#Ron Kovacs

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Friday, March 24, 2023 9:15pm ET: Feature LP: Depeche Mode - Memento Mori (2023)

Memento Mori (stylised as “Memento | Mori” on the album cover) is the fifteenth studio album by Depeche Mode, released on March 24, 2023, through Columbia and Mute. The album was produced by James Ford and Marta Salogni. It was preceded by the single “Ghosts Again” and the track “My Cosmos Is Mine” and is the first Depeche Mode studio album to be released after the death of co-founder and…

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Sunday Live with Ron Kovacs / 12pm ET

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bud Abbott, Badly Drawn Boy, Sigtryggur Baldursson (The Sugarcubes), Victor Borge’s 1953 “Comedy in Music” premiere, the 1956 film BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Mahatma Gandhi, Moses Gunn, Richard Hell, Dave Holland, Freddie Jackson, the unsinkable Violet Jessop, Persis Kambatta, Chris LeDoux, Annie Leibowitz, George “Spanky” McFarland, Groucho Marx, Don McLean, Ron Meagher (Beau Brummels), the 1995 album WHAT’S THE STORY MORNING GLORY by Oasis (good to meet you Noel), Phillip Oakley (Human League), John Otway, Michael Rutherford, Jo-El Sonnier, my most excellent cousin Susan Stamm, Sting, Nat Turner, THE TWILIGHT ZONE TV series (premiered 1959), Gillian Welch, the first newspaper comic strip THE YELLOW KID (1895), Yokozuna, and the great British writer (journalist, novelist, screenwriter) Graham Greene. I cite him as a key influence on my lyrics, and I’ve read his novels repeatedly—many of which have been made into films (some more than once): The End of The Affair (1955, 1999), The Human Factor, the excellent Our Man in Havana w/Alec Guinness & Ernie Kovacs (1959), The Quiet American (1958, 2002), The Power and The Glory a.k.a. The Fugitive w/Henry Fonda (1947), and the landmark film noirs This Gun for Hire w/Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake (1942) and The Third Man w/Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Wells + Anton Karas’s ironic zither music (1951). 

As a journalist, Greene’s 67-year long career took him to leper colonies, war zones, and odd “hot spots” around the world, along with spying for MI6 during World War II. These provided settings for his stories, exploring ambivalent ethical and political issues of the modern world, often through a Biblical lens that offered redemption to criminals and sinners while exposing the hypocrisies of moral superiors. I can find his imprints in several of my songs, but the most overt is “Unresolved—Graham Greene’s Script for Laurel & Hardy,” imagining if Greene had written a script for the comedy team of Laurel & Hardy (maybe echoing Greene’s late-in-life friendship with Charlie Chaplin). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBvBEVq0PSE Meanwhile, HB GG and thank you for your volumes of spiritually-informed writing and letting us be human in the eyes of God.

#birthday #grahamgreene #novelist #spy #thirdman #MI6 #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #chamberpop

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10 characters, 10 fandoms (?

Thanks for the tag @1waveshortofashipwreck

Characters:

Capt. Ron Speirs in Band of Brothers

C. Auguste Dupin in "The purloined letter" - E. A. Poe character.

Jim Moriarty in BBC Sherlock 2010

Luka Kovac in ER

Rust Cohle in True Detective season 1

Elizabeth Zott in Lessons in Chemistry

Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future

Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures

Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes Granada series 1984

Bobe Belcher in Bob's Burgers

Tagging some mutuals: @liptonwashere @liptonsbabe @ewipandora @ronsparky @malarkgirlypop @iceman-kazansky @heystovepipeboys

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When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it’s hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Ray Peterson: Tom Hanks Lt. Mark Rumsfield: Bruce Dern Carol Peterson: Carrie Fisher Art Weingartner: Rick Ducommun Bonnie Rumsfield: Wendy Schaal Ricky Butler: Corey Feldman Hans Klopek: Courtney Gains Dr. Werner Klopek: Henry Gibson Walter Seznick: Gale Gordon Vic, Garbageman #1: Dick Miller Joe, Garbageman #2: Robert Picardo Uncle Reuben Klopek: Theodore Gottlieb Detective #1: Franklyn Ajaye Dave Peterson: Cory Danziger Detective #2: Rance Howard Ricky’s Girlfriend: Heather Haase Steve Kuntz: Nicky Katt Ricky’s Friend: Bill Stevenson Ricky’s Friend: Gary Hays Cop: Kevin Gage Cop: Dana Olsen Walter’s Daughter: Brenda Benner Suzanne Weingartner: Patrika Darbo Voiceover Actor: Sonny Carl Davis Voiceover Actor: Moosie Drier Voiceover Actor: Leigh French Voiceover Actor: Archie Hahn Voiceover Actor: Billy Jayne Voiceover Actor: Phyllis Katz Voiceover Actor: Jeffrey Kramer Voiceover Actor: Lynne Marie Stewart Voiceover Actor: Arnold F. Turner Voiceover Actor: Gigi Vorgan Ricky’s friend (uncredited): Carey Scott Kid on Bike (Uncredited): Tony Westbrook Ray’s Boss (uncredited): Kevin McCarthy Film Crew: Sound Effects: Mark A. Mangini Casting: Mike Fenton Casting: Judy Taylor Costume Design: Rosanna Norton Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director: Joe Dante Executive Producer: Ron Howard Production Sound Mixer: Ken King Hairstylist: Christine Lee Production Design: James H. Spencer Set Designer: James E. Tocci Producer: Larry Brezner Producer: Michael Finnell Additional Photography: John Hora Music Editor: Kenneth Hall Set Decoration: John H. Anderson Foley Editor: Ron Bartlett Makeup Artist: Daniel C. Striepeke Co-Producer: Dana Olsen Special Effects Supervisor: Ken Pepiot Editor: Marshall Harvey Camera Operator: Michael D. O’Shea Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Stunts: George P. Wilbur Associate Producer: Pat Kehoe Dolly Grip: Kirk Bales Key Grip: Charles Saldaña Stunts: John-Clay Scott Supervising Sound Editor: George Simpson Stunts: Eddie Hice Stunts: Gary Epper Stunts: Wally Rose Stunt Double: Brian J. Williams Stunts: Jeff Ramsey Stunts: John Hateley Stunts: Ray Saniger Art Direction: Charles L. Hughes ADR Editor: Stephen Purvis Stunts: Gary Morgan Stunts: Frank Orsatti Second Assistant Director: David D’Ovidio Sound Editor: Warren Hamilton Jr. Costume Supervisor: Cheryl Beasley Blackwell Makeup Artist: Michael Germain Foley Artist: Dan O’Connell Transportation Coordinator: Randy White Boom Operator: Randall L. Johnson Foley Artist: Kevin Bartnof Visual Effects Supervisor: Michael Owens Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr. Script Supervisor: Roz Harris Leadman: Nigel A. Boucher Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary C. Bourgeois Foley Editor: Aaron Glascock Sound Editor: Michael J. Benavente Chief Lighting Technician: Leslie J. Kovacs Costume Supervisor: Eric H. Sandberg Greensman: Dave Newhouse Construction Coordinator: Michael Muscarella Stunts: Roydon Clark Stunts: Sandra Lee Gimpel Set Designer: Judy Cammer Assistant Editor: Uri Katoni Lighting Technician: Brent Poe Grip: T. Daniel Scaringi Production Coordinator: Karen Shaw Lighting Technician: Ken W. Ballantine Special Effects: Michael Arbogast Studio Teacher: Adria Later Stunt Coordinator: Jeff Smolek Construction Foreman: Ciro Vuoso Production Accountant: Julianna Arenson Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Benny McNulty Set Designer: Erin M. Cummins Property Master: Gregg H. Bilson Lighting Technician: E. Christopher Reed Stunts: Rick Sawaya Unit Publicist: Reid Rosefelt Special Effects: Jeff Pepiot Grip: Danny Falkengren Best Boy Grip: Hal Nelson Grip: Paul E. Sutton Special Effects: Thomas R....

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Masterlist

Fics i have done!

Fandoms i write for!

Young justice

Kaldur'ahm/Aqualad

Megan morse/Miss martian

Connor kent/Superboy

Artemis crock/Tigress

Jaime reyes/Blue beetle

Cassie sandsmark/Wondergirl

Wally west/Kidflash

Barbara gordon/Batgirl

CSI Vegas

Sara sidle

Nick stokes

Mia dickerson

Greg sanders

Catherine willows

Warrick brown

Riley adams

Gil grissom

M*A*S*H*

Benjamin hawkeye pierce

Margaret hot lips houlihan

B.J. hunnicutt

Margie cutler

Radar o'reilly

Kellye yamoto

John mulcahy

Stranger things

Nancy wheeler

Dustin henderson

Max mayfield

Jonathan byers

Robin buckley

Steve harrison

Jane hopper/el

Lucas Sinclair

Joyce byers

Mike wheeler

Barbara holland

Jim hopper

CSI Miami

Walter simmons

Yelena salazar

Ryan wolfe

Natalia boa vista

Eric delko

Calliegh duquesne

Horatio caine

Alexx woods

Jesse cardoza

Marisol delko

Marvel

Kate bishop

Clint barton

Natasha romanoff

T'challa

Cassandra lang

Sam wilson

Kamala khan

Bucky barnes

Shuri

Bruce banner

Mortal kombat

Kung jin

Skarlet

Hanzo hasashi

Sonya blade

Kuai liang

Jaqui briggs

Johnny cage

Kitana

Takeda takashi

Jade

Jax briggs

Cassie cage

Resident evil

Claire redfield

Carlos olivera

Sherry birkins

Leon kennedy

Jill valentine

Jake muller

Helena harper

Chris redfield

Alice

NCIS NOLA

Chris laselle

Loretta wade

Sebastian lund

Hannah khoury

Patton plame

Sonja percy

Dwayne pride

Tammy gregario

Final destination

Clear rivers

Lewis romaro

Wendy christensen

Kevin horton

Carrie dryer

Kevin fischer

Kimberly corman

Thomas burke

Alex browning

The mighty ducks

Fulton reed

Julie gaffney

Adam banks

Charlie conway

Dean portman

Guy germaine

Dwayne robertson

Luiz mendoza

Connie monreau

Criminal minds

Emily prentiss

Spencer reid

Jennifer jareau

Aaron hotchner

Kate callahan

Derek morgan

Penelope garcia

Luke alvez

Tara lewis

Matt simmons

Trauma center

Derek stiles

Angie thompson

Gabriel cunningham

Elena salazar

Erhard miller

Naomi kimishima

Markus vaughn

Valerie blaylock

ER

Susan lewis

Mark greene

Carol hathaway

Doug ross

Kerry weaver

Gregory pratt

Samantha taggart

John carter

Cate banfield

Luka kovac

Harry potter

Cedric diggory

Luna lovegood

Harry potter

Ginny weasley

Remus lupin

Narcissa malfoy

Ron weasley

Nymphodora tonks

Sirius black

Marlene mckinnon

Draco malfoy

Fleur declour

Blaise zabini

Hermione granger

Kingdom hearts

Namine

Riku

Kairi

Sora

Aqua

Terra

Xion

Ventus

Roxas

Xmen

Charles xavier

Ororo munroe

Warren worthington

Kitty pryde

Kurt wagner

Illyana rasputin

Erik leshnerr

Raven darkholme

Logan

Marie d'ancanto

Peter maximoff

Jubliee

Pixie

Pixie o'brien

Harland mckenna

Frank mccullen

Final fantasy

Cloud strife

Oerba dia vanille

Snow villers

Tifa lockhart

Hope esthiem

Oerba yun fang

Vincent valentine

Lighting farron

Zack fair

Aerith gainsborough

Narnia

Lucy pevensie

Peter pevensie

Susan pevensie

Edmund pevensie

Mr tumnus

Prince caspian

NCIS LA

Marty deeks

Shay mosley

Sam hanna

Kensi blye

G callen

Fatima nazami

Eric beale

Harley hidoko

Nell jones

Code lyoko

Aelita schaffer

Odd della robbia

Yumi ishiyama

Ulrich stern

Milly solovieff

William dunbar

Tamiya diop

Jeremy belpois

Triple frontier

Will "ironhead" miller

Frankie "catfish" morales

Benny miller

Santiago "pope" garcia

The night shift

Landry de la cruz

Joey chavez

Gwen gaskin

Kenny fornette

Jordan alexander

Michael ragosa

Drew allister

Shannon rivera

TC callahan

Ewan mcgregor characters

Catcher block

Dan torrance

Perry makepeace

Christopher robin

Rodney copperbottom

Robert lewis

Alex law

Edward bloom

Star wars

Crosshair

Cara dune

Luke skywalker

Aayla secura

Hunter

Din djarin

Padme amidala

Cal kestis

Rey skywalker

Obi wan kenobi

Bo katan kryze

Qui gon jin

Tech

Ahsoka tano

Poe dameron

Leia organa

Echo

Finn

Iden versio

Del meeko

Wrecker

Misc 1

Jack mercer

Mason "mace" brown

Spike spiegel

Toph

Lu fox

Elizabeth martinson

Casi

Laney boggs

Max lewinsky

Mahtilda

Flip zimmerman

Nani pelekai

Murphy macmanus

Korra

Lu fox

Samantha caine

Bill s prescott

Iris

Zack siler

Rachel

David abbott

Marta

Jed eckhart

Tess finnegan

Ryan williams

Barbara novak

Ted logan

Toni

Eugene/vida boheme

Tris prior

Murtagh morzzansson

Skeeter

Christian

Stephanie speck

John wick

Viola eade

Jonathan levy

Evey hammond

Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz

Casey jones

Marni

Elliot alderson

Misc 2

Chris chambers

Andie anderson

Michael perry

Beatrix "the bride" kiddo

Elliott

Quinn fabray

Benjamin barry

Dani rojas

Billy/four

Daphne moon

Javi gutierrez

Allison reynolds

Hector villanueva

April o'neil

Ned tash

Kara

Don billingsley

Asami sato

Beau hutton

Monica long dutton

Joey coalter

Celine naville

Sam munroe

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【Instagram Live】vs Ron Jude

LOS ANGELES-Gallery Luisotti announces their first of many conversations between artists and thinkers in the field. This Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time, recent Guggenheim fellow Ron Jude will join Getty curator Arpad (Arpi) Kovacs in a casual conversation via gallery Luisotti’s Instagram page, which you can follow at the link here. At the time of the conversation, you’ll find our page icon at the…

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List of Funkos for Customs!

Credit to bluemoonmaiden on tiktok and mleane on discord for most of these

Tommy:

Barney Stinson (Head)

Keith Haring (Body)

(Note: Make discs for open hand)

Wilbur:

Jughead Jones (Head)

Christmas Ron Weasley (Body)

Tubbo:

Artemis Fowl (Head)

Keith Haring (Body)

Technoblade:

Roland from Nino Kuni (Head)

Trevor Belmont (Body)

(Note: Use the little tiny thing to make Micheal)

Philza:

Trevor Belmont (Head)

Roronoa Zoro (Body)

(Note: Make wings out of clay)

Fundy:

Nick Wilde (Head)

Marko from Saga (Body)

(Note: Use tail on Nick Wilde for the body)

Niki:

Eleanor Shellstrop (Head)

Laura Moon (Body)

Karl:

Mikey from Goonies (Head)

Casual Saitama from One Punch Man (Body)

Ranboo:

Jason Blum (Head)

Brenner from Stranger Things (Body)

Dream:

Skeleton Miguel from Coco (Head)

Casual Saitama from One Punch Man (Body)

Sapnap:

Levi Ackerman (Head)

Cisco Ramon (Body)

George:

Jonah Ryan (Head)

Jason Mendoza (Body)

BBH:

Raven from Fortnite (Head & Body)

Eret:

Stanley Uris (Head)

King Freddie Mercury (Body)

Quackity:

Micheal Scott (Head)

Jughead Jones (Body)

(Note: The head is only found in The Scranton Boys two pack at FYE)

Schlatt:

Marko from Saga (Head)

Barney Stinson (Body)

Puffy:

Merida from Brave (Head)

Yara Greyjoy (Body)

Wilbur (Pogtopia):

Jughead Jones (Head)

Baron Zemo (Body)

Tommy (Pogtopia):

Serpent Jughead Jones (Head & Body)

Wilbur (L’Manburg):

Jughead Jones (Head)

George Washington (Body)

Tommy (L’Manburg):

Barney Stinson (Head)

Aaron Burr (Body)

Tubbo (L’Manburg):

Artemis Fowl (Head)

Alexander Hamilton (Body)

Quackity (Las Nevadas): 

Takeshi Kovacs (Head)

Eleven from Stranger Things (Body)

Technoblade (Arctic):

Roland from Nino Kuni (Head)

Jon Snow (Body)

Philza (Arctic):

Trevor Belmont (Head)

Robb Stark (Body)

Tubbo (Snowchester): 

Artemis Fowl (Head)

Kristoff from Frozen (Body)

BBH (Eggpire):

Raven from Fortnite (Head)

Carnage from Venom (Body)

Dream (Prison):

Danger Days Gerard Way (Head)

Jumpsuit Johnny Rico (Body)

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TWO-HOUR ‘20/20’ HAS THE FIRST TV EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET RUDIN SINCE HER PRISON RELEASE AFTER 20 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR MILLIONAIRE HUSBAND’S MURDER

‘20/20’ Includes First Interview with Judge from Rudin’s Original Trial and Interview with Rudin’s Attorney   ‘20/20’ Airs Friday, February 19 (9:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC

Margaret Rudin spent over two years on the run as one of America’s Most Wanted following an indictment for her millionaire husband, Ron Rudin’s, murder. After spending time in Mexico, Arizona and Massachusetts using different aliases and disguises, authorities found Rudin and extradited her back to Las Vegas. Now, nearly 20 years after a jury found her guilty of the murder, a two-hour “20/20” features the first TV interview with Rudin since her release from prison. Rudin opens up about why she never took any of the multiple plea deal offers she received over the years, her desire to prove her innocence and life now as a 77-year-old great-grandmother. “20/20” also features an interview with Rudin’s attorney, Greg Mullanax. Mullanax discusses the case and walks ABC News and ESPN Correspondent Ryan Smith through the crime scene where authorities found Ron’s car after he went missing. The two-hour program also includes the first interview on the Rudin case with Judge Joseph Bonaventure, the judge from her original trial who reflects on the outcome of the trial; and interviews with Gary Guymon, prosecutor on the case; Tom Pitaro, Rudin’s former defense attorney; and Coreen Kovacs, the holdout juror who admitted that voting for Rudin’s conviction was the biggest regret of her life. “20/20” airs on Friday, February 19 (9:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET) on ABC.

ABC News’ “20/20” is an award-winning primetime program anchored by David Muir and Amy Robach. A proven leader in the long-form newsmagazine for over 40 years, “20/20” features hard-hitting investigative reports, in-depth coverage of high profile trials, unforgettable, character-driven stories and exclusive newsmaker interviews. In conjunction with ABC Audio, “20/20” produced top true crime podcasts “A Killing on the Cape” and “Cutthroat Inc.” “20/20” airs Fridays from 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET on ABC and is available to stream on ABC News digital platforms and Hulu.

David Sloan is senior executive producer and Janice Johnston is executive producer. Terri Lichstein is senior broadcast producer, and Keren Schiffman and Joseph Rhee are producers of this episode.

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BART CHAT 2/2/19

Greetings all,

Boy was it a great week! Last week we have our best Kovacs Award yet.  As many of you know we awarded John Cleese.  We celebrated the Kovacs Centennial, we celebrated 50 years of Monty Python and we celebrated 45 years since Monty Python premiered for the first time on KERA TV.

To make it even more special we have quite a crew with us.  As in the past few years, Josh Mills, Edie Adams son, and keeper of all things Kovacs was here. We also had Ben Model, who I have been hearing about for years, at the event. Ben’s main gig is doing lives scores for silent films (and he does many of them at MOMA in NYC) but he is the main archivist of the Kovacs collection and knows more about the minutia of Kovacs land than even Josh Mills. Finally, we were graced with the presence of Ron Devillier and his wife Linda. Ron was the guy, as in the guy who got Monty Python on the air here in Dallas. It was wonderful to have him here to talk about it on stage. Finally, Andy Curd, rounding out the caravan of Kovacs Award guest, is a documentary filmmaker who is shooting footage of Cleese. We bought a big group that had a great deal of fun together. While Cleese was here he did a press roundtable at AMS Pictures and was on Channel 8 news then did one hour on Think on 90.1 and an interview with Bill Young on Tellyspotting on KERA TV. It was amazing to see him tell different stories and make every interview special.  I was worried he would be tired for the big event, but he was a trouper continuing to be personnable and engage with the audience wherever he went. Then we got to the Texas Theater and Adam Dietrich and his team totally transformed it. I have been waiting to some special projection for a while and he created 3 great projections in the lobby. But the real joy was what he did on stage. We had these images on TVs of Cleese and Kovacs, which graphically made the point of the evening.  Thanks to Adam and Alford Media for making it possible. Bravo. So what is next for us the Best of Fests will have year 2 coming up, and we have something special coming up in May. So what else is happening this week. The Angelika is showing a documentary called Downtown 81 a film about Jean Michel Basquiat, that was made in 1981. We see him walk about well downtown NY and get a real sense of what NYC and the art scene were in those days. The film was finished in 2000 and it will be shown on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons at 2 pm in both the Angelikas (Dallas on Mockingbird and in Plano). In cinemas, I recommend seeing  Jo Jo Rabbit before it leaves.

Bart Weiss

Artistic Director

Dallas VideoFest

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Inside  Fotografía

‘Side by side. El impacto del cine digital' ('Side by side’), Christopher Kenneally, 2012, VOSE.

Producido por Keanu Reeves, analiza los pros y los contras de los procesos digitales y los fotoquímicos y muestra la revolución que los nuevos procesos digitales han supuesto en la producción cinematográfica.

Con entrevistas a conocidos directores, directores de fotografía, estudiantes, técnicos, montadores y distribuidores, el documental examina el impacto en todas las fases de producción de una película, desde el rodaje, el montaje, el telecinado o los efectos visuales, hasta su posterior exhibición e incluso el archivo de un largometraje. Intervienen reconocidos directores como Steven Soderbergh, James Cameron, David Lynch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorsese, los hermanos Wachowski, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, George Lucas, Lars von Trier y Danny Boyle entre otros.

‘Kodak master class series’. Kodak cinematography.

'Lighting Dances with wolves with Dean Semler’, VO, SE en YouTube.

'Lighting Dead poets society with John Seale’, VO.

'Location lighting with Geoff Burton’, VO.

'Studio lighting a comparative workshop with Dennis McAlphine & Denis Lenoir', VO. 

'Kodak master class series: Shooting for drama', VO.

'Behind the Camera: Freddie Young', Richard Blanshard, VO.

‘Composition in storytelling’, Channel Criswell, 2016, VO, SE en YouTube.

'Colour in storytelling', Channel Criswell, 2016, VO, SE en YouTube.

'135 Shots that will restore your faith in cinema', Flavorwire, 2012, VO.

‘The art of the car chase’, Filmnørdens Hjørne, 2015, VO. Vídeo ensayo.

‘The art of the opening shot’, Filmnørdens Hjørne, 2015, VO. Vídeo ensayo.

‘James Wong Howe: Cinematographer’, University Film, Video Foundation, 1990, VO.

Biografía de James Wong Howe, China, agosto, 28, 1899 – Julio, 12, 1976, director de fotografía de más de 130 películas.

‘Vilmos Zsigmond: Finding the right light’, Phil Whitehead, 2016, VO.

‘What is composition’, Press Play Video Blog, 2014, VO.

'Cinema compilation: Silhouettes', Jacob T. Swinney, 2014, VO.

Recopilación de siluetas presentes a lo largo de la historia del cine.

'Cinema compilation: POV shots', Jacob T. Swinney, 2014, VO.

Recopila varios planos subjetivos pertenecientes a unos cien films, e incluye las perspectivas desde los personajes y también desde objetos inanimados.

Phedon Papamichael.

Janusz Kaminski.

‘Kodak presents a conversation with Janusz Kaminski and Phedon Papamichael’, VO, SE en YouTube.

‘Phedon Papamichael: A life behind te lens’, Alexandros Maragos, 2015, VO.

'Andrew Dominik sobre el arte en la era digital’, Istanbul International Culture Festival, 2012, VO.

‘On Sven Nykvist: With one eye he cries’, Greg Carson, 2004, VO.

Presenta una mirada sobre la obra del director de fotografía Sven Nykvist.

'The motion picture camera: Past, present and future', Jery October, 2014.

Masters of cinematography - ‘Six kinds of light: John Alcott’, BPS, Film on film, 1986, VO, SE en YouTube.

‘Writing with light’, David Thompson, 1992, VO, SE en YouTube.   Vittorio Storaro es unos de los directores de fotografía más importantes e influyentes del pasado cercado y del presente. Entre sus trabajos figuran títulos como ‘Novecento’, ‘El conformista’, ‘El último tango en París’, ‘Golpe al corazón’, ‘Bulworth’, ‘El cielo protector’, ‘Tucker: Un hombre y su sueño’, ‘Apocalypse now’ en la que ganó su primer Oscar en 1979, ‘Rojos’ por la que obtuvo su segundo Oscar en 1981 y ‘El último Emperador’ ganado nuevamente el Oscar en 1987, entre otros films.

En el documental Storaro comenta su trabajo acompañado de varios directores, entre ellos Warren Beatty (trabajó con él en ‘Dick Tracy’ obteniendo una nominación con ella) y Bernardo Bertolucci entre otros, junto a compañeros de la talla de Néstor Almendros. También se presenta footage en el set de ‘Dick Tracy’ y ‘El cielo protector’, comenta sus teorías acerca de la luz y el color en narrativa, y resume la historia de la iluminación en el cine.

‘Visions of light. The Art of cinematography’ ('Maestros de la luz’), Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuel, 1992, VOSE.

Repasa la historia del cine con opiniones de reconocidos directores relacionados con este arte. 'Maestros de la luz’ es una viaje en el tiempo dentro del mundo de la cinematografía, recordando a los artistas que han iluminado algunas de las caras y de las escenas más hermosas en las 125 mejores películas de los últimos 100 años.

En 'Maestros de la luz’, que es un tributo cariñoso a la historia de la cinematografía, participan mediante entrevistas y opiniones Ernest Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel, Lisa Rinzler, Conrad L. Hall, William A. Fraker, John Bailey, Néstor Almendros, Charles D. Rasher, Vilmos Zsigmond, Stephen H. Burum, Harry L. Wolf y Charles Lang entre otros.

‘No subtitles necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos’, James Chressanthis, 2008, VO.

Retrato de las vidas y carreras de László Kovacs y Vilmos Zgismond, dos de los grandes directores de fotografía de la historia del cine. Desde sus inicios como refugiados húngaros huidos del comunismo hasta sus triunfos en Hollywood y su contribución a la revolución de la industria con la nueva ola americana. Incluye declaraciones de directores, actores y otros directores de fotografía, todos expresando su admiración por el arte y el éxito de estos dos maestros que nunca dejaron de ser amigos toda la vida.

Con la presencia de Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács, Vittorio Storaro, John Boorman, Richard Donner, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafelson, Leonard Maltin, Ellen Kuras, Steven Poster, Rob McLachlan, Haskell Wexler, Sandra Bullock, Karen Black, Tatum O’Neal, John Williams, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Stone, Jon Voight, Allen Daviau y Owen Roizman entre otros.

‘In the mood for Doyle’, Yves Montmayeur, 2007, VO.

Durante un año el inquieto realizador de documentales Montmayeur compartió la imprevisible agenda de Christopher Doyle, veterano y solicitado director de fotografía que ha definido nuevas estéticas visuales y ha trabajado con directores de la talla de Wong Kar-wai o M. Night Shyamalan entre otros muchos. Un trepidante y cosmopolita retrato de este genuino artista australiano.

‘Cinematographer style’, Jon Fauer, 2006, VO.

Trata sobre el arte de la cinematografía y de cómo funciona, desde las experiencias de vida a la tecnología, las influencias y las formas del estilo visual de un individuo. Debido al fuerte impacto que el estilo visual de una película puede tener, este documental puede ofrecer a los contemporáneos información valiosa sobre las opciones dramáticas que toman los cineastas, y se espera que el material tendrá un valor histórico significativo.

Con la participación de Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III, Howard A. Anderson, Peter Anderson, Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro, László Kovács, Gordon Willis, Haskell Wexler y Vilmos Zsigmond entre otros.

‘Light and shadow. Greatest cinematographers of the World’, Steve Weiss, 2014, VO.

Directores de fotografía legendarios comparten sus puntos de vista sobre su profesión y lo que significa para ellos.

El documental ganó el Premio Emmy en dos categorías por parte de la Academia Nacional de Artes y Ciencias Televisivas (NATAS) en 2013.

Con la participación de Vilmos Zsigmond, Richard Crudo, Philip Bloom, Polly Morgan, Conrad Hall, Frederic Goodich, Stephen Goldblatt, Ryan Walters, Den Lennie, Michael Negrin, Nancy Schreider, Francis Kenny, Stephen Lighthill, Michael Koerbel, Daryn Okada, Victor Kemper, Mick Jones, Ron Garcia, Rodney Charters, Russell Boyd, Isidore Mankofsky, Colt Seman, Gordon Willis, Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro y Alan Thatcher entre otros.

‘Cameraman: The life and work of Jack Cardiff’, Craig McCall, 2010, VOSE.

Sobre el cámara y director de cine Jack Cardiff, 1914 - 2009, quien en 2001 se convirtió en el primer director de fotografía en ganar un Oscar honorífico, y durante setenta años ejerció su carrera en Inglaterra, Estados Unidos y otros países.

Con la presencia de Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, John Mills, Alan Parker, Thelma Schoonmaker, Freddie Francis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Richard Fleischer, Peter Yates, Kathleen Byron, Christopher Challis, Kevin McClory, Ian Christie, Moira Shearer, Peter Handford, George E. Turner, Michel Ciment, Michael Powell, Dustin Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Sophia Loren, Craig McCall, Niki Cardiff y Deborah Kerr entre otros.

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Thursday, July 13, 2023 12pm ET: Classic Countdown: Top 40 Hits July 14, 1979 with Ron Kovacs

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Classic Countdown / Top 40 Hits November 23, 1974, with Ron Kovacs / 12pm ET

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bud Abbott, Badly Drawn Boy, Sigtryggur Baldursson (The Sugarcubes), Victor Borge’s 1953 “Comedy in Music” premiere, Mahatma Gandhi, Moses Gunn, Richard Hell, Dave Holland, Freddie Jackson, the unsinkable Violet Jessop, Persis Kambatta, Chris LeDoux, Annie Leibowitz, George “Spanky” McFarland, Groucho Marx, Don McLean, Ron Meagher (Beau Brummels), the 1995 album WHAT’S THE STORY MORNING GLORY by Oasis (good to meet you Noel), Phillip Oakley (Human League), John Otway, Michael Rutherford, Jo-El Sonnier, my cousin Susan Stamm, Sting, Nat Turner, THE TWILIGHT ZONE TV series (premiered 1959), Gillian Welch, Yokozuna, and the great British writer (journalist, novelist, screenwriter) Graham Greene. I cite him as a key influence on my lyrics, and I’ve read his novels repeatedly—many of which have been made into films (some more than once): The End of The Affair (1955, 1999), The Human Factor, the excellent Our Man in Havana (Alec Guinnes, Ernie Kovacs), The Quiet American (1958, 2002), The Power and The Glory (Henry Fonda), and the landmark film noirs This Gun for Hire (Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake) and The Third Man (Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Wells + Anton Karas’s ironic zither music). 

Greene’s 67-year long career as as journalist took him to leper colonies, war zones, and odd “hot spots” around the world, along with spying for MI6 during World War II. These provided settings for his stories, exploring ambivalent ethical and political issues of the modern world, often through a Biblical lens that offered redemption to criminals and sinners while exposing the hypocrisies of moral superiors. I can find his imprints in several of my songs, but the most overt is “Unresolved—Graham Greene’s Script for Laurel & Hardy,” imagining if Greene had written a script for the comedy team of Laurel & Hardy (maybe echoing Greene’s late-in-life friendship with Charlie Chaplin). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBvBEVq0PSE Meanwhile, HB GG and thank you for your volumes of spiritually-informed writing and letting us be human. 

#birthday #grahamgreene #novelist #spy #thirdman #MI6 #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #chamberpop

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Celebrating the Centennial of Ernie Kovacs by Susan King

Ernie Kovacs was television’s first performance artist who turned the medium into his personal playground. His comedy was surreal, innovative, brilliant and at times just plain weird. Just look at the Nairobi Trio: three non-speaking apes wearing long coats and derby hats who played music and hit each other on the head to Robert Maxwell’s “Solfeggio” or blackout bits set to the German-language version of “Mack the Knife.”

When NBC gave Kovacs a live 30-minute color special in 1957, he decided to make “The Silent Show”; only the introduction and Dutch Masters commercials featured dialogue. He presented gorilla ballerinas dancing to Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” in his 1959 NBC special “Kovacs on Music.”

This year marks Kovacs’ centennial. Unfortunately, his fans never had the opportunity to watch him grow and mature as an artist. He was happily married to singer/actress Edie Adams, who was also his frequent partner in comedic crime, and he was the devoted father of three daughters when he died on Jan 13, 1962, just 10 days before his 43rd birthday. Kovacs’ car crashed into a power pole on the rain drenched Beverly Glen and Santa Monica Boulevards on his way home from a party at Billy Wilder’s house.

When Kovacs began on television in the early 1950s, the medium was young and populated with series starring veteran comics such as Milton Berle, Red Skelton, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and Jackie Gleason.

Kovacs, who always seemed to have a cigar in his hand, offered something new and completely different.

“He was able to create television almost directly from his own imagination, from his own mind,” said Ron Simon, curator of the Paley Center for Media, in a 2011 interview I conducted with him for a Kovacs piece in the Los Angeles Times. “Television is so much of a collaborative art, but Kovacs made his TV very personal.”

Kovacs, added Simon, also realized that “there was a total falsity to being in everyone’s living room. His great sign-off line, ‘It’s been real,’ is so ironic. He understood, it’s not real at all.” Of his fourth, seventh, eighth and final episode of his ABC specials showing on TCM, the last aired after his death, an episode he had complete creative control over thanks to sponsor Dutch Masters.

Simon maintained they “redefined what we think of media. The specials are so strange. There was no linear narrative.”

Three specials illustrate his love of music. He sets Bela Bartok’s music to a silent New York street scene and George Gershwin’s “Concerto in F” to a sequence involving women dressing for their dates. Bits include a turkey coming to life and a hand coming out of a bathtub drain.

“Nobody could figure out how his mind worked,” his late publicist Henri Bollinger told me in 2011. “I am talking about people who worked with him. He would do things that made absolutely no sense. He never had a script, or at least he never had a script that he showed anybody. He would go about and say, ‘We’re going to do this, we are going to do that.’ I couldn’t figure out what it was going to be about until we actually saw the show. The end result would be mind-boggling.”

Kovacs made 10 films from 1957-1961 and though his roles never allowed him to show his experimental, surreal side, he’s always fun to watch and tackled his roles with great gusto.

He made three films with his good friend Jack Lemmon, most notably the 1957 service comedy OPERATION MAD BALL, which marked his film debut, and 1958’s bewitching comedy BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE. Also of note is his 1960 service comedy WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER and the rarely seen 1961 comedy FIVE GOLDEN HOURS, which was Kovacs’ only lead and his favorite performance.

Kovacs was a larger-than-life figure in reel-life and real-life. He often took projects because he owed money in back taxes. He loved playing poker with his Hollywood buddies, and by all reports, Kovacs was a great guy.

“I just thought he was the sweetest man,” said Jolene Brand, who appeared in his ABC specials.

There’s little wonder why his headstone at Forest Lawn states: “Nothing in Moderation.”

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When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world…and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Kevin Flynn / Clu: Jeff Bridges Alan Bradley / Tron: Bruce Boxleitner Ed Dillinger / Sark / Voice of Master Control Program: David Warner Lora / Yori: Cindy Morgan Dr. Walter Gibbs / Dumont: Barnard Hughes Ram/Popcorn Co-Worker: Dan Shor Crom: Peter Jurasik Peter / Sark’s Lieutenant: Tony Stephano Warrior #1: Craig Chudy Warrior #2: Vince Deadrick Jr. Expert Disc Warrior: Sam Schatz Conscript #2: Michael Dudikoff Head Guard: Jackson Bostwick Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Wendy Carlos Visual Effects Design Consultant: Steven Lisberger Producer: Harrison Ellenshaw Producer: Donald Kushner Executive Producer: Ron Miller Director of Photography: Bruce Logan Editor: Jeff Gourson Casting: Pam Polifroni Production Design: Syd Mead Production Design: Dean Mitzner Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge Art Direction: Al Roelofs Set Decoration: Roger M. Shook Costume Design: Rosanna Norton Conceptual Design: Jean Giraud Stunts: Ross Reynolds Story: Bonnie MacBird Costume Design: Elois Jenssen Stunts: Glenn R. Wilder Stunts: Larry Holt Stunts: Charlie Picerni Stunts: Gary Epper Stunts: Walter Scott Stunt Coordinator: Richard E. Butler Production Sound Mixer: James LaRue Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Minkler Costumer: Lorry Richter Costumer: Nedra Rosemond-Watt Visual Effects: Chris Wedge Visual Effects: John Beach Visual Effects: Tom Bisogno Visual Effects: Nancy Hunter Campi Visual Development: Larry Elin Digital Compositor: Liza Moon Visual Effects Camera: John Aardal Systems Administrators & Support: Richard ‘Dr.’ Baily Visual Effects Camera: Don Baker Visual Effects: William Dungan Jr. Digital Compositor: Art Durinski Visual Effects Camera: Kris Gregg Visual Effects Camera: Patric Kenly Digital Supervisor: Jeffrey Kleiser Systems Administrators & Support: Bill Kovacs Animation: Donald Leich Visual Effects: Larry Malone Systems Administrators & Support: Tim McGovern Visual Effects: Malcolm McMillan Animation: Gene Miller Visual Effects Supervisor: Kenny Mirman Visual Effects: Craig Reynolds Systems Administrators & Support: Frank Vitz Production Coordinator: Lynn Wilkinson Camera Supervisor: Christopher Dusendschon Technical Supervisor: John Hughes Visual Effects Camera: Peg Hunter Animation: Barry Cook Storyboard Artist: Bill Kroyer Storyboard Designer: Jerry Rees Animation: Darrell Rooney Animation: John T. Van Vliet Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Roger Allers Storyboard Artist: Andrew Gaskill Conceptual Design: Chris Lane Conceptual Design: Peter Mueller Concept Artist: John Norton Art Designer: John Alvin Concept Artist: Michael Peraza Jr. Art Designer: Drew Struzan Movie Reviews: r96sk: An acquired taste. For me, someone who has no knowledge of computer programming and the sort, it’s a very slow, tedious and boring watch. ‘Tron’, unfortunately, didn’t take my interest whatsoever. Not helped by the poor special effects (they get a pass due to it being an 1982 release; though I’m not convinced it’s good either way) and forgettable cast performances, it’s not a premise that’s easy to get into if you have no prior understanding of coding etc. There is some intrigue in there, but not nearly enough to satisfy my viewing pleasure – it felt like a much longer run time than 96 minutes, that’s for sure. All cool if you love this, but I very much didn’t. Hopefully the 2010 sequel gives the concept a major boost. CinemaSerf: I saw this again yesterday – it’s 40 years old! I didn’t see it at the time, I was one of those kids who hadn’t the slightest interest in “Space Invaders” nor did I ever have an Atari, but I do recall the fuss that was being made about Disney’s first foray into the wor...