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I’m as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of the Worlds (2005) is that today, anything I can imagine, I can realize on film. Then, when my mechanical shark was being repaired and I had to shoot something, I had to make the water scary. I relied on the audience’s imagination, aided by where I put the camera. Today, it would be a digital shark. It would cost a hell of a lot more, but never break down. As a result, I probably would have used it four times as much, which would have made the film four times less scary. Jaws is scary because of what you don’t see, not because of what you do. We need to bring the audience back into partnership with storytelling.
Steven Spielberg
Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day.

Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

30 Illustrated Polish Movie Posters For American Films | Gilbert Musings: The Culture of 5

30 Illustrated Polish Movie Posters For American Films

Ok so I had to post it.  The creature in The Mist.

Ok so I had to post it.  The creature in The Mist.

Jim The Film

Jim The Film

Just got back from seeing Inception…

Don’t worry…no spoilers.

Midnight showing. Long!! movie. But worth it. Home by 2:40AM.

The film has now been added to my favorite movies of all time list. I actually want to see it again. Just to see what I missed, and take it all in once more.

GOSEEIT!

Mark Hogencamp’s ‘Marwencol’ Documentary at SXSW 2010 | Gilbert Musings: The Culture of 5

Hogencamp’s story is amazingly sad, yet one of amazing perseverance. We WANT to see this film!

Nightmare on Elm Street Poster

Nightmare on Elm Street Poster

Alice in Wonderland New Featurette

Spike Jonze-Produced Short Film Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life Spike Jonze has produced a new live-action/animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life. The film, a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and Warner Home Video, will be included on the Blu-Ray release of Where The Wild Things Are, which hits stores on March 2nd. The 23 and a half minute short film was created by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the Oscar-nominated team behind the short Madame Tutli-Putli, and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze.

Spike Jonze-Produced Short Film Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Spike Jonze has produced a new live-action/animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life. The film, a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and Warner Home Video, will be included on the Blu-Ray release of Where The Wild Things Are, which hits stores on March 2nd. The 23 and a half minute short film was created by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the Oscar-nominated team behind the short Madame Tutli-Putli, and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze.

H. R. Giger - Alien 2

H. R. Giger - Alien 2

H.R. Giger - Alien

H.R. Giger - Alien

Stargate Studios shows off some of their amazing greenscreen visual effects in their demo reel, some of which you wouldn’t expect to be scenes that were artificially created.

I love when I come across something that is truly a great find! You’ll be amazed at what is greenscreened.  Everyone will appreciate this…for we all watch t.v. or film. Take a look. And if your wondering what the music is that plays with it, it is ”Nara” by E.S. Posthumus.

Daybreakers Poster Wants to Harvest Your Blood Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. This movie looks/sounds really good.

Daybreakers Poster Wants to Harvest Your Blood

Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

This movie looks/sounds really good.