Archive for the 'film' Category

Curated collection of out-of-copyright feature films, including early Hitchcock, Preminger, Leone, Ford, etc.

Just-launched website for upcoming film Teenage, by Matt Wolf and based on input from and the book by Jon Savage of the same name. I did front-end development on top of a Wordpress back end and participated in the design with everyone involved.

"The ease with which he cracks wise is natural to his line of work, but Marlowe’s wit is unique in that it isn’t a defense mechanism. His cynicism is nothing new among ’70s private eyes, but the fact that it isn’t there to mask a hidden vulnerability proves atypical."

"This PSSC film utilizes a fascinating set consisting of a rotating table and furniture occupying surprisingly unpredictable spots within the viewing area. The fine cinematography by Abraham Morochnik, and funny narration by University of Toronto professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume is a wonderful example of the fun a creative team of filmmakers can have with a subject that other, less imaginative types might find pedestrian."

Walter Murch discusses the role of Beethoven, Flaubert (and, less so, Thomas Edison) in the invention of cinema.

Map detailing which parts of Hollywood-area California can act as stand-ins for which other geographical areas.

Cary Grant's 14 chapter autobiography serialized in Ladies Home Journal in 1963.

"The plane zooms in to attack Thornhill and the rest is movie history, part of the iconography of loneliness and the risk of death in America."

5 films by or about artworks by Robert Smithson.

I remember seeing part of this in Nesbit classes in school, but I guess there's more to it than just Patti Smith.

Doc on James Turrell and his Rodin Crater.

"Highly personal, poetic and affecting, Jarman's Super-8 works fall roughly into two, overlapping categories: documents of his immediate environment and imaginative experiments in film-making that sought to express emotion through image rather than acting."

More than a half hour of Bass discussing title design.