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- SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future | The Guardian theguardian.com
The AI Greta Garbo is a bizarre soignée figure, a Stepford robo-star, a Hallmark-greeting-card parody of the icy hauteur, distraite sensuality and deadpan comedy that Garbo projected in life. The AI Garbo is like the classiest ever presenter of a TV shopping channel, purring her way through a dull and humourless script that seeks to create a brand synergy between the frictionless ball-bearings manufactured by SKF and what the company imagines to be Garbo’s own all-important smoothness.
- Cultural Stasis Produces Fewer Cheesy Relics like Rocky IV culture.ghost.io
A major part of cultural stasis, then, may stem from most artists refusing to embrace contemporary aesthetic choices. In fact, I would argue that the Nineties ushered in a paradigm of rationalized, naturalistic aesthetics anchored in the meta-knowledge that artworks have a longer shelf life when they feel “real” and avoid mannerist/over-indulgent faddish aesthetics.
- Is the Latest Daredevil Shake-Up a Sign Marvel TV Will Be ‘Born Again’ — Again? | Rotten Tomatoes editorial.rottentomatoes.com
Edgar Wright and Dolby Cinema announced that a never-before-seen version of Universal Pictures' 2010 hit cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will be coming to theaters on April 30. The film has been reimagined in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos and will play exclusively at Dolby Cinema locations in the U.S. for one week only. "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was designed for the big screen and for the best sound systems," said Edgar Wright, the film's director, producer, and co-screenwriter. "To be able to see it with the best specs is obviously any filmmaker's dream. You want people to see it as good as it could possibly be. I suspect that if you're a fan of the movie, you're going to get such a kick out of seeing it like this."
Maybe one day this will be shown outside the U.S., too.
There is so much great #SpiderVerse behind the scenes content on Twitter if you start following some of the artists who created the film
- Alien | Typeset In The Future typesetinthefuture.com
<blockquote>My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now...</blockquote>
<blockquote>These kinds of films aren’t entertaining anymore; they’re offensive. Yet they sit side-by-side among countless clones, bullets in the chamber, cogs in wheels in the monstrous Movie Marketing machine — operating within the supercolossal Entertainment Industry — which only cares about money and formula and self-protection. No wonder the industry is dying. For our parts, as moviegoers, we are partly culpable for legitimizing these projects, in which innovation, risk, and surprise are next to nil, by continuing to buy their tickets.</blockquote>
I'll probably watch it anyway.
- BFI | About | Funding | The Film Fund bfi.org.uk
BFI's film fund - shorts 2012 - Call for a Managing Company
- Watch Free Movies Online | IndieMoviesOnline indiemoviesonline.com
- List of film awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
This is a list of groups, organizations and festivals that recognize achievements in cinema, usually by awarding various prizes
- Filmsubmission, Withoutabox withoutabox.com
A rather large list of film festivals requesting submissions.
- Withoutabox withoutabox.com
The world's largest independent film community
- Internet Video Archive internetvideoarchive.com
The entertainment industry's leading aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews, and music videos. With 500,000 unique video assets from over 1000 content providers, IVA has established a reputation as the archive of record for audio visual samples.
- Topless Robot - Bonus! Rob's Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s! toplessrobot.com
"Q: Are there honestly 46 new Transformers in the movie?" "A: I have no fucking clue."
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit objectifiedfilm.com
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis.
- The Corporation Film: Welcome thecorporation.com
To keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year
- BT Vision - What's on BT Vision - Download to PC btvision.bt.com
The video content includes a few adverts that play in-show similar to standard TV broadcasts. All of the available films are high quailty and in surround sound.
You can’t skip the ads or remove them without making the film unwatchable. But it does mean the file could go anywhere on the Net and still show adverts based on the user’s preferences when the registered to get the codec.
- A Swarm of Angels » Remixing cinema aswarmofangels.com
Remix cinema. You can be part of a groundbreaking new project to fund, make, and distribute a £1 million film using the Internet.
- Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed books.guardian.co.uk
A longlist of what are deemed the 50 best film adaptations of all time.
- GreenCine | Movie Primers greencine.com
A fun introductory overview of major film genres and movements, and to serve as handy guides in your rental selection process.
- Creative Archive Licence Group creativearchive.bbc.co.uk
- Bright Lights Film Journal | Japanese Cinema brightlightsfilm.com
- The Illuminated Lantern illuminatedlantern.com
In-depth analysis of Asian Cinema
Sound FX for a Star Wars Fan Film
- Sound Design of Star Wars filmsound.org
Sounddesigner Ben Burtt's responsibility on Star Wars was to create specifically unusual sounds - weapons, vehicles, character and key backgrounds.
- Hong Kong Legends: Buy martial arts dvds, action movies and classic dvds featuring jackie chan, bruce lee, jet li and other hongkong greats hongkonglegends.co.uk
Official Hong Kong Legends DVD site. Buy the best in Hong Kong action DVDs starring Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Sammo Hung and Chow Yun Fat.
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