Musician Jon Hopkins turned to the microscopic lens attached to a Canon 5d Mkii for his latest video… For his most recent album Immunity, musician Jon Hopkins wanted to create visuals that would match the colors he sees in his mind when he’s composing his music. The thing was, he would rather they not be computer generated — Read MoreRead More
In 1983, film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert defend the Star Wars Trilogy to John Simon’s criticism on the nightly news show, Nightline:Read More
Here’s a rather remarkable timelapse film of the first 6 months of a year long project to film the construction of the Leadenhall Building in London.Read More
A cinema experiment: what rival visions would emerge if you pitted the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material? History can tell us… by kogonadaRead More
Jamie Benning collected a series of interviews and created a documentary to the making of the film that would kick off the summer blockbuster season.Read More
Mysteries of Love is a 2002 documentary about David Lynch's Blue Velvet, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz. The documentary includes clips from the film, footage and photographs from behind the scenes, and interviews with Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and others. Via A Bittersweet LifeRead More
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, both giants in the industry that brought us the blockbuster film, Looking into their crystal ball, George Lucas and Steven Spielbergpredicted the imminent arrival of a radically different entertainment landscape, including pricey movie tickets, a vast migration of content to video-on-demand and even programmable dreams. Speaking on a panel at the USC Read MoreRead More
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. Alfred HitchcockRead More
Jean-Baptiste Lefournier cut together this great homage to maestro Alfred Hitchcock with live action footage shot on Lumix GH2.Read More
A brief sketch of Hans Zimmer, composer of “Man of Steel” and how he avoided the music of John Williams for a year in order to craft an original Superman score. Here’s how committed composer Hans Zimmer was to crafting a truly original score for the new Superman movie Man of Steel: He didn’t listen to Read MoreRead More
Lauren Wissot compiles 5 tips for the documentary filmmaker. 1) Talking heads should be used as spice – not as the whole meal. Unless your protagonist is Slavoj Žižek or Speed Levitch-level entrancing, your characters’ spoken words are probably what’s most riveting. So show us images onscreen that are equally fascinating, that will add to those Read MoreRead More
