Category: film
Life with the boring parts cut out.
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“A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era”
Posted today for no particular reason.
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Forever
The first website my colleagues and I created was for “Batman Forever” (1995, d. Joel Schumacher), starring Val Kilmer. That website changed my life and career. I never saw “Top Gun,” but Val Kilmer made…
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Death of a father
Today Gerald Levin died. The world will remember him as the architect of the Time Warner AOL merger. But I think of him as a grieving father.
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Rams
We show our audience Gary Hustwit’s “Rams”—a documentary about product design icon Dieter Rams—during the lunch hour at An Event Apart. We’ve shown Gary’s film in every city of our tour this year, and every…
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Making of a Star Wars classic
On Set: Empire Strikes Back | Vanity Fair.
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Social Network Creep
If you’re intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep”—you’ll…
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The Grand Gift
The Grand Gift of Silence.
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The Big Web Show: Melissa Pierce
Photo: Steve Garfield / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This is a wonderful episode about filmmaking and using the internet to…
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Fantasy Interfaces
Mark Coleran designs, creates, and animates fantasy user interfaces for film. Hat tip: @Murtaugh.
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Little Z on BigThink
BigThink interviews Jeffrey Zeldman today.
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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Podcast news
The first video podcasts from SXSW.
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Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for
Dragging my cheap three-wheeled suitcase home from Penn Station after a Boston business trip late Tuesday night, I passed three businessmen standing in the middle of Park Avenue with their raincoats awry. White, pushing 40,…
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Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film
Hi-ho, the motherfuckin’ dairy-o, motherfucker! etc.
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No end in sight
The story of the American occupation of Iraq, NO END IN SIGHT shows how a military victory in 2003 descended into a seemingly endless nightmare of war.