+++ – Filmmaking Partners – Nomadland Trailer – New Naturalism – Light as Nature – Authenticity +++ Frances McDormand, Joshua James Richards and Chloé Zhao shooting tests for Nomadland +++ Filmmaking Partners Director Chloé Zhao teamed up with cinematographer Joshua James Richards on her first three features. The two are also partners in real life. [...]
Although I love “I have a dream”, my favorite speech by Martin Luther King is the one he gave the night before his assassination: “I have been to the mountain top“. You can listen to the rousing, prophetic and death-defying 8-minute conclusion, which starts by recounting a previous assassination attempt when someone stabbed him, and [...]
+++ Director Guillermo del Toro offers 10 pithy insights into his friend Alfonso Cuaron’s movie on his Twitter feed: heaven and earth, shit and transcendence, servitude and water… +++ Link: http://bit.ly/10RomaMusingsGuillermoDelToro +++
Elin Ersson, an extraordinary young Swedish woman streams her act of civil disobedience: standing inside a plane to prevent the deportation of an Afghan man. +++ LINK http://bit.ly/CivilDisobedienceSelfie +++
— This YouTube video is a wonderful example of how citizens can use their 1st amendment right — to film in public — to protect their other rights. If this man did not have a camera, and didn’t warn the officers that they were going “straight to YouTube”, I’m pretty sure they would have come [...]
To be honest, I had been avoiding seeing Nymphomaniac Volume I by Lars von Trier. It felt like homework I had to do. Don’t get me wrong, I love sexuality as a filmmaking subject, in part because it is so difficult to do well. I feel that the 2 most difficult cinema subjects are sex [...]
The ever brilliant Jaron Lanier links the gated community of the tablet to omni-surveillance and free searching in this incisive column in the New York Times. +++ Link We will become the medium from art blog +++
— In this video writer/Director Paul Schrader wears a silly multi-camera outfit and muses that constant technological change of cinema’s form may prevent good films full of content. If the form is changing, content can’t stabilize You can’t make a revolutionary film in the middle of a revolution My concern is that this period of [...]