prosthetic knowledge
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Korean Film Archive - YouTube Channel
Should be of interest to anyone in world cinema, a Youtube channel of Korean cinema featuring films made from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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Visualization: Movies of Wong Kar-Wai
Frame sheets of the directors films put together by Benjamin Wimmer:
With The Grandmasters finally having a release date (2012/12/18) I thought it would be nice to do a recap of Wong Kar-wai’s feature films. As IMHO his movies are primary made for being experienced rather than discussed/analysed, I thought I’d go for visual summaries:
Below, his movies compressed to single pictures (ever 60th frame was used) showing nicely the movies’ pace as well their overall colour schemes. Enjoy.Above are:
- Chungking Express
- As Tears Go By
- Days Of Being Wild
- In The Mood For Love
There are more of these frame sheets, which can be found here.
UPDATE: Benjamin has upload a ZIP file containing hires versions of the collection, available here
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Neil’s 1000th Alamo Screening: OLDBOY
This would be a great idea for cinemas and loyal customers - a guy has regularly seen films at the Alamo Drafthouse cinema, and got to see one of his favourites for his 1000th screening:
We here at the Drafthouse are very lucky to have passionate and extremely devoted customers. Last week though we discovered a patron who might just redefine “Alamo regular.” Neil Wilson is about to hit his 1000th(!) Drafthouse show. According to Neil’s count, he saw 453 shows in 2010, 445 in 2011, and already 80 and counting in 2012. With this momentous 1000th show fast approaching, Neil asked us to program some of his favorite films that he’s been dying to see on our screens. On the very top of that list was the South Korean vengeance masterpiece OLDBOY. We whole-heartedly supported this choice. And so, we’re proudly presenting a very special screening of OLDBOY on glorious 35mm for Neil’s 1000th Alamo show!
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Golan Levin Q&A - Recorded with Kinect
Programming artist Golan Levin created a video Q&A with Reddit on the subject of future technology related to experimental cinema. Interestingly, the whole response was captured with Micosoft Kinect technology, giving a Minority Report-like hologram feel, moving the data around to give alternative angles.
Here is the video, embedded below:
More background information can be found at Creative Applications
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Bronson Caves by Brice Bischoff
Experimental long-exposure photography in natural cinematic location:
Notes: A performance executed after sunset. Since early cinema, the Bronson Caves have been used as a film location, mainly appearing in science fiction and western movies.
Complete collection can be seen here
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Mubi Mix #2: “Sleep Little Lush”
A cinematic soundtrack mix from film social-network site Mubi. A strong presence of music by John Barry who died earlier this year:
This follow-up to the previous soundtrack mix, Hyper Sleep, is very much the same animal: a chance gathering of mesmerizing music tracks, carefully arranged to focus on the interstitial character of film music—its ability to distill into hallucinatory moments, the most sensual or emotional qualities of a film’s nature, and amplify these sensations to increase their temporal impact. With this idea of music as intoxicant in mind, the passing this year of John Barry was a loss of one of the great “perfumers” of film composing (for more on music as perfume, see Daniel Kasman’s “Herrmann’s Perfume”). The beautiful themes that Barry scored for the world of 007 that open this collection set the spell for a kaleidoscopic (largely) 60s and 70s sample of some of the best film music written by Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philippe Sarde and others, of impossible fantasies, lush atmospheres, epic operas, sophisticated seductions, and even a shampoo commercial: the kind of scoring John Barry once described as “million dollar Mickey Mouse music.”
1. John Barry, Goldfinger, “Into Miami” (0:00)
2. John Barry, Thunderball, “Underwater Ballet” (edit) (0:53)
3. John Barry, Thunderball, “Street Chase” (edit) (1:43)
4. John Barry, You Only Live Twice, “James Bond in Japan” (edit) (2:45)
5. John Barry, You Only Live Twice, “Spectre and Village” (edit) (3:45)
6. John Barry, You Only Live Twice, “James Bond- Ninja” (edit) (4:24)
7. John Barry, Diamonds Are Forever, “Plenty, then Tiffany” (edit) (5:01)
8. John Barry, The Specialist, “You Bastard” (edit) (6:02)
9. John Barry, BOOM!, “The Shock Of Each Moment Of Still Being Alive” (edit)(6:44)
10. John Barry, Cotton Club, “The Depression Hits” (edit) (7:27)
11. Steven Sondheim, Stavisky, “Main Title” (Générique) (8:33)
12. Francois De Roubaix, Tante Zita, “Le Monde Est Fou” (10:41)
13. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Snake Eyes, Tyler and Serena (edit) (13:01)
14. Quincy Jones, The Deadly Affair, Main Theme (15:03)
15. Philippe Sarde, Le Train, “La Nuit” (17:14)
16. Gato Barbieri, Last Tango In Paris, “It`s Over” (19:00)
17. Alex North, Sanctuary, “Sleep Little Lush” (22:12)
18. Henry Mancini, Two For The Road, “Congarocka” (23:24)
19. Jurgen Knieper, River’s Edge, Sleepytime Montage (26:33)
20. Jerry Goldsmith, Outland, “The Bug” (27:28)
21. Jerry Goldsmith, Planet Of The Apes, “The Searchers” (edit) (28:26)
22. Ennio Morricone, Once Upon A Time In The West, “The First Tavern ”(29:15)
23. Ennio Morricone, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, “Leave Me Alone” (edit) (30:50)
24. Philippe Sarde, Cesar Et Rosalie, “Apres Sete” (edit) (31:33)
25. Stanley Myers, Insignificance, “Forever (What The Hell)” (32:58)
26. Ennio Morricone, Giù La Testa /Duck, You Sucker!, “Mesa Verde” (35:20)
27. Vic Mizzy, The Night Walker, “Car Radio” (37:00)
28. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Femme Fatale, “Blouse Off Shoulder” (37:34)
29. Ennio Morricone, Once Upon A Time In The West, “Morton” (40:32)
30. Jerry Goldsmith, In Like Flint, “Ladies Will Kindly Remove Their Hats”(42:06)
31. Eric Peters, The Prisoner (television), “Speedlearn Broadcast (Electro Mind)” (44:26)
32. John Barry, “The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair”, (commercial for televison) (45:06)
33. Quincy Jones, The Deadly Affair, “Ridiculous Scene” (47:58)
34. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, I Corpi Presentano Tracce Di Violenza Carnale / Torso, “Back to Life”/End titles (edit) (49:34)
35. Jerry Fielding, The Outfit, “Casino Heist” (edit) (50:36)
36. Fred Myrow, Soylent Green, “Furniture Party” (edit) (51:01)
37. John Barry, “The Persuaders Theme, (for television)” (53:01)
38. Toru Takemitsu, Clouds at Sunset, “M11” (55:07)
39. Bernard Herrmann, The Night Digger, “Scene Three” (edit) (55:34)
40. Bernard Herrmann, The Trouble With Harry, “Afterbeats” (edit) (57:16)
41. John Barry, Diamonds Are Forever, “007 & Counting” (57:48)Links to download the mix can be found at the Mubi blog here
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![Supernatural Cats in Korean Cinema via Seen in Seonju
Above - Movie Poster ‘The Cat’ 고양이: 죽음을 보는 두 개의 눈 (Cats - 2 Eyes See Death) [Full Size Image]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr0esdSIbf1qav3uso1_1280.jpg)
Supernatural Cats in Korean Cinema via Seen in Seonju
Above - Movie Poster ‘The Cat’ 고양이: 죽음을 보는 두 개의 눈 (Cats - 2 Eyes See Death) [Full Size Image]
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Notebook Soundtrack Mixes: “HYPER SLEEP”
A mix of music written from many well-known films. No music appears (to me) from anything made before the 70s, which isn’t a bad thing. Anything featuring John Barry, Serge Gainsbourg / Jean-Claude Vannier, and my personal favourite, Roy Budd (of ‘Get Carter’ fame) is worthy of my ear-time:
HYPER SLEEP (53.5 min.)
- Michel Legrand, The Go-Between, “Main Title (edit)” 0:00
- Dave Grusin, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., “The Girl from Uncle Theme” 0:47
- Robert Drasnin, Lost in Space, “Little Joe’s Yes” / “The Curse of Cousin Smith” 3:27
- Vladmir Cosma, La double vie de Théophraste Longuet, “Reincarnation (edit)” 4:52
- Antoine Duhamel, Belphegor, “Theme de Menardier” 5:21
- Serge Gainsbourg / Jean-Claude Vannier, Cannabis, “Premiere Blessure (edit)” 6:38
- John Barry, Deadfall, “The Meeting (edit)” 7:42
- Lalo Schifrin, THX1138, ”Loneliness Sequence” 8:43
- John Barry, The Ipcress File, ”Goodbye Harry II (edit)” 10:11
- John Barry, Thunderball, “Bond with Spectre Frogmen” 10:59
- John Barry, The Knack… and How to Get It, ”Doors & Bikes and Things (edit)” 12:35
- Akira Ifukube, Destroy All Monsters, ”The Kilaak’s Essence” 13:38
- John Barry, Diamonds are Forever, ”Following the Diamonds (edit)” 14:36
- Francois De Roubaix, Les adventurers, ”Casino Latino” 15:01
- Jerry Goldsmith, The Satan Bug, ”The Empty Box” 17:00
- Lalo Schifrin, Dirty Harry, “Scorpio’s View” 17:44
- Stelvio Capriani, Baron Blood, ”Notturno” 20:21
- Stelvio Capriani, Ecologia del delitto (Twitch of the Death Nerve), ” Main Title” 21:23
- Gil Melle, The Andromeda Strain, ”Desert Trip” 23:28
- Michael Small, Klute, ”Love Theme” 27:43
- Jerry Goldsmith, Alien, “Hyper Sleep” 31:30
- Michael Small, The Parallax View, ”Morgue” 34:16
- Naozumi Yamamoto, Branded to Kill, ”Main Title” 35:11
- Ennio Morricone, Machine Gun McCain, “La Ballata di Hank McCain” 36:48
- Roy Budd, Get Carter, ”Carter Takes a Train” 38:47
- Jerry Goldsmith, Sebastian, “The Trip” 41:47
- Michel Legrand, The Happy Ending, ”Blowout” 44:16
- John Williams, The Long Goodbye, ”The Long Goodbye” (performed by Jack Sheldon) 46:28
- Krzysztof Komeda, Barrier, ”Nagrania Do Filmu “Bariera” - XII” 49:59
You can find a link for a download here
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4D cinema opens with a punch in Seoul (via The Guardian) CJ 4DPlex has constructed cinemas equipped with seats that intentionally rock and the facility to synchronise special effects such as wind, fog, strobe lights and smells with on-screen action.
It’s met with a mixed reception in Seoul, where a variety of blockbusters have been given the 4D treatment. One blogger, Prof Miscreant, wrote about the 4Dscreening of Kung Fu Panda 2 in the Sunday Times: “The seats have massage chair motors so that they punch you (lightly) in the kidneys or bottom when Po gets hit or falls down. At the end bubbles floated down from the ceiling to simulate fireworks – hilarious and well worth the 18,000 won (£10) ticket price.”
However, complaints of nausea followed the water effects used in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film, and the burnt rubber smell pumped out during showings of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which reportedly also triggered temporary deafness.
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A Brief History of Title Design by Ian Albinson
Presentation video for the SXSW “Excellence in Title Design” competition screening.
Full list of films featured can be found on the Vimeo page
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40+ Asian Movie Wallpapers via WildGrounds
Something for everyone here.
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“Michael Mann told me that people experience movies *backward*, as they leave the theater; the climax/ending is really the beginning.” — GreatDismal (aka William Gibson via Twitter) -
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Facts About Projection by the always likeable Temujin Doran. Tem is a 35mm film Projectionist in Islington, where he works at The Screen on the Green. It’s a great video that gives you a beautiful glimpse into a dying art form.
via teaim
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Anemic Cinema - Marcel Duchamp
