you decide to offer a seminar that focuses on the production of DVD essays?
Janet Bergstrom: I offered the first seminar of this kind in winter 2004, after I had made a visual essay myself, for Fox. The idea was to provide a workshop-seminar where students could take advantage of our recent ability to “quote” audio-visual media in (audio)visual essays they make themselves, research essays burned to DVD, and to discuss what was possible in that format compared to the advantages and disadvantages of print essays. Gaining the experience to do both changes the relationship to research as well as to writing.
I had been given the opportunity to contribute to Fox’s special edition DVD of Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), a project coordinated by the head of their archive, Shawn Belston, not by the Home Entertainment division, as would usually have been the case. (1) Fox had not released a single silent film on DVD; they didn’t think they would sell. Jonathan Rosenbaum. TSPDT - Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own: A selection of 250 mostly obscure, mostly overlooked, and/or mostly unloved films. For the most part, TSPDT’s 1,000 Greatest Films project has garnered a generally positive reaction amongst the net’s film-list lovers.
It seems to be reasonably well-liked. However, after the update of the list in January 2010 many began to question that the list was becoming a little tired and predictable. There was a whiff of discontent in the air. The punters began to argue that the list was starting to swell with films that were too well-known (Saving Private Ryan, The Blues Brothers, etc) and/or too popular for their liking (The Dark Knight, Robocop, etc). Many of the ‘smaller’ films (My Love Has Been Burning, Blast of Silence, Mother India, etc) had fallen off the list, replaced by films that have for one reason or another connected more favourably (usually due to greater consumer exposure) with critics and filmmakers.
TV is better than film. Read Film Editor Dave Calhoun's retort. 1.
TV takes the time to go much, much deeper At a real stretch, film directors have four hours of footage (excluding the possibility of a money-grubbing sequel or two), whereas TV directors can have anything up to 22 hours for a series. Opening Scenes of Alfred Hitchcock films (film directing, criticism, story settings) Borgus.com - Geography and space were important factors in Alfred Hitchcock’s storytelling technique.
So much so that film scholar Paul Duncan (2003) described his formal style as merely "a series of set pieces linked together by plot. " In 1934, Hitchcock wrote to readers of Film Weekly declaring his appetite for more "freshness in choice of backgrounds" citing mundane locations in other British films (Gottlieb 1995). Here we will examine more specifically the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock films and examine his strategy for introducing his stories to the viewer. In his opening scenes, Hitchcock established tone and setting from a point of objectivity toward the subjective, flirted with the boundaries between public space and private space, and painted a satirical world filled with a tapestry of caricatures. 1.
In the early part of Hitchcock’s career he wrote about the need for shifts in tone throughout a film, and that a comic opening is essential to suspense. Screenrush - Film and TV News. Senses of Cinema. Film and Television news - Screenrush. Film & Video. The following films are presented for educational and non-commercial use only.
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DB here: On my first visit to Hong Kong in early 1995, one of my missions was to acquire video copies of all those HK films I wanted to study. The VHS tapes I’d seen in the States had grimy images and pan-and-scan framing. So, armed with my credit card, I focused on a higher-end format, the laserdisc.