January 2010
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Interview Notes - Nuri Bilge Ceylan at BFI... →
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GA: And there are elements of Chekhov in there, as well?
NBC: Yes, actually in all my films I believe there is an element of Chekhov, because Chekhov wrote so many stories. He had stories about almost every situation, and I love them very much. So maybe he’s influenced the way I look at life. Life follows Chekhov for me, in a way. After reading Chekhov, you begin to see...
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Aphorisms 15 - 29 January 2010
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Cinema is the greatest art form of the last century BECAUSE it has had the greatest constraints.
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How you tell an idiot filmmaker: he isn’t talking about what’s actually on screen, he’s talking about follow focus’s and file formats. Another way to tell an idiot film maker: he isn’t talking about what’s on screen, but about other idiot filmmakers.
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Bresson called his actors...
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WatchChe and the Digital Cinema Revolution on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
What I’m looking for technology to do is reduce the time from the idea to execution.
Is this camera going to actually work?
No other camera, or backup system. Steven’s response was no … we are going to make this work. … I just wouldn’t be denied.
Body hot, body hot, body hot.
We’d shut the camera off and put it on ice,...
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Writing Good English: A talk by William Zinsser →
Repeat after me: Short is better than long. Simple is good. (Louder) Long Latin nouns are the enemy. Anglo-Saxon active verbs are your best friend. One thought per sentence.
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Aphorisms 14 - 18 January 2010
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I have grown disinterested in facts, events, and happenings. I want to catch the inbetweens, the unnoticed, the unobserved. The feeling just before or after something happens is far more interesting to me then the climactic spike. And I distrust the effectiveness of words, of language to do justice to the complexity of reality. It is often the visual, the atmospheric aural, the passing of...