Tag: Film
To commemorate Sundance 2013, the film festival’s organizers commissioned designer Todd Oldham to create an illustrated book that gives an A to Z history of the storied institution: A is for auteurs Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman, F is for Flirting with Disaster, the breakout film from Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell, and […]
Escape from Tomorrow, which premiered at Sundance on Friday, is a dark, surrealistic fantasy-horror that has already scored director Randy Moore comparisons to post-modern film master David Lynch. It’s about the psychological breakdown that a man on vacation experiences after abruptly losing his job, and the subsequent unraveling of his life and loss of his […]
How about we stop dragging gigantic mammals out of the ocean, sticking them into glorified bathtubs and humiliating with them into doing dumb trick for scraps while sweaty crowds of gawkers cheer on? Oh, no? In 2010, Sea World’s Tilikum a 12,000-pound “performing whale” caused the deaths of three people including a highly skilled orca […]
Perhaps the strangest thing about Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s very strange latest project, is that RiFF RAFF was reportedly asked to play the James Franco role. While the Houston rapper never actually made it into the film, Franco’s character was clearly heavily based on the man and his signature style. After the trailer dropped yesterday, MTV Hive […]
Finally, the first full trailer for Harmony Korine’s fuck-up-the-mainstream feature film is here, bitches! Yeah, Spring Break foreve-e-e-e-e-e-er!!! Fuck yeah!!! Sorry. Sorry. It’s been a long time coming. And it came. Here it is. James Franco doing his best psycho-Riff Raff-esque ring leader and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine (aka Harmony’s […]
Edmund Helmert, the creative mind behind BoxOfficeQuant, can be thought of as a kind of Nate Silver for the film industry–researching, plotting, and analyzing data about movies, with hopes to “report on the financial state of the industry and attempt to predict its future.” For his latest project, he used this beautiful circular histogram to […]
Not much to say with this one: the good people of Thrash Lab (who previously made this gorgeous document of pumpkin carnage) went to Tahoe to show you the 10 most brutal ways to destroy a snowman. Naturally, everything is filmed in gorgeous slow motion, and with the eerily warm winter we’re having, all this […]
Digital artist Andy Willis creates the above beautiful collages by analyzing each second of a film for its most prominent hue, then displaying those colors on a 60-wide grid–turning iconic movies into abstract streams of color. His works, called “Spotmaps” are as functional as they are aesthetic: scanning the maps of the first three Die Hard films, […]
Though the story is as well-worn as any myth, the plot of the original Star Wars trilogy–spanning planets, and with a deep cast of characters–is epically complex. With his current exhibit at Los Angeles’s Gallery1988, Artist and mapmaker Andrew DeGraff seeks to plot the events of each film in as much detail as possible. This […]
“I believe the artistic and cultural implications for this project, if completed, would be immeasurable,” writes “filmmaker” Daniel Nadolny of his latest endeavor: a biopic of the ’90s bro-rock favorites the Spin Doctors featuring Daniel Stern, the non-Joe Pesci burglar from Home Alone, in the lead role. Great! The only problem? Nadolny isn’t actually a filmmaker […]
