The Fantomas Website: Home. PressPausePlay. I stumbled across the trailer for PressPausePlay for the first time this weekend whilst the film has already seen its debut on film festivals since March this year. Shows you how up-to-date I really am, doesn’t it… Anyway, I think this might well be a very very interesting documentary. It deals with the the impact of digital media on culture and seems to present the pros as well as the cons (hence the “hope” and “fear” in its byline). Check out the trailer, but also take a look at both of the other two videos which illustrate these two points of view well. If you can’t get enough, visit www.ericsson.com/campaign/presspauseplay to find a whole lot of short little video interviews on the subject. People featured here and in the film include Moby, Seth Godin, Andrew Keen, Scott Belsky and Hillman Curtis, amongst many other well known creators of this digital era.
And best of all: somewhere this summer the whole docu should appear online, for free. More on www.presspauseplay.com. Buster Keaton Docu. I love old Buster Keaton movies. Not only because, after all this time, they are still perfectly enjoyable to watch, but also because they are top notch study material for everybody interested in storytelling.
Keaton is a master. Impeccable timing, deadpan delivery. Whether you are a film maker, comic artists, cartoonist or whatnot, whenever you rely on visual storytelling to get your message across, you’ll probably benefit from studying Buster Keaton movies. This documentary is not for wussies who suffer from that “short attention span syndrome” you hear so much about these days. And if not, there is always the weekend. Enjoy. The Hitchcock & Truffaut Tapes. Woohoo! It’s gonna be a good day, today! First thing I stumbled on whilst drinking my morning coffee are these audio recordings from 1962 in which the French director François Truffaut carries out a series of extensive interviews with his colleague Alfred Hitchcock.
This is an exceptional document in which two of the greatest minds in 20th century film meet. The interviews were broadcasted on French radio and later edited down into a book. You can listen to (and download) a selection right here. (Truffaut didn’t speak much English, but there is a translator present) Or you can even download the whole collection in a single zip file by going to www.filmdetail.com. The Hitchcock Truffaut Tapes by filmdetail. Rutger Hauer Filmfactory 2008: Play with it. James Bond Opening Credit Sequences. Alfred Hitchcock - The Master of Suspense. Art of the Title Sequence. At the sidebar of this blog you can find a list of other blogs and sites that I think are worth paying a visit. I’ve added a few new ones recently. “The Art of the Title Sequence” is one of them. It’s a great site that focuses, and this will be no surprise to you, I guess, on the design of title sequences for movies and occasionally television programs.
They often have extensive interviews with the creators and usually you can watch the whole title sequence right then and there. There’s already an extensive list of older and more recent movies, animation films, television shows and so on and that list keeps on growing as they add new posts. They are not very regular in doing so, sometimes you have to wait a bit before there is something new, but seeing how much work and care they put in each entry, nobody in their right minds would think of holding that against them.
“The Art of the Title Sequence” is a great place to visit. One of my all time favorites is this one.