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. Arriving in Madison in 1973, Kristin and I bought a Kodak Pageant, the 16mm workhorse. In 1977 we bought a house, and I set up a jerry-rigged projection room in the unfinished basement. We spent many hours watching movies in that currently soggy basement, with its burgundy carpet and dark wood paneling.
Our house is a museum of defunct technology. FOOFs Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates (1966). Freezing the frame. Film Comment | 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. This is not a list of unproduced screenplays, but of unrealized productions. Any films that were ultimately made by another director have been discounted, hence the absence of Orson Welles’s The Big Brass Ring. You can see (and contribute) to our ever-growing index of un-films. See titles A through K or L through Z. 1. Adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novella. 2. A lavish adaptation of the Book of Genesis. 3. A biopic on Napoleon set to be made just after the successes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eisenstein with Sternberg, who would later adapt the novel 4. 1930 Adaptation of Dreiser’s novel to be produced by Paramount. 5. 6. 7.
Adaptation of the Robert Graves novel. Kaleidoscope 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Adaptation of Walker Percy novel. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Film Studies with High Production Values: An Interview with Janet Bergstrom on Making and Teaching Audiovisual Essays | Frames Cinema Journal. 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. The question beginning to arise was, “Is too much consensus a bad thing?” So then, does the middle-ground suck? So we thought, let’s do it. 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.
The movie industry cannot match the long-running subplots and subtle elucidation of characters’ personalities in a series like ‘Six Feet Under’, or the exquisitely paced novel-like intricacies of ‘The Wire’. 2. Post-‘This Is Spinal Tap’, it’s hard to think of any mould-breaking film comedies: meanwhile the sophisticated use of cartoons pioneered by ‘The Simpsons’, the aggressively nonsensical meeja parody of ‘The Day Today’ and the intrusive camerawork of ‘Peep Show’ have led the way. 3. Audiences heading to the local multiplex pick and choose their viewing, so their chances of watching something they’re not interested in are minimal. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Read Film Editor Dave Calhoun's retort. 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. Tone and Setting 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. 2. 3. Screenrush - Film and TV News.
Senses of Cinema. Film & Video. The following films are presented for educational and non-commercial use only. All copyrights belong to the artists. About UbuWeb Film & Video UbuWeb is pleased to present thousands of avant-garde films & videos for your viewing pleasure. However, it is important to us that you realize that what you will see is in no way comparable to the experience of seeing these gems as they were intended to be seen: in a dark room, on a large screen, with a good sound system and, most importantly, with a roomful of warm, like-minded bodies. However, we realize that the real thing isn't very easy to get to.
We realize that the films we are presenting are of poor quality. UbuWeb. Pandora’s digital box: From the periphery to the center, or the one of many centers. A laserdisc of The East Is Red; a VCD of Peking Opera Blues. 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. For those too young or too sequestered to know this format, I should explain. A laserdisc was twelve inches in diameter, the size of a vinyl LP record, and coated with aluminum. A movie’s image track was inscribed optically on the disc, while the soundtrack was encoded digitally. In the US, laserdiscs were for sale, but Hong Kong ones typically weren’t. As I made the rounds during my trip, I persuaded many shops to sell me some LDs, unfortunately for me at rather high prices. On the same trip I met the LD’s downmarket cousin. VCD = Very Curtailed Definition The results were pretty feeble. Want some measure? Overshoot and good enough.