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I've got nothing (been watching the Dick Van Dyke Show), but it's time for a new thread.
sudo open the pod bay doors, HAL.
It Took 240,000 Pins to Make the Most Innovative Short Film of the Year
Michèle Lemieux's Here and the Great Elsewhere uses a one-of-a-kind analogue animation device to represent a cosmic journey.
In the most innovative short film of this past year, bulbous figures and strange creatures float and flit about a mutating visual landscape. Accompanied by blipping sounds of something bubbling into being, the abstract animation captures the fundamentally astounding universe.
The look of this rounded world in Michèle Lemieux's 14-minute Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le Grand Ailleurs et le Petit Ici) was rendered with thin metal pins, smaller than the tiniest sewing needle, that were part of the world's only working pinscreen. Invented in 1930s by Alexandre Alexeïeff, a pinscreen is a small metal frame (sort of like this toy) that holds thousands of movable pins in small tubes. Each pin is five millimeters longer than the tube that holds it, so it can stick out and cast a shadow. As the pins are moved horizontally to cast a shadow, the images change.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...e-year/266494/
sudo open the pod bay doors, HAL.
I'll just leave this here.
over the holidays...
the hobbit: an unexpected journey - 24 fps 3d. i feel pretty much the same way about this as i did with avatar: not that great, but totally worth seeing in the theater (and in 3d). i can't believe they're padding this thing out to 3 movies. it is totally unnecessary and indulgent in the worst, most cynical way.
the watch - here's a cute, half-baked premise, now throw some funny people at it and have them make with the funny. see also: 30 minutes or less.
magic mike - okay, after this and 21 jump street, i'm admitting that channing tatum might actually be a legitimate, thoroughly watchable actor.
the art of rap: something from nothing - some really beautiful helicopter shots of cityscapes periodically interrupted by ice-t clumsily trying to get rappers to say something moderately profound or at least printable about rap as craft.
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Watched The Pink Panther last night on TCM. Thoroughly enjoyable.
In the wardrobe of my soul, you're the section labeled shirts. - Canyons of your mind, Bonzo Dog Band.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.
I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure a less-is-more approach makes sense for this story (which is pretty plot-light, really) or this sort of film. I didn't have a problem with it.Originally Posted by jeffx
I missed a couple of opportunities to write about Magic Mike for Metro Pulse and really regret it. It's a far better film than its reception indicates, and I have the feeling that a lot of people who would have enjoyed it missed out because they prejudged it as some sort of pandering himbo movie. Here's hoping folks come around to it on video.
Over here:
Premium Rush (technically, I saw this in late December, but whatevs; a promising premise and killer leads—JGL! Michael Shannon!—utterly wasted on some cartoony cruddiness)
Reservoir Dogs (its staginess—a function of its low budget as much as Tarantino's limitations, no doubt—really stands out now, but it's still a tight little piece)
i don't think "less-is-more" is what's required, but i definitely think there's a fair amount of "excess-is-a-good-place-to-start" with this project, which i think will backfire when audiences are finally all like "enough-is-enough".
speaking of which, the 3d stuff is really cool and fun to watch, but 3 hours of it is seriously eye-fatiguing. around the 2 hr mark (y'know, right after they leave the shire), i found myself fighting the strong physiological need to close my eyes and keep them closed.
See "Lawless" about a liquor-running killer who just happened to be the father of my high school friend, Lee Anne. I remember him as the older parent who dropped his kids off in a Chevelle.
Toby is a species. -- Rikki
Tonight on Facebook I made a reference to This is Spinal Tap to a smart, well-read movie person who didn't get it. She'd never seen it because it was made BEFORE SHE WAS BORN.
Sigh.
If you are pissed at a dog for keeping you awake with its barking, it's not because you disagree with what it's saying. -- Rikki
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