July 2009
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film commentary
terrycraig:
Shaun of the Dead was the first film I listened to the commentary track to :D aww
Aw! My first commentary was Rushmore. It made me really appreciate Owen Wilson as a writer. He’s a fun actor and all, but when he’s teamed up with Wes Anderson, it’s magic.
Film friends, what was your first film commentary? What’s your favorite?
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Follow the memory
[We've wrapped, and I'm coiling cable.]
ME: ...and that's when I decided to study film for good. I had no passion greater than this.
CONNOR: Follow the memory.
ME: Yeah...exactly! I need to keep chasing this, always feeling like I did at the moment when I knew I loved this...Follow the memory. That's really profound.
CONNOR: Uh...I was talking about the cable you're wrapping. Follow the memory of the cable, the way it naturally coils.
ME: Oh. I'm doing that.
CONNOR: Good...I meant it in the other way too, the profound way. Double entendre type deal.
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Golden Brown by The Stranglers. From Guy...
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one of our...props...
Greg (7 yrs. old): What's that? Is that a bazooka?
Me: Yeah...Uh, it's a rocket launcher.
Greg: Is it real?
Me: No, buddy. It's fake. Like a movie prop.
[Noel walks by.]
Noel: No, it's not. It's very real. Eric probably killed someone with it in Iraq.
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20th Century Prop Auction →
“20th Century Props will have a webcast auction starting July 28 and ending August 1. The company, which is going out of business, will auction off furniture used on the Golden Girls set, a Golden Girls portrait, a black bar booth that could have been in the Bada Bing club, aliens that may have been in Lost or Area 51 or X-files, or a medical isolation chamber to keep nasty killer viruses in...
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Some (Semi-)Friendly Advice For Working On Film...
atencio:
I’ve written and re-written this opening sentence several times now, because I’m aware of how what I’m about to say might be interpreted, and I am trying my best not to be misunderstood (i.e. come off sounding like huge asshole). So I’ll put it about as gently as I can right now, and say it with as much care and understanding as I can muster: If you have any desire to work in the film...
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“Sometimes the best light on set is the one you turn off.”
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henkal:
I caaaaaan’t go and see ratatouille because I haven’t seen rataonee!
- 4 year old girl
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Fuckin' amateurs
What kind of intern comes to work with fucking walking pneumonia or whatever it is that you have? I know you want to show the company you’re dedicated, but let’s get everyone in the office sick while you’re at it. Your phlegmy cough can be heard down the hallway.
You fell asleep in the building’s lobby (for over an hour) where people actually meet to discuss projects. The...
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“I HAVE NO DESIRE TO GO TO ENGLAND!”
– editor, after watching Paul McGuigan’s The Acid House.
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“Apparently, [redacted] is no longer one of our directors. She back-stabbed [our...”
– the editor at my internship. Now that’s what I call “fucking done professionally”.
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byronic:
stayforthecredits:
[Inster lovely B&W photo of Ralph Fiennes here]…BLAH BLAH BLAH… Ralph Fiennes’s voice.
Ralph= instant reblog (even at 6am the day before my wedding day)
Wow, congratulations!! Everyone, check out byronic’s loverly Saul Bass inspired wedding invitations on her awesome tumblr!
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“Quentin does this on his sets and I started doing it on ‘Hostel’....”
– Eli Roth.
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“To me, the perfect film is as though it were unwinding behind your eyes, and...”
– Walter Murch, In a Blink of an Eye (via brieflynoted)
Damn, that’s well said. (via joshruben)
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“I’m sorry there’s not much work for you to do. Last year, we made...”
– L. to me, at internship.
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Tarsem Singh's The Fall | The Art of the Title... →
A Q&A with Stefan G. Bucher, the film’s logo designer and typographer.
“We went with Univers Light Condensed. It’s just about as simple as you can get, and even though it’s a modern font it soaks up Tarsem’s take on Deco and Art Nouveau. It feels much more period appropriate to my eye than actual fonts from that time, which would come off as cliché. The same goes for the title itself,...
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Amazing Film Analyses by Rob Ager →
terrycraig:
There’s Pulp Fiction, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and lots of great others.
[the best are probably about Stanley Kubrick’s films; but I recommend you to read all analyses of the films you like - it’s worth all the reading (many analyses are even in form of videos)!]
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Just so you know
Zodiac with commentary by Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Brad Fischer (producer), James Vanderbilt (screenwriter and producer), and James Ellroy (another screenwriter and had nothing to do with the film—kind of annoying in the track) is QUALITY.
Especially the bits with Downey and Gyllenhaal.
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