Spike Lee says, “This is a good time to be a filmmaker … the more places that stream, they need product. They need people, they need young people. And it gives filmmakers an opportunity because there’s just more outlets.”
Category: media
Changing The Way Children Are Depicted In Anime Isn’t Easy, But It Is Necessary
Sometimes it takes real-life models to get more realistic animation, and this animator just happened to have two of his own on hand.
The City Where China’s Epic Battles Of The Past (And The Mind’s Invention) Are Staged And Restaged
Hengdian claims to be the world’s largest outdoor set – but there are 13 sets, and a creation of the Forbidden City that is only a bit smaller than the real thing in Beijing.
So You Want To Take Spotty To The Movies
This canine-welcoming cinema and coffeeshop (with dog-friendly treats) in Wales is for you.
Using Spy Cameras To Film A Documentary About Refugees
The need for spy cameras probably isn’t what you think. Eldorado director Markus Imhoof: “These people are ashamed that they are living there. … They are all hoping that they will succeed and if they would show where they live, it’s a big shame for them.”
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Doesn’t Hit It Rich In China
Released months after it came out in the US, the movie was barely a blip on the Chinese moviegoing radar.
Study: How You Watch A Movie Depends On What Kind Of Thinker You Are
Aalto University researchers showed volunteers the film My Sister’s Keeper on a screen while the research subjects were lying down in an MRI scanner. The study compared the volunteers’ brain activity, and concluded that holistic thinkers saw the film more similarly with each other than analytical thinkers. In addition, holistic thinkers processed the film’s moral issues and factual connections within the film more similarly with each other than the analytical thinkers.
Researchers: This Is The Most Influential Movie Of All Time
“The success of a film is usually measured through its box-office revenue, or the opinion of professional critics,” the researchers write in the journal Applied Network Science. “Such measures, however, may be influenced by external factors, such as advertisement or trends, and are not able to capture the impact of a movie over time.”
See Ancient Rome At The Height Of Its Glory Via Virtual Reality
“The ambitious undertaking, [titled Rome Reborn and] painstakingly built by a team of 50 academics and computer experts over a 22-year period, recreates 7,000 buildings and monuments scattered across a 5.5 square mile stretch of the [imperial capital, circa 320 AD].”
NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ Fires Movie Critic David Edelstein
The popular interview show hosted by Terry Gross cut ties after Edelstein posted on Facebook an ill-considered joke (subsequently deleted) about the stick-of-butter scene in Last Tango in Paris that was widely condemned on social media as offensive.