Luc Besson shooting Scarlet Johansson in Lucy — “When I was young, I was far from the actors, because I was afraid of them. Now I’m only a meter away…” Part 1 of my interview with Besson on thefilmbook blog on theASC.com +++
Sep 052014
Sep 042014
— Matthew McConaughey riffs in a commercial for Lincoln directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. +++ watch on YouTube +++
Sep 042014
— 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 [...]
Sep 032014
— Jeff Desom’s methodical assembly of all the shots of the courtyard in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece is an extraordinary piece of storyboarding. You get to see all the different homes and stories that make up the courtyard, and to see the plot unfold. Desom actually used this footage to create a 20-minute 3-projector looping video [...]
Sep 022014
___ Abel Ferrara offers a film about Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini starring Willem Dafoe in the title role. The film focuses on the end of his life and his mysterious murder. I wonder whether the film can do justice to the complex genius of the poet, filmmaker, artist. I hope it’s better than Welcome [...]
Sep 022014
— Director Alejandro Iñarritu speaks with Anne Thompson at Telluride about his latest film, Birdman. By all accounts the film is brilliant, innovative, powerful. I’m dying to see it. Like Hitchcock’s Rope, the film is presented as one continuous take, with editing masking the splices between a series of long takes. The cinematography is by [...]
Aug 302014
— DP Szymon Lenkowski & editor Tomasz Wolski present a similar shot of a woman with 12 cameras from Arri, Red, Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Black Magic and Kineraw. It’s interesting to see the ungraded camera footage, combining the pastel RAW images with the more contrasty RGB ones. The filmmakers also offer color-timed versions of the [...]
Aug 302014
— The video from Project Otome demonstrates the scanning of a model’s face, then a live projection of video of different make-up styles on the face, as well as weirder CGI renderings. The technical accomplishment is the ability to match the video to the face as it moves in real-time. Otome is a collaboration between [...]
Aug 212014
The strangers meet – I published the first of several posts on Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Strangers on a Train, on my blog on theasc.com. In my post I discuss the innovative 2-minute introduction of the characters, using only shots of their shoes. I also compare the shooting script to the film, to see if Hitch [...]
Aug 152014
Controversial Swiss ad for using condoms set to Edith Piaf’s famous song “Je ne regrette rien” (I regret nothing) +++ link LOVELIFE no regrets from LOVE LIFE on Vimeo +++