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coming up today as we continue #ALIEN Week: these two face off 💞
Columbo, in the pilot episode, shares the secret to a perfect omelette. Behind the camera: a 24-year-old Steven Spielberg, shooting the hell out of those eggs.
@_shotzero One can also interpret that Ripley is "Our Man" because she's eventually revealed to be the protagonist and is actually the voice of reason during the initial stages of the discovery. Even more so, the wording of "Our Man" has value when viewing Alien as feminist media...
@_shotzero I've always appreciated the take from the Director's Cut as the first act of Alien tricks the audience into thinking that Ripley is the "Company Man" by being so by the book and at odds with Dallas and the crew. This of course reflects nicely on the ship's name meaning "Our Man".
Feels like we do not talk about phenomenal TV show “You’re the Worst” enough full stop but definitely especially the cinematography and camera work and how it is gorgeous in its own right while serving the story and characters.
This shot from I Am Cuba is so incredible. It's a hook and pulley lift. The handheld camera is connected to a pulley system and taken over by an operator in the cigar factory, then hooked onto another pulley system to glide out through the city. Mind blowing shot design.
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coming up today as we continue #ALIEN Week: these two face off 💞
@_shotzero Amazing Tension. I was so scared and unhinged. <3
an obsessive drive to match deep emotional states with essential elements of the medium under the express goal of doing something new and making a grand thematic statement that adds clarity and resonance to the audience and if all that fails, the compulsion to try it again ASAP
Very serious question: for people who make art, who feel like they need to make art, what does that feel like? I've never really felt I had a message I was desperate to express, so I am trying to understand what that feels like for you.
Columbo, in the pilot episode, shares the secret to a perfect omelette. Behind the camera: a 24-year-old Steven Spielberg, shooting the hell out of those eggs.
Okay, look at it like this - The Autopsy Of Jane Doe was the reason Quentin Tarantino told me he wanted to cast me in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood #TheLastDriveIn
I was lucky enough to read David Bordwell's articulate and profoundly illuminating books on world cinema. I was also lucky enough to know him and carry on a correspondence with him for almost twenty years. You may have seen his perceptive and charming commentaries on Criterion.…
@_shotzero One can also interpret that Ripley is "Our Man" because she's eventually revealed to be the protagonist and is actually the voice of reason during the initial stages of the discovery. Even more so, the wording of "Our Man" has value when viewing Alien as feminist media...
Oh, great. Another smart thing to make me question everything I've ever written. PERFECT!!!!
This is one of my favorite bits of screenwriting advice. After hearing this, a lot of the negative feedback that I got on earlier drafts started to make sense.
“One of the greatest…” And it absolutely is. It’s been the subject of courses and scholarly work from literature to religion and moral philosophy. The texts are one of the most influential within the genre, discussed alongside Tolkien and Le Guin. Genuinely embarrassed for you.
@NewbyRichard3 'Narnia' and 'greatest fantasy sagas of all time' and you are not even blushing. The audacity though
RIP to the director Michael Verhoeven (no relation): big fan of his 1990 film Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl), based on a true story of a girl who wins an essay contest about her town and then writes a second essay about her town during the Nazi era, and gets in trouble
fuck it here's the matrix reloaded highway chase but with the challengers score
Now THAT is an establishing shot; I’ll tell you what
@NewbyRichard3 "Why don't you freeze him?" Parker is anyone who's had to watch management make one bad decision after another.
Is there anyone cooler or more real than Yaphet Kotto as Parker in Alien? Dude just wanted to get paid his worth, and go home. And I identify with that on a deeply spiritual level.
On a more positive note, Here’s a really cool BTS on how they filmed that shot
On the DVD and VHS you can see both sides of the planet! I will not be tricked into thinking this wasn't correct:
"'The Night of the Hunter' (1955) runs counter to the rules of commercialism; it will probably be Laughton's single experience as a director. It's a pity, despite failures of style, it is immensely inventive; like a horrifying news item retold by children." — François Truffaut
Fuck it Every Mission Impossible Credits sequence
Rewatching Hateful Eight in fits and I don’t care what Tarantino makes next but he should cast Channing Tatum again.
@_shotzero I've always appreciated the take from the Director's Cut as the first act of Alien tricks the audience into thinking that Ripley is the "Company Man" by being so by the book and at odds with Dallas and the crew. This of course reflects nicely on the ship's name meaning "Our Man".