A baby video on YouTube that’s actually art
This doesn’t have much to do with love and sex, except that we love this trailer which features an adorable product of sex. The teaser is from the short film LAS PALMAS by Johannes Nyholm, which just won the Short Film Award and the Audience Award at the Gothenburg Int’l Film Festival, Startsladden. (The jury [...]
Read More »The best of “best of” movie lists for 2009
Some people vow to lose weight and start exercising in the New Year. I resolve to whip my Netflix queue in shape, trimming out last year’s worthy crap and replacing it with this year’s best offerings, which I have 12 months to get through before they turn into last year’s worthy crap. Aiding me in this task are the nation’s critics, who dutifully spend all year watching movies and the last few weeks in December compiling “best of” lists. Many of these lists tend to look more or less the same, but some offer the occasional surprise. These critical taste quirks are the spice of list reading.
So here, in the spirit of 10 best lists, are the 10 best “10 best movie” lists of 2009. I must warn you that, as a parent of two small children who only rarely leaves the house to sit in the dark with cinematically minded strangers, I have seen very few of the movies on these lists. (Thus the great importance of proper Netflix queue maintenance.) Then again, given how many kid-friendly movies made it onto the lists this year, that excuse may be a bit flimsy. Too bad. It’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. On to the list of lists!
Read More »100 years of visual special effects
This interesting video compilation of movie clips illustrating the evolution of visual special effects in Western cinema was meant originally as an introduction at a “5th-grader-level” for educational purposes. However, even if you are no longer tackling long division, partaking in mandatory recess, and commuting via a yellow bus, that doesn’t mean you too can’t [...]
Read More »Cops versus clowns
A short film by Adam Berg and Stink Digital to promote Philips’ new cinema proportion television with a 21:9 ratio. This, wait for it, 2 minute 19 second (get it?) sequence is “filmed in one continuous tracking shot and offers an exploration into the world of movies being made for the cinema screen through the [...]
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