Review: Pompo the Cinephile
There are plenty of movies out there that go into the artistry of storytelling. Birdman is a movie that explores the craft of acting, Adaptation ...
Tag: filmmaking
Video essay: Suicide Squad is a master class in awful film editing
Suicide Squad was a hot mess for so many reasons. The primary problem was the film’s slapdash construction. From its painfully on-the-nose soundtrack to ...
Martin Scorcese waxes poetic on film
Time to get all film schooly up in here. If you’ve done any study into the medium you know that film is not ...
Jurassic World to be shot in weird aspect ratio of 2:1
In an interview where revealed that only one character would be returning to the world of Jurassic Park the films director, Colin Trevorrow, also ...
GoPro announces HERO3 camera
We don’t cover a lot of tech announcements over here in Flixistan (official name of our imaginary country), but this one seemed notable ...
Rian Johnson talks 3D filmmaking
Rian Johnson, director of such modern classics as Brick and The Brothers Bloom, wrote a pretty great essay about stereoscopic filmmaking. In it, Johnson discusses ...
Christopher Nolan talks filmmaking, is suave
Tradition is rarely sexy. Yet, in an interview with DGA Quarterly, Christopher Nolan comes off as the Don Draper of directors: supremely knowledgeable ...
Terry Gilliam’s 10 lessons for today’s filmmakers
At the 11th Annual Marrakesh International Film Festival, Terry Gilliam led a master class on filmmaking for Moroccan film students. Filmmaker Magazine got a ...
ARRI, Panavision, Aaton to cease film camera production
This really breaks my heart. Today, ARRI, Panavision, and Aaton, the three biggest manufacturers of film motion picture cameras, have announced that they ...