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For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as “not what I do, but what I don’t do.” Join me today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do? For educational purposes only. You can donate to support the…
How do you film a conversation? Most likely, you’re going to block the actors, set up the camera, and do shot/reverse shot. But where do you put the camera? What lens do you use? And how do you cut back and forth? Today, I consider the Coen brothers — Joel & Ethan — and see…
The long-running saga of Jena Malone’s mysterious Batman v Superman role is seemingly over. After being rumored and rumored for ages—and after Malone was cut from the film’s theatrical release altogether—Warner Bros. has accidentally revealed her character’s identity in a very dumb way. http://io9.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-mos… The news comes from a screenshot posted to Reddit of a…
Jamie Stangroom—he of the fascinatingly tragic interview with actor Ahmed Best earlier this year—sat down with the man behind Jar Jar Binks again. This time the two discussed the infamous, ludicrous “Darth Jar Jar” theory that Jar Jar was a Sith Lord working with Palpatine in the prequels. Best’s surprising response: “There’s a lot about…
Jamie Stangroom—he of the fascinatingly tragic interview with actor Ahmed Best earlier this year—sat down with the man behind Jar Jar Binks again. This time the two discussed the infamous, ludicrous “Darth Jar Jar” theory that Jar Jar was a Sith Lord working with Palpatine in the prequels. Best’s surprising response: “There’s a lot about…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asked more questions than it answered, but luckily for us, director J.J. Abrams hasn’t been quite as secretive in the movie’s aftermath as he was before. He’s now explained one of the most puzzling moments in the movie. (Don’t read on if you somehow still haven’t seen it.) So in…
New York City’s first 4DX theater is opening this month, according to a press release that triumphantly appeared in our inbox today—but what is 4DX, even? Is it IMAX? No. Is it 3-D? Not quite. In short, 4DX is “an immersive theater technology featuring moving seats and environmental effects.” The experience will bring wind, fog,…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has left the anticipated adaptation of Sandman, citing creative differences between his vision of the film and that of New Line Cinemas. Sandman was a comic series written by Neil Gaiman, about Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams. The series gained a considerable fanbase and critical acclaim over the 75 issues produced between 1989…
“Luckily, I drank blood. If not, I’d be crazy, calling to prayer from the trees,” says Inong, a thin, old man in a knitted skull cap. “If you drink blood, you can do anything! Salty and sweet. Human blood.” The seventy-two-year-old is the former leader of a village death squad in The Look of Silence,…
We’re just one month away from seeing Batman v. Superman, the long-awaited smackdown between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel. But if things had turned out differently, we could have seen Batman fight Superman back in 2004. Here’s everything we know about Batman vs. Superman: Asylum, and how it would have been different…