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[foxsketch6543]

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[depechenoir]

The manner in which certain identities and subjectivities perform within narratives help to reproduce and reassert the rewards of being a good citizen whilst concomitantly projecting the perils of being ideologically-subversive. Marxist sociologist Siegfried Kracauer engaged with some of these issues as early as 1947 within his seminal work From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film. Here, Kracauer argued that early Weimar cinema and its characte constructions not only served to reflect the contemporary culture which produced them, but also served to unearth certain underlying truths that were not immediately obvious (in this case, anticipating Germany’s embrace of fascism). Kracauer depicted film and its images as a form of cultural mirror that could be studied to better understand the world and culture that produced them.

[editingmodulations]

Of the many techniques used to communicate time change in the film, the dissolve transition is among the most versatile. It can be exceptionally noticeable or weaved, almost invisibly, into the narrative. The overlapping images take the viewer to the next scene or image, seamlessly blending the present and future. An effective dissolve can communicate a few different ideas throughout a film. Let's look at some of the different ways filmmakers past and present have used this classic editing technique. - Logan Baker/Premiumbeat

Usually, dissolves are used to show the spectator a past of time; it is safe to save that this effect allows the audience to understand when a period in the life of a character goes through seconds or even minutes.

In the film The Fall, the transition goes beyond of a match cut, and turns into something else, thanks to editors Robert Duffy & Spot Welders

A match dissolve works similarly to a match cut, but with a gradual transition. Match dissolves utilize the composition of one shot to match with the composition of a second shot. 

As the dissolve transitions from the first shot to the second shot, the similar compositions create a match dissolve. 

[blurrymerzsblog]

Just dream and flow.

[cat-of-many-faces]

Why i'm never going to be a filmaker (part 1 of infinity)

I tell ya, if I ever made a film I'd have every gun, EVERY SINGLE GUN, fire in wrong and impossible ways. Double barreled shotguns firing like assault rifles. Light pistols acting like sniper rifles. Smgs acting like single shot shotguns…

Why? Because it'd make the exact right people die of an aneurysm >:)

[the-celluloid-correspondent]

Sisu, Tetris, and Polite Society Movie Reviews

Sisu: Directed by Jalmari Helander

During the final days of World War II, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-Earth retreat in northern Finland. When the soldiers decide to steal his gold, they quickly discover they just tangled with no ordinary miner.

Sisu delivers exactly what is shown in the trailers: a bunch of Nazis getting fucked up by a one-man army. It delivers this premise spectacularly with unique kills and spectacle action sequences. Furthermore, it has fun with this killing spree, to the point you find yourself immensely enjoying soldiers getting blown to smithereens. Jorma Tommila is fantastic here as this silent and stoic one-man army. He is badass, intimidating, and owns the screen. He truly portrays a character who is too angry to die. However, it was annoying seeing the insane amount of plot armor the main protagonist has. He survives numerous deadly wounds and events that should have killed him instantly. It became hard to take the movie seriously, especially when the events became more and more ridiculous. With that stated, I did enjoy this movie for what it was, and I had a blast watching it.

My Rating: B

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Tetris: Directed by Jon S. Baird

Henk Rogers discovers Tetris in 1988, and then risks everything by traveling to the Soviet Union, where he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov to bring the game to the masses.

Tetris is by far one of the most entertaining movies of 2023. It takes the ridiculous true story (yes, this is a true story) and has fun with it. The story is told in an immensely entertaining fashion that highlights the ridiculousness and seriousness of the acquisition of Tetris. The balance between these opposites tones is handled perfectly. Furthermore, the film pays a fantastic tribute to the game by incorporating its theme into the score and 8-bit pixel animation into the visual storytelling. Taron Egerton and the rest of the ensemble shine here. Overall a very fun movie that will definitely be on everyone's list of the most underrated movies of 2023.

My Rating: B+

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Polite Society: Nida Manzoor

A martial artist-in-training believes she must save her older sister from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, she tries to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of sisterhood.

Polite Society is a meta, Gen-Z version of Scott Pilgrim VS. The World. From the action pieces to the visuals, it tells its crazy story in an over-the-top fashion perfect for the film. Despite the first two acts being very strong, the film somewhat crumbles in its final act. The final act is dragged out and becomes too ridiculous to take the film seriously. However, the performances from the ensemble cast helped redeem the final act. The entire ensemble looked like they were having a blast filming this and doing their own stunts. Though it was obvious when they switched between the actor and the stunt double. Overall, Polite Society is a fun movie that goes lightly off the rails in its final act.

My Rating: B

[utopia-studios-entertain-archive]

The Fabelmans

(Hi y’all! It’s been a while hasn’t it!)

Quick Stats: Film, semi auto-biographical, drama, for all ages, feel good topics, Jewish representation, content warning for anti-semitic topics.

“Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother. Aspiring to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, he soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.”

I want to start this by presenting a question. One that I believe everyone should ask themselves at least once in their lives, especially creatives. Anyone can answer it, but it does take some thought to find a true answer. 

How did you become the person you are today?

Many would answer the simple question at surface level. ‘I got from point A to point B because I worked towards a goal’ or ‘I just ended up here by chance.’ 

I want the personal answers. I want the ‘I am this person because of how I was raised’ and the ‘I was going down a bad path and so I decided to change it’. I want the answers that make one think, and understand. They don’t have to be grand or devastating. They can still be simple, but make them interesting. 

The first time this question was presented, I was a sophomore in college taking an acting class. We had to write monologues based on that question, and share them in front of everyone. That class single handily, despite all the anxiety and fear, altered the way I thought about myself and why I was there. (Enough about myself though.) 

I brought this question to the table because I was recently reminded of it when watching The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg (Runtime 151 minutes). This brings a valid point to a forever ongoing conversation people have with themselves throughout their lives; and if you have seen the film you know what I am talking about. If you have not seen it yet, the conversation is exactly as I had described in the paragraphs above. 

This movie could honestly be titled “The Great American Drama: Real Life”, and not at all in a bad way. Many would loathe to sit through a film such as The Fabelmans because it is not here to satiate a hunger for instant gratification. A concept that we have all become so accustomed to. It is here for the viewer to sit, to think, to watch, and to understand. 

The film is empathic to all ages, from young children to late adults. It grips something that everyone should understand, and that is life itself. Someone does not have to be tragically dying for a story to be interesting. This is one of those stories where a kid is just growing up, and going through the struggles.

With that, here are two questions to be presented when watching the film. I believe they are about passion. Passion for what one loves, be it family or the arts or their job. Everyone has a passion in life, and even if you don’t believe you do; it’s there, you just have not discovered it yet. 

Question number one is as presented: What first ignited your passion?

For Sammy Fabelman it was the very first film his parents took him to see when he had to be six(?), maybe seven years old. It was Cecil B. DeMille’s 1952 film, “The Greatest Show on Earth” in which it featured a story of the Ringling Brothers Circus. 

In the film there is a train crash. Something at the time that was incredibly fascinating. For our day and age people knew it was pulled off with model trains. But that was exactly what Sammy had asked for during Hanukah. His parents, especially his father, were happy to get the model train set, and by the end of the holiday everyone was excited to see it set up and running. 

Sammy, specifically, wanted to see it crash. A childlike wonder to see how things in the real world could possibly ever happen. His father scolded him with good intentions, but his mother proposed that he film it crashing only once. So if he ever had the urge to see it crash again he could watch the film instead of harming the toy. 

That single ignition of inspiration was Sammy’s answer to question number one. 

Question number two comes at the end of this ignition: What solidified your decision to follow your passion for the rest of your life?

Now, I won’t spoil the movie by answering that because this answer typically comes at the end of many stories. It is a question that both ends and begins a new era in people’s lives. Instead, I will argue that these are two questions we should answer ourselves. Maybe we don’t have the answer at this point in time, but one day we will. 

One day we all have our train crash moment that makes us want to tirelessly pursue the thing we are passionate about. Sammy’s father had it. Sammy’s mother had it. Everyone has a passion in their lives that they would, if they could, devote themselves to. 

Balancing passions and life, though, is an endless tightrope that we all walk. Whether it be a job we love or a pursuit of happiness such as filmmaking. Everyone battles to choose one over the other, but that only makes people miserable. 

One can starve their life, but where would people be without their families or friends; be them related or chosen? One can starve their passions instead, but what would the world be without them? We would make ourselves miserable if we chose one over the other. It will always be a constant balancing act. The Fabelmans is a perfect depiction of that balancing act.

[zilladon]

Body Bag

-2022

[ninjavolador]

On the set of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979)

[t-rottengod]

WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS?

[kidakumajodevil]

Ed Wood Review

This time I’m reviewing a biopic: Tim Burton’s Ed Wood! The genre is one of my least favorite; I generally avoid watching them. It’s hard to pin down a particular reason: maybe I just prefer to escape to fantasy world’s, or that presenting a real person’s history in such a dramatized fashion for entertainment doesn't sit well with me. However, Ed Wood intrigued me, and I decided to give it a watch for the reasons I’m featuring on Bloody Sunday: much of it deals with the production of 50’s era Horror B-Movie’s (particularly the legendary “so bad its good” movies of the titular director)…and Bela fucking Lugosi. And woe and behold, just like with Shadow last week, I ended up watching it twice in a row. 

The premise of our film is that our hero Ed Wood (played wonderfully by Johnny Depp in what I believe to be his finest role) is struggling in Hollywood; he has infinite ambition/determination…and not much of anything else. Despite this, he has an uncanny ability to inspire loyalty in the people historically associated with his name: much of the movie follows him meeting these people and gathering a consistent crew willing to help him forge his “visions” (as misguided as they often are.) They get into all kinds of hilarious hijinks: like stealing a octopus from Universal as a set decoration, Ed getting funding for his movies by converting to the Baptist faith, or even just showing the domestic lives: each and everyone of them a fun, entertaining character in their own right (My second favorite being Maila Nurmi, AKA Vampire! Played excellently by Lisa Marie). Most of the movie follows this “slice of life” format, but we did sorta get a centralized plot in the form of Ed’s many struggles. There’s a very sweet subplot about Ed coming to term with his “cross-dressing”. And the movie, while using it for comedy, presents it a very respectfully tone that is quite unlike how LGBTQ people were usually shown in the later 1990’s (an amusing parallel to Ed’s own shockingly progressive, if horrible, Glen or Glenda.) Ed is sweet, adorable, and quite sympathetic…and sadly overshadowed in his own movie.  

You all know it was coming: Bela Lugosi (played beautifully in the literal Oscar-winning performance of his life by Martin Landau) is the heart of this movie for me. There’s so many facets to his role: as a big horror geek, all the references to Dracula and his other classic movie roles made me chuckle. Bela himself, on the other hand, made me howl with laughter. His jokes and physical performance are a hoot…and then you get the serious side. Bela’s at the end of his life: a fading relic, who is considered obsolete by Hollywood at large. You can see in his weary face all the demons he’s fighting: his morphine addiction, his financial problems, his rage, his sadness, but most of all his loneliness. I don’t want to spoil things, but I was reduced to a sobbing mess near the end. And through it all, Ed’s always there comforting him sheltering him. And Bela looks out for Ed too, in his own way. Ed as a character is a little bit overshadowed by his other half, but I believe the relationship these two men have is the true soul of everything in the movie. And even after Bela is buried in the darkness of his trademark cape, he casts his shadow over the rest of the film. This dissonance, between comedy and heartfelt happiness (and tragedy) is the movie’s most remarkable feature. 

On the technical side, this is such a great movie: I enjoyed just being able to look at on my screen. The decision to film it in black and white gives it a gloriously pulpy mood: grounded for a Tim Burton movie, but still having his trademark gothicness. This film is a true homage to that black and white era of horror, down to its soundtrack (with the legendary SWAN LAKE, Op.20 being a recurring motif), and that makes it watchable alone without all these other amazing elements.

Tim Burton occupies a weird spot for me. I like many of his movie’s…but he wasn’t a childhood mainstay of mine. As a result of this relationship, he was in the “good director, but overrated” camp. This movie has single-handedly reversed my opinion: he’s a great director, and this is his best movie. I came for the horror…and stayed for Bela. And the many, many things that make this an awesome cult film. I give it my bloody recommendation!

[rodrigonagami]

dica útil em edição de video no Adobe Premiere - Ducking (Redução)

Funçãozinha no premiere que ajeita o volume da sua musica de fundo de acordo com a entrada e saida das track de audio de voz, por exemplo.

[timothyhollywoodkhan]

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