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Trailer Park: Jimmy's End

First look at Alan Moore's neo-noir film, plus a pro-Occupy single The Decline Of English Murder.

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5th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Star Wars Episode VII

(as imagineered by Next Media)

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2nd Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

3D in 2D: Supercut

Daft compilation of all those bits in 3D films where they chuck stuff at the camera. 

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1st Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: The Invisible - Generational

New Invisible vid directed by Th13teen. Bonus Post War Years remix here

 "Taken from The Invisible's new single Generational which includes a 15 minute Theo Parrish Remix & Anna Calvi cover of The Wall. Released 22 October 2012 on Ninja Tune."

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1st Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Decay

What happens when you let physics students shoot a zombie film in the maintenance tunnels at CERN? Wired has more.

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1st Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4BN. Star Wars VII coming in 2015

I thought this was an April fool at first. 

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30th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Wally Pfister On Camera Placement

Interesting piece looking at cinematographer Wally (Dark Knight, Inception) Pfister's arguments about camera placement and the idea of "cheating space" in rival blockbusters like Avengers.

"What's really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn't support the story. I thought "The Avengers" was an appalling film. They'd shoot from some odd angle and I'd think, why is the camera there? Oh, I see, because they spent half a million on the set and they have to show it off. It took me completely out of the movie. I was driven bonkers by that illogical form of storytelling."

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30th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP Terry Callier

The soul, folk, jazz legend died in Chicago yesterday. Here's two great tracks that showcase his talent for setting a mood and taking it as far as it can go: I'm A Drifter from 1968's The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier and Lazarus Man from Timepiece, his 1998 comeback.

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29th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Good Day To Die Hard

This time, he's brought his son along, so yes, it is personal. Thanks for asking.

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26th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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The Fourth Dimension

Full-length new compendium movie up on YouTube- first up, Harmony Korine directs Val Kilmer. On a BMX... Looks like a Vice/Grolsch team up.

via Indiewire:

Synopsis: The Fourth Dimension: where fawns are the miscreants of nature, time travel only applies to ants, and velvet is evil. Channeling the spirit of Tristan Tzara in his manifesto to deliver magic and other things, Eddy Moretti—aka the General of this cinematic synecdoche, and in other dimensions known as one of the masterminds behind Vice magazine—deploys a troika of strange and talented-as-hell directors to carry out his orders to form a more perfect union of space and time. The journey begins with Harmony Korine's new age brainchild "The Lotus Community Workshop," starring Val Kilmer as "Val Kilmer." Alexey Fedorchenko comes next with "Chronoeye," the story of a Russian time traveler whose expectations for seeing the past stifle his ability to live in the present. Fittingly, we end with the quasi-apocalyptic and ominously allegorical "Fawns," directed by Polish newcomer Jan Kwiecinski. All three directors transcend convention by challenging themselves and audiences to find something new in cinema. Together, the triptych of pieces crash but don't clash in a fashion that would make both Einstein and Eisenstein beam. [Synopsis courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival.]

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26th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet