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2013-05-14
Source: ckck
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2013-02-27
Source: etsy.com
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2012-12-29
It is as if we have some predetermined tempo for destruction.
— This quote is probably the only good thing from Love.
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2012-11-28
“Put the mask on, NOW!” /via mlkshk by way of chris glass
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2012-05-15
The music from the Prometheus trailer is … relentless. Enjoy!
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2011-08-10
This is a clip from the storyboard for Apocalypse Now, part of the exhibition, Between Film and Art: Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg.
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2011-06-06
General Orders No. 9
A documentary that uses maps (deer trail becomes Indian trail becomes county road) and photograpghy to show the loss of the natural world to urbanism in the Deep South (the wide swathe of land from the Mississippi River on the west to the Savannah River on the east).
Between the poster and the trailer it almost looks like a horror movie. Maybe that’s the point.
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2011-05-22
Emil Van Horn, Hollywood Gorilla Man
When I moved to New Orleans in 1965 I met Emil Van Horn. He told me his gorilla suit had been taken by his landlady in Pensacola, Florida because he could not pay his back rent. She kept his trunk with all his possessions as well. So his movie days were over.
Two things about this that blow my feeble little mind. First, I find it completely awesome that someone could make a living dressing up like a gorilla. Second, that this job was BYOGS (bring your own gorilla suit). No more suit, no more work. (via metafilter)
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2011-04-04
Did The "Uncanny Valley" Kill Disney's CGI Company?
Angela Tinwell, who studies the uncanny valley’s impact on empathy and usability in video games at the University of Bolton, says that emotive expressiveness in the upper facial region tends to make all the difference: millions of years of evolution has tuned our brains to detect even the slightest “off” feeling in another face and be suspicious of it. “Eyelids, brows, even the tiny wrinkles on the face that appear during speech — that gives the greatest authenticity to a character,” Tinwell says. “False smiles are particularly common because the fidelity of the simulated skin below the eyes isn’t high enough to show the lines and bulges that might be created by a genuine smile.”
Maybe this is why my son hated Mars Needs Moms. Via Daniel Gray.
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2011-02-28
The Day the Movies Died
“It’s a chicken-versus-egg thing,” says writer-producer Vince Gilligan, the creator of the why-aren’t-there-movies-this-good cable hit Breaking Bad. “The studios say, ‘Well, no one else is coming to movies reliably these days except for young males, so we’ll make our movies for them.’ And yet if you make movies simply for young males, nobody else is going to want to go. So Hollywood has become like Logan’s Run: You turn 30, and they kill you.”
One of the many great bits from this GQ article on why we get a battalion of sequels and remakes instead of more original flicks like Inception.
P.S. Logan’s Run is being re-made.
P.S.S. I have not seen Inception, but I have seen Gnomeo and Juliet. I think that makes me complicit in the death of movies, right?
