From what I remember, reading “The Lord of the Rings” 30+ years ago, haven’t #Tolkien described Galadriel as extremely beautiful? With even some hair cutting for an admiring fan?
Is it my memory fading… or the #film director part of me judging a casting choice?
#RingsOfPower
#DontLookUp has been the saddest #film of the decade for me. Why? Because it’s not a #comedy. It’s a #documentary.
Humanity somehow has lost the fear of death, even when the dead are measured in the millions (Covid, the RU-UA war…) pic.twitter.com/7zngNBhSQO
For example, #Tinder profiles repeatedly state they’re going to “enjoy life and have fun”, male and female.
Hurray, it’s all merry and dandy! 🥳
Enjoy summer!
Life of an #artist… 1985 vs 2022.
Although I didn’t start as a pro until 1997, I did snatch the tail end of that epoch. 😕
( some of which, like analogue tools, i.e. the cost and hassle of #film #photography, I don’t miss at all … but otherwise, damn… so much fun is gone ) pic.twitter.com/XfzmhxwGCv
What’s great about the #Cannes #Film Festival is that once you’d attended 3 years in a row, you’ve seen 95% of all directors in competition for the next 50 years of the festival.
«Déjà vu» in French means “already watched”. Yeah, I’m talking about the 2022 line-up. 😂
OK, a female president of the #Cannes #Film Festival isn’t a democratic surprise, but, wait, a lawyer from Warner? 😮
With previous experience as Accor and LVMH board? Smells very #Hollywood to me… What do _you_ think? Has anyone asked your opinion in the matter?
US Navy SEALs have hell week when they test the recruits’ capacity to function #sleep-deprived.
I just had a similar test with a random Amazon guy waking me up from sleep (I have #DSPD) googling me up and asking “What makes a #film a piece of #art?” while handing me a package.🥴
. @Screendaily : “At what stage do you board projects?”
Deckert Distribution CEO: “We are stepping in less and less early. With the market being so uncertain, we take less risks. That means I will be asking #documentary #filmmakers to come back when they are at rough cut stage.”
— Oh, so reassuring to work with #cinema people who take even less risks than pre-Covid and “team-up” when your #film doesn’t need help anymore and can go straight to Netflix / Amazon instead. 🤦🏻♂️
Full interview:
screendaily.com/features/decke…
In such moments, being a web #designer and a #film director, I imagine a story of some team, somewhere at #Amazon, pouring billions of dollars, months of hard work, thousands of lines of code… to invent such a “Greetings and welcome back, our cherished client!” #UX interface. pic.twitter.com/sDBlItWC7h
I came across a #PR stunt — youtube.com/watch?v=nXV8_b… — that illustrates a point I firmly believe. We, #humans, have a physical body problem. And it’s not a postmodern “#obese body positivity” problem.
It’s a “people are either over-clothed (men), or under-dressed (women)” problem
We don’t see each other ‘au naturel’. Men are afraid to wear Speedos. A shirtless woman is frowned upon outside #advertising and red carpet #film events… which are the worst offenders / social norm benders.
We hide our flabby, frail bodies in €200 #designer tops and high-rise “auto-slimming / stealth #cellulite” jeans.
In developed countries — the quality of life everyone on this planet aspires to, even in Islam cultures, although secretly 😋, so everywhere, really, at some point
— most of us are twisted and #unhealthy about skin color, body #fat percentage and muscle mass.
We can’t and should not change our skin color (yeah, thinking of you, Michael… and of you, “make me whiter than white” East Asians 🙄).
But there is — objectively — an optimum for #bodyComposition. The ratio of bone to fat to #muscle, which contributes to a longer pain-free period of your life. It’s no fun to drag through half of your life on a walker to support your busted joints and depend on #insulin injection
for your type 2 diabetes.
And yes, optimal body composition is different for males and females. And it is very well researched, and very consensual. Google Scholar Is Your Friend.™
We’re #visual creatures, so, in my opinion, we should wear less. All of us. Not just women.
I want to see handsome men in great shape in my local supermarket. Not exclusively in the #Parisian Marais gyms. And, surprise, women do want to see healthy, strong men as well. But they are too shied out by our society to admit it even to themselves.
Also, barefoot is great for your overpronated / supinated feet. How #masochistic should you be to squeeze 26 bones, 30 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments into those Little Shoes with Heels™?
Yes, including dress #shoes for men. Have you ever tried searching for a flat, barefoot-like dress shoe? No? Go ahead, I’ll wait. And I’m not talking about the obviously painful high heels for women, especially those with super narrow toe-boxes. 🙄
But wait, what do you say? High heels is #sexy? Sure. You know what else is sexy? #Smoking. And red wine. And a long list of behavior optimized for a fun, but very, very short, pain-free life.
You may know I practice what I preach, on #Zoom calls and film sets. No, I’m not all naked, because… #balls. 🙃 But I wear my Patagucci shorts, and that’s it.
Really, let’s get over it. Look at your cat. Look at your dog. Look at the #yogis of 5000 years… not much clothing on them, eh?
Let’s get used to seeing the real #humans. And not the fabrics. Let’s take care of ourselves. And wear less. And, also, global warming. 😉
Oh great, Variety now profusely apologizes for questioning #film #casting choices? The #press and critics licking up the ass… what’s next?
We’re in intellectual discussion free-fall and there’s no deck in sight.
variety.com/2020/film/revi…
No one really understands what’s going on with US theatrical #film releases and their future. 🤷🏻♂️
This sucks, because all my usual financiers and co-producers remain in the “wait and see” mode… and it’s been a while now since we postponed our slate.
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
Except for IP and technology dev, which continue for us through the pandemic, although we’d lost talented people to Covid. 😕
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” — by Bessel van der Kolk.
A one-of-a-kind book of huge breadth and depth on the theme of #trauma and its treatment… and, given how many of us have lived through and continue to live with trauma,
this is a really tough, slightly verbose, but necessary read if you want to expand your knowledge of others and yourself.
I’d also definitely recommend it to fellow #photojournalist’s and #film #director’s (fiction and #documentary). For example, it’s one of the few psychology books briefly analyzing Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” protagonist.
Also, #pranayama helps. A lot.
Los Angeles has replaced its usual traffic smog with… crematorium smog. 😢
Although the US response to a pandemic has been easy to predict even years ago… and brilliantly brought to screen by the local #film industry… it still hurts.
The Producers Guild of America’s (#PGA) comprehensive 57-page safety guide for #film production in the Covid-19 era:
producersguild.org/page/COVIDprot…
. @berlinale #film festival merges Best #Actor and Best Actress categories into one… pitching the genders against each other in a #gender-neutral move. 🤣
berlinale.de/en/press/press…
Once re-opened, the #cinema theaters’ antiviral fogging machines, reduced capacity and increased staffing will also push ticket prices into 40 EUR territory. The traditional, egalitarian cinema exhibition is most probably doomed, its fate only precipitated by Covid-19.
But the collapse of old business models should unleash a new wave of #creativity in #film. That’s where we, as filmmakers, come in.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“In the spirit of fair #competition and #equality, the selection committee has decided to award the winner’s prize to all members of the competition. Congratulations on your exceptional work to everyone who submitted a #film!”
Had a strange dream. I was on a small boat in the middle of the ocean, with Oleg Berezin, a super-smart Russian #film industry analyst, post-production studio owner in St-Petersburg and SMPTE rep in Russia. And we were preparing a #burial at sea of 3 corpses.
You might have seen the procedure on TV: a body / casket on a plank, covered by a cloth or flag, tilted and off it slides into the water.
We’re busy going through the mechanisms, to distract ourselves from the sadness of loss, the emptiness of #grief to contain our own isolation
from land, offshore. And we’re not the closest friends in real life with Oleg, so we kept it rather formal and practical.
And I don’t know who was under those 3 flags.
So we hit the lever… and the tilting mechanism doesn’t work, jamming mid-way. And we have to push the bodies into water manually.
They splash and I woke up with intestinal muscle cramps. 🙁
Often the simplest #lighting setup works best, like for this #MichaelMann’s iconic scene in “#Heat”.
– “So you never wanted a regular type life?”
– “What the fuck is that? Barbecues and ballgames?”
A #film about 2 workaholic brothers, so dear to me. Have you seen it? pic.twitter.com/qY03ICKLri
1 year 1 month ago, we’ve screened and discussed our @kvadratmovie feature #film in the Moscow Film School with Vsevolod Korshunov, a brilliant #filmmaking teacher & scholar (check out his TEDx talks)
Watch the #indiefilm themed Q&A with EN and FR subs.
youtube.com/watch?v=A5jlB2…
#AndreiTarkovsky started this wet-on-set trend in #film #production soon copied by the #BladeRunner crew… at least now I can always use that as an excuse for making someone miserable for days. pic.twitter.com/342RtS5kXG
People who claim that an #art form is defined by its consumption method continue to amaze me.
Next time you buy a #painting to hang on your wall, remember that outside a #museum, it won’t be a piece of art anymore.
Just a decor element.
And a feature #film on Netflix? A video.
Probably the best short video about #overtraining (or otherwise over-stressing your #body) I’ve seen in a while. Applies to any #film shoot with heavy steadicam / handheld gear as well. Take care of your #body and the #creative brain will function. 🤖
youtube.com/watch?v=kwKcay…
Applicable to pre-sales of your #film… only you rarely get a financier to re-read your #script. So, start with less likely buyers (testing on non-core target is still valuable testing). 🤪 twitter.com/mmay3r/status/…
#Paris #Film #Locations #Expo #conference by @Film_France and @LeCNC about #international crews working together, specifically #American #cinema #crews with the #French.
Alex BODEN #Sense8 / @netflix, John BERNARD #Munich, #Inception, #Dunkirk, Romain LACOURBAS, DP #MarcoPolo… pic.twitter.com/kvgiF8ZkIl
Why do you think most #film s of the current decade are about #DNA #survival? Either through #murder or reproduction. Humans, aliens, men and women… it’s all about killing or having #sex, in whatever epoch, past, present and future. High or low tech, smart or dumb. Same story.
Wishes fulfilled. @sonyproeurope new Venice #film camera shoots in any format imaginable, S35 to full-frame 24x36: pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-…
So… uhm… the #distribution certificate for any #film in Russia will now cost 80’000 EUR per film. That includes my future #indieFilm’s. 😡
Fear of #failure and greed are the main reasons the big US #film studios struggle. Excellent article by @theDougBag bagofcoop.com/2017/05/08/hol…
Of course it’s nice to have your back covered by someone like @FrancoiseNyssen , doing the rounds with the same #film people I work with. twitter.com/FrancoiseNysse…
#Film comrades, who would like to meet IRL at #Cannes2017? Will be there May 17-25. Mornings at #Producer Network.
https://t.co/Ub2dstZoPv pic.twitter.com/w7garAXuVZ
Scathing, true overview of some of the reasons #France hasn’t given the world a historic #film #director in 30 years newyorker.com/culture/richar…
Great results 1 year after #French tax rebate reform for #film #production. @IledeFranceFilm event with Nolan’s line #producer John Bernard. pic.twitter.com/wjskg9mf4A
Who’s planning to attend the @berlinale #film #festival? Let’s meet IRL. pic.twitter.com/q9RtGORmYN
Coldest #India related event I’ve been to: #film co-#production, tax breaks, team issues by @industrie_reve. -5C outside, +12C inside. :D pic.twitter.com/6xEJtJ2h5w
A short and eloquent sum-up of the state of mainstream #film today youtube.com/watch?v=9azGzl… . Sequels and reboots rule… #originality sleeps.
Certain Women—a certainly desolate, certainly slow, certainly unbeautiful #film about the empty lives of certain #women in certain MT USA.
Something I’ve implemented a while ago in my #film teams — add #women for a smarter, calmer #set: uk.businessinsider.com/teams-with-mor… (50/50 works best)
I’ll keep repeating: most difficult is to get #movie seen… not made. 60% of #film ticket price spent on #advertising twitter.com/liamboluk/stat…
My feature #film Kvadrat on #techno #DJ’ing to be screened in Paris, on Jul 15+16 @PeacockSociety festival. Details: pic.twitter.com/FMlYaM9Hwp
.@amazon Prime Video now has 4 times as many #film’s as @netflix, including @TheMatrix: https://t.co/eErE5BYFhL pic.twitter.com/miqOoIuqHZ
Short, fun, to-the-point advice on being a better #creative pro. #Writing, #film… anything artistic: youtube.com/watch?v=w9K36t… —Tested & true
Great #Euro #film distribution conf by @EuAvObservatory at #Cannes2016 with always good @michaelgubbins & @TedHope: youtube.com/watch?v=R15QbB…
The new @Panavision #8K DXL #film #camera looks quite good, esp. with the Primo 70 line lenses: vimeo.com/168869375 . #Steadicam ready.
Le look of #sleepDeprived #film #director / #producer at #Cannes2016 #premiere. Collector’s item. I avoid #redCarpet pic.twitter.com/qXUWvHPoHp
Well, @kenloach69 stays true to himself. Just seen a premiere of #IDanielBlake at #Cannes2016. Bleak but important #film on #UK #society.
At France-#Brazil #film coproduction round-table in Paris with @LeCNC. IMO all #BRIC countries function similarly ;) pic.twitter.com/P6Zsnz8sWB
Who’s going to the @Cinemadureel #documentary #film #festival in #Paris, March 18-27? I’ll be there. Let’s meet! pic.twitter.com/Kro5A6Yqw9
Ahem… Side-by-side comparison of 17 scenes of @RevenantMovie with scenes from Andrey Tarkovsky’s #film’s: vimeo.com/153979733
OK, I think I’ve got it. Best #film’s are made by #masochist’s. Who else would choose to live in #LA or #Moscow? :D
Combined, @UniversalPics and @DisneyStudios controlled 41% of US #film market and 1/3 of global grosses in 2015: hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-offic…
Still cant wrap my head around @chrismcquarrie having #shot @MissionFilm on #film. Prod hassle. @MadMaxMovie’s smarter. Well, whatever works
A @BromptonBicycle can get you places, including @AFMOFFICIAL — a major #Hollywood #cinema event for #film producers pic.twitter.com/4TahqyJgyT
Decision #fatigue. The #film director’s bane. The #filmmaking reality.
Huge negative fill on #film set of @MarcoPoloMP S2 for @netflix @WeinsteinFilms by #DP Vanja Černjul via Eric Bialas pic.twitter.com/WPkxWm1qAU
All other things being equal in #cinema—budget, talent, technical prowess—it’s crew’s #taste that makes a #film mediocre, average or great.
So, who’s already at #Deauville2015? Or going soon? I should be there on Saturday 12 for the #film co-#production sessions. Let’s meet!
Funny list of #cinema terms perplexing non-#film people (“deadcat” also a top one for me) with pics and explanations: rifemagazine.co.uk/2015/08/filmma…
So, with the new @CanonProNetwork ME20F-SH #cinema cam at 4 million ISO, I can #film #sex scenes in total darkness: nofilmschool.com/2015/07/canons…
I’m thinking, can we transpose #Swedish social security net to #film investment/production? Not direct #govt subs like in France? @TedHope?
This is the level of #actor commitment I admire (and encourage for #film). @TomCruise hanging on #A400M at take-off: youtu.be/afS5ks54tms
“Here’s my card, can I have yours?”
“I don’t have one”
“OK, your @IMDb link?”
“I don’t use it”
—please, are you really in #film / #TV prod?
#apaTV2015 has been an ultra-hot, ultra-packed, ultra-informative overview of current French #TV / #film industries. I’m full of thoughts.
In my #lucidDream someone asked me if there’s a #trilingual #film that’d put to use all my languages (EN/FR/RU). I had no clue. Any ideas?
The average human #attention span in 2015 has fallen to 8.25 seconds: statisticbrain.com/attention-span… — So, umm, I have 5 feature #film’s in dev…
For me, #film for motion picture died in 2011. No way to shoot the feature Kvadrat in low light at 3200 ISO on film: vimeo.com/108347135#t=7m…
Less downtime on #film set (zoom instead of prime, no actor marks, 360° lighting, multi-cam, hourly dailies) = less #stress, money, fatigue.
Why the general public feels more confortable to comment on #film? Never got as much feedback on #photography. #Cinema = #art of the masses?
Most important for exquisite #cinematography in #film? As in any #art: personal experience. Advice by Roger Deakins: bbc.com/news/entertain…
French #film’s sell more tickets domestically than UK, DE, IT combined. I wonder about the consumption culture diff? twitter.com/LeCNC/status/5…
“Of 693 #film released last year in US only 215 made more than $1 M at the theatrical box office”—culturalweekly.com/the-distributi… (via @goodinaroom)
Great collection of short thoughts and opinions on #film direction, by a huge ensemble of #cinema directors: youtube.com/watch?v=2d9EGF…
Achieving interesting results in #film requires to take the path of greatest #resistance. Ease and comfort signal #conformism and repetition
The #suicide scene in @IdaMovie is one of the best I’ve seen in #film. Unexpected, mundane, real and painful. That’s how #life is.
Amazing how DPs and #cinema gear manufacturers talk 4K, while #film festivals like @TIFF_NET or @FilmFestLocarno reject anything but SD DVDs
#Cinema industry is now all business, replication, reliability… Bland #film sequels dominate: http://t.co/vOrIXbSla6 pic.twitter.com/TOF9bU98Jl
No #film crew? 5 countries? Micro-budget? Still want a #feature #indiefilm? Watch how I did it with little #gear: vimeo.com/108347135
An #indiefilm director should define #success before starting a project: finish a #film? win a festival? get seen? create something unique?
1 #BTS photo with @andreypushkarev to mark 1 year since the release of my KvadratMovie.com #documentary #film: flic.kr/p/ppVmiM
My thoughts about my KvadratMovie.com #documentary feature #film. Goals, ideas, style, execution, difficulties: anatolyivanov.com/prose/en/AI.7.…
Better framing, longer filming hours! Best #handheld #film #camera rig simulator for a #DP is made by… @Bowflex: bowflexselecttech.com/bowflex-select… :-)
If, for some reason, you want to see my latest feature #film in 720p on YouTube instead of on Vimeo: youtube.com/watch?v=2P4n8m…
Dreamt of shooting a #film with a #piano in background. Pianist: “what should I play?” Me: “Uh… #Bach?” Woke up. Should have been #Scriabin!
So weird. @aaronpaul_8 acting in @breakingbad_amc is awesome. It’s terrible in @NeedforSpeed #film. Why? #Actor? #Director? #Script? Other?
Plus, @hurlbutvisuals has shared the exhaustive results of that @NeedforSpeed #film test: hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2013/10/a…
Add to my @hurlbutvisuals #camera choice tweet: budget included cars, race track rent, 8 drivers, 3 Russian arms, #film crew of 12 (5 days)
It cost @hurlbutvisuals x2 the entire KvadratMovie.com budget just to choose a #camera to #film @NeedforSpeed: cpn.canon-europe.com/content/educat…
Making a #feature #film is a #competition between the #director and the #producer: who is the crazier of the two? Risking #money & #sanity?
Actually, I like the production #design of @elysium #film. Quite realistic, for a change. Except drinkable tap water in Mexican LA.
The original #synopsis of kvadratmovie.com #film I wrote in April 2011: anatolyivanov.com/prose/en/AI.7.…
How does it compare to the end-result?
Woha! @Adobe Media Encoder CC now bundled with Wraptor DCP exporter by @QuvisInc! Auto DCP #film creation from #AfterEffects and #Premiere.
#Film #editing paradigms comparison: tracks (#Moviola, @Avid, #Premiere, Final Cut 7-) vs trackless Final Cut 10+: alex4d.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/fcp…
Astonished by the huge proportion of out-of-focus shots in #Zvyagintsev Banishment #film and by deliberate copying of #Tarkovsky & #Bergman.
Want to talk to #cinema crew of KvadratMovie.com #film? We’re hosting an online Q&A with #director, #DP & #DJ: facebook.com/kvadratmovie
A checklist #film of things not to do when #sailing singlehanded? Sure: @AllIsLostFilm (no PFD, jacklines, EPIRB, GPS, x2 VHF, skills…)
#Switzerland, #helicopter s, #film cameras and #cinema crew… what more to ask? A blue sky, of course: flic.kr/p/nGYsMm
The 7 things #successful people never say: linkedin.com/today/post/art… (tip: don’t ever tell me any of these on my #film set ;-)
No-bullshit talk by David Leitner about handheld #cinema rigs’ #ergonomics: vimeo.com/72344423 Must-see for any open-minded #film DP.
Avengers director @JossWhedon releases latest #film for $5 online @Vimeo immediately after premiere @tribecafilmfest: InYourEyesMovie.com
Last time I saw a #film in a #cinema was #Avatar. Terrible. And here I am watching my own feature KvadratMovie.com Weird and awesome.
Me & @andreypushkarev are in #Berlin this week. Would you like to work on my next feature #film? Discuss KvadratMovie.com? Let’s meet!
Here we go again! Gearing up and choosing @CanonProNetwork vs @sonyproeurope for my next feature #film: flic.kr/p/mQ3GNM #SpotTheRock
My #film to be projected at Kommt Zusammen Festival in Rostock DE, on April 18 in a @sonyproeurope SRX-R515 #cinema: youtube.com/watch?v=dxBmSy…
Are you generic? Watch youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtsp… — And hire a #film crew with a distinctive vision if you’re not.
A detailed article by @DigitalMediamag about our Kvadrat #film, especially the post-production #gear and processes: digitalmedia-world.com/Features/the-d…
A good read if you’re into collaborative #film editing with #FCP X: 10dot1.co.uk/guides (via @Alex4D)
KvadratMovie.com is now on @instagram! Follow me there for the most exquisite frames from the #film: instagram.com/kvadratmovie
Left: my rig to #film kvadratmovie.com Right: our rig if @CanonProNetwork C300 appeared earlier & we had more € flic.kr/p/kHNSNX
Really nice sound of going in and out of water at the end of #GravityMovie. Excellent FX and #acting. So-so #film otherwise. Awful music.
Try all lenses before shooting a #film! Great example of Cooke Mini S4 vs @schneideroptics Xenar3 by @J65Productions: youtube.com/watch?v=vvQVNY…
#Cinema is the only #art where you can say “My #film sucks because we had a tiny budget, if only I had more…” Can’t say so for a #painting.
Nice Ken Loach interview: youtube.com/watch?v=kcOPF9… I don’t love his #film s (I do like Riff-Raff), but agree with a lot of his methods / views
The #techno #DJ #life diagram. Summary of http://t.co/Mhw5tGmQss #film by someone who seems to have read my #script: pic.twitter.com/CAjzeRnCGQ
Difference between a Spielberg and a Kubrick? Spielberg is more successful cause his #film s give answers and comfort youtube.com/watch?v=CAKS3r…
Only 1TB of internal storage in #Apple #Mac Pro?! Any advice on a quiet 8Tb Thunderbolt #SSD storage system for #film editing?
I shot a #documentary #film about #techno DJing with @andreypushkarev. Took us 2,5 years. Watch 720p version for free kvadratmovie.com
Is there a correlation between #film dubbing vs subtitles policy and foreign #language mastery in #Europe? You bet: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dubb…
Der Räuber: an excellent #film about the meaning of life, social norms, #boredom, #Austria’s lost sparkle and #running.
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