Dive into the archives.
- Watching the (war over) Watchmen
It’s this time of the year when all blogs go mad on endless list of best of 2008 and worst coming in the 2009 and so on and so on. I was briefly thinking about compiling a list of films I’m most looking forward to in 2009, but really, google shows ‘about 420,000′ count on this sort of thing. So instead I’ll write about that one that has been making me dreamy for past few weeks… as for now, it might not be released at all. The most beautiful “Watchmen”…
- Digitalize: Energy Tripout
Here is the Digitalized interview with designer and filmmaker Emma Gordon, talking baout her film Human Powerstation, the research process, the making of and the particular bit called Energy Tripout. We also discuss internet distribution, whether people use facebook to advertise themselves and the fact that youtube audiences like the process of gutting a rabbit.
- My thoughts exactly…
Here’s a trailer for the new film from the director of Superbad.
I just graduated. Enough said.
- I’m not dead yet
It’s a family story revolving around the issue of inheritance - if Bergman ever made a documentary I imagine this would be it. As we find out the inheritance is really secondary in the whole saga, and more of a result of a conflict that a cause of it. And the conflict stems from the fact that childhood issues always come back to hunt us and that upbringing problems pass from generation to generation (if their unresolved they are bound to reflect on kids and then their kids and so on).
- Start with a character
So that’s your first starting place, you know, you look at your characters, you don’t even think about the story, you don’t even think about what you’re going to do with them. You sit and you work and you work on characters to the point of obsession. To the point of obsession where you could take an application form for a job at Pizza Hut and fill it on the behalf of your character.
