Category Archives: Film

falling

A deftly edited supercut of movie scenes by Zach Prewitt in which characters dangle (and invariably fall) from great heights set to In The House – In A Heartbeat by John Murphy from the 28 Days Later soundtrack.

Full screen HD for full effect.

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starwars 7

A new take on Patton Oswalt’s legendary proposed plot for the new Star Wars movie from an episode of Parks and Rec aired last April.

For comparison purposes, here’s an earlier, less polished but far more unhinged version by Australian animator Isaac Moore.

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spirit

A groundbreakingly dark 1973 public information film narrated by the late, great Donald Pleasence which – depending on your vintage – will either amuse you, chill you or occasion a powerful wave of nostalgia for Saturday morning children’s programmes on BBC.

‘I’ll be back, back, back….’

*shudder*

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kubrickStanley Kubrick would have turned 85 on this day last week. With the help of the director’s brother-in-law, right hand man and executive producer Jan Harlan, the BFI has assembled an extensive list of Kubrick-approved movies.

The first and only top ten compliled by the director himself was the following list of personal faves submitted to Cinema magazine in 1969:

1. I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
5. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
6. Henry V (Olivier, 1944)
7. La notte (Antonioni, 1961)
8. The Bank Dick (Fields, 1940)
9. Roxie Hart (Wellman, 1942)
10. Hell’s Angels (Hughes, 1930)

And that’s just for starters.

READ ON: Stanley Kubrick, cinephile (Nick Wrigley, BFI)

Pic: Dmitri Kasterine (SK in 1969 on the set of A Clockwork Orange)

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jediparkour

Free-runners Jeremy Carpenter and Sinjin Cooper take to the Tatooine-like Goblin Valley in southern Utah for a spot of Force parkour, foregoing the usual light-saber shennanigans in favour of buck leppin’.

Obligatory behind the scenes feature here.

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