in solitude

Seven Writer's Rules for Surviving in Animation

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:16:33 +1100

Seven Writer's Rules for Surviving in Animation:

jeffreezytalks:

As I get into pre-production on a potentially longer (well pretty much anything would be longer than 15 seconds) piece, I’m trying to keep in mind the rules listed above. Constant action, a reason for it to be in animation and not live-action, make the gags funny and the drama dramatic.

35mmpaul: The Greatest Movie Never Made. “Ten books in one tell...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:51:34 +1100

35mmpaul:

The Greatest Movie Never Made.

“Ten books in one tell the fascinating tale of Kubrick’s unfilmed masterpiece

Tucked inside of a carved-out book, all the elements from Stanley Kubrick’s archives that readers need to imagine what his unmade film about the emperor might have been like, including a facsimile of the script. This collector’s edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies.

For 40 years, Kubrick fans and film buffs have wondered about the director’s mysterious unmade film on Napoleon Bonaparte. Slated for production immediately following the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick’s “Napoleon” was to be at once a character study and a sweeping epic, replete with grandiose battle scenes featuring thousands of extras. To write his original screenplay, Kubrick embarked on two years of intensive research; with the help of dozens of assistants and an Oxford Napoleon specialist, he amassed an unparalleled trove of research and preproduction material, including approximately 15,000 location scouting photographs and 17,000 slides of Napoleonic imagery. No stone was left unturned in Kubrick’s nearly-obsessive quest to uncover every piece of information history had to offer about Napoleon. But alas, Kubrick’s movie was not destined to be: the film studios, first M.G.M. and then United Artists, decided such an undertaking was too risky at a time when historical epics were out of fashion.

The text book features the complete original treatment, essays examining the screenplay in historical and dramatic contexts, an essay by Jean Tulard on Napoleon in cinema, and a transcript of interviews Kubrick conducted with Oxford professor Felix Markham. The culmination of years of research and preparation, this unique publication offers readers a chance to experience the creative process of one of cinema’s greatest talents as well as a fascinating exploration of the enigmatic figure that was Napoleon Bonaparte.

*Includes exclusive access to searchable/downloadable online research database: Kubrick’s complete picture file of nearly 17,000 Napoleonic images*”

Only $700 dollars. SVA please buy one. PLEASE. Or the New York Public Library. I guess I could go to the Library of congress instead.

35mmpaul: (via nrrdgrrrl)

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:45:47 +1100

35mmpaul:

(via nrrdgrrrl)

moviesinframes: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964 (dir. Jacques...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:36:49 +1100

moviesinframes:

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964 (dir. Jacques Demy)

bowfolk: cakefucker: diamondmilk: loveyourchaos: purplelensg:...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:34:45 +1100

bowfolk:

cakefucker:

diamondmilk:

loveyourchaos:

purplelensg:

bestillmysoul:

itsmarisse:

twistedanghel:

The Couple Separated for the Longest Time (60 years)

Sixty years ago, Boris and Anna Kozlov were married for only three days before he had to ship out with his Red Army unit. When he returned, Anna and her family were gone – exiled to Siberia by Stalin’s purges. Then one day, on a chance encounter, they found each other again!

“I thought my eyes were playing games on me,” Anna said. “I saw this familiar looking man approaching me, his eyes gazing at me. My heart jumped. I knew it was him. I was crying with joy.” 80 years-old Boris had returned to visit his parents’ grave. As he stepped out of the car, he looked up to see Anna standing by her old house, where they had lived for the few days after the wedding. “I ran up to her and said: ‘My darling, I’ve been waiting for you for so long. My wife, my life…’”

wkwlovers: Happy together via (nothingtome)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:05:20 +1100

wkwlovers:

Happy together

via (nothingtome)

saragra: wkwlovers: Days of being wild

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:03:38 +1100

saragra:

wkwlovers:

Days of being wild

wkwlovers: Happy together via (youmightfindyourself)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:02:36 +1100

wkwlovers:

Happy together

via (youmightfindyourself)

wkwlovers: In the mood for love (via ninetyfeetperminute)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:46:04 +1100

wkwlovers:

In the mood for love

(via ninetyfeetperminute)

"Wong Kar Wai’s words are simple and enigmatic, universal and yet for that person that moment alone."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:42:04 +1100

“Wong Kar Wai’s words are simple and enigmatic, universal and yet for that person that moment alone.”

- Christopher Doyle, Fallen Angels photobook (via wkwlovers)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:48:37 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

oldhollywood: Stills via 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir....

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:40:09 +1100

oldhollywood:

Stills via 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Interviewer: Why does 2001 seem so affirmative and religious a film?

Stanley Kubrick: The God concept is at the heart of this film. It’s unavoidable that it would be, once you believe that the universe is seething with advanced forms of intelligent life. Just think about it for a moment. There are a hundred billion stars in the galaxy and a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe. Each star is a sun, like our own, probably with planets around them. The evolution of life, it is widely believed, comes as an inevitable consequence of a certain amount of time on a planet in a stable orbit which is not too hot or too cold. First comes chemical evolution — chance rearrangements of basic matter, then biological evolution.

Think of the kind of life that may have evolved on those planets over the millennia, and think, too, what relatively giant technological strides man has made on earth in the six thousand years of his recorded civilization — a period that is less than a single grain of sand in the cosmic hourglass. At a time when man’s distant evolutionary ancestors were just crawling out of the primordial ooze, there must have been civilizations in the universe sending out their starships to explore the farthest reaches of the cosmos and conquering all the secrets of nature. Such cosmic intelligences, growing in knowledge over the aeons, would be as far removed from man as we are from the ants. They could be in instantaneous telepathic communication throughout the universe; they might have achieved total mastery over matter so that they can telekinetically transport themselves instantly across billions of light years of space; in their ultimate form they might shed the corporeal shell entirely and exist as a disembodied immortal consciousness throughout the universe.

Once you begin discussing such possibilities, you realize that the religious implications are inevitable, because all the essential attributes of such extraterrestrial intelligences are the attributes we give to God. What we’re really dealing with here is, in fact, a scientific definition of God. And if these beings of pure intelligence ever did intervene in the affairs of man, so far removed would their powers be from our own understanding. How would a sentient ant view the foot that crushes his anthill — as the action of another being on a higher evolutionary scale than itself? Or as the divinely terrible intercession of God?

-excerpted from The Film Director as Superstar by Joseph Gelmis

zooeydeschanel: juliaberry: benjyie: Zooey Deschanel by Ellen...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:38:34 +1100

zooeydeschanel:

juliaberry:

benjyie:

Zooey Deschanel by Ellen Von Unwerth

fuckyeahfrenchcinema: alaindelon: Look at this GQMF right...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:38:32 +1100

fuckyeahfrenchcinema:

alaindelon:

Look at this GQMF right here.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:18 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:16:22 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22):

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pierrotlefou: o

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:11:41 +1100

pierrotlefou:

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:49 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15):

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oldhollywood: Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood, & Eli Wallach...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:18:54 +1100

oldhollywood:

Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood, & Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)

“I am bringing back the action Western. The cowboy picture has got lost in psychology. There have been too many attempts to explain the motives of both the heroes and the bad men and to make them understandable and acceptable in modern terms. The West was made by violent, uncomplicated men and it is this strength and simplicity that I try to recapture in my pictures.”

-Sergio Leone

oldhollywood: Stills from Overlord (1975, dir. Stuart Cooper)...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:18:18 +1100

oldhollywood:

Stills from Overlord (1975, dir. Stuart Cooper) (via bfi.org.uk)