#Cinema Audio Society

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Ganadores de los Cinema Audio Society 2024, sindicato de mezcla de sonido

#Oppenheimer continúa sumando premios en los sindicatos. Consigue el Cinema Audio Society 2024, correspondiente a mezcla de sonido.

En la edición 60 de los premios del gremio de mezcla de sonido (CAS) sobresalen las siguientes películas: ‘Oppenheimer’ logra el premio en Película de Acción. ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ hace lo propio como Película de Animación.   oppenheimer twitter scene   Lista de ganadores de los Cinema Audio Society 2024   MEJOR SONIDO EN PELÍCULA DE ACCIÓN REAL ‘Barbie’ – Production Mixer –…

[awardswatcherik]

60th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards: 'Oppenheimer,' 'The Last of Us,' 'The Bear' Win Top Sound Prizes

[shiningstages]

me rereading old writings for fun, getting the motivation to write, then remembering i have to go into to work at 7am: (in shambles)

[grandapplewit]

As we’ve moved father into the post-modern era (about 1970 onwards), which is defined by the increased social emphasis on individualism, communal storytelling has become something… shunned. Past methods of communal storytelling (theatre, music, folktales) have been increasingly privatized since 1970. Because of this, we’ve seen the emergence of fanfiction (specifically slash fiction started by Star Trek fans in the 1970s) and TTRPGs (specifically Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder in the late 20th Century), which are both ostracized by the mainstream culture, but are also the only two sources of communal storytelling in the 21st century. TTRPGs are finding more footing in mainstream culture, but because they’ve found footing are becoming increasingly commodified. In this essay, I

[brokehorrorfan]

Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 17 via The Criterion Collection. The set collects three films directed by Tod Browning: Freaks, The Unknown, and The Mystic.

Freaks (also known as The Monster Story, Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistake) is a 1932 horror film written by Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, and Roscoe Ates star.

The Unknown is a 1927 silent horror film written by Waldemar Young. Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, and Nick De Ruiz star.

The Mystic is a 1925 silent drama film written by Browning and Young. Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle, and Mitchell Lewis star.

Freaks has been digitally restored in 2K with uncompressed monaural sound. The Unknown has been digitally reconstructed and restored in 2K with a new score by composer Philip Carli. The Mystic has been digitally restored in 2K with a new score by composer Dean Hurley.

Raphael Geroni designed the cover art. Special features are detailed below.

Special features:

Freaks audio commentary by film scholar David J. Skal

The Unknown audio commentary by film scholar David J. Skal

The Mystic introduction by film scholar David J. Skal

Interview with author Megan Abbott about director Tod Browning and pre-Code horror (new)

Freaks archival documentary

"Spurs" - Reading of Tod Robbins' short story on which Freaks is based

Freaks prolgue, added to the film in 1947

Freaks alternate endings featurette

Freaks portrait video glalery

Essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme

The most transgressive film produced by a major American studio in the 1930s, Tod Browning’s crowning achievement has haunted the margins of cinema for nearly one hundred years. An unforgettable cast of real-life sideshow performers portray the entertainers in a traveling circus who, shunned by mainstream society, live according to their own code—one of radical acceptance for the fellow oppressed and, as the show’s beautiful but cruel trapeze artist learns, of terrifying retribution for those who cross them. Received with revulsion by viewers upon its initial release, Freaks effectively ended Browning’s career but can now be seen for what it is: an audacious cry for understanding and a singular experience of nightmarish, almost avant-garde power.

The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces” as the armless Spanish knife thrower Alonzo (he flings daggers with his feet) whose dastardly infatuation with his beautiful assistant (Joan Crawford)—a woman, it just so happens, who cannot bear to be touched by the hands of any man—drives him to unspeakable extremes. Sadomasochistic obsession, deception, murder, disfigurement, and a spectacular Grand Guignol climax—Browning wrings every last frisson from the lurid premise.

A fantastically atmospheric but rarely seen missing link in the development of Tod Browning’s artistry, set amid his favored milieu of shadowy sideshows and clever criminals, The Mystic provides a striking showcase for silent-era diva Aileen Pringle, who sports a series of memorably outré looks (courtesy of art-deco designer Erté) as Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man (Conway Tearle), crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high society. Browning’s fascination with the weird is on full display in the eerie séance sequences, while his subversive moral ambiguity extends surprising sympathy to even the most seemingly irredeemable of antiheroes.

[fic-over-cannon]

whenever you get the chance, i would LOVE to hear your thoughts on new queer cinema, and your fave movies in the category <3

oooh oooh okay! so new queer cinema describes queer film making during the late 1980s - early 1990s. these films are a direct response to the aids epidemic and are meant to be unapologetically queer and confrontational. you cannot separate these films from the aids epidemic. they challenge narrative, film form, normative ideas about society.

they're meant to be provocative! they were created in a social context of survival, where there was the very real risk that silence would mean the deaths of thousands of people because the prevailing attitudes ranged from indifference to outright glee at the death tolls. they're also joyful! if you've heard of camp, a lot of these films are the definition of it (and they'll give you a good idea of just how badly most of the met gala attendees fumbled that theme a few years ago).

these are a few of my favourites:

Zero Patience (1993): one of the first AIDS musical and delightfully campy. sir richard burton (author of 1001 Nights and creator of an insane theory that people living closer to the equator are gay because of the heat) accidentally became immortal and now works at a museum. he starts creating an exhibit on AIDS and the ghost of gaetan dugas - the flight attendant falsely accused of bringing AIDS to north america - haunts him.

Tongues Untied (1989): directed by marlon riggs, this experimental documentary address the reality of being a black man in america, the hypersexual commodification of black bodies, and the way that homophobia plays out in the context of race. it's very honest and defiant in the face of systematic oppression, celebrating black queer desire.

Paris is Burning (1991): possibly one of the most well known nqc films, documenting the new york ball scene of the early 90s. there's been some controversy about narrative ownership (since the director was not part of the community she filmed) but its an important record of queer history.

The Living End (1992): sometimes called the gay thelma & louise, two men with AIDS go on a cross country roadtrip. along the way their clashing ideologies of respectability vs unashamed defiance come to a critical point.

and these are a few that are on my watchlist:

The Watermelon Woman (1996): directed by cheryl dunye, this film blends reality and fiction as a fictional cheryl goes searching for a actress that played 'mammy' roles in the 1930s, a woman that turns out to be a lesbian named fae richards.

Edward II (1991): you've heard of straight washing? this is the opposite of that. an interpretation of christopher marlowe's play, director derek jarman goes out of his way to highlight the queerness of edward's relationship with piers gaveston. features jarman's frequent collaborator tilda swinton.

Poison (1991): one of todd haynes' more experimental movies, three stories of people violently ostracized by their communities build on themes of marginality, desire, and illness. considered one of the representational movies of the movement. i've actually seen this once, but the image was completely unsynced with the audio so i feel like i haven't actually seen it.

[tonymarias]

MARISA DAVILA & CHEYENNE ISABEL WELLS for the cinema audio society awards

[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 21st April

Their Final Moments Audio Drama Avery Lindon is troubled by lucid dreams and hallucinations. On the advice of his psychiatrist, he sets out to record each new dream for diagnostic purposes and a worrying pattern emerges. Every night, Avery finds himself in the body of another person and is forced to experience the events leading up to their death. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240409-01 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/theirfinalmoments/feed.xml

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The House That Shadows Built Audio Book The House That Shadows Built is a six part fiction podcast  written and read by Joe Copplestone with an original soundtrack by composer Alix Lhoumeau. It's one story in six parts and combines elements of cyber-punk, satire and horror for fans of found footage films, JG Ballard, William Burroughs and Cronenberg. It's not suitable for kids or the faint hearted. In an a nameless city, a nameless narrator lives with their best friend ‘The Chewing Gum Kid’ on the very edge of modern society, squatting in deserted buildings and shoplifting for food. When the two of them discover and take over an abandoned cinema, we follow their transformation from scavenging outsiders to leaders of an underground counter culture movement but what starts as a radical experiment slowly descends into something much, much, darker. This is a dystopian mirror image of our world, a place of flickering screens, walls of video tapes and shifting shadows… https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240410-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2319717.rss

Blades in Paradise Audio RPG In a world without fossil fuels, steam is the way of the future, or so they say in the city of Paradise. Join us in this TTRPG Actual Play of Blades in the Dark where the players are trying to make Paradise live up to its name- with crime. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240411-01 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/blades-in-paradise/

Imagitopia Audio Book Welcome to Imagitopia, a world where imagination knows no bounds. Follow our heroes as they embark on epic quests to subvert tropes and battle magical, otherworldly forces. Imagitopia is a weekly fantasy fiction podcast and digital magazine produced by Android Press. We strive to transport our listeners and readers to new worlds and inspire them to create stories of their own. Become an Imaginarian and join us on our journey as we explore the limitless possibilities of fantasy. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240405-03 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/imagitopia

The 3’000 Year Long Lemon Ant War Audio Book Every week I bring to you a new chapter of my worldbuilding epic ”The 3’000 year long Lemon-Ant War”.I write for fun, but also with the hope that the story will with time gain such massive weight, lore and context that it will easily sit on any shelf next to the Holy Bible. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240409-02 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/portellibooks/feed.xml

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Actual Play Broadcast Audio RPG Actual Play Broadcast is an actual play podcast where we play various tabletop RPGs and all together have a good time. We are a collective of nerds with a passion for the RPG space and strive to share our love for the hobby with everyone. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240410-02 RSS: https://media.rss.com/actualplaybroadcast/feed.xml

L'Antre du Gnome Audio Drama Bienvenue dans L'Antre du Gnome, votre série audio de fantasy! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240412-01 RSS: https://feed.ausha.co/ggwGefvXqkEG

Det goda livet Audio Drama Vad är egentligen ett gott liv? För dig, idag? För dig, imorgon? Det goda livet är en fiktiv podcast som utspelar sig i framtiden. År 2050 har Europa blivit koldioxidneutralt. Skåne ska stå värd för världsutställningen 2055, på temat "Det goda livet". Som ett led i förberedelserna ger sig tre programledare ut i det skånska landskapet för att undersöka vad ett gott liv egentligen är; konstnären Esarosa, kändiskocken Enkido och den välrenommerade kulturjournalisten Johanna. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240405-04 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f476ded8/podcast/rss

Song of Fairies Audio Drama Half Fairy Snow fails to prove she has fairy powers and is cast out to the human world. She is set on a journey to find her human father and find her place in the world, but she is slowly losing control of her powers. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240413-01 RSS: https://feeds.libsyn.com/523488/rss

Resar Noir Audio Book Resar Noir is a podcast brought to you by Stephen Resar. This podcast is a collection of Stephen’s original short stories and mini-series that delve into dark fiction, espionage, investigation, crime, murder, the paranormal, hard-boiled detectives, and politics. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240414-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2343606.rss

The Scrying House Audio Drama A weekly fiction podcast examining the old Scrying House, a mirage in the trees that residents of Cape Flattery can only whisper about. Join Margot Knight and some unexpected guests as she attempts to discover the secret of her late grandmother's estate by uncovering the mountains of case files and notes left behind. But beware, as you listen someone (or something) else may be listening with you... https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240416-01 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/scryinghouse

Twitchals Book 1: Dwindling Magic Audio Book Audiobook of a middle-grade cyber-mystery-fantasy novel by TDL White. It follows the adventures of Nick Thompson, who has been sent to a rather exclusive boarding school where his hacker skills make him useful to a mysterious gang of slightly magical students. What starts out as simple hacks and easy magic soon descends into dangerous liaisons and a life-or-death situation for both Nick and his new found friends. Featuring magical portals, script-kiddie hacking, awful school uniform, a strange stiff-legged dog, and mercenary rats. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240412-02 RSS: https://tdlwhite.com/podcasts/twitchals1/rss.xml

Simulacro Audio Drama Marcos Oliveira, uno de los padres de la inteligencia artificial, desaparece de forma misteriosa en Canarias y lo único que saben es que iba buscando una puerta. El escritor Santiago Álvarez recorre la última ruta que hizo el científico para intentar resolver el misterio pero, cuanto más lo busca, más perdido se encuentra en un laberinto entre la realidad y la simulación. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240417-01 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6147871/episodes/feed

Dicey Bastards Comedy DnD Podcast Audio RPG A retired Swashbuckler and his questionable Sorcerer companion come out of retirment for one last epic heist. Can they put the perfect team together to steal a priceless artifact in time for the Festival of Heroes? Find out in this hilarious and chaotic 5E Actual Play podcast where six authors go head-to-head to weave a tale of legendary lunacy! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240402-04 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6138774/episodes/feed

The tall guy with the short stories. Audio Book I enjoy writing and reading short stories. I also love having new fresh stories to listen to while at work. Figured maybe you folks would like to join me. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20230413-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/cef43ca0/podcast/rss

3P - Partners in Pen & Paper Audio RPG Hier unterhalten wir euch mit Actual Plays zu unseren Runden und einzelnen Spielvorstellungen. Unsere Schwerpunkte liegen auf Erzähl- und Indierollenspielen, mit Abstechern zu OSR. Auf unserem Discord-Server planen wir unsere Runden öffentlich, suchen nach Mitspielenden und tauschen uns gerne mit euch aus. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20210101-23 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/7fc96420/podcast/rss

The Numbers Station Audio Drama Leave the world behind and immerse yourself in the nebulous world of nightmares and hallucinations so similar to reality, but...not quiet. Not real enough. Created by Charlie Mesure. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240407-02 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-numbers-station

Aerrigo's Odyssey Audio RPG Welcome to Aerrigo’s Odyssey! Listen in as four unpolished heroes explore a homebrewed realm buried in secrets and danger, seeking answers and learning about themselves in the process. This is a passion project of mine, that originated as a collection of short stories and fantastical worlds that I created as a kid. I never dreamed that I would be able to bring it to life in the way I've been able to Since this is my first experience DMing and playing dungeons and dragons at all, I'm learning as I go. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240414-02 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/aerrigos-odyssey

Crimson Ink Audio Drama After a major reporter for the city paper goes missing, it's up to his wife and the help of the city's greatest has-been detective to uncover the dangerous web of lies that led to his dissapearance. Under the table deals, bad blood, the mafia? There's not telling how far down this rabbit hole goes. A new audio drama inspired by the likes of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe and Yours Truly, Johnny Dolar. Brought to you by the students of Grand Canyon University. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240410-03 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6138872/episodes/feed

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Joffrey vous raconte Audio Book Joffrey vous raconte trois histoires regroupées dans "Le Diable était là". Trois récits que le Malin écoutera avec beaucoup d'attention. Le premier, intitulé "Le Diable dans une cage", regroupe les nouvelles d'un professeur de français et ses élèves qui imaginent des histoires de maléfices et de destins tragiques, sans se rendre compte que le Diable est à leur côté. Le deuxième, "L'homme qui ne voulait plus aimer" nous plonge dans un conte de fée noir. Tandis que le dernier récit, "Un Souhait après l'autre" relate la rencontre du Diable, sous la forme d'une coccinelle, et d'une petite fille qui a la lourde tâche de choisir son meilleur souhait. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240404-03 RSS: https://joffreyvousraconte.fr/category/podcast/feed/

Goodberry Pie Audio RPG Come take a seat at our table and we'll serve you a slice of Goodberry Pie! Goodberry Pie is a multi-genre TTRPG podcast where we create and play one-on-one microcampaigns consisting of two to five sessions. If you like your D&D ala mode, or your Honey Heist served with whip cream we got it all in the cooler. Order's up! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240413-03 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/goodberry-pie/

The Usual NPCs Audio RPG We're thrilled to announce the premiere of our brand-new podcast, The Usual NPCs . It's a Norse inspired campaign with 4 real life strangers (and one person that brought them all together) and our GM. Join our eclectic group of characters—Althea the crocheting artificer, Levi the hungry paladin, Boomer the enigmatic sorcerer, Scrivmir the artistic rogue, and Fitz the historian bard—as they navigate treacherous landscapes and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the snow covered tundra of Midland. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240401-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/efc16c50/podcast/rss

Natural Rollers Audio RPG Natural Rollers is a DnD 5e Podcast. Your dungeon master is Tyler McAlister, with the fantastic group of players, Tim, Leslie, and Lindy! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240401-04 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f301c144/podcast/rss

Halfway to Infinity Audio Book A series of original short stories by voice actor Michael Rhys. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240418-01 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/halfwaytoinfinity/

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Forever Yours Audio Drama Forever Yours, a love story that transcends time... Follow the written journey of a handsome and witty soldier and an aspiring baker,in the midst of the Korean War. Set in the Jim Crow south, the two share their captivating love story across oceans with weekly love letters. Together they learn that distance cannot erase the shared prejudices they face as African-Americans. Listen to Forever Yours, a new romantic fiction podcast brought to you by Well Writers Audio. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240416-02 RSS: https://media.rss.com/foreveryourspodcast/feed.xml

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Operation Starship Infinity Audio Drama Welcome to Operation Starship Infinity. The year is 3856 and we left our planet New New Earth to find a new habitable planet, to hide from the evil intergalactic terrorist corporation that's trying to take over the universe. This corporation is called KBC Corp. The ship is owned by Lucious who owns Quantum Corp. We are headed on a journey that our Master Navigator, Aquamarine has calculated that it is going to take the ship 175 years to get to the next inhabitable planet carrying 1,200 passengers. However, an electromagnetic force field has hit the ship, the navigation system is down and there is damage to the ship. The Captain, co-Captain and a select few of others have been woken to help the androids fix the ship. Aquamarine figured out we have only been asleep 75 years and they are way off course. The mission now is : to get the navigation system back up, fix the ship and get everyone back to sleep. Can they find a closer planet to seek refuge? Well, I guess we're gonna find out. Welcome, to Operation Starship Infinity. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240311-07 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/operation-starship-infinit

Way Out Audio Book Welcome to Way Out, a roadside diner with an imaginative waiter working tonight's shift. He's bored—as anyone would be during a slow overnight slog—so he begins imagining backstories for the sleepy patrons around him. The catch? He's a horror buff, so these stories aren't exactly sweet. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240417-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed613e90/podcast/rss

Aufnahmen aus der Geisterwelt Audio Drama Achtung, ab 18 und ohne Gewähr! Wir haben exklusiven Zugriff auf den umfangreichen Nachlass von Dr. Walsh, einem zu Lebzeiten umstrittenen Parawissenschaftler. Erst nach seinem Tod entdeckte man seine umfangreiche Sammlung an tagebuchähnlichen Aufzeichnungen und Tondokumenten, mit denen er seine verstörensten Fälle dokumentiert hat. Es sind entrückte und erschreckende Aufnahmen - und wir dürfen sie nun hören. Mit großem Aufwand rekonstruiert die Podcasterin und Journalistin Milla König seine Fälle und erzählt Sie nach Besten Wissen und Gewissen nach. Jede Folge ein Fall von Parawissenschaftler Dr. Frederic Walsh. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240415-01 RSS: https://aufnahmenausdergeisterwelt.podigee.io/feed/mp3

Spectacle of Power Audio Book A fantasy fiction podcast which follows one continuous story. Join a varied cast of characters as they strive to overcome a diabolical threat, coming face-to-face with the spectacle of power.Timothy Brunskill. </div> https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240418-02 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2353914.rss

Rolling Midnight Audio RPG Dedicated to telling authentic and innovative stories through the medium of tabletop gaming, Rolling Midnight is the latest indie actual play podcast series released by award winning studio Midnight Ceremonies Media. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240419-01 RSS: https://midnightceremoniesmedia.com/feed/podcast/rolling-midnight/

[denimbex1986]

'Turn on the vibrator, there's NEWS.

Whether big or small, young or old: We can, should and MUST all agree on one thing: Andrew Scott is the Short King of the Century. For us, he is one of the true Sexiest Men Alive .

The Irish actor has been omnipresent ever since his role as the "Hot Priest" in the British dramedy "Fleabag", whether in the cinema, on the red carpet, on horny Tumblr or in the form of quotes tattooed on wrists.

It doesn't seem to matter what Andrew Scott does: he does it fantastically, authentically and exceptionally. That's why we're all the more pleased about the news we've received about him this week. Because...

1. Andrew Scott stars in part 3 of Netflix's "Knives Out"!

The Netflix crime thriller "Knives Out" is entering its third round and alongside lead actor Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor ("The Crown", "Challengers") and Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott will also be seen in it. Details of the plot or Andrew Scott's role are not yet known, but it is said to be Benoit Blanc's (Craig) "most dangerous case".

In any case, director Rian Johnson has landed an experienced supervillain in Andrew Scott, as he has already convinced us of his dark side as the evil genius Moriarty in "Sherlock", as Bond villain C in "James Bond 007: Spectre" and most recently as Ripley in the crime series of the same name. We expect a release at the end of this year.

2. Our prayers have been answered: Andrew Scott voices the lead role in an erotic radio play

It's a mystery to me how our society hasn't collapsed under the news: Andrew Scott has recorded a dirty audiobook for us. Just like that. It's called "The Queen's Guard" and is available on the American audio erotica website Quinn . According to the episode tags, you can look forward to "Grinding," "Teasing," "Begging," and "MDom" in the first two episodes, and from episode 3 onwards, you'll get penetration for your ears. Thank you, Jesus.

3. And last but not least: this GIF. It's not new, but it warms our hearts.

*heavy breathing*'

[tez144]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) – Review

It’s great to be back in George Miller’s dystopian world of Mad Max. I love the original films from the 70/80s, and I think that Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the best movies of 2015, hence Furiosa was one of my most anticipated films of the year. In preparation for the movie, I re-watched the original 3 films, then saw Furiosa in cinemas and finished with a rewatch of Fury Road.

Furiosa is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road showing the early life of the character and her journey to become Immortan Joe’s war rig driver. The movie is titled ‘a Mad Max Saga’ setting the story in the world but does not feature the Mad Max character.

Anya Taylor-Joy takes on the role as the younger version of Furiosa, originally portrayed by Charlize Theron. She embodies the character showing the growth of the strength, resilience, and strategic cunningness that we know from Fury Road. Taylor-Joy has very little dialogue, but she does give it her all and is captivating none-the-less.

Anya Taylor-Joy may play the titular character, but this is Chris Hemsworth’s movie. Hemsworth outshines everyone with his manically maniacal Dr. Dementus character, the warlord responsible for Furiosa’s abduction. It’s a different character that we usually see Hemsworth playing, which is refreshing and showcases his range as he rides his motorcycle-pulled chariot across the dunes.

Director George Miller has delivered again with stunning, awe-inspiring visuals, from grand landscapes to the vital vehicle chase scenes with audio to match. This needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible.

This is where I’m going to deviate from the majority of reviewers. As it’s a prequel to Fury Road we know the destination of the story and character. As exciting as the journey is to get there, there was no tension as nothing was ever at stake. We know Furiosa doesn't die, and we don’t emotionally connect with the other characters, so we are just along for the ride. As an individual film, I don’t think the story lives up to its potential.

However, as a part 1 to Fury Road, it adds depth to Furiosa and the entire dystopian society that has been formed with Immortan Joe at the citadel and the alliances with Gastown and the Bullet farm. The two films work tremendously together as a whole story, but Furiosa doesn’t quite peak as a solo film.

4 / 5 . Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a very good film, made into a great film when double featured with Fury Road. Don’t waste these epic visuals and sounds on your home entertainment system. This needs to be seen in cinemas.

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[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Pasolini 101

One of the most original and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, Italian polymath Pier Paolo Pasolini embodied a multitude of often seemingly contradictory ideologies and identities—and he expressed them all in his provocative, lyrical, and indelible films. Relentlessly concerned with society’s downtrodden and marginalized, he elevated pimps, hustlers, sex workers, and vagabonds to the realm of saints, while depicting actual saints with a radical earthiness. Traversing the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the modern, the mythic and the personal, the nine uncompromising, often scandal-inciting features he made in the 1960s still stand—on this, the 101st anniversary of his birth—as a monument to his daring vision of cinema as a form of resistance.

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 4K digital restorations of seven films and 2K digital restorations of Teorema and Medea, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

Two shorts made by director Pier Paolo Pasolini for anthology films: La ricotta (1963) and The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)

Two documentaries made by Pasolini during his travels

New program on Pasolini’s visual style as told through his personal writing, narrated by actor Tilda Swinton and writer Rachel Kushner

Audio commentaries on Accattone and Teorema

Documentaries on Pasolini’s life and career featuring archival interviews with the director and his close collaborators

Episode from 1966 of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps

Interviews with filmmakers and scholars

Trailers

New English subtitle translations

PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including a 100-page book featuring an essay and notes on the films by critic James Quandt, and writings and drawings by Pasolini

New cover by Eric Skillman

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Ganadores de los premios de Cinema Audio Society 2023

#TopGunMaverick sobresa en los Cinema Audio Society, el gremio de mezcla de sonido, afianzándose como favorita en Mejor Sonido.

En los premios del gremio de mezcladores de sonido destaca ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, reafirmando su condición de favorita en el rubro.   top gun maverick twitter   Lista de ganadores de los Cinema Audio Society 2023   MEJOR SONIDO EN PELÍCULA DE ACCIÓN REAL All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Elvis The Batman Top Gun: Maverick   MEJOR SONIDO EN PELÍCULA DE ANIMACIÓN Guillermo del…

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59th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards: 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Pinocchio,' 'Better Call Saul' take top prizes

59th Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards: 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Pinocchio,' 'Better Call Saul' take top prizes

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Filmmaking in the Mojave Wasteland

[welcome to another Catherine lore stream of consciousness!]

After the NCR-Legion War, the Mojave Commune became the first center of the resurgent cinema industry of the early 24th century. That post-war filmmaking emerged from the communist Mojave instead of the far more industrialized NCR next door is a bit surprising, but the communist society — which was less repressive than the NCR’s right-wing military junta next door — seems to have encouraged artists to experiment, especially Native artists who had faced repression during the NCR occupation of their lands. Inés de Tijuana (i.e. “Courier Six”) and Vera Dreyfus, two of the first revolutionary leaders of the Commune, took a strong personal interest in the medium, pushing for the planners to channel resources and funding into the development of technologies, like high-capacity holotapes and cameras, necessary for filmmaking.

Since this is the apocalypse, film is in short supply, and holotapes of the capacity needed to store the high-fidelity films that we would recognize are extremely expensive to manufacture. Therefore, the majority of Mojave films are silent films, usually set to musical recordings which are bundled with the films. They rarely last longer than 30 minutes, though in 2302, filmmakers were already experimenting with so-called super-holofilms that lasted over an hour.

Despite the enormous logistical obstacles facing any post-war filmmaker, they do have a substantial wellspring of pre-war films from which to draw inspiration: about 1% of pre-war films are estimated to have survived in a viewable state, mostly in private collections and people’s homes, and several dozen films were available to the Mojave inhabitant of the 24th century. A few theatres in Freeside and the Mojave tribal lands played some of these films (the Mojave theatres used projectors salvaged from Vaults 11 and 19), so children throughout the wasteland grew up familiar with the concept yet unable to contribute their own work to it.

The first post-war Mojave film cameras were developed in 2299. These machines were capable of taking relatively high-definition color footage and saving it to holotapes, but they were enormous, nearly two meters tall, and thus completely immobile. As a result, the actual “motion picture” footage in these films had to be shot in a single location (the Strip had two of these sets, with a third in Freeside). The initial films produced by these studios were essentially tech demos, featuring subtitled interviews, dances, or tribal ceremonies lasting 10 minutes or less, often with spoken Mojave text underlying them were mostly intended to impress economic planners and Mojave elders with the durability of the holotapes. Some of these films had rudimentary audio tracks, consisting of music recorded separately from the film, and directors routinely took the opportunity to speak in indigenous languages like Mojave, Pomoan, and Navajo, rather than English or Spanish. In that regard, they were a rousing success, with flocks of people from towns like Goodsprings, Needles, and Primm traveling to outer Vegas to view them.

After that, the first attempts at films with artistic direction and narratives tended to be war films set during the revolution or the war with the NCR — yet the immobility of the cameras meant that action scenes in the actual battlefields were impossible to shoot. Therefore, these films tended to center on the experiences of civilians, such as the victims of bombardments and massacres, the bereavement of loved ones, and political agitation during and after the revolution. The majority of directors and actors were indigenous Mojave people, and the free hand given by the new government allowed them to experiment with highly politically charged and controversial content. For instance, the controversial 2302 war film “Don’t worry about these green eyes” shocked audiences for its final scene, in which the protagonist's corpse, lying in the open in the sand near Nipton, fades out and is replaced by a still of the actress, in her bed at home, lying in the same position. Even aside from the rumor that the immolated corpse seen in the 40-minute film was an actual person killed in action (it was actually a prop made of papier-mâché), the film was widely seen as offensive for its graphic portrayal of a young, traumatized, yet idealistic woman suffering a brutal and senseless death in battle — until Inés de Tijuana, who was a veteran of the NCR-Legion war, personally insisted that the film be officially released, and spoke on its crew’s behalf. Nevertheless, the film earned acclaim as a technical marvel, for its use of photographs from the desert interspersed with live-action footage.

All in all, post-war films, with their frankness and themes relatable to post-apocalyptic people, rapidly became as popular as pre-war ones. With the prevalence of Native filmmakers and actors, they have also contributed greatly to the continued vitality of the indigenous languages of the American Southwest.

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Listening Task II - Dummy Head Microphone

Dummy Head microphones are used in binaural recording, the dummy head or mannequin is built with a matched pair of omnidirectional microphones between the pinna (ear), fully capturing all of the audio frequency adjustments or head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) that recreate the impression of the head shadow, giving the listener a full spatial binaural effect as if being in the same room as the recording or instruments. This sound localization generates Inter-aural Time Difference (ITD) and Inter-aural Level Difference (ILD) that happen organically as sound wraps around the head and is molded by the form of the outer and inner ear. (Minnaar et al. 2001) 

The most notable and first commercially released album that implemented the binaural recording technique using a dummy head microphone was Lou Reed's 1978 Album Street Hassle. Recorded in Germany and New York in 1977, the album featured both live and studio recordings that were recorded solely using dummy head microphones. The critically acclaimed record had mixed reviews as binaural recording does not translate correctly over loudspeakers and it was received as somewhat of a novelty for headphone listeners, however, it promoted binaural recording in the music industry and more artists have adopted the technique.   

The dummy head microphone is not very popular due to the price of the equipment and considering that most people like to listen over loudspeakers. But the rise of 3D cinema, virtual reality, and ASMR videos has exponentially increased the demand for binaural recording equipment such as the dummy head and has gained a lot more attention in recent years.

Reference list 

Jens Blauert 2013, The technology of binaural listening, Springer, Berlin ; New York. 

Minnaar, P, Olesen, SK, Christensen, F & Møller, H 2001, ‘Localization with Binaural Recordings from Artificial and Human Heads’, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 323–336, viewed 31 March 2023, <https://www.aes.org/e-lib/online/browse.cfm?elib=10193>. 

Reed, J 2014, The Life and Music of Lou Reed, Omnibus Press. 

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Picnic at Hanging Rock will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 9 via The Criterion Collection. Eric Skillman designed the cover art for the 1975 Australian mystery film.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society) directs from a script by Cliff Green, based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel. Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver star.

Picnic at Hanging Rock has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by Weir and director of photography Russell Boyd, with HDR and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with director Peter Weir

Making-of featurette with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members

Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

On-set documentary hosted by executive producer Patricia Lovell and featuring interviews with Peter Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and author Joan Lindsay

Homesdale - 1971 black comedy directed by Peter Weir

Trailer

Essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

Pre-order Picnic at Hanging Rock.