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Color timing and film transfer at Modern Digital

Lautaro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:33:50 +0000

“Tex” Production Diary – Day 3

Lautaro — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:33:38 +0000

Now we’re getting somewhere.

Day 3 was intense. We had a bout 20 cast and crew running around. Jess did his best to manage the chaos, but we had one pretty big logistical messup (sorry, Sue!). Apart from that and a special effects malfunction, I think it went quite well. We got through the fight between Tex and Dixie and killed a few of the other vampires.

More tomorrow.

Whiskey Dreams Script

Lautaro — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:02:27 +0000

To my production team: The script is downloadable here.
To everyone else: Feel free to read and comment.

Terry Gilliam Barbecue Plagued By Production Delays

Lautaro — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:01:32 +0000

LONDON—A backyard barbecue hosted by director Terry Gilliam was postponed again Sunday due to production delays. “I had a special grill flown in from Fiji, but it took three weeks to figure out how to light it,” Gilliam said of the 20-foot, volcano-shaped propane grill he’d deemed integral to the Tiki-themed event. “Then, just when I had the menu hammered out, Johnny [Depp] got sick, and I had to push the date back again. See, the whole thing was for his birthday in June.” In spite of the continued delays, party guest Elvis Mitchell predicted that the event will be “visually stunning” and “fun.”

From The Onion.

Un Chien Andalou

Lautaro — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:59:42 +0000

Now I understand what the lyrics to that Pixies song are about:

got me a movie
i want you to know
slicing up eyeballs
i want you to know
girlie so groovy
i want you to know
don’t know about you
but i am un chien andalusia
wanna grow
up to be
be a debaser, debaser

got me a movie
ha ha ha ho
slicing up eyeballs
ha ha ha ho
girlie so groovie
ha ha ha ho
don’t know about you
but i am un chien andalusia

debaser

Pearls from Trees

Lautaro — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:40:31 +0000

End the scene with reactions from characters.
Reveal new dimensions of characters.
It’s never easy.
Send it in a new direction.
Maintain your subplots.

Film Story Structure

Lautaro — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:40:18 +0000

So here’s a little graphic I made about screenplay structure. This is based on what I’ve absorbed from books, classes, and writing my own. I don’t take credit for any of the ideas presented here, I just thought It’d be fun to mash them all together in a graphical way.

This file is fully editable in Illustrator.

Click for PDF

Problematic Auteurs

Lautaro — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:36:53 +0000

So everything I’ve read and heard about D.W. Griffith holds that he was an unmitigated genius who did more for the art of cinema than anyone has ever done for anything ever, and other such superlatives. Oh, and he was also mind-blowingly racist.

Honest critique is supposed to separate the art from the artist and judge it on its own merits. Take Roman Polanski, for example. He drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl, then fled the country to avoid sentencing. And yet he’s one of the world’s greatest directors.

I think the main difference between the two is that Griffith’s most famous film is explicitly racist, whereas to my knowledge Polanski never made any movies about drugging and raping underage girls. This is why The Birth of a Nation is so much more difficult to watch than Rosemary’s Baby or The Pianist. Polanski’s movies are so engrossing that you forget about his fucked up life (holocaust survivor, pregnant wife murdered by Charles Manson, the aforementioned criminal trouble) . On the other hand, it’s hard to brush aside Griffith’s racism when you see the Ku Klux Klan riding in to rescue the poor white girls from a horde of marauding Negroes.

Forum!

Lautaro — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:18:46 +0000

The forum is now up and running at http://www.filthyandcomplicated.com/forum/

A couple of quotes on Art

Lautaro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:24:48 +0000

By two very quotable gay men.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
~Oscar Wilde

For Raphael, the creating of a work of art is a bright spring day in the campagna: for me, it is the tramontana howling down the valley
~Michelangelo Buonarrotti