Hitchcock by Erika Iris Simmons
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”
words by Jim Jarmusch, design by Mark Malazarte
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This is my life as art.
I spent several hours doing inventory in a film archive today.
AVATAR review (short version):
It was actually very enjoyable & kind of awesome.
TL;DR version to come later.
Team Edward
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Another Reason [Not] to Get Excited for Battleship
The big bad in Battleship won’t be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous looking pegs. Instead, it’s aliens.
What we’re getting is a film adaptation of a Hasbro board game, and just like this year’s G.I. Joe, we can probably expect it to be big, dumb, and stupid. Except this time around there won’t be a veil of nostalgia surrounding the “characters” (unless someone is really fond of their Destroyer) to make the suck apparent.
(via /film)
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I had no idea there was a Battleship movie in the works until now… but I immediately decline.
Taking no chances, Fox is backing up Mr. Cameron’s movie with what an executive recently called the studio’s “secret weapon.” That would be “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel,” set to open just a week after studio marketers get “Avatar” into theaters. It is the relatively safe sequel to a chipper family comedy that cost about $60 million and took in $217 million at the domestic box-office when it was released two years ago.
A Budget That Pops From the Screen
The Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel is Fox’s “secret weapon” to drive Avatar audience?
Really?
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Shoudn’t the “secret weapon” be that “Avatar” is GOOD? News Flash: If something is GOOD, word gets around and people pay to go see it.
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I think the point of the paragraph is that if Avatar fails financially, Fox planned for that with Alvin opening up behind it. The first Alvin was a surprise hit both theatrically as well as a platinum soundtrack, etc.
This is how studios work, they bankroll risky, huge budget films by having smaller cheaper films that make profits.
SEAMLESS.
So we’re projecting Empire of the Sun for a class… and apparently we accidentally got sent the Spanish language print - English dialogue with Spanish subtitles. Well, I wouldn’t want to be distracted with the Spanish and I had no idea what would happen when Japanese or Mandarin was spoken - so…
Got the DVD, synced that fucker to perfection and seamlessly switched from film to digital projection! Since out Christie is pretty damn good, and image size was luckily already set up perfectly, I have a feeling only a few students even really noticed.
GO US GO!
