Geog/Film

GRAVITY: making of

Here are the "making of" features we watched about Gravity this week:

 

 

 

 

 

Long take follow-up

This article by film scholar David Bordwell is a detailed critical discussion of the purposes and uses of the long take.

The following is a compilation of long takes from Children of Men:

Children of Men - every shot 45 seconds or longer from Refocused Media on Vimeo.

 And here is a feature on how the long takes were accomplished:

 

Here are links to the excerpts we watched in class: Russian Ark (1 & 2), Big Night, Citizen Kane, The Long Good Friday, Birdman, and Children of Men. 

Nicole's short film

Here is the film that Nicole screened at the Academic Excellence Showcase. The theme for the course was "landscape." Students made a film a week for about seven weeks before getting about  a month to work on a final project. This was Nicole's second film of the term. Each film was meant to enact or demonstrate a particular theory of landscape. You can see all of the films here.

J.B. Jackson Portlantopia from nlongoria08 on Vimeo.

Directing comedy

Not directly relevant to our course, by Steven pointed me to this video about director Edgar Wright's (Scott Pilgrim, The World's End) style which has been circulating via social media the past couple of weeks.

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.

Lick the Star (1998)

Here is Sofia Coppola's "first film," "Lick the Star." This film is referenced in the reading for week 10.

Lick The Star from Haylley Elite on Vimeo.

Geography & Film and the Academic Excellence Showcase

Many of you will have classes canceled for the Academic Excellence Showcase on R 5/29, but, in return, will also be expected to attend a certain number of sessions in place of going to class.

At 9:00 am in ITC 211 I will be moderating a session titled, "Short Films on Landscape from GEOG 386." This session features films made to enact different theoretical approaches to landscape by students from my Making Digital Video for the Social Sciences course in Fall 2013.

Go to the full schedule

History of the green screen

Following up part of our discussion this week, here is a well presented history on the green screen:

Hollywood's History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.

Sweded films & trailers

Here are the "sweded" videos from class:

 

 

And here's one that Michel Gondry made of Taxi Driver (1976):

 

The Be Kind Rewind page on YouTube has more materials from and related to the film, as well as more fan videos.

New works

In an odd coincidence, Terrence Malick, Wong Kar Wai and Jim Jarmusch all have new films out this year.

• Terrence Malick has To The Wonder.
• Wong Kar Wai has The Grandmaster.
• Jim Jarmusch has Only Lovers Left Alive.

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Jarmusch on Netflix & Hulu

There are a number of Jim Jarmusch directed films available for streaming.

On Netflix:

• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000).
• Dead Man (1995).
• Year of the Horse (1997).
• Broken Flowers (2005; our week 10 film).
• The Limits of Control (2009).

On Huluplus:

• Mystery Train (1989).
• Night on Earth (1991; our week 9 film).
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984; our week 8 film).
• Down by Law (1986).
• Permanent Vacation (1981).