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That's the one. Real good, no? I love that The Lavender Hill Mob is on there
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Skwirl posted:The bulkiness of early sound equipment probably set back advanced camera techniques in film by a decade or more. Not really, it's just that most studios balked at the extra work it took to get that sort of camera work with sound film or didn't want to compromise on technical limitations. Look at nearly anything made by Ernst Lubitsch, Alfred Hitchcock, Rouben Mamoulian, Josef von Sternberg, Lewis Milestone, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman, etc. from 1929-1939. If you look at the duds of the 20s, they're generally as static as the lesser sound films of the late 20s and 30s. I really recommend checking out Ernst Lubitsch's first sound film, The Love Parade, as well as Rouben Mamoulian's first film Applause since they are way more advanced in camera technique than what you'd expect from 1929. Applause has stuff like location shooting in a subway station and rack focus shots.
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Jan 25, 2018 23:05
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Yeah, the more ambitious and talented directors usually managed to find ways to work around the limitations of early sound cinema. The hacks just plunked the camera down somewhere like it was 18 loving 90 and called it a day, because who wants to have to think about that stuff? One thing I find very eerie about that era when sound is a recent invention is that some films still have parts where there is just complete silence, no room tone, no music just nothing. There is a lot of this in Dracula and I think part of a scene in M but I'm struggling to remember more examples at the moment. It always feels very jarring and creepy which, in the case of Dracula at least, made the films even better.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Yeah, the more ambitious and talented directors usually managed to find ways to work around the limitations of early sound cinema. The hacks just plunked the camera down somewhere like it was 18 loving 90 and called it a day, because who wants to have to think about that stuff? The introduction of Frankenstein's monster in complete silence is quite unnerving.
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Jan 25, 2018 23:17
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Silence in film just feels really weird in general. Like we're so used to there always being some sound that it just makes us squirm when it gets taken away. Like that scene in Bande a Part where they decide to have a minutes silence but only make it 30 seconds but it feels like an eternity. I have an idea that I that I want to use for something where a haunted house would have a silent spot in it. Like a character would step into a certain doorway or hall and then there would be no sound at all and the character would be aware of this and freak the gently caress out. It would probably have to have something more to it though.
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Jan 25, 2018 23:24
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Yeah there was some silence in Silence. Made me think about how rare that is.
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Jan 25, 2018 23:28
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Everyone needs to see The Love Parade. You'd think Lubitsch had been making talkies for a decade from how he's firing on full cylinders. And it's not just the technique - it's also thickly pre-code with stuff like Maurice Chevalier going to bed with Jeannette MacDonald, followed by shots of cannons firing or a song titled "Anything to Please the Queen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EXpctIGCpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtoyL6l4p6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKEX6syFdDk
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Jan 25, 2018 23:47
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MoviePass is dropping access to certain theatres.  https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/956650853288501248
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Jan 26, 2018 00:18
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Spatula City posted:Netflix seems like a massive financial scheme that will ultimately collapse in a few years, when it's revealed they've never actually been profitable. It's the same plan as Uber and all these other hosed up companies, they bleed money in torrents providing a product they can't afford to to become ubiquitous and drown out the competition
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Jan 26, 2018 00:46
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Proposition Joe posted:MoviePass is dropping access to certain theatres. BOOOOOOO.
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Jan 26, 2018 00:53
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Proposition Joe posted:MoviePass is dropping access to certain theatres. At least it's just lovely AMC theaters. Was it ever fully explained why there were mad at seemingly getting more money?
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I mean AMC have been fighting this since Moviepass announced the price drop, so it's not that surprising. It's still hard to know how AMC even had the power to stop it though. They must just lawyered the poo poo out of them
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Jan 26, 2018 00:56
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Cool, the closest AMC to me is on that list so I'm suddenly looking like a genius for passing on the $99 deal they had.
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Franchescanado posted:At least it's just lovely AMC theaters. Was it ever fully explained why there were mad at seemingly getting more money? The rumor is is that they were going to be releasing their own MoviePass-like card before MoviePass dropped their price and beat them to it. glam rock hamhock posted:I mean AMC have been fighting this since Moviepass announced the price drop, so it's not that surprising. It's still hard to know how AMC even had the power to stop it though. They must just lawyered the poo poo out of them According to a tweet in the article AMC didn't drop them, MoviePass did.
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Franchescanado posted:At least it's just lovely AMC theaters. Was it ever fully explained why there were mad at seemingly getting more money? It's presumably because it devalues it in people's minds. Like with movies at home now, you often think that your don't want to pay for a rental because your can just watch it on streaming and if it's not there you don't bother. I think AMC fears the same thing. Like if moviepass fails, they don't want people now used to not paying $10-20 a ticket. I'm not saying this fear is sensible but it's all I can really fathom
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Jan 26, 2018 00:58
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I rented a bunch of movie I missed in 2017 to watch over the weekend. Tell me what I should watch first/together: Brigsby Bear The Beguiled A Ghost Story Detroit Wind River I also have: Your Name Stronger Battle of the Sexes American Made Columbus War for the Planet of the Apes A Cure for Wellness
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Jan 26, 2018 01:04
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The Beguiled.
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Jan 26, 2018 01:21
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I don't see the list of AMCs. Anyone mind linking?
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Jan 26, 2018 01:22
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Jan 26, 2018 01:22
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I thought Brigsby Bear was a fun little movie.
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Jan 26, 2018 01:23
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Detective No. 27 posted:I don't see the list of AMCs. Anyone mind linking? I guess you have to look up your local theater yourself: https://www.moviepass.com/
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Jan 26, 2018 01:30
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Looks like my locations are unnaffected. Phew.
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glam rock hamhock posted:It's presumably because it devalues it in people's minds. Like with movies at home now, you often think that your don't want to pay for a rental because your can just watch it on streaming and if it's not there you don't bother. I think AMC fears the same thing. Like if moviepass fails, they don't want people now used to not paying $10-20 a ticket. That's a really good spin on it.
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Jan 26, 2018 01:57
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AMC is also all about making the worst possible decisions to get people to come to their theaters
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Jan 26, 2018 02:02
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RE: Netflix, I have no problem believing that at some point they turned a pretty tidy profit, unlike something like Uber or even Twitter, which basically has no source of revenue.
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Some Bill & Ted 3 details. Somehow they can't get funding. This really is the garbage timeline isn't it.
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Jimbot posted:Some Bill & Ted 3 details. Somehow they can't get funding. I can see the logic the author is kvetching over. I loving love both of the movies to death, but I know lots of people who have no idea about the franchise. The only broad-scope attractor the film has is Keanu.
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DC Murderverse posted:I rented a bunch of movie I missed in 2017 to watch over the weekend. Tell me what I should watch first/together: These three are all dope
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For a movie about getting it on with a fish-man god, The Shape of Water is surprisingly antiseptic, almost like a sci-fi equivalent of 50 Shades Darker. It's got nothing on Swamp Thing.
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K. Waste posted:For a movie about getting it on with a fish-man god, The Shape of Water is surprisingly antiseptic, almost like a sci-fi equivalent of 50 Shades Darker. How does the Swamp Thing sequel compare to the original? We've had the DVD sitting around for a couple years.
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Detective No. 27 posted:How does the Swamp Thing sequel compare to the original? We've had the DVD sitting around for a couple years. I unfortunately can't comment, but I am seriously considering just popping on Swamp Thing tonight. poo poo rules.
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K. Waste posted:For a movie about getting it on with a fish-man god, The Shape of Water is surprisingly antiseptic, almost like a sci-fi equivalent of 50 Shades Darker. I mean, the main character is a janitor, so it's thematically apt.
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So Trump ordered Mueller fired, but his own people said they'd resign before they would do so.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I mean, the main character is a janitor, so it's thematically apt. Nah. At most, Elisa is shown as being mildly eccentric, but she's not overly cleanly or orderly or punctual. If her profession was supposed to betray certain significant aspects of her personality, where she works actually suggests explicitly that they aren't any more significant than any of her other co-workers. She's working in a dank, underfunded, under-resourced government base, and this environment is never depicted as informing in her any sense of repulsion. It's the opposite. We are shown her explicitly going about her routine in contentment, she accepts the world for what it is, which is what actually informs her ability to open up so emotionally and physically to the fish-man. What makes the story feel antiseptic is its removed, fairy tale frame of reference, from that of Giles, who is telling the story. This isn't expression of Elisa's cleanliness or whatever, its Giles desire to not truly look. It's even rather pedestrian, the way del Toro resolves the question of the existence of fish-man penis but just having Elisa and Zelda casually joke about it. Even in this scene, we're informed that the penis is retractable, so we're also being assured, even when the fish-man isn't there, that his sexuality is off-screen. The cleverest motif in the film actually mirrors this in terms of our information about Elisa's sexual life - as informed by Giles' framing, his desire not to look. The eggs that Elisa feeds the fish-man are part of a double-entendre, a reference to her own internal, invisible sex - which is actually deflated by the comic image of Elisa ritualistically masturbating to an egg-timer.
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Bigger Than Life is super duper good, no idea how that got made in the 50s, incredible.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:People just want to put something in their eyeballs that's relatively consistent and easily accessible. No wonder contact lenses took off.
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Whatever, I'mma watch Godzilla vs. Gigan for the first time since I was, like, 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bV1P9scY0k
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