Part one and the (just-released) part two of Kevin Porter’s supercut wherein he sets out the case that screenwriter Aaron (West Wing, Studio 60, A Few Good Men, Moneyball, etc.) Sorkin is an inveterate recycler of phrases and plotlines.
You know what they say:
It’s almost hard to believe…
The underwater Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me – currently accepting bids at an auction to be held in London this September.
It doesn’t have wheels but does work as a submarine.
No reserve price, but the Aston Martin DB5 featured in Goldfinger and Thunderball was sold by the same auction house for £2.9 million in 2010.
Film sweders Cinefix faithfully recreate the trench run sequence from the climactic scene of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Behind the scenes feature here.
Previously: The Home Made Death Of Hans Gruber
A short documentary directed by Eric Romero of DecemberWorks in Edinburgh exploring a human genetic mutation hitherto suspected but only recently confirmed by science.
This is a truncated version. Those self-deprecating genetic mutants have put the full length version here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn-ixX9edg
The charming Mr Dawkins addresses the audience at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2013 last week.
It all goes a bit trippy Mr Whippy around 5.00.
(Hat tip: John Gallen)
In this nerdly but fascinating module of the FimmakerIQ course ‘Everything You Need To Know About Aspect Ratio’, John Hess traces the evolution of the screen shape from the days of silent film via the widescreen 50s to the modern digital camera.
It’s literally everything you need to know about aspect ratio.
Watch this and you’re done.
Seriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZxs_jGN7Pg#at=30
Mario and Fafa on the famous pan-applicable monomyth by American mythologist Joseph Campbell which explains, among other things, why Happy Gilmore was a better movie than Jack and Jill.
But you knew that.
Hat tip to Niall who sez:
Should be shown in all schools if you ask me …
