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July 12, 2011
July 11, 2011
Tribute to Steven Spielberg
"As part of the DGA’s 75th Anniversary, DGA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and three-time DGA Award winner, Steven Spielberg, was celebrated on June 11, 2011. Featuring a lively and engaging panel discussion with fellow visionary directors J.J. Abrams (Super8) and James Cameron (Avatar), and moderated by 75th Anniversary Committee Chair Michael Apted, this “Game-Changer” event drew a maximum capacity crowd at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles and provided a deeply intimate, highly engaging reflection on one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers of all time."
Watch the entire panel here, very inspirational.
Found at onanimation
The Cinematography of “Fight Club”
Like Fincher's previous work, Fight Club is unrelentlessly bleak. Full of provocative ideas and brutal violence, his film is a portrait of the downfall of modern civilization. The dehumanizing aspects of society are shown as an emasculating force, against which a group of men rebel by giving in to their primary urges of chaos and destruction. Sensitive viewers may take offense at the film's destructive, fascistic and misogynistic themes, but that's only if they can last through the film's intensely ugly depiction of violence. Those who can stomach the violence and the film's unusual message are in for a treat, however. Fight Club is visually inventive, and a tremendous treat to watch
Fincher and Cronenweth like symmetry/balanced compositions, strong leading lines, level frames, zero keystone effects. They favors [dolly] track, and avoid cranes as much as possible, and there's very few handheld shots in their films.
Arguably all that was distinctive and influential in ’90s cinema can be located in Fincher’s sleek, meticulous visual design. Still today, it remains just as dark, funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever. Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club the perfect movie, I love this film in every way.
Here, the cinematographer talks about "The Social Network", shooting digital, and working with David Fincher:
Man, I love how "The Social Network" looks, feels and flows. There is this gloomy and intimate sense to the dorm room scenes, there is an incredible flow and pulse to the narration, in some instances reminiscient of "Fight Club", and once again, with all cinematic disciplines working hand in hand, this movie is an example of near-perfect filmmaking.
Watch some behind-the-scenes clips here, here, here, and here.
"Fight Club" Cinematographer: Jeff Cronenweth
July 09, 2011
Juan of the Dead
Written and directed by Alejandro Bruges, Juan of the Dead takes place 50 years after the Cuban Revolution, where the island is overrun by zombies the government swears were sent by the United States. It’s then up to one man to attempt to solve the problem. Part Shaun of the Dead (obviously) but with a grittier look more akin to something culty and cool like Six-String Samurai, you’ve gotta see this bad-ass trailer for Juan of the Dead.
July 08, 2011
Saturn Storm Panoramas
Click here to see the super hi-res version.
These tantalizing panoramas follow a remarkable giant storm encircling the northern hemisphere of ringed planet Saturn. Still active, the roiling storm clouds were captured in near-infrared images recorded by the Cassini spacecraft on February 26 and stitched into the high resolution, false-color mosaics. Seen late last year as a prominent bright spot by amateur astronomers when Saturn rose in predawn skies, the powerful storm has grown to enormous proportions.
Its north-south extent is nearly 15,000 kilometers and it now stretches completely around the gas giant's northern hemisphere some 300,000 kilometers. Taken about one Saturn day (11 hours) apart, the panoramas show the head of the storm at the left and cover about 150 degrees in longitude. Also a source of radio noise from lightning, the intense storm may be related to seasonal changes as Saturn experiences northern hemisphere spring.
Southern Ocean Sky
Clouds and sky both show illuminating changes during this time lapse video from the south of Australia. In the foreground are scenes visible over a rocky coastline toward the Southern Ocean. Dark clouds flow across the sky, sometimes from different directions, sometimes blocking background starlight, but other times causing stars to appear to flare as they move in front. In the first sequence, looking toward the southwest, a nearly vertical band of zodiacal light is seen at sunset just before the band of the Milky Way Galaxy appears to settle into the sea.
Soon the unusual dark patch of the Coal Sack Nebula can be seen on the Milky Way band, near the famous Southern Cross. Later, looking toward the southeast at about 2:10 in the video, Orion can be seen rising appearing nearly perpendicular to how it rises in northern skies. The composite video, winner of an award STARMUS astrophotography competition, took over a year to compile in 2009 and 2010 from over 30 hours of exposure. Mini-mystery: what are those lights moving along the horizon?
Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro); Music: Redmann
July 07, 2011
Journey
Ten minutes of gameplay from Journey by ThatGameCompany. You can watch gameplay without commentary at Kotaku.
July 06, 2011
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