A thorough article describes the current decay of the Russian #cinema industry, from financing / co-production (Russia was expelled from @eurimages), to #casting and teams selection (on ideological merits),
theins.ru/en/confession/…
gear (un)availability (lighting rentals, #camera repair, makeup consumables) and post-production software limitations.
The #Russian cinemas we’d worked with are closed, many creatives and critics fled the country.
The remaining males wait for conscription while cleaning up their social profiles for any signs of anti-war (re)posts or Ukrainian insignia…
Roll the end-titles. 😕
“The best way to have a good #idea is to have lots of ideas.” — Linus Pauling
In other words, just do stuff, and lots of it, with variation. Our iterations on bad scripts / designs / photographs produce the seemingly effortless “wow” results you see in museums and #cinema`s.
Oh, and #Git is awesome. 🙃
I wish they had English subs for those wondering what’s up with French #cinema. 😕
Maraval (Wild Bunch), on peut l’aimer ou pas, il a souvent une vision limpide de la situation. twitter.com/louislepron/st…
. @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…
“Creativity, the biggest determiner of #successful #executives, is killed in the #junior ranks. Maintenance of predetermined procedures is emphasized. This is how you end up with managers and not leaders.
You have a senior leadership that knows all the paperwork but cannot understand a problem and how to solve it.”
#Risk and #creativity. Again
I’m seeing how the mediocre teachers all over the planet install fear and disbelief in our kids’ capacity to create, very early in school
And so, we get excellent line #producers in #cinema (instead of executive risk-takers), excellent mid-level programmers in #IT (instead of non-conforming inventors), great shop-floor managers in #Amazon warehouses (instead of big-picture leaders)…
All gradually replaced by instructions-following #automation. 😕
Now, if you think even larger and recall that the #scientific method requires an ability to invent a good explanation of a phenomenon (versus the “read from Mother #Nature’s Book” for an induction from experience),
you get… people who make robots vs anti-vaxxers and flat-Earthers.
Same patterns on all levels.
#EU’s upcoming #sanctions against the Taliban will focus primarily on the export restriction of “Annette” by Leos Carax to Afghan cinemas… as we (Europeans) tend to solve all our problems using our globally-admired #cinema, like closing the theaters first in the pandemic.
A formidable pressure against the Strong Sage Fighters™ following the precepts of the Best True Book for Medieval Men™… no doubt.
. @Crewbooking. A networking site for #French #cinema pros with exceptional divinatory powers.
Do you understand which #UI #design element does what? Which square is for decoration, and which is a button? No? Well, me neither.🤦🏻♂️
No wonder they insist on a 9-step “tutorial”. pic.twitter.com/ly9rLfUNwT
Bonus points for congratulating me on the “well-deserved rest”… I didn’t have. 🙄
I just wanted to find an ”unsubscribe from e-mails” button, which they don’t include in their daily send-outs.
#Cinema #crew levels
• Level 0: carries a Leatherman and gaffer tape as the only tools
• Level 1: carries a pair of cordless impact wrench + cordless drill
• Level 2: uses a shop-vac on set
• Level 3: brings a MIG / #TIG welding kit “just in case”
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/…
Amazon looking into buying AMC #cinema’s and its 10 000 screens in movie theaters around the world.
dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/…
The DGA asked “Contagion” director Steven Soderbergh to lead a task force to determine when #cinema work can resume. If the second wave of Covid-19 hits us in autumn, #filming will not resume until 2021.
Ouch. Happy May Not Work Day. 🙁
variety.com/2020/biz/featu…
The exodus of #cinema #talent from #Hollywood studios to streamers… visualised.
latimes.com/projects/la-et…
The new #Canon #cinema #EOS C500 mk II seems close to perfection!
youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsqi5…
#Creative #cinema work often requires weird #DIY #tinkering in tight spaces. Thankfully, @BoschPro_UK GSB 16 RE has all the #pro niceties of a big #drill: metal gear housing, 750 W / 2,3 Nm… in a very compact, abuse-ready package. Highly recommended on #set. 2 kg only! pic.twitter.com/RF8pgBEW2y
Serious #digital #cinema cameras enter the XXI century with full-frame 24x36 mm sensors & user selectable ratios. @SonyProUSA Venice. Now @ARRIChannel LF.
I’d been taking this for granted in the still #photography word since the Canon 1Ds in 2002… Better in 2018 than never. :) pic.twitter.com/lLpNxh6hYS
#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
Totally #ready. Totally @3M.
( Yep, #indieFilm requires custom designed #cinema #gear which involves some nasty chemicals. Thanks to 3M for keeping me alive! ) pic.twitter.com/8VQR76R1bF
Wow. 10m+ wide #LED screens purpose-built for DCI-spec #cinema theaters. x20 brighter, 1M:1 contrast, 87K hour life: screendaily.com/5119130.article
A @BromptonBicycle can get you places, including @AFMOFFICIAL — a major #Hollywood #cinema event for #film producers pic.twitter.com/4TahqyJgyT
Who’s at @AFMOFFICIAL this week? I’ll be around—let’s meet for international #indiefilm or bigger #cinema projects pic.twitter.com/GBa84fifhz
All other things being equal in #cinema—budget, talent, technical prowess—it’s crew’s #taste that makes a #film mediocre, average or great.
#Deauville2015 #cinema fest: awesome views, interesting people, nightmare to get back to Paris without pre-rented car. No public transport!
Here we go! French vs US perspective on #cinema #production: twitter.com/fedejpi/status…
Making #cinema deals with #China is never about contracts, it’s about personal connections / leverage. Good article: latimes.com/entertainment/…
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…
Excellent French #cinema industry overview by @mel_goodfellow of @Screendaily (except 12.5% of revenues, not budgets) screendaily.com/features/franc…
Sławomir Idziak interview by @moviescope on #Soviet block vs #Hollywood #DP #education, #indiefilm vs studio #cinema: moviescopemag.com/market-news/fe…
Why the general public feels more confortable to comment on #film? Never got as much feedback on #photography. #Cinema = #art of the masses?
Good summary of current financing, #distribution and marketing situation for #indiefilm #cinema, shorts and features twitter.com/Deadline/statu…
Awesome interview of @TedHope at his best – #indiefilm and #cinema big picture past & present – by @filmcourage: youtube.com/watch?v=2JnzuY…
As long as each country in #Europe fights for its own #cinema industry, instead of uniting under a #EU flag, American hegemony will remain.
Must-watch #Cannes2015 discussion with @netflix for anyone interested in the worldwide #cinema #indiefilm nuts&bolts youtube.com/watch?v=pm7_2s…
Now, who’s taking the risks and living the #uncertainty in the #cinema industry? twitter.com/asymco/status/…
Ha ha, @FirstHandFilms napalms fiction #cinema in my morning :D twitter.com/lauramaki/stat…
Excellent article by @adamleipzig about #indiefilm distribution. With hard numbers. A #cinema project _starts_ with distribution, must-read.
Great collection of short thoughts and opinions on #film direction, by a huge ensemble of #cinema directors: youtube.com/watch?v=2d9EGF…
Astronauts depicted in #cinema except “2001” and “#Apollo 13”? Young, #neurotic, inexperienced and sexy. Deciding the faith of #humanity :).
Weird #dream. Met #Tarkovsky in a smallish 20 sq m #cafe. Talked about #cinema, naturally. He was already a bit drunk & annoyed. Rainy day.
Amazing how DPs and #cinema gear manufacturers talk 4K, while #film festivals like @TIFF_NET or @FilmFestLocarno reject anything but SD DVDs
My KvadratMovie.com continues the #cinema tradition of #Soviet #depressing #films about hard-working people flic.kr/p/qzbJ1J
#Cinema industry is now all business, replication, reliability… Bland #film sequels dominate: http://t.co/vOrIXbSla6 pic.twitter.com/TOF9bU98Jl
My second feature, a documentary about a #documentary, an #indiefilm about the #cinema #gear used to shoot Kvdrat: vimeo.com/108347135
In the #cinema projection booth. My KvadratMovie.com DCP plays alongside @Interstellar DCP. Feels #weird. #Indiefilm vs #blockbuster?
In-depth #interview with KvadratMovie.com #cinema crew. Idea, budget, music, editing of this feature #indiefilm meoko.net/interviews/exc…
According to #Jarmusch, #filmmaking is “like #seduction, wild sex, then pregnancy”. I definitely prefer the #sex part of the #cinema process
WTF is with the “X days ago” trend in #cinema #screenwriting? @breakingbad_amc, @SideEffects, #Transcendence… #Filmaker’s response to #ADD?
Very handy list of current #cinema #zoom’s by @abelcine: blog.abelcine.com/wp-content/upl… Update to @cineverserental 2012 list: cineverse.net/images/Zoom_Le…
FS7, 2 years after @sonyproeurope F5… I wish the pace of #cinema #business models progress matched the speed of improvement of cinema #gear.
What makes #cinema complicated? It’s an expensive technical medium used for both money-making #entertainment and money-loosing #art.
Want to talk to #cinema crew of KvadratMovie.com #film? We’re hosting an online Q&A with #director, #DP & #DJ: facebook.com/kvadratmovie
#Switzerland, #helicopter s, #film cameras and #cinema crew… what more to ask? A blue sky, of course: flic.kr/p/nGYsMm
Isn’t it amazing that there’s only a 40 grams difference between @CanonProNetwork C300 EF and #Canon 1D C #cinema cameras without batteries?
No-bullshit talk by David Leitner about handheld #cinema rigs’ #ergonomics: vimeo.com/72344423 Must-see for any open-minded #film DP.
Amazingly accurate reproduction of KvadratMovie.com color, gamma & sound at LiWu.de #cinema in #Rostock . Vielen dank!
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.
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…
Curious about KvadratMovie.com dates, budget, team and gear? Read the stats of this extreme #cinema production: anatolyivanov.com/prose/en/AI.7.…
I wish we had these @rodemics invisiLavs ( vimeo.com/75739779 ) for kvadratmovie.com ! Looks awesome for my next #cinema prod.
#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.
We’re nearing 2014 and the #cinema industry still has no gamma standards! #ICC profiles? Even less. I feel like in 1998, pre- #Photoshop 5.
Great humor-infused, thought-provoking talk by Steven Soderbergh on the state of the #cinema industry: soundcloud.com/thompsononholl…
#Tarkovsky moved away from #cinema to #theater with epic-poetic decorations. The Sacrifice is a real-time play with meticulous choreography.
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