Word: cinemas
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...Lavish indeed, and relentless - a hallucinatory workout for the eyes. On his show this Monday, Stephen Colbert described Speed Racer as "the classic story of boy meets seizure-inducing lights," and noted that, to get a sense of the picture's cinema style, you should "put 80 pounds of fireworks into an industrial dryer, crawl right in there with them, turn it on and then light the fuse. It'll give you a good idea of the visual onslaught you'll be enduring." As usual with Colbert, the humor highlighted a sneaky truth: in its assaultive creativity, its high-speed...
...Movies like Polar Express and Sin City proffered seductive experiments in digital cinema and green screen, but Speed Racer announces the arrival of the virtual movie. If you watch the film overwhelmed by the assault of seductive visual information and wonder what you're seeing, here's the happy answer: the future of movies. And the people who made it? They're the industry's can-do-anything superheroes. Not Spider-Men, not Hulks or X-Men. No: Speed Demons...
...goodbye to the less exalted characters of the cinema's winter and early spring: the Asian-American dopers and slacker documentarians, the weepie men and baby mamas, the caveman hunters and Boleyn sisters, the chronically unmarried or uncomfortably pregnant or serial-killer imperiled women - you'll hardly be seeing any women at all in star roles. Even Judd Apatow and his goofball satyrs are taking a break. (The reigning producer of R-rated comedy has two movies opening toward the shank of the summer.) Fallible, ordinarily engaging, human-size, earthbound characters just don't measure up when the weather turns...
...written word but the moving image. “I thought it could be fun to take what I had thought of as a hobby and make it the meat of my academic work,” she says.Two years later, Whitaker has successfully made the history of cinema the centerpiece of her academic life at Harvard as a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator. She just finished writing her senior thesis on the Grove Press, a publishing house and film production company that published such then-controversial works as “The Autobiography of Malcolm...
...feature film, which will be screened on May 2 in the Student Organization Center at Hilles Cinema, is the debut of Harvard freshman Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11. Despite the fact that Bethel and his collaborator—University of Chicago sophomore Jack L. Mayer—are still very young filmmakers, “Terminus” reveals a decisive and mature artistic consciousness. Inspired by the city of Atlanta, the film’s series of intertwined and unrelated vignettes create a personal feel, supported by deliberate cinematic choices made by Mayer as writer...