Siskel & Ebert’s 1999 Episode on Stanley Kubrick
Roger Ebert and other film critics remember Stanley Kubrick and discuss his films highlighting his last film “Eyes Wide Shut”.Read More
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How Michael Crichton’s “Westworld” Pioneered Modern Special Effects
David A Price chronicles how writer/director Michael Crichton’s 1973 Westworld pathed the way for modern special effects by using “Pixelation” and developed by none-other-than John Whitney Jr. the son of John Whitney who introduced computers into the design of Vertigo. Nearly every studio film at the multiplexes this summer will have been created, at least partly, by a Read MoreRead More
On the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty
It turns out that being creative also involves a healthy dose of dishonesty. The first use of the U.S. Postal Service was to sell products that didn’t exist. Spam dominates global email volume today. Hoaxes and pranks have been ritualized in everyday culture. And yet, we tend to believe that dishonesty and fraud are confined Read MoreRead More
It could have been titled: “Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus”
This copy of from Stanley Kubrick’s notebook shows some alternative titles for the Cold War black comedy. via Lists of Note Read More
Salvador Dalí’s Dream Sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound”
In the 40s psychoanalysis was all the thing. Hollywood mogul David O Selzneck pressured Alfred Hitchcock to use psychoanalysis as a driving plot point for a film. The result was Spellbound and who else could they turn to for crafting a bizarre dream sequence than the master of surrealism himself: Salvador Dalí. via OpenCultureRead More
Saying No To Jobs And Getting Paid
Andreas Bergmann explores some of the business aspects of being a photographer which can also be applied to work for hire filmmakers. Should you work for free, and should you accept under paid jobs? One of the hardest lessons to learn, and not only learn but accept and incorporate into your way of doing things, is Read MoreRead More
Orson Welles on Film Editing
Only one of the greatest Directors waxing poetically about editing…Read More
How John Schwartzman and Michael Bay Started Out
In this clip from filmschoolcomments, cinematographer John Schwartzman discusses how his childhood friend Michael Bay got started from in film business.Read More
YouTube is Becoming Like Traditional TV – Is it Worth Paying For?
The wild west was conquered with barbed wire. Will the internet be conquered by pay walls? ONE of the most popular videos this month on YouTube, an online video site, is a commercial by a bottled-water firm, Evian. In it, adults walking by a shop window see their baby lookalikes reflected, and start dancing with Read MoreRead More
The First Music Video Shot in Space
A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.Read More
Did ‘Vertigo’ Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?
Saul Bass is a much celebrated graphic designer who was responsible for many of the title sequences during the 50s and 60s. For Vertigo, Bass wanted to create perfect mathematically defined spirals and he turned to a computerized gun controller, working with collaborator John Whitney to create what was one of the first computer aided Read MoreRead More
Defrag Your Brain With a Spark File
We all have those moments of lucid creativity – of having that perfect idea for a movie. Thing is a movie isn’t just one idea – it’s a collection of ideas and you’ll never know how one inspiration can find itself combining with another. So you may want to try creating a Spark File – Read MoreRead More