Naldz Graphics Being Winston Wolfe: 9 Reasons Why 'Pulp Fiction' is the Management Guide Every Indie Filmmaker Needs Winston Wolfe in "Pulp Fiction." Remember Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe? Of course you do. And, as producer Justin Szlasa presents in this terrific essay, if every movie set were run by Winston Wolfe, the world would be a better place. Szlasa recently produced the digital filmmaking doc “Side By Side” that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. It looks like the time he spent in that considerably wonkier arena will serve him well as an independent filmmaker. However, there’s a dearth of Winston Wolfes in the world, and certainly on indie film sets. So here’s Justin Szlasa’s take on how to do just that. -- Dana Harris THE WOLF I'm Winston Wolfe. We read the trades and attend panel discussions. We have excuses. But nothing is worse than working for a bad manager. Fortunately, we need only to look to Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel and “Pulp Fiction” for a role model: Winston Wolf. Here are a few management lessons from a guy who knows how to get it done. Prioritize JULES Mr.
Prolost Nolan vs. Nolan DB here: Paul Thomas Anderson, the Wachowskis, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, and other directors who made breakthrough films at the end of the 1990s have managed to win either popular or critical success, and sometimes both. None, though, has had as meteoric a career as Christopher Nolan. His films have earned $3.3 billion at the global box office, and the total is still swelling. Yet many critics fiercely dislike his work. I have only a welterweight dog in this fight, because I admire some of Nolan’s films, for reasons I hope to make clear later. Four dimensions, at least First, let’s ask: How can a filmmaker innovate? You can innovate by tackling new subject matter . You can also innovate by developing new themes . Apart from subject or theme, you can innovate by trying out new formal strategies . Finally, you can innovate at the level of style —the patterning of film technique, the audiovisual texture of the movie. Style without style Well, on the whole they aren’t stylistic.
Pro Video Coalition 100 Ideas That Changed Film by Maria Popova How the seventh art went from magic lanterns to state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery in 100 years. When a small handful of enthusiasts gathered at the first cinema show at the Grand Cafe in Paris on December 27, 1895, to celebrate early experimental film, they didn’t know that over the next century, their fringe fascination would carve its place in history as the “seventh art.” But how, exactly, did that happen? Parkinson promises in the introduction: What follows is as much a chronology of business opportunism and technical pragmatism, as a celebration of artistry, social commitment, and showmanship. Idea # 1: MAGIC LANTERNS Images from a set of 24 glass slides based on Sir John Tenniel’s original drawings for Alice in Wonderland Idea # 20: SERIALS Betty Hutton relives the glory days of the silent serial in The Perils of Pauline, a 1947 biopic of the legendary chapterplay heroine, Pearl White. Over 470 serials were produced in the United States between 1912 and 1956.
AEJuice - Premium Products for Motion Designers Film Studies For Free | The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories | Observations on film art The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Kristin (with some help from David) here: David and I have been offering this greatest-of-90-years-ago series almost as long as this blog has existed. For earlier annual entries, see 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925. I approached 1926 with the assumption that it would present a crowded field of masterpieces; surely it would be difficult to choose ten best films. Still, the Soviet directors were going full-tilt by this time and contribute three of the ten films on this year’s list. The Russians are coming Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother was a full-fledged contribution to the new Montage movement in the Soviet Union. Along with Potemkin, Mother was one of the key founding films of the Montage movement. As the Mother sits beside her husband’s dead body, her son, a participant in the 1905 failed revolution, comes in. Mother was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 1999, but it seems to be very rare. Petit mais grand Lloyd and Lubitsch