[vimeo clip_id=”28171399″ height=”” width=”640″]
NY cartoonist and director Dan Meth sez:
From 1969 to 2001, the Twin Towers made countless cameos in Hollywood films. Sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance. This montage celebrates the towers’ all-too-short film career with songs that capture the passing decades.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTFQBHBeleE
Unscripted and ad-libbed scenes in movies.
Some (Matt Damon reminiscing about his brothers in Saving Private Ryan, perhaps) you may already have suspected. Others (Roy Scheider’s ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat’ in Jaws) perhaps not.
You can turn on annotations (via the triangle at the bottom left of the video frame) for details of what was and wasn’t improvised. Or just, you know, let your instinct guide you.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUAihMlTOOw
None of your girlie man faux-ganster stuff here. Just blood and raw violence. Good morning.
Release Date (Ireland): August 5.
Jennifer Connelly in Requiem For A Dream
Jim Henson (centre), Sesame Street
Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick & Shelley Duvall (in reflection), The Shining
David Warner and Bruce Boxleitner, Tron
James Caan, The Godfather
Eleven and a half minutes of extremely threatening behaviour, edited together by Harry Hanrahan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRDiqinG8Ow
We’ve nailed the shorts thing, we rock at animation, and can fire off no end of decent documentaries – now the New York Times is writing love letters to Conor Horgan’s splendid, low-budget ‘dystopian’ drama One Hundred Mornings (which opens here on Friday).
There are more to come, most notably John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard, which did the business at Sundance. We’ve even got a movie (The Other Side Of Sleep) at Cannes this year.
Elsewhere, Xtravision bargain bins across the nation are flooded with copies of Zonad, and we’ll still waiting for that rumoured 3-D sequel to Shrooms.
Whatever. We still haven’t come to terms with the fact that Teen Spirit is 20.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUQeQalRsU
Why don’t film characters say “goodbye” when they hang up the phone? We don’t know, but here’s a compilation of goodbye-less telephone calls.
Access Main Computer File is a celebration of classic computer interface scenes from Hollywood movies. Once on the site, names and dates appear when you mouse over the stills.
[vimeo clip_id=”19788132″ height=”” width=”640″]
In this experiment, eleven adult viewers were shown an excerpt from There Will Be Blood while their eye movements were recorded with an infra-red tracker. The centre of each ring represents the center of one viewer’s gaze. The size of the ring shows how long they’ve held fixation.
It’s all about understanding how we watch cinema and TV screens.
Apparently, we watch them with our eyes.
