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Daily | Richard Attenborough, 1923 – 2014
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Actor, director and producer Richard Attenborough, who would have turned 91 on Friday, has died, reports the BBC. "After forging a career as an actor in films including Brighton Rock and The Great Escape," writes Chris Johnston for the Guardian, "he became an acclaimed film director, winning two Academy awards for Gandhi in 1982. The film went on to win eight in total." Variety's Carmel Dagan suggests that he "was best known to American audiences for his role in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and its first sequel as park creator John Hammond." » - David Hudson »
Box-Office: 'Guardians' Repeats At No#1 In 4th Week, ‘If I Stay’ Not Far Behind & ‘Sin City 2’ Bombs Hard
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Well, this doesn’t happen with blockbusters. The movies usually act as firecrackers, shining bright in their opening weekends and then eventually diminishing, either rapidly or gradually depending on their hold. Marvel’s big 2014 “risk,” “Guardians Of The Galaxy” has such a hold. It’s been number two at the box-office for two weeks, having to suffer the mild ignominy of having to play second fiddle to the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reboot, but it appears that the kids have gotten their fill of Michael Bay’s company’s redo. Dropping only 30% from last weekend, “Guardians Of The Galaxy” is back at the #1 spot this weekend after it’s fourth weekend of release and it’s also becoming the highest grossing film of the summer. Yep, ‘Guardians’ has outgrossed both "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and "Maleficent" to attain the summer box office crown. Sitting currently at around $251 million, it’s »
- Rodrigo Perez
Are Too Many People Calling Themselves Storytellers?
7 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Award-winning designer Stefan Sagmeister blasts the current co-option of the label “storyteller” in this provocative video. If you’re a novelist or filmmaker then, yes, Sagmeister says, you are a storyteller. But if you’re, for example, a roller coaster designer, then, he says, “No, fuckhead, you are not a storyteller!” Sagmeister’s absolutist stance has angered quite a few — check out the video’s comments thread. From my point of view, storytelling is as much a practice as job title. I think it’s possible to apply an understanding and embrace of narrative in multiple fields, not just writing and film. And if […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Can Makeup Become Electronic? Projection Mapping a Model’s Face
8 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
We know that electronic actors are on the horizon, but what about electronic makeup? Technical producer and director Nobumichi Asai has projection mapped on buildings, cars and other physical objects, but in this concept video he maps in real time onto the human face. Writes Chris Davies at Slashgear: It’s the incredible handiwork of a team led by Nobumichi Asai, which brings together digital designers, CGI experts, and make-up artists. Combined, they create what seems to be the electronic equivalent of makeup. Technical details are scant at this stage, unfortunately. Judging by the video, however, there’s an initial scanning stage […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Dispatch from the Planetarium
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Sentient
“Is this solving space?”
—Cymasonics Matrix Optimizer 2.0
I took the train out. It was a Friday night, and I was surrounded by commuter ennui. From North Melbourne station to Footscray station I thought to myself: halfway through a film festival, exhausted by competing deadlines, on my thirtieth coffee of the week—these are the ideal conditions in which to go to the Planetarium. I thought to myself: I’ll just recline in my seat and surrender to the roof.
I was heading out to experience the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Fulldome Showcase at the Melbourne Planetarium in Spotswood. Two films were featuring: Sentient, a production of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Cymasonics Matrix Optimizer 2.0, a commercial of sorts for Planetarium software. The former turned out to be a cringe-worthy exploration of pop psychology, the latter an uncomfortably transcendent experience.
It was the bridge I noticed first, »
- Anders Furze
Black, White: Otomo and Ferguson
10 hours ago | Keyframe | See recent Keyframe news »
Before Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, before Oscar Grant and Amadou Diallo, there was Frederic Otomo, an immigrant from Cameroon who was killed by police in the German city of Stuttgart twenty-five years ago this month. The year 1989 was a tense one for race relations: A Miami policeman’s fatal shooting of a black motorcyclist ignited three days of rioting; a white female runner was raped in New York by a black man, which lead to the wrongful arrest of “the Central Park Five;" and a sixteen-year-old boy named Yusef Hawkins was killed in Bensonhurst by gang of white youths. Against this backdrop of real-life horrors, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was released in theaters, further spreading a wave of racial paranoia. Like the recent spate of police killings of young black men, the case of Otomo, recounted and made visceral in a 1999 film starring actor Isaach de Bankole »
Daily | Straub-Huillet, Welles, Davies
11 hours ago | Keyframe | See recent Keyframe news »
A primer on and an interview with Jean-Marie Straub and the late Danièle Huillet, both from the early 80s, top today's round of news and views. Also: Three takes on Orson Welles, an excerpt from a new book on Terence Davies, a review of a new biography of John Gielgud, remembering Austrian filmmaker Florian Flicker, appreciations of two little-known 30s-era actresses, Glenda Farrell and Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Gilles Day at DC's, the trailer for Erol Minta's debut, Song of My Mother, the big winner at the Sarajevo Film Festival—and more. » - David Hudson »
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