Cinesational
Hi guys!! Under this section you'll find interesting videos curated by us to fulfill your cinephile cravings...
Last year, a handful of excellent documentaries exploring the lives of late artists allowed their subjects to tell their own stories through archival audio interviews. From "Amy" to "Sinatra," "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck," "Listen to Me Marlon" and more, these docs resurrected the voices of their artists and returned the narratives of their lives back into their own hands. It's a thrilling aesthetic choice that yields intimate rewards, and now the style has been applied to the iconic Stanley Kubrick.
Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper, Executive Director Keri Putnam, and Robert Redford took part in the Day One press conference, talking about the fest and answering audience questions. During the Q&A, Redford was asked what kind of advice he had for younger filmmakers, and what he thought about film school.
SOURCE: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/01/robert-redford-advice-young-filmmakers-sundance-2016
Visual effects can often make or break a film. Recognizing the difference between amazing effects and terrible ones is pretty easy, but most people rarely see a side-by-side comparison of what a film looks like before the digital magicians step in and work their moviemaking magic. Check out the clips above from Jurassic World and The Walk to see just how essential these VFX artists are to today's cinematic landscape.
SOURCE: http://mentalfloss.com/article/73939/see-what-11-popular-films-look-and-without-their-visual-effects
"Framing an image is defining its meaning."
This is the concept at the center of Chloe Galibert-Laîné's excellent video essay that examines the way directors of films released in 2015 have chosen to frame their images. It explores the different ways a frame can be used to communicate to an audience, whether it be a political discourse, a visual metaphor, or even the psychological effects of a certain aspect ratio.
There is a lot to chew on in this video, but one thing that particularly appeals to me, which I also find important for young filmmakers to know, is the concept of juxtaposition, is when two opposing things are placed near each other to highlight their contrast. This happens in film all the time, and not just with framing.
This happens in screenwriting, say, when two characters, who are opposites of each other, are put together, many times with a common goal. Think of every buddy cop movie, or bromance movie, or literally any movie ever made -- The Odd Couple! Two people move in together and one's super outgoing, messy, and irresponsible, while the other is shy, neat, and conservative. When you put those two people up on screen, that's juxtaposition.
SOURCE: http://nofilmschool.com/2016/01/5-different-meanings-you-can-evoke-framing
Sitting down for an hour-long chat about Bridge of Spies a few months ago, Martin Scorsese noted that he’s already watched the film twice. In the subsequent hour, a lot of ground is covered: sharing memories of growing up during the Cold War, the role of the Coen brothers in the screenwriting process, the movie’s allegorical applicability regarding Guantanamo Bay. There is, of course, mutual admiration: Scorsese’s for this film, Spielberg’s for Raging Bull.
Here’s a pairing! Two notoriously obsessive, driven, perfectionist and demanding directors in an on-stage dialogue. The DGA hosted this talk between Alejandro González Iñárritu and Michael Mann about the former’s epic frontier saga, The Revenant. Says the director of Heat and Miami Vice, The Revenant “embraces the totality of life, nature and experience… not like anything I’ve seen before.” Check out the detailed, candid conversation above or below.