Steve Diggins

An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) by Joseph Gelmis Excerpted from "The Film Director as Superstar" (Doubleday and Company: Garden City, New York) Copyright ©1970 Joseph Gelmis, All Rights Reserved Gelmis: 2001 took about three years to make - six months of preparation, four and a half months of working with the actors, and a year and a half of shooting special effects. [ 9,357 more words ]
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Kubrick, Pudovkin’s Film Technique and Eisenstein

Kubrick: I read Eisenstein’s books at the time, and to this day I still don’t really understand them. The most instructive book on film aesthetics I came across was Pudovkin’s Fil…

October 19th

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We Blew It? Douglas Trumbull’s ‘Silent Running’ Took the Counter-Culture Legacy of ‘Easy Rider’ As a Paean to the Planet • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Tim Pelan On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last...

October 16th

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Remembering Steely Dan's 'Aja' 40 Years Later

“These people are too fancy, they’re too sophisticated," William S. Burroughs said of Steely Dan in 1977. "They’re doing too many things at once in a song." Burroughs, who had no personal connection to the band, had been asked to comment on Aja, Steely Dan’s new record, because co-founder Wa...

October 6th

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NASCAR App Lets Fans Perform Burnouts in AR

NASCAR has already created immersive tech that lets fans feel like they're behind the wheel of a championship racer, so how can it top that? It's latest offer

October 2nd

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How public TV broadcasting was born

The first public television broadcast took place on September 30, 1929. The world would never be the same again.

September 30th