the-future-of-moving-pictures
The Accidental Art of a Dying Digital Camera
A friend, who you may remember from the "leading edge of early-'00s Game Boy camera cinema": http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/10/the-1-bit-camera-app-is-cool-but-here-s-a-whole-movie-made-with-the-game-boy-camera--2 , forwarded along this short video...
Watch This Trailer: "Compliance" Will Make You Lose Faith In Humanity
I almost don't know what to say about _Compliance_ or its expertly crafted and chilling trailer. This film disturbed me more than any horror movie I've seen in the past ten years. And it's not even a horror flick. (First line from the film's synopsis...
How to Fake a Nice Spacecraft Landing
"The three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft return capsule said they 'feel good' after the capsule landed on Friday morning," reported China's wire service, "Xinhua":http://english.cntv.cn/20120629/107569.shtml. Their capsule came barreling...
Before The Muppets, Jim Henson Made an Adorably Surreal Video For AT&T
To describe a robot future, the makers of The Bell System, at the time the leading telephone service in the US and Canada, hired Jim Henson. Then known as the eccentric behind the variety puppet show Sam and Friends, and before he became a household...
Watch This Trailer: 'The Master' Is Totally Not About Scientology
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of those directors that film nerds and other more reasonable people seem to universally respect as a brilliant auteur. It's fitting then that his sixth film be dubbed _The Master_. _The Master_ in question here though isn...
This Facebook Flipbook Is Like a Manual GIF, But Better
Last night, Corinthians Paulista, a soccer team from São Paulo that I _just happen_ to have a tattoo for, won the semifinal round of the Copa Libertadores, the South American club soccer championship. If none of that made any sense, I apologize...
Watch This Trailer: Dark Knight Rises Number Something
For those of you keeping score, this is the third proper "trailer" and the fifth preview, if you count the ten minute IMAX preview and the original teaser. This doesn't even include the various TV spots, viral videos, and the cast's preview...
Think Prometheus Was Nuts? One 'Alien' Script Featured Anti-Tech Monks Living in a Wooden Satellite
So, Prometheus is out, and everyone’s obsessed with Aliens again. Understandably so—despite the inconsistent quality of the films, Alien‘s intensely biological aesthetic is so unnervingly potent that if we didn’t have collective nightmares about that.
Like Lost, Prometheus Is Brilliant Only At Being Its Own Viral Marketing Campaign
The movie _Prometheus_, the thing itself, is as viral as its actual, "still-growing":http://crushable.com/entertainment/prometheus-10-11-12-viral-marketing-guy-pearce-185/ viral marketing campaign. I paid $11 last night not to watch a so-so _Alien...
The Black Walls, Train Sets, and Giant Skulls of H.R. Giger: Interview
HR Giger, regardless of how many museum or galleries he fills with volumes of his other work, will almost certainly go down in history as that strange Swiss guy behind the _Alien_ movie. During the '70s Giger produced a book called _Necronomicon...
Christopher Lee, the Original Dracula, Was Hunting Witches in the '60s
“Burn witch! Burn witch! BURN WITCH BURN!” That’s a very young Christopher Lee shouting his way through a horrifying witch-burning flashback in the opening to 1960’s Horror Hotel. Lee would go on to make a huge career for himself as the Dracula (as...
Some People Still Rent VHS Tapes
Venture out of the digitized confines of Manhattan and into the cyberpunky outer boroughs, and you might discover "what Kirk Semple":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html, a New York...