Today YouTube Copyright Rights- Youtube Copyright Rights: an overview of the YouTube Terms of Service.
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- Today Up In The Air at Art of the Title Sequence
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Up In The Air at Art of the Title Sequence And a related story in today’s NY Times, New Honor for the Designs That Get Movies Moving, about SXSW’s film title competition.
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- Today Umeric for MTV (A&B)
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Umeric’s two new spots for MTV. View Spot A here, and Spot B, here.
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- Today Bobby !
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It gives me tremendous pleasure when we get to feature a studio that’s not located in the Motion Design Meccas of the world (NYC, LA, London). I know how frustrating it is when the pond is small. It means smaller budgets, more conservative brief, harder environment to push the creative envelope, in general.
So everybody, meet Bobby, a Swedish production company with an office in Stockholm and Gottenburg (or Goteborg). I’m not saying these things necessarily apply to Bobby, but it&... (more)
- Today Sebastian Lopez directs Vertical.
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Sebastian Lopez directs the trailer for Vertical.
Be sure to check out the making of here.
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- Today Panic Room
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To follow up their Press Play event last October, PostPanic will be hosting another night of inspiration at their Amsterdam HQ on March 18th. Presenters will include Neils Meulman (aka Shoe) & Adam Eeuwen, Fons Schiedon, and Motionographer’s own Matt Lambert.
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- Today Man vs Magnet 2010 Reel
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Man vs Magnet 2010 Reel
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- Today Yo! PostPanic Rocks
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PostPanic’s Mischa Rozema directed a chok full of cinematic idents for the relaunch of MTV Rocks (formely MTV2).
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- Oscar, Oscar, Oscar...
- Between the newly inflated Best Picture category, the battle-of-the-sexes banter, the joy from fanboydom, the shenanigans of an over-zealous producer, and the feigned ex-spousal rivalry drummed up by the media, the Interweb has been all ablaze with Oscar-related stories at a rate that far exceeds previous years, or so it seems. (I guess it's a distraction from discussing economic genocide.)
Few of the films I cared about in 2009 are represented among the nominees, and those that are stand l... (more)
- I, For Film
- Well, it's not quite the long-promised return to blogging (which, as Buddha is my witness, will happen in the near future) but I did want to mention that besides my occasional stint at Time Out New York, or getting beat-up over at Salon.com, the fine folks at across the pond at Eye For Film have asked me to contribute to their fine site, and my first review for them, The Ghost Writer (directed by some Polish guy) has just been posted.
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- Other Posters, Other Films 2000-2009
- Inspired by my good friend Adrian Curry, whose Movie Posters of the Decade post over at The Auteurs led critic (and Twitter fiend) Roger Ebert to issue forth a "bleh" (and then respond with his own choices), I thought I'd join in on the fun and put together a post on posters as well.
Yet rather than "best" or "favorite" I decided to focus on films and/or posters that aren't as well known here in the States -- things I saw at film festivals, or in a P... (more)
- Chaos Reigns! - The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2009 New York Film Festival
- After a two month unplanned hiatus, Like Anna Karina's Sweater is back, and with a new look to boot. It was never my intention to stay away for so long, but matters both personal and professional consumed nearly all of my waking hours. Running a small business in this economic climate, and specifically a DVD business -- well, let's just say that the money isn't pouring in. Still, there are some very exciting developments with Benten/Watchmaker that will be announced in the coming wee... (more)
- Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We Have a Winner!
- The extra-long all-opening-credits round of the Filmbrain Screen Capture Quiz is finally over!
Regular contestant Max G. was the lone voice in the wind this week as he (somehow!) recognized the blue curtain and moon behind it from the opening of Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart, a desert-island movie if ever there was one.
This is the film that drove Coppola into bankruptcy, and forced him to take on studio fare such as the truly awful Jack. But you know what? It was... (more)
- Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - Tiebreaker 1
- A quick correction to last week's post. There are in fact four people with perfect scores, not three as I had reported.
Here's the first of the tiebreaker quizzes. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!
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- Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We (Don't) Have a Winner!
- A day (or two) late and a dollar short. Wednesday came and went, as did Thursday. It was only late last night that I found the time to tally up the entries for the round. It appears there are three people who managed to get all sixteen correct, and as a result a tie-breaker round (or rounds) will be needed. I'll have to spend some time this weekend thinking and searching for additional interesting title sequences. Check back on Wednesday for the first tie-breaker.[Update: Forgot to inclu... (more)
- Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19, Week 16
- A variation of the 20th Century Fox logo on a Los Angeles billboard appears at the beginning of Mel Brooks' triumphant experiment, Silent Movie, from 1976. There were some pretty far-out guesses (Aliens?) but most managed to work it out.I wrote a primer of sorts this week on the films of Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Suicide Club) over at Greencine Daily. It was meant to be peppered with quotes, but my allotted interview time with him was cut severely short. Very frustrating. I also participated... (more)
- Yesterday SFIAAFF '10: The Housemaid
- by Adam Hartzell
Before the Korean New Wave (represented by such international film festival faves as Lee Chang-dong, Hong Sang-soo and Kim Ki-duk) and long before homegrown productions like Shiri, Oldboy, and The Host began dominating the Seoul box office, there was a "Golden Age" of South Korean cinema, and the landmark that started that cine-luminous era was the late Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid (1960, a/k/a Hanyo). Bay Area audiences will finally have a chance to view this classic in ... (more)
- Oscars Live Chat 2010
- GreenCine's Oscar Live Blog
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- Shorts? Sweet!
- by Amy Monaghan
[A reminder to Academy Awards watchers worldwide: please join GreenCine and a quick-witted panel of critics and bloggers for our Oscars Live Chat on Sunday night, beginning at 7:30pm EST.]
An astonishing number of cartoons are nominated for Academy Awards this yearâUp, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Avatar, Meryl Streep's mawkish turn as Julia Childâbut only five are in contention for Best Animated Short Film.
Oscar's recognition of animated shorts da... (more)
- CONTEST: Win a STINGRAY SAM DVD and Soundtrack
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"Stingray Sam is not a hero..." but musician-filmmaker Cory McAbee's drolly inventive sci-fi/western/musical has made a heroic self-distributed leap to DVD. [Official site here.] From my original review last year:
Rocketing through another monochrome corner of the gently surreal, weird-humored universe shared by his lovely, Lynchian 2001 intergalactic musical The American Astronaut (any film with characters named "The Blueberry Pirate" and "The Boy Who Actually Saw a Female Breast" m... (more)
- DVD OF THE WEEK: The September Issue
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The September Issue
Directed by R.J. Cutler
2009, 90 minutes, USA
Cutler's luxuriant pop doc takes a fly-on-the-wall peek at how one of the titular editions of Vogue magazine (colloquially known in the fashion industry as "The Bible") is produced, and 2007's Sienna Miller-covered 840-pager was clearly a dishy ish to document. Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the Prada-clad devil herself, inexplicably allowed Cutler intimate access to her daily wheeling, dealing and notorious ice-queeny disap... (more)
- Return to Oz: A History of Australian Cinema (1969-1989)
- by Roderick Heath
Part Two: 1969-19891. Engines of Change
Continued from Part One
Few explanations for the almost unprecedented resuscitation of Australian cinema between 1969 and 1975 are immediately satisfying. Perhaps the most important changes were the most difficult to quantify, but it is easy to see that 1968 was one of the most important years in contemporary Australian history. A popular referendum gave equal citizenship to indigenous Australians after decades of excision from the c... (more)
- DVD OF THE WEEK & PODCAST: Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
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Just released on DVD and Blu-ray this week, courtesy of the Criterion Collection, is Götz Spielmann's riveting neo-noir Revanche, which was Oscar-nominated last year for Best Foreign Language Film:
A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes Krisch) works in a brothel, where he ... (more)
- Return to Oz: A History of Australian Cinema (1896-1968)
- By Roderick Heath
[editor's note: Heath's unbelievably comprehensive primer on Aussie cinema will be posted in its entirety on the GreenCine main site, but here at the Daily, we'll be excerpting a little from each of its three parts.]
Part One: 1896-1968
1. Pioneer Spirit
Filmmaking technology first came to Australia in the hands of Maurice Sestier, one of the Lumiere Brothers' [Wikipedia] many globetrotting cameramen, who arrived in Sydney in 1896, not a month af... (more)
- Today A Clockwork Orange
- Kubrick – There’s a sense that Kubrick lost control of his material because of his loss of the necessary critical distance. This is literally embodied in the many production stills you can find of Kubrick with his handheld camera sticking close to the rape and mayhem, appearing as one more droog in Alex’s gang. After establishing the narrative perspective as that of Alex, Kubrick’s treatment of his victims is the next inevitable step, whether he turns them into ... (more)
- Today White Dog
- Sam Fuller was frenetic. He was wiry and tough and ready to pounce on you with jittery enthusiasm. And in case you don’t know it, Martin Scorsese will tell you: If you don’t like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don’t like cinema. Or at least you don’t understand it. Sam would hold a cigar in his teeth, then quickly swipe it out to start fast-talking, ready to thrust a lens on one of his protagonists’ faces at any moment, anxious to sweep himself and his viewe... (more)
- Yesterday 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Kubrick – The film’s bizarre structure, which has undoubtedly contributed to its reputation as an indecipherable cinematic puzzle, is a cycle in which seemingly irrelevant moments, images, shapes, and statements reappear, albeit slightly evolved, to create a sense of cinematic déjà vu. The bone used in the film’s first section to commit violence becomes a nuclear satellite circling Earth—one piece of technology becoming another, one weapon becoming... (more)
- 3 days Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Kubrick – The bomber crew led by Slim Pickens’ Major Kong is constantly going through checklists and communicating via technical jargon, making sure they hit all the correct steps in bringing about an orderly end to the world. Like the cavernous War Room set that dwarfs the people in it, the picture that emerges is of a vast, endless bureaucracy coupled with a monstrous, deific technology that humans were smart enough to invent but powerless to control.... (more)
- Lolita
- Kubrick – Lolita is famously considered unfilmable—but not for the scandalous reasons the tagline suggests. This is because the book is so dependent on language; almost all of the weight of the novel falls in the gap between Humbert’s written observations and the horrifying truth that seeps through his words. But if anybody could film Lolita, or could at least make the best effort, it would be Stanley Kubrick.... (more)
- Spartacus
- Kubrick – Despite the assured auteur status he gained in the sixties, Kubrick didn’t really share the scrappy protestant spirit of the Italian neorealists, the French New Wave, or their later American inheritors, all of whom rejected the historical epic out of hand as obsolete or irrelevant. Kubrick wanted not to abandon but to renovate the epic, to hold on to the grandeur and sweep of the big studio picture without retaining its outworn conventions. Spartacus, then, is whe... (more)
- Paths of Glory
- Kubrick – There are nascent proclivities here, but none is more pervasive, or upsetting, than the thematic strand connecting Paths of Glory to Dr. Strangelove—futility in the face of cold-blooded savagery. Looking at the iniquities of war, with its bloodsoaked barracks and Kafkaesque bureaucracies, there seem to be only two reasonable responses: one can either scream in horror or laugh in disbelief.... (more)
- The Killing
- Kubrick – Where later Kubrick films are notable for their exploration of enormous, often mysterious edifices (militaries, monoliths, haunted hotels, secret societies), The Killing focuses relentlessly on the little stuff, the nooks and crannies, rather than the grand achievement itself. It’s a movie about the pleasures and frustrations of planning and execution (in both senses of the word).... (more)
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