He was in Wild at Heart and Raising Arizona, which IMHO were great. But why is Nicolas Cage in so many retarded movies??? = c
Category: sight and sound
all things cinematic
Happy Birthday Vids!!!
Even if you aren’t a *gamer* in the purist sense of the word, you have PLAYED a videogame and may even have a favorite over all others. Which is why you should head out to the arcade nearest you today and drop a few coins in and let go! Today, by all accounts, videogames turn…
Alas, a threat to Google? Nah…
The evolutionary path of the computer is curiously cyclical. In the 1970s, companies relied upon mainframes, with multiple users sharing a single central computer through “terminals.†But by the early 80s, the ascendancy of the personal computer had pushed this setup to obscurity, essentially re-orienting the relationship to keep most of a computer’s processing and…
R2 honored by USPS
WASHINGTON – Thirty years ago, in theaters near and far, far away, a movie opened the imaginations of millions, combining the magic of mythology and special effects to launch the “Star Wars†phenomenon. A star of these films  the brave little droid R2-D2  is about to take a turn collecting mail as the…
Surveillance
I created the short below as part of a multimedia installation for a gallery at my office. It is a brief meditation on public video surveillance using footage i took from out of my office window in downtown Minneapolis. The audio i mixed from various podcasts available on the Web.
Lucas’ network infrastructure trumps world
Given the cult-film status of 1971’s THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm’s giant data center is 11.38 petabits per second. Granted, that number–which represents the value one would get by adding up the bandwidth capacity of all the company’s 1 gigabit per…
The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film
With the release of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, an adaptation of a novel once considered impossible to film, what better time to look into the process of adaptation. Most movies these days are based on literary sources. Which is ironic, considering the increasing lack of interest in books these days as opposed to…
Lifetime Dog
“A lot of people tell me I’m living their fantasy life,” Katz said. “There are a lot of frustrated, alienated people who just aren’t doing what they want. I think that’s sad.” Katz has done what many frazzled urbanites can only dream of doing: He chucked a spirit-sapping life in suburban New Jersey, bought a…
Growing up with Newsweek
Newsweek loves to feature articles about Autism. People love to buy Newsweek and read articles about Autism. If the following cliche’ is true [about Autism] then most of the world is Autistic only they don’t know it yet: Work is play and play is work Sound like anyone in YOUR neighborhood? When was the last…
Give yourself a present [PART II]
Harry, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just…let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee.
INLAND EMPIRE will debut in US in December
When asked about Inland Empire, Lynch responds that it is “about a woman in trouble, and it’s a mystery, and that’s all I want to say about it.” Most of the film’s details have been kept under wraps. It’s set in the Riverside/San Bernadino, California area just east of Los Angeles, which is also known…
Tideland
If you’re not angry, they say, you’re not paying attention. Mad hatter Terry Gilliam has been accused of a lot of things–directorial self-indulgence (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), professional self-sabotage (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), creative accounting (Brazil). But one could never blame the Monty Python alum and native Minnesotan for failing to reckon…
Hard Candy breaks teeth
well, Arturo’s film left us feeling so unsatisfied we took off across the city seeking redemption…the kind that only a GOOD film can muster. we found ourselves at the Lagoon Cinema waiting in line to buy tickets for Thank You For Smoking. that is, until the ticket gal told us it was nearly sold out…
Charles
generally speaking, cinema brings either childhood to the audience or the audience to childhood but i’ve heard that many agree Charlie captured American cinema by returning audiences to the age of puberty when attraction was fresh and new and the simple is made funny but also innocent and true. like the Idiot, who in in…
9. Dead Man
Out of the Top 100 Under-rated movies of the 1990’s. Jim Jarmusch took his bizarre indie surrealist show to the Wild West when he cast Johnny Depp as an accountant heading out across country in the mid-to-late 1800’s to take a job in the frontier town of Machine. When said accountant arrives at the town,…
Lynch
Filmography Inland Empire (2006) (post-production) Rammstein: Lichtspielhaus (2003) (V) (video “Rammstein”) The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) (V) Darkened Room (2002) Rabbits (2002) Mulholland Dr. (2001) … aka Mulholland Drive (France) (USA: closing credits title) The Straight Story (1999) … aka Une histoire vraie (France) Lost Highway (1997) Lumière et compagnie (1996) (segment “Lumière”)…
Sundance 06
the best of this year’s festival, sorted as you like, by title or director. enjoy! – c
Terry Gilliam
Filmography Storytime (1968) And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) also actor The Miracle of Flight (1974) also actor Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) also actor Jabberwocky (1977) also actor Time Bandits (1981) Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) segment “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”; also actor Brazil (1985) also actor The Adventures…