William Hirsch removes the Jurassic from Jurassic Park.
Category Archives: Film
Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos examine Joel and Ethan Coen’s masterful use of the shot/reverse shot. To wit:
How do you film a conversation? Most likely, you’re going to block the actors, set up the camera, and do shot/reverse shot. But where do you put the camera? What lens do you use? And how do you cut back and forth? Today, I consider the Coen brothers — Joel & Ethan — and see how these choices lend a particular feel to their version of shot/reverse shot.
The legendary Claudia Cardinale at the screening of director Giambattista Assanti’s (pic 2, right) Ultima Fermata (2014) in The Lighthouse cinema in Dublin’s Smithfield last night where the actress was presented with a Volta award by Hugh Linehan of the Irish Times.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
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Choice cuts from the Your_Post_As_A_Movie subreddit, wherein random pictures are transformed into epic movie posters.
Many more here.
The Audi-sponsored Dublin International Film Festival, launched last evening at the Savoy cinema in Dublin’s O’Connell Street with John Carney’s (that’s him in the grey suit) Sing Street, a class of modern day The Commitments.
After the screening, the cast performed songs from the film, which also stars this tree.
(Pix: Oisín)
A fan-made trailer by Canadian editor Tyler Hopkins for a prequel to Back To The Future in which Doc Brown acquires the plutonium needed for time travel.
Spliced together using clips from multiple movies including Iron Man, BTTF, Camp Nowhere and Zero Dark Thirty.
Aoife Noonan writes:
A Terrible Hullabaloo is our first short film. It’s about Vinny Byrne who was a 15 year old volunteer during the Easter Rising. Told with puppets…It was funded by the Irish Film Board under their After ’16 short film scheme. The first screening will be in the Audi Dublin International Film Festival later this month.
A reminder from the Star Wars production team that Episode VIII has just started filming.
Only 668 more sleeps to go.
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Movie buff Celia Goméz trawls 27 seasons of the Simpsons for a multiplicity of movie references, some you’ve recognised, some you ain’t.