Topic: HOLLYWALD - on January 9, 2017 at 9:48:00 AM CET
Lucas museum board deciding soon whether to pursue Treasure Island
The Bay Area could soon learn whether billionaire filmmaker George Lucas will try — again — to build a high-profile museum on a prime spot on San Francisco Bay. The board of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is likely to meet by the end of this week to vote on whether to pursue development plans on Treasure Island, across from the Ferry Building in San Francisco, or in Los Angeles at Exposition Park near the University of Southern California. San Francisco’s bid for the museum includes an expectation that Lucas would pay roughly $26 million for the 4-acre site, an amount that city officials say is above market value. Los Angeles proposes to lease its 7-acre site to Lucas for a nominal $20 a year.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on December 22, 2016 at 5:08:00 PM CET
The Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Board Game, Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s Rollicking Novel
There was a time, fair children of the late 20th century, when every movie and television show had itself a board game. Most were bad. But we bought them, and then tried our best to make it work. You can see a collection here. Few ever recreated the spirit of the original work, but instead coasted by on a cynic’s heart hoping to harvest your pop culture memories.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 13, 2016 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
Everything you need to know about Werner Herzog
As the cult filmmaker’s latest deep-dive documentary hits theatres, we look back on a lifetime spent embracing madness, exploring the human soul and extolling the virtues of the natural world with his signature Teutonic sobriety
Considering everything 73-year-old Werner Herzog has put himself (and others) through over the last five decades, calling this eccentric storyteller a soldier of cinema feels about right. Among the most unhinged expressions of his creative genius: hauling a steamship over a mountain in the middle of the Peruvian jungle, hypnotizing an entire cast of actors, eating a shoe publicly for his filmmaker friend Errol Morris and exposing his crew to an impending volcanic eruption. But for Herzog, who’s literally been shot at during a BBC interview and who ignored The Simpsons when asked to voice a character during the show’s 22nd season, that’s really just scratching the surface. Once called the “most important director alive” by Nouvelle Vague great François Truffaut, the prolific Bavarian has made it his life’s mission to stare danger in the face and look deep into the abyss of mankind – courageously, merrily, always obsessively. Remind him he’s the only filmmaker to have shot on all seven continents and he’ll cringe at the prospect of being immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records. As the intense, unruly and ridiculously funny German cineaste releases Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, a timely inquiry into our digital dependency, we look back on some of the cult artist’s most delirious, dramatic and downright dazzling career highlights.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 9, 2016 at 5:42:00 PM CEST
Why Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s secret masterpiece
Misunderstood and underappreciated, the 1975 film has emerged as one of the icon’s most seminal creations
In 1975 Barry Lyndon was underappreciated and misunderstood, at least in Britain and the US. Some critics described Kubrick’s adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which charted the life of Redmond Barry, a young Irish chancer climbing society’s ladder searching for wealth and titles, as detached and cold, even boring. Pauline Kael called it “glacial”, a “coffee-table movie”. In Europe, however, the response was different and both critics and audiences recognised Barry Lyndon as a film of extraordinary beauty. To describe Stanley Kubrick as a director for whom preparation and research were important would be to deliver the biggest understatement in cinema. It was Kubrick’s fastidious, almost obsessive attention to detail that made Barry Lyndon more than just another costume piece and more an actual documentation of the 18th Century.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 9, 2016 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
Stanley Kubrick’s Film Career on Display in San Francisco
Stanley Kubrick had exacting standards as a film director—and it shows in his output on the silver screen. Whether you’re watching Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, or A Clockwork Orange, it’s as much about the camera angles and set designs as it is about the expressions on actors’ faces and the way they deliver their lines. Each film is like a giant jigsaw puzzle—each piece neatly fitting into place, each used to build the finished product. Many of these pieces (and more) make up Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, a traveling museum exhibit that has landed at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The exhibit covers the length of Kubrick’s career, from his beginnings as a magazine photographer in the 1940s to his early directing days in the ’50s and ’60s, all the way up to his swan song, Eyes Wide Shut. To schedule a visit to the museum, click here. The exhibit runs until Oct. 30, 2016. Take a look at some behind-the-scenes photographs of Kubrick on the set of his various films—as well as some shots of the exhibit itself.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 4, 2016 at 5:44:00 PM CEST
Video explains Kubrick's use of innovative camera tech when shooting Barry Lyndon
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was known to be obsessed with cameras and pushing the limits of cinematic technology, with much of his technical awareness stemming from his days as a stills photographer. A new video essay by the British Film Institute now explains his use of different lenses to create the movie Barry Lyndon, which won an Oscar for its cinematography.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 25, 2016 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
The Mill BLACKBIRD
The Mill BLACKBIRD is a new fully adjustable car rig for creating CG cars for the advertising industry. The goal of the BLACKBIRD is to eliminate the need for specific physical cars on commercial sets, allowing creatives to shoot a real car and skin it later in the editing process. The BLACKBIRD can adjust its length by up to four feet and width by ten inches. The wheels can be replaced with whatever tire fits the actual car, and its electric engine can be programmed to behave like the engine in the actual car’s engine. The Mill has created The Mill BLACKBIRD, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars – it’s a car rig that can be shot at any time, in any location, without the need to rely on a physical car. Created in collaboration with JemFX, Performance Filmworks and Keslow, Mill Blackbird inspires and expands creative opportunities, offering a truly flexible production tool without sacrificing any quality or direction.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 11, 2016 at 9:02:00 PM CEST
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ rendered in the style of Picasso using deep neural network based style transfer. The cubist style had mixed results in the transfer; you can see that big empty blocks of colour didn’t map coherently between the frames. I’m working on a solution for that :]
Blade Runner in the style of ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh
Here’s a few short clips from the 1982 scifi classic Blade Runner rendered in the style of Starry Night by Van Gogh (1853-90). I’m in love with the world that Syd Mead and Doug Trumbull created for the movie, and I think it’s strange but satisfying seeing some of the special effects rendered using brush-strokes.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 20, 2014 at 3:32:00 PM CEST
136 Years of Special Effects Evolution in a Three-Minute Video
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 25, 2014 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Monty Python's reunion to hit big screens in live simulcast
It will be the last time to see them together before they pass on, before they cease to be. Before they kick their buckets, shuffle off their mortal coils, run down their curtains and join their bleeding choirs invisible (metaphorically that is, not literally).
They will be ex-Pythons, but for fans there is good news. Monty Python's last live reunion show is to be broadcast simultaneously to 450 cinemas in the UK and a further 1,500 across the world, it was announced on Thursday.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on January 23, 2014 at 3:14:00 PM CET
Behind-the-scenes of ‘A Clockwork Orange’: Stanley Kubrick and his Droogie buddies
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on November 19, 2013 at 4:27:00 PM CET
Blade Runner in 12,000 animated watercolor paintings
I spent the last ten weeks watching Sylvester Stallone movies, so I know from crazy, quixotic passion projects. But even I am staggered by this thing: a 35-minute “paraphrasing” of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner from 12,597 animated watercolor paintings. It’s beautiful and insane—who would do this? A really big Blade Runner fan, I guess.
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