January 2011
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Editing: Creating Eerie Movies.
I’ve written extensively about the vital role that pacing plays in the edit, and how essential it is to the horror genre. This weekend I finally got around to watching Peter Weir’s 1975 masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock, and not only were my beliefs in the importance of pacing reaffirmed, but a specific aspect of the horror genre, one which has almost completely vanished, became very...
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Plato
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Music for the Weekend: Cash Flow by Major Lazer
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Thick skinned.
Remember that scene in every John Hughes movie where the geeky kid musters enough courage to ask the pretty girl out, and she lets him down because she’s got her eye on the hot popular boy? Remember how shitty you felt for that guy? Remember how you felt when the same thing happened to you in real life?
Yes, Jake Ryan, you and your ilk ruined my adolescence.
Did I just say that? Sorry....
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Please recommend 'Lilith.'
Got back from Las Vegas late last night. Made some money at the tables, enough to pay for the entire trip. Breaking even, it’s every filmmaker’s dream! Whoo hoo!
But more importantly I had time to spend with my good friends. People I went to undergrad with, whom I shared many good times with and whom I hadn’t seen in ages. We’re all fighting the good fight, and it’s...
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Getting feedback, and the director's eloquence.
I’m starting to get the first rounds of feedback on Lilith, and while it is promising, it reminds me that I still have a LOT of work to do.
Filmmakers - especially indie filmmakers - hate the notion of having a ‘focus group’ or ‘viewer input’ because it’s the veiled threat that the ownership of a film is being taken away from its creator. Harvey Weinstein,...
Article: Francis Ford Coppola on Risk, Money,...
A fabulous read. ——->Click here.
Please recommend 'Lilith.'
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Old school VFX.
Lilith has zero CGI shots, which is unheard of in today’s horror film landscape. I do have one matte shot, which is about an ancient a special effect as they come. A matte shot is when a photographed or painted backdrop is superimposed over footage that contains action or movement, thereby creating an entirely new environment. It’s a common practice in science fiction films and period...
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PATANG (The Kite) screens at the 41st Berlinale!
PATANG (The Kite), a film written and directed by my dear friend Prashant Bharghava, and on which I served as an associate producer, will be making its world premiere at the prestigious 41st Berlin Film Festival.
Almost seven years in the making, Prashant’s film is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and is beautifully photographed and delicately performed. While I had little...
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Dramatic Reading Of A...
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Hot Topic: Sarah Palin's Bullshit Rebuttal.
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
Just watched Sarah Palin’s bullshit rebuttal to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the death of six innocent bystanders in Arizona. There is little to support the charge that the inflamed rhetoric of the right wing neoconservative movement - the bread and butter of Fox News and...
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Editing a scene.
Everything we do boils down to choices. Black or White. The left corridor or the right. Boxers or briefs. Team Edward or Jacob. Mac or PC.
But naturally what differentiates every choice from one another is the desired outcome. Every choice we make impacts what will happen thereafter, and so many times we are unable to backtrack and make corrections.
Editing is one of those fortunate...
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Music for the Weekend:Blood is Bloodstone by LA...
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The Best Video Game Review, Ever.
A friend posted this review of Call of Duty: Black Ops on my Facebook page. I still can’t stop laughing.
Mind the naff Mechanic trailer. Jason Statham playing a hitman? How’s that for creative casting?
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Taking the leap.
It’s that special moment when six notebooks filled with this:
Begins life anew with these magical first words:
Very exciting.
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deadbeat.: Research for Writing. →
deadbeatwriter:
Back from the dead! Deadbeat has been on a hiatus as I finished up some pesky business matters for Lilith. It’s been admittedly tough to balance the work on the film and to be chipping away at new projects. Over the break I realized that I needed to do some heavy research into a few subjects…
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Hot Topic: Geek Culture
Patton Oswalt, who is one of the most underrated and intelligent comedic actors working today, raised a few eyebrows and ruffled a few feathers in the current issue of Wired with his article Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
Personally I loved the article, agreeing with Oswalt’s assertion that geeks are no longer permitted to be true-blue collectors of fringe media and aesthetics, due in...