Category Archives: Film

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A breakdown by Vanity Fair of the take-home pay earned by the hypothetical cast and crew (excluding non-human costs, and based on average union rates) of a hypothetical 200 million dollar Hollywood movie. To wit:

Moviemaking is an art, of course—but it’s also a business, and a lucrative one at that. How lucrative? Well, that depends on your place in the pecking order. Let’s just say that if you’re helping to make a $200 million movie, it’s better to be a producer than a dolly grip operator—although as you’ll learn in this video breakdown of who’s earning what, based on average union rates, even the gaffer makes out pretty well.

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A fascinating trawl through the typography and design of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner by Dave Addey.

READ ON: Blade Runner (Typeset In the Future)

And if that appealed to you, he does a similar number on Ridley Scott’s Alien.

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A chilling chronicle 121 years of influential horror flicks from The Execution Of Mary Stuart (1895) to The VVitch: A New England Folktale (2016) by Brazilian editor Diego Carrera. To wit:

1 year = 1 film. “A History of Horror” is a video essay which proposes a timeline of influential and aesthetically beautiful horror movies around the world since 1895 until 2016.

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The already trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey interpreted as a Picasso painting by Bhautik Joshi, using Google’s pareidolic neural network Deep Dream.

He’s also done Vincent Van Gogh’s Blade Runner and this nightmarish Donald Trumpery

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