Like Hell but for Film

Oh, this is really neat, this is the same thing they did in Sh! The Octopus in 1937 to do this transformation scene. In black & white, the color of your light can hide makeup, then all you have to do is flip the color, and the audience just sees the difference in the light levels, but cannot see the color shift. The quick explanation for why this works is the blue makeup absorbs red light, looking very dark when only red light is present, but also looks about the same as relatively fair skin when only blue light is present. Same goes for the colors the other way.

ivan aksenchuk, {1968} русалочка (the little mermaid)

For all of my black cinephiles and history nerds out there, I feel like this is right up our alley. The website is super informative and user friendly, and not only has popular black films but vintage footage dating back to the silent film era.

The Frighteners (1996), directed by Peter Jackson

LEGEND OF THE GREAT SHOWDOWNS exhibition opens TOMORROW!  March 6th at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles! JOIN US at the gallery or at Twitch.tv/scottlava ! 

“It set new standards of what was possible in terms of commercial motion pictures. Sometimes shown with hand-colored prints, The Great Train Robbery was America’s first blockbuster. There was action, suspense, ending in a chase and final shootout. The final image was unforgettable, directly confronting the audience and including them in the action.” THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter

Shaynas Sequence

i feel it’s important to make this distinction because there’s a common (sometimes subconscious) thought that TV is a lesser form of digital art compared to film, but television, especially recently, has been phenomenal and it deserves proper credit as a storytelling medium, as well as a craft just as capable of amazing work like this

Milton Dammers

I love you. Oh, Harold, that’s wonderful. Now go and love some more. HAROLD AND MAUDE 1971, dir Hal Ashby

Peter Sellers. 1970.

me whenever I watch a good movie and try to explain why it’s so good

my favorite movie of theirs:

Lolita(1962)

A candid shot of 56 year old Paul Newman outside of his home in Connecticut, photo by Eva Sereny, 1981. Newman’s T-shirt reads: “get really stoned, drink wet cement”.

M (1931)

All the one-star reviews of Lawrence of Arabia on Amazon are people who do not know what an overture is.

So my partner and I watched Raising Buchanan last night (amazingly fun movie by the way), and I found myself so mesmerized by the intro alone that I decided to record it.