Richard's Notes

French Roast
Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.

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Up in the Air
Wow, this movie is going to be great (I hope). I logged a lot of air miles in my time, I can relate to some of this. George Clooney stars in it, that’s enough for me.

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Where the Wild Things Are (behind the scenes)
A promotional video for the new movie Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak talks about how Spike Jonze has taken the book and made something new out of it (it seems like he’s pleased). Looks great, can’t wait to see it.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Sonja Sharp for Mother Jones: Bollywood for Beginners.
Fantastic overview of Hindi cinema with videos. Wow, this is a time suck but it’s quite a great overview and worth exploring, even if you’ve seen much of this before. The commentary is excellent.
[via Boing Boing]

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Deal Brings TV Shows and Movies to YouTube
In another step in its transformation from an online jumble of amateur videos to a destination for mainstream TV programs and movies, YouTube said Thursday that it had signed deals with Hollywood studios to showcase thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies on its Web site.
I’m loving [...]

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Eloquent Nude
The Love and Legacy of Edward Weston and Charis Wilson
She was beautiful, smart, and searching. He was an emerging genius in the world of photography. When they met, they fell instantly in love. Setting off across the West with camera and typewriter in the depths of the Great Depression, Charis Wilson and Edward Weston [...]

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Behind the scenes at Netflix
A great set on the Northborough, Massachusetts Netflix hub. Amazing system and as a recent convert I can say it really works well.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Shooting a Feature FIlm With the Canon 5D Mark II: Challenges and Ingenious Workarounds
Disney and his crew had to figure out how to workaround a few of the 5D Mark II’s most annoying limitations for filmmakers: no manual control over exposure settings during capture, and a lack of an efficient focusing system while shooting.
Still, the [...]

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Far out.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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This is a trailer for Nina Paley’s full length animated feature: Sita Sings the Blues.
Nina’s earlier work, Fetch was a wonderful early animation that showed a bit of her creativity but Sita takes it to another level (another world).
In the process of releasing Sita, Nina ran into issues surrounding her use of some background music [...]

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Amazing. Complete virtual humans coming soon to a theater near you.

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Best of the Westminster Kennel Club Show
I think this set says as much about dog owners as it does about the variety of breeds of dog (which also says a lot about dog owners).
To put the right spin on it, Best in Show (the movie).
[via Digg]

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Last Time in Clerkenwell is a fantastic piece of animation by Alex Budovsky with music by The Real Tuesday Weld. Check out Alex’s other pieces on YouTube and at the Alex Budovsky web site.
[via Ken O'Connell]

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Wisdom is both a book and a film by Andrew Zuckerman. It’s a collection of biographical sketches of a diverse group of folks, some famous and some less well known but all fascinating.
It’s worth spending some time with this site, wonderfully inspirational.
[via David Darling]

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A good friend of mine just gave me the DVD: Brilliant Fever: W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh and while I knew Smith’s work, I fell in love with it all over again watching it. This documentary is a window into the mind of a working photographer doing a four year project documenting the city [...]

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W.
Wow, Oliver Stone’s not wasting any time. I just wish it were only a movie instead of a movie about reality.
[via Daring Fireball]

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The Shift is a movie in progress about the world’s various social movements aligning and things working out. Looks good to me, count me in.
[via David Darling]

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Bottle Shock looks like a great movie. I mean, Alan Rickman, Dennis Farina, what could be bad?
More trailers for Bottle Shock.

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Julian Schnabel is a well known painter who has made the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The movie is an adaptation of the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the late editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE, who suffered a massive stroke that left him with locked-In syndrome. [...]

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Pixar’s hit new movie WALL-E has a short called “Presto” that plays before it in theaters and will no doubt be on the DVD when it is released.
Presto is available for purchase from the iTunes Music (and video) Store for $1.99.
Two words: Buy It!
Then watch it full screen. Oh yeah! It’s worth $1.99 just to [...]

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