Here’s a great video making the rounds on Twitter this morning. It’s some camera slate fun from the set of Inglourious Basterds. Apparently it’s on the DVD. Check it out before it gets taken down and probably NSFW.
Every now and then I’ll set the terribly crappy Comcast HD DVR to record MHD Palladia during the overnight hours so I can get a fix on some good hi-def music videos. Sure some of them won’t be hi-def but hey … who’s counting. Come to think of it, CMT HD has been broadcast now for month and months and as far as I can tell (and many others) they haven’t aired a frame of HD content either despite the fact that I know there have been country music videos finished and mastered in HD!! What a waste of bandwidth.
Anyhoo … one of the videos on my last Palladia viewing was director Chris Milk’s Audioslave video Doesn’t Remind Me. I was reminded what an incredibly awesome this music video really is. A great story, snappy editing, gorgeous images and not a frame of performance from the band. It’s a mini movie. Why can’t more videos be told this way? If you have any favorites of this type of video please post a comment. There’s part of the video embeded below from Milk’s Vimeo page but it only seems to load the first couple of minutes of the video (probably by request) so you can click over to see the full thing. You have to watch it to the end for full effect. On the “official” Universal Music Group channel on You Tube they’ve disabled embedding and the whole experience is so peppered with ads so I’m not even going to link to it.
Audioslave – “Doesn’t Remind Me” [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
I also learned that Milk directed the wonderful 42 second short film Last Day Dream.
The above video has been making the rounds lately. I’m a sucker for single shot productions that are well executed and this Johnnie Walker piece is a great example of a simple concept, talented delivery and great production value that all come together to pull it off. Now if only Johnnie Walker was half as good as a nice single malt like Laphroaig or Lagavulin.
Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
If you’ve ever wanted to attend film school then this is it. While it’s not your typical 4 year or 2 year program it’s sure to be a very unique weekend at “a conference room of a Los Angeles hotel” during the weekend of January 8-10, 2010, with the master himself, Werner Herzog. For a $25 application fee, and $1450 if you are accepted, you won’t get any technical training nor will you get a lunch. But what you will get is guaranteed to be an experience unlike any other from a filmmaker unlike any other. If you don’t understand what that means then you don’t know Herzog and most certainly shouldn’t even be considering attending his film school. Read through the about page and get a better idea of what might be in store … though somehow I bet no one, not even Herzog, knows for sure.
If you have been an editor for hire for any real period of time then I bet you have been handed a stack of videotapes or a hard drive in a box (or maybe a grocery sack) with no labels, no notes and no identifying factors whatsoever as to the format, resolution or frame rate of the source footage. It can be a very frustrating experience. I recently posted an An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITs – Please label tapes and disks over at the Editblog on PVC. Let’s hope it might help out at least one job somewhere in the world!
In honor of the brand new addition to my family I think this Vimeo is perfect (found via Tickelbooth):
Last Day Dream from torbjon on Vimeo.
Starting this Sunday, May 10, HBO Documentary Films is going to begin air a 4 part documentary series on Alzheimer’s disease called The Alzheimer’s Project. Normally I probably wouldn’t promote or post about an HBO film but this series looks to be a bit more important than most. Alzheimer’s disease is a cruel brain disease that affects over half of all Americans and has an indirect cost estimated at more than $148 billion annually. Any disease with that kind of broad reaching impact deserves a special event like this that HBO is producing. I’ve personally been affected by the disease as my mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and I’ve seen the toll it can take on both the victims and their friends and family so I’ve been encouraging all that I can to watch this series.
But what if you don’t have HBO? It is after all a premium channel that you have to pay extra for. It would appear that HBO is going to provide access to this entire series in almost all media outlets available today. If you have come across the printed advertisements for The Alzheimer’s Project in any number of major magazines you may have seen the list of where the program will be available:
It may have happened before but I’m not aware of any other multimedia event that has been broadcast across so many different “new media” outlets. It’s a great use of most all of the distribution channels available today to get the message out about this important subject. Thanks for taking the time to read this post and I hope you are able to check out this documentary series. You can find out more information on Alzheimer’s disease below:
So Francis Ford Coppola is working on a new film called Tetro. According to the film’s website:
TETRO is Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since THE CONVERSATION. It is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. It is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family.
Coppola has made some of the greatest films in modern film history. He’s also made some real stinkers. But I’m of the opinion that a Coppola failure is usually much more watchable than a lot of the dregs out there today. Someone on Twitter (I can’t remember who) pointed to Coppola’s video that he made introducing this new film. I look forward to its release.
The annoucnement has been made for the nominatons for the 81st Academy Awards. Here’s the nominees for Achievement in Film Editing:
My money (and hope) is on Slumdog!
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