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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Every Frame a Painting has a new video up and it's a quick & interesting look at cleverer use of shapes to compose scenes of dialogue. It's interesting how it samples The Imitation Game as an example of boring, flat direction given how it was a complaint brought up quite a bit on this forum:



  • Registered Users Posts: 2 cocokinny


    HI there, I am an American actress from Ny. I am looking to get head shots done asap so that I can start applying for agencies. Anyone know any photographers or good studios?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    cocokinny wrote: »
    HI there, I am an American actress from Ny. I am looking to get head shots done asap so that I can start applying for agencies. Anyone know any photographers or good studios?

    In Ireland or New York? :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 cocokinny


    Birneybau wrote: »
    In Ireland or New York? :confused:

    I am living in Cork, City looking to get professional head shots done


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    cocokinny wrote: »
    I am living in Cork, City looking to get professional head shots done

    Ah, ok. Probably get more answers here as the Film forum is more just for the discussion of film.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=232


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    At risk of turning this into the Every Frame a Painting thread, this is amazing:



  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    e_e wrote: »
    At risk of turning this into the Every Frame a Painting thread, this is amazing:


    Just after posting that on facebook and then coming here to share it too.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Teaser for Sion Sono's Shinjuku Swan. It looks bloody fantastic.



  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only thing that beats a day when you see a trailer for a new Sion Sono Film is a day when you see two fucking trailers for two new Sion Sono films and today is one of those day.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    e_e wrote: »


    These Every Frame a Painting videos are so beautifully edited.

    Just started watching some of these. Thing about texting and that, particularly on TV, is that product placement plays a big role in lots of shows. I remember watching something once and some kids decided to order take away and there was a whole scene with them using an ipad to yelp the best pizza place in town then downloading an ap to order it. As if they didn't have Domino's number off by heart.

    Anyway..... point being sometimes they're not looking to be smart with how they show texts or emails or whatever, sometimes they just want to show the device.

    Not sure how often this happens in films though?


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Interesting article about Scientology's response to reviews of Alex Gibeny's new documentary about them: http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/church-of-scientology-representatives-now-bullying-film-critics-20150202


  • Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭ManOnFire


    e_e wrote: »
    Anybody else trying to watch a film a day as a new year's resolution?

    I'm 11 for 11 so far, and I think that number will go up once JDIFF comes around again.

    Not quite the same as that but last year i decided to jot down everything I watched and it came to 355 , i was a bit gutted i hadn't made it to one for every day after counting!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    ManOnFire wrote: »
    Not quite the same as that but last year i decided to jot down everything I watched and it came to 355 , i was a bit gutted i hadn't made it to one for every day after counting!
    Should have done it on Letterboxd. ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    ManOnFire wrote: »
    Not quite the same as that but last year i decided to jot down everything I watched and it came to 355 , i was a bit gutted i hadn't made it to one for every day after counting!

    I wouldn't worry - if you're anything like me you're well capable of watching two films at once while drunk and in charge of a chip pan (the user name is a giveaway).
    So we'll round you up to 400 and say job well done.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Cheater! :P


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I'm a few days late to the party, but I presume everybody's seen this clip?



    It's so fascinatingly, aggressively wrong I can't stop watching it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I dunno, I didn't know the history of the Iliad, let alone its printing history. Am i stupid too? Damnit, lol. :) Seems like low hanging fruit to bash a Jennifer Lopez film over.

    I did also have a look at the film trailer in question and find it amusing that an older woman in her 40s romancing a youngun is Scandal! whereas the reverse is just standard Hollywood casting policy :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    pixelburp wrote: »
    I dunno, I didn't know the history of the Iliad, let alone its printing history. Am i stupid too? Damnit, lol. :) Seems like low hanging fruit to bash a Jennifer Lopez film over.

    I did also have a look at the film trailer in question and find it amusing that an older woman in her 40s romancing a youngun is Scandal! whereas the reverse is just standard Hollywood casting policy :D

    Well, considering 'The Iliad' is reckoned to have been written in the 8th century B.C....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,820 ✭✭✭Dr.Winston O'Boogie


    So lads any reccomendations for a decent podcast on films? Thinking of something that talks about recent films, maybe talks about classics as well?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    BBC’s The Film Programme is hard to beat. Well produced with a nice balance of recent and older films, and crucially (for me at least) it doesn’t overstay its welcome. For more casual film related conversation, I also enjoy Fighting in the War Room (formerly Operation Kino).

    Filmspotting is probably the most popular film podcast, so check that out as well. Personally I find it overlong and over-produced, but it’s still worth listening to from time to time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    /filmcast and Filmspotting are my favorite podcasts on current film. There's a great balance between them on the mainstream and the arthouse.

    We Hate Movies is also very entertaining for reviews of terrible movies and weird cult cinema.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    BBC’s The Film Programme is hard to beat. Well produced with a nice balance of recent and older films, and crucially (for me at least) it doesn’t overstay its welcome. For more casual film related conversation, I also enjoy Fighting in the War Room (formerly Operation Kino).
    Hmm must check this out. First I've heard of it!

    I'd say Kermode and Mayo's show is more popular than Filmspotting though, by a good amount too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    So lads any reccomendations for a decent podcast on films? Thinking of something that talks about recent films, maybe talks about classics as well?

    Mayo and Kermode is very good but I've heard people complain that there are too many in jokes which I get. I'm lucky to have been listenibg for 5 years now but that aside Kermode is an excellent critic.

    The Empire Podcast is also enjoyable, they have good interviews and the discussions can be very good and funny. But they do a lot of stuff on the 'big' films. Their best thing is their spoiler specials which they don't do nearly enough, basically they'll just have an in-depth conversation about a new release. They're great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    I've been listening to the podcast for years and get the in-jokes but they've gotten really really annoying tbh with them never being that funny to begin with. I also don't like way you have to wade through half an hour of boring listener stories just to get to any film related stuff, shame because when they get there it's really good.


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  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nailed the unfinished David O'Russell film which was shelved a number of years back is now available on VOD under the blander title Accidental Love



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Was wondering why Gyllenhall looked so much more boyish in that trailer.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    It's funny that the premise for that film no longer exists now Obama Care exists. I think.....


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone know how booking tickets for IMC works? Do I need the card with me to collect them or do I get an email/text I can show? Waiting on a replacement card and can still use it on amazon and the like as I memorised the important details.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Anyone know how booking tickets for IMC works? Do I need the card with me to collect them or do I get an email/text I can show? Waiting on a replacement card and can still use it on amazon and the like as I memorised the important details.
    In IMC Dun Laoghaire you need a card for the ticket machines. But maybe you could go to the desk with your booking reference. I've had problems with machines in a few cinemas now but the ticket sellers have always been able to sort it out.


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  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    e_e wrote: »
    In IMC Dun Laoghaire you need a card for the ticket machines. But maybe you could go to the desk with your booking reference. I've had problems with machines in a few cinemas now but the ticket sellers have always been able to sort it out.

    Hopefully it works, so much handier to book the tickets on line and not have to queue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e



    http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/director-blames-film-flop-on-social-justice-agenda/?tu=dd

    Guy makes a laughable short film, blames the "social justice agenda" on it not winning awards.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    e_e wrote: »

    http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/director-blames-film-flop-on-social-justice-agenda/?tu=dd

    Guy makes a laughable short film, blames the "social justice agenda" on it not winning awards.

    Still superior to a lot of student films I've endured.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Neill Blomkamp is officially directing a sequel to Aliens.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    It seems that next month, several months after it received a home release, Goodbye to Language 3D is getting a limited theatrical run! Bizarre situation, but at least more people will get to see the only 3D film that really matters as it should be seen :)


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Adi Shankar has released his latest bootleg film Power/Rangers. Directed by Joesph Kahn who directed the brilliant Detention and starring Kate Sachoff and James Van Der Beek it's a pretty damn cool short that I would love to see expanded upon.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Hideaki Anno (of Evangelion) and the director of the upcoming Attack on Titan film are working together on a new Japanese Godzilla film. The former is a fascinating choice - if he brings the smarts and subversive spirit of Evangelion over it could be something very special. Of course it could just be another conservative Japanese studio affair.

    On the plus side, on the strength of the pair's recent short film, it should look great. If they carry over this sort of 'eccentric retro' effects work it could be very memorable: https://vimeo.com/64987176


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Figured that starting a thread for Eadweard would be a bit pointless as I imagine it would see at best a single post so decided that here was the best place for it. It's a film about Eadweard Muybridge who is widely considered to be the father of motion pictures. As a fan of Michael Eklund, it's nice to see him in a leading role in a nongenre picture and the story of Eadweard is incredibly interesting. Shame that this will most likely never see the inside of a theater here and may not even get a DVD release.



  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    It's almost amazing what you can source in car boot sales.

    Or even charity shops. Take a scout. the crying game for a euro fifty. death weekend
    on tape for two. how rare is that? on the vampix label no less and pristine. some c*hap
    already offered me 80 quid. no dice.

    I like that in a pilot. he'd want to up his ante.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Huh, I was going to wonder where my last post went from this thread, before realising I posted in the last, and much older, off-topic thread. D'oh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    5666308.jpg

    Incredible.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Fascinating article / interview on film restoration, focused on a restored version of The Apu Trilogy Criterion have recently finished:

    http://www.avclub.com/article/how-film-restorers-brought-apu-trilogy-back-life-218781


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    e_e wrote: »
    Incredible.

    I thought it was a funny scene :D



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    What the hell? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Must give Freddie Got Fingered a go. Heard some people defend it pretty strongly as a kind of deranged masterpiece. ;)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor




  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,395 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    I had no idea this was happening >_< guess it's the final nail in the coffin of
    Campbell & Raimi making a proper 4th movie but it looks potentially fun all the same, colour me cautious though:



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    After the tragic My Name Is Bruce, I'm seriously gonna approach that with extreme caution and expectations in the negative digits.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I had no idea this was happening >_< guess it's the final nail in the coffin of
    Campbell & Raimi making a proper 4th movie but it looks potentially fun all the same, colour me cautious though:

    Funny, one of my pet peeves in TV circles is how shows will get a film director to helm the pilot, make it look absolutely fantastic, then the rest of the series ends up with the most pedestrian direction: this, possibly, with Sam Raimi, House of Cards (David Fincher), Boardwalk Empire (Martin Scorsese), Sleepy Hollow (ok, Len Wiseman is a total hack, but his cinematic approach was all over the pilots aesthetics); Game of Thrones kinda did it when they got Neil Marshell to direct the action-heavy episodes. Dunno why but it always feels like such a tease


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e





    I could (and have) listen to this guy talk about movies for hours.


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