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Great Filmmakers Thoughts On Cinema Part 2

2008-08-17 11:14:00 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
...movies. And we were kind of like, "I'm not here for this, I'm just here to pull cable." We were the youngest people there and we ended up being the grips and electrics on everybody else's movies, and it was pretty good those six or seven weeks, we got to shoot Panaflex cameras and make a married print - it was in black and white and you made...
 
Tags: berkley film institute, berkley, film, basic film stock, film school, cheese-ball movies, movies, images stay, images
 
 
 
 
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Great Filmmakers Thoughts On Cinem

2008-08-17 11:12:46 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
...movies should do something that books or music cant do by themselves. The story can be about any number of things, but there should be a ringing of truth thats completely powerful or thrilling. Movies like Sunset Boulevard or Lolita are much bigger than the stories they tell Its a very dangerous thing, this movie business. Because no one will...
 
Tags: visual films, films, abstract films, film-space, space, film, pure film, eisenstein film, purely visual films
 
 
 
 
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PURE CINEMA

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2008-01-26 09:22:28 by Editor in nirvanacinema
Sunday, January 13, 2008 Collaborators on DAVID LYNCH The writer Mark Frost on David Lynch Mulholland Drive] started as a conversation David and I were having about a sequel to Twin Peaks. We wanted to take the Audrey Horn character, played by Cheryl, to Hollywood. I proposed Mulholland Drive, which I lived on, as a title. He sold it as a...
 
Tags: david, david lynch, mulholland drive, conversation david, mood, current mood, january, powerful, audrey horn character
 
 
 
 
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Viva RON FRICKE !!!!

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2008-01-26 09:21:45 by Editor in nirvanacinema
Thursday, January 03, 2008 Viva RON FRICKE I love the cameraman Ron Fricke. I can't wait to see his next 70mm abstract feature "Samsara". he's currently shooting it around the world and it's going to be awesome! I'm so elated that he is shooting it on 70mm film, not video - YES! Mr. Fricke shot some great time-lapse footage for the IMAX movie...
 
Tags: fricke, viva ron fricke, cameraman ron fricke, fricke shot, shot, imax movie, 70mm abstract feature, fog city mavericks, time-lapse footage
 
 
 
 
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SLAVKO VORKAPICH AND THE KULESHOV EFFECT

2008-01-26 09:21:11 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
...movies is Ron Fricke's "Baraka" and I don't know if Mr. Fricke has been inspired by the Soviet montagists and by the Kuleshov Effect but he definitely utilized the technique brilliantly in "Baraka Another huge inspiration is Slavko Vorkapich, a Serbian montagist who was a colleague of Sergei Eisenstein before he moved to Hollywood. He made a...
 
Tags: montage, kuleshov effect, montage sequences, cinema, pure cinema, filmmakers, soviet montage filmmakers, school, transitional effects
 
 
 
 
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MY FILMMAKING HEROES

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2008-01-26 09:20:21 by Editor in nirvanacinema
Thursday, December 20, 2007 Category: Art and Photography Ron Fricke, Dziga Vertov, Slavko Vorkapich, Arthur Lipsett, Leni Riefenstahl, George Lucas, Oliver Stone, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jordan Belson, David Lynch, Stan Brakhage Currently watching Chronos (Special Collectors Edition Release date: 27 April, 2004 Cinema Pur and Kino-Eye, F.W....
 
Tags: special collectors edition, jean-claude labrecque, slavko vorkapich, jordan belson, david lynch, arthur lipsett, leni riefenstahl, cinema pur, george lucas
 
 
 
 
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DZIGA VERTOV! KINO-EYE!

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2007-12-18 03:01:15 by Editor in nirvanacinema
...Movies, TV, Celebrities Russian Kino-Eye filmmaker Dziga Vertov was a genius visionary I love "Man With The Movie Camera" and "Three Songs of Lenin". He innovatived with montage, tracking shots, and stunning visual optical effects and created a new absolute international language of cinema for world audiences. I love his poetic cinematically...
 
Tags: film, film form forward, vertov, cinema, dziga vertov, cinema-eyes, cinema verite, montage, kuleshov montage school
 
 
 
 
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Some Beautfiul Purely Cinematic Nature Films

2007-12-11 01:07:02 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
Serbian montagist Slavko Vorkapich and his colleague Hungarian montagist John Hoffmann shot and edited two dynamic and striking visual tone poems "Forest Murmurs" and "Moods of the Sea" on 35mm black and white in the 1940s George Lucas made an elegant gorgeous desert poem entitled "6-18-67". A beautifully shot and edited piece of pure cinema ...
 
Tags: visual tone poems, george lucas, ron fricke, pure cinema, 35mm black, piece, murmurs, chronos, white
 
 
 
 
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Geoffrey Jones Dynamic Visual Rhythmic Film-maker

2007-12-02 04:13:04 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
Current mood: mellow HIS OBITUARY http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1550290,00.html HIS DVD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Geoffrey-Jones-Rhythm-Film/dp/rentals/B0009M9FGO British-born maker of industrial films and government films on 16mm and 35mm, his sense of editing combined with music is phenomenal and exhilirating. I was completely...
 
Tags: films, industrial films, government films, british-born maker, film, current mood, sense, completely, 35mm
 
 
 
 
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Bruce Connor's "A Movie"

2007-11-28 09:03:51 by Editor in nirvanacinema
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce Conner His collage film A MOVIE is one of the most emotionally powerful, absurdly funny, and cinematically awesome films I've ever seen. It's blows me away every time I see it. It's the kind of Pure Cinema that I aspire to make He also did some other really cool experimental films in San Francisco that made...
 
Tags: live bruce connor, cool experimental films, awesome films, wave songs, movie, collage film, orgwikibruce conner, absurdly funny, pure cinema