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 Film Technique, which simply explained that editing was the aspect of film art form which was completely unique, and which separated it from all other art forms.
Tag: Stanley Kubrick
FaceDirector can seamlessly blend several takes to create nuanced blends of emotions, potentially cutting down on the number of takes necessary in filming.
ARRI IIC and lenses from the LACMA Kubrick exhibit. Some of the questions are in French. Click on the arrows in the lower right to make full screen.
Synthesizers in the Movies
Hans Zimmer and his Moog Modular Composer Neil Brand celebrates the art of cinema music, Neil explores how changing technology has taken soundtracks in bold new directions and even altered our very idea of how a film should sound. In the last of three programmes in which composer Neil Brand celebrates the art of cinema music, […]
Roger Ebert Interviews Arthur C. Clarke
Above spaceship Discovery model at the LACMA Kubrick exhibit (app here). The exhibit is traveling the world. Photo by Steve. Arthur C. Clarke also wrote about the geosynchronous satellite in the October 1945 issues of Wireless World. That is why the area where geosynchronous satellites orbit the Earth is called the Clarke Belt. “In March of 1997, film critic Roger […]