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britishfilminstitute: Beautiful colour footage of 1920s London...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:23:41 -0400

Beautiful colour footage of 1920s London goes viral - the extraordinary story behind The Open Road

Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry are among the thousands of tweeters captivated by beautiful colour footage of London in 1926, restored by the BFI.

bunniesandbeheadings: Image Source: Napoleon (1927)

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:40:00 -0400

bunniesandbeheadings:

Image Source: Napoleon (1927)

Where have all the women gone in movies? - latimes.com

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:57:03 -0400

Where have all the women gone in movies? - latimes.com:

oldfilmsflicker:

There’s one mountain in Hollywood that even “The Hunger Games’” scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn’t been able to move: the number of roles for women.

Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as “Bridesmaids” and the “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the U.S. box office in 2012, the study reported, 28.4% of speaking characters were female. That’s a drop from 32.8% three years ago, and a number that has stayed relatively stagnant despite increased research attention to the topic and several high-profile box-office successes starring women.

“There is notable consistency in the number of females on-screen from year to year,” said USC researcher Marc Choueiti. “The slate of films developed and produced each year is almost formulaic — in the aggregate, female representation hardly changed at all.”

When they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing, the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue.

For teen girls, the number who are provocatively dressed is even higher: 56.6% of teen girl characters in 2012 movies wore sexy clothes, an increase of 20% since 2009.

The USC researchers said these trends persist because those working in Hollywood believe attracting a male audience is the key ingredient to box office success.

“Industry perceptions of the audience drive much of what we see on-screen,” said study author Stacy L. Smith. “There is a perception that movies that pull male sell. Given that females go to the movies as much as males, the lack of change is likely due to entrenched ways of thinking and doing business that perpetuate the status quo.”

Female characters are more prevalent — and less likely to be sexualized — in movies written and directed by women, according to Smith.

A study USC released in January in conjunction with the Sundance Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles found that women have made more inroads in those kinds of behind-the-camera jobs in independent film and documentaries than they have in big-budget studio movies.

But it’s typically the studio movies that drive the box office — and shape audiences.

“Some depictions of females on-screen can have unintended and negative consequences for viewers,” Smith said. “Every voice deserves a chance to be heard and every story a chance to be told. At the moment … that does not seem to be the case in popular film.”

fuckyeahdirectors: Jacques Tati

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:24:11 -0400

fuckyeahdirectors:

Jacques Tati

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one...

Sun, 12 May 2013 07:30:26 -0400

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one minute or five minutes of where I live in Hong Kong. That is why I can’t leave, that is why I have to stay there. Chungking Express is actually shot in my apartment. […] The bloody film was shot in my bloody apartment! (laughs) I should’ve stayed in a hotel. I’d be working all day and sleeping on the floor at night. We couldn’t mess up the set. The film’s very special in that way given the connection to my personal life…

The interesting thing is after the film—I guess it was the Hong Kong tourist board put out a map of film locations—for three of four years there’d be people following this map to my door. Especially Japanese tourists for some reason. They’d go on the escalator and look for the apartment. So, I’d be going off to work or to a bar and there’d be people waiting downstairs. Once I found kids literally on my doorstep wanting to go in.

— Christopher Doyle

cinemagreats: The Great Gatsby (1974) - Directed by Jack...

Sat, 11 May 2013 05:24:49 -0400

cinemagreats:

The Great Gatsby (1974) - Directed by Jack Clayton

O som ao redor - Kleber Mendonça Filho (2012)

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:41:00 -0400

O som ao redor - Kleber Mendonça Filho (2012)

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Wed, 08 May 2013 19:10:06 -0400

dormitivevirtue: The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:13:29 -0400

dormitivevirtue:

The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)

ghostofyesterday: SAUL BASSMay 8 1920 - April...

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:08:25 -0400

ghostofyesterday:

SAUL BASS
May 8 1920 - April 25 1996

To commemorate the life and work of legendary designer Saul Bass, today’s Google Doodle video draws inspiration from the graphic artists’ work in film.

Bass designed posters and opening sequences for many classic Alfred Hitchcock films including Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959)and Psycho (1960), as well as for films such as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Shining (1980), Anatomy of Murder (1959) and Goodfellas (1990).

His iconic, eye-catching work still influences designers today (Hello! Man Men opening titles!) and continues to captivate modern audiences experiencing his highly original work for the first time.

thefinalimage: Upstream Color, 2013 (dir. Shane Carruth)

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:48:48 -0400

thefinalimage:

Upstream Color, 2013 (dir. Shane Carruth)

oldfilmsflicker: Roman Holiday, 1953 (dir. William Wyler))

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:06:30 -0400

oldfilmsflicker:

Roman Holiday, 1953 (dir. William Wyler))

Teaser poster for Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:02:23 -0400

Teaser poster for Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.

movieposteroftheday: 1968 Polish poster for THE WAGES OF FEAR...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:17:58 -0400

movieposteroftheday:

1968 Polish poster for THE WAGES OF FEAR (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France/Italy, 1953)

Artist: Jan Lenica (1928-2001) [see also]

Poster source: Heritage Auctions

Dans La Maison - François Ozon (2012) Quite charming!...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:19:00 -0400

Dans La Maison - François Ozon (2012)

Quite charming! It’s a lovely homage to Woody Allen.

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:00:50 -0400

lt’s tranquility I look for in a photograph.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:11:49 -0400

lt’s tranquility I look for in a photograph.

fuckyeahdirectors: Andrzej Żuławski while filming Possession...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:12:12 -0400

fuckyeahdirectors:

Andrzej Żuławski while filming Possession (1981)

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