mercoledì 30 settembre 2015
NIGHTMARE ALLEY: Do we hear what he hears?
from Observations on film art http://ift.tt/1Ghfu5L
Festa del Cinema di Roma 2015 - Il programma della decima edizione (16-24 ottobre)
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1RfQYs3
Il programma della Festa del Cinema di Roma 2015
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KKETZx
The X-Files: il primo trailer ufficiale dell'attesissimo revival
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1QKKi48
martedì 29 settembre 2015
Il CSC-Cineteca Nazionale alla 10a Festa del Cinema di Roma
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1QK3xuM
A Room with a View: English Hearts and Italian Sunshine
from The Criterion Current http://ift.tt/1KJafzI
Venezia 72 - Bagnoli Jungle - Settimana della Critica
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1LitP9s
Raging Bull (1980)
“You never got me down, Ray.” — Jake LaMotta
Robert DeNiro’s Jake LaMotta is a coiled animal, caged like a note on sheet music: fierce, balletic, and balanced to its function. The ropes of the ring are frames, like bars of music. Indeed, “give me a stage where this bull here can rage… that’s entertainment.” A row of people sit, silhouettes in judgement, while flashbulbs pop and die with the slow pace of the events about to unfold. What do those photos reveal?
The opening of Raging Bull bears something uneasy, yet refined and languorous, somewhat reminiscent of the quiet roll of the marble in the opening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Both opening sequences share the perfect music – here, it’s “Intermezzo” from the opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni – as well as incredibly visualized soundscapes, beautiful black-and-white cinematography, and a sophisticated yet gritty production design.
Instead of moving in tandem with or in the same direction as the action, the music runs against the scene, playing in stark contrast. The Cavalleria rusticana makes the scene celestial, dreamy, elevating LaMotta’s furious display to the level of graceful performance. This technique of placing classical music against a scene of action – also slowed down, in black and white – is used to stunning effect in the opening of Tarsem’s The Fall.
Director Martin Scorsese speaks about Raging Bull, from the commentary track for Robert Wise’s 1949 film The Set-Up:
“I didn’t understand what the ring was. I couldn’t interpret it in my life… but I think at that time I was taking it too literally. Ultimately I came to understand that the ring is everywhere. It depends on how much of a fighter you are in life. The hardest opponent you have is yourself.”
The introduction to LaMotta is through movement, through extremities: his hands, his feet, bobbing and weaving through air and smoke. Faceless, nameless, alone, an instrument of choreography, De Niro’s LaMotta embodies both the star and the never-was. His slow hooded dance is a performance of masculinity, a show of strength and ambition, a threat of violence doused in elegance. His power as a man is the crux, the focal point from which the story pivots. We believe this scene, LaMotta shadowboxing in the fog, to be the beginning, but hindsight tells a different tale.
When the late movie critic Gene Siskel asked Scorsese what he believed to be the most emblematic image from his body of work, Scorsese’s answer was simple: the title sequence of Raging Bull.
A discussion with Title Designer DAN PERRI.
Raging Bull has such an iconic opening sequence. How did this come together?
Dan: Marty was living in New York and I was still in Los Angeles, so I went to New York to meet with him. I bought him this little crystal glass bull and brought it to his apartment for a meeting. He was married to Isabella Rossellini at that time, who was this little 21-year-old waif of a girl and she answered the door. I came in, and I gave him the bull. I think I had seen the film…
RSS & Email Subscribers: Check out the full Raging Bull article at Art of the Title.
from Art of the Title http://ift.tt/1o9ZnQ9
lunedì 28 settembre 2015
A Room with a View: Helena Bonham Carter Kisses and Tells
from The Criterion Current http://ift.tt/1OCs47y
Non essere cattivo di Caligari candidato agli Oscar 2016
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1LXFlRY
Al cinema Trevi il mese di settembre si conclude con una giornata dedicata a Jean Renoir e una giornata dedicata a Sergio Sollima, scomparso il 1° luglio di quest'anno
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1LJHHIA
Cineteca Nazionale. La programmazione al cinema Trevi ottobre 2015
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1GbMDQc
sabato 26 settembre 2015
TEATRO DELL'OROLOGIO: inaugurazione stagione 2015-2016
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1MwbIde
venerdì 25 settembre 2015
giovedì 24 settembre 2015
Mille Occhi per ritrovare se stessi
from Fucine Mute webmagazine » Cinema http://ift.tt/1KBjIpA
Pecore in erba
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iNw8Vu
Magic Mike XXL
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iNwaNg
mercoledì 23 settembre 2015
Mister Johnson and the Making of a Nigerian Village
from The Criterion Current http://ift.tt/1NNbe42
Esce il 28 settembre il nuovo graphic novel della Coconino Press 'Nella camera del cuore', di Marco Galli
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1NTmEoo
Torna a Torino dal 7 al 10 ottobre il ToHorror Film Fest
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KzOT4E
Roma, 25 settembre, il dj set di DANGER infiamma il Roma Creative Contest
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FubR1a
A Rovereto dal 6 al 10 ottobre la XXVI Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Archeologico - XII Concorso Premio Paolo Orsi
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iwvGdG
Solo con chitarra volgare - Roberto Zechini
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ivSl9V
martedì 22 settembre 2015
Emmy Awards 2015 - I vincitori
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1j7cpjy
La corazzata Potëmkin è una figata pazzesca, a Milano, in cuffia, il 26 settembre
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Ksscm0
Al via la campagna crowdfunding su Eppela del Festival di cinema vintage 'Il Gusto della Memoria'
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KsmTms
Al via dal Teatro Felice di Genova il 3 ottobre il tour del violinista Ashot Tigranyan e della sua Classical Concert Chamber Orchestra
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KsmT6a
Narcos (2015)
“Silver or lead? You decide.” — Pablo Escobar
It will be yours... It will be yours...
The solemn promise of Rodrigo Amarante’s "Tuyo" grounds Digital Kitchen’s pitch-perfect introduction to the Netflix crime saga Narcos. The title sequence is our passport into the sordid, seductive world of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the life of the notorious "King of Cocaine" and a peek inside the international effort to bring down his multi-billion dollar enterprise. The opening is also the story of cocaine itself – the narcotic that built Escobar’s empire – and the wealth, power, glamour, violence, and death that always seems to accompany it. Hero to some, villain to many more, the effects of Escobar’s reign are still felt to this day, making the opening feel all the more relevant and vital.
Created by DK’s Los Angeles studio, the Narcos opener is a brilliant blend of past and present, combining archival photos and footage – some taken by Escobar’s actual family photographer "El Chino" – with a clean, sans-serif typeface and recreations of early ’80s espionage and excess. Capped off with stunning aerial shots of Bogotá and a portentous burning automobile, Amarante’s stirring ballad plays on, promising more and more and more.
A discussion with Creative Director TOM O'NEILL at Digital Kitchen.
Give us a little background on yourself. You're from Australia, but you moved to LA in 2009, right?
Tom: I basically arrived completely fresh-faced here in Los Angeles. I'd worked in Sydney as a motion graphics guy, but my background was in product design. I was an industrial designer and I switched over to graphic design and motion graphics. So when I arrived in LA I freelanced with a lot of shops, just art directing and animating, designing here in the area and I eventually caught the eye of a…
RSS & Email Subscribers: Check out the full Narcos article at Art of the Title.
from Art of the Title http://ift.tt/1NIHTHY
lunedì 21 settembre 2015
Dal 22 al 24 settembre, al cinema Trevi, una retrospettiva dedicata a Jean Sorel. Si ricorda al gentile pubblico che l'incontro con l'attore è stato annullato
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1QTt1qr
Oggi, 21 settembre Giornata Mondiale Alzheimer, la ricordiamo con il fumetto 'Rughe' di Paco Roca
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FXDE4T
Scade il 30 settembre il bando della prima edizione di 'Tradizione – Il Teatro di Domani'
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OpFtzB
domenica 20 settembre 2015
You and me and every frog we know
from Observations on film art http://ift.tt/1V31W4v
Via dalla pazza folla
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FnnHdx
venerdì 18 settembre 2015
Torino, 24 settembre: presentazione del libro 'Italia: ultimo atto. L'altro cinema italiano – Vol. 1' di Fabrizio Fogliato
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1gxBq5x
Tanya Khabarova: La "mia danza" attraverso il rapporto tra natura e cultura
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1F6bMRo
Seconda edizione della rassegna 'La tela e lo schermo' a Rende (Cosenza)
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1F6bM3U
Avevamo un appuntamento
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ilTrVC
giovedì 17 settembre 2015
Roma, 19 settembre - Giuseppe Tornatore al Roma Creative Contest al MAXXI per la masterclass di regia - ingresso gratuito
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FjKVB0
Sangue del mio sangue. Hello, darkness, my old friend
from Fucine Mute webmagazine » Cinema http://ift.tt/1Me11Mc
'THE COMEDY OF ERRORS' al Globe Theatre di Roma, dal 24 al 27 settembre, spettacolo in inglese
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1W4Kv5O
A Roma 'EffectUs', primo evento italiano di Special Make-Up
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OylJsI
Bruno Bozzetto premiato con il Romics d'Oro dal 1 al 4 ottobre 2015 alla Fiera di Roma
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OgLMW8
martedì 15 settembre 2015
Roma, 17 gennaio: al Teatro Vascello 'POUILLES LE CENERI DI TARANTO ', di e con Amedeo Fago
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Lw583p
Hackers (1995)
“Remember, hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait.” — Razor
“This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.” During a rare quiet moment in Iain Softley’s rambunctious 1995 film Hackers, a Secret Service agent sits in a car on a stakeout, reading a section of The Hacker Manifesto aloud. Written in 1986 by The Mentor, the essay was as fundamental to hacker culture in 1995 as it is today.
It’s also the philosophy that runs through Softley’s hacksploitation flick and cult phenomenon, starring the fresh-faced and soon-to-be-wed Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. The early moments of the film establish the antagonism of the story with a bang: the Secret Service knocking down the door to arrest eleven-year-old Dade Murphy on charges of hacking. After he has been whisked away in a slow-motion flurry of flashbulbs and credits, we next see Dade in the air, staring down at the narrow streets and wide avenues of Manhattan, gliding towards a new life and one hell of a MacGuffin.
The soundtrack to the scene is the blissful and wordless “Halcyon & on & on” by Orbital, one of the most gorgeous songs of the ’90s and a classic of the era. Propelled by Kirsty Hawkshaw’s ethereal vocals and that unshakable bassline, the track carries Dade and the viewer forward as the familiar forms below shift from city into circuitry. Here it is: the world of the electron and the switch. Cooler than our own. More vibrant. With more rollerblades, pleather, and ugly red books that won’t fit on a shelf. Where you don’t have an identity until you have a handle, man.
For a generation coming of age in the mid-’90s whose moms actually did buy them a ’puter for Christmas, Hackers was an intoxicating elixir. It was a raucous combination of cutting-edge graphics, electrifying soundtrack, flashy cyberpunk costuming, terrific supporting cast, and keen attention to detail, with references to everything from Metropolis to Boy Meets World. Though critics glommed onto its slang-laden dialogue and computational kitsch immediately upon release, its aesthetic endears and the film endures in part because of its sly intermingling of the familiar and the unknown, of past and future tech. It predicted the rise of the Internet, the demand for streaming services, and the importance of open access to information. It tapped into a real counterculture that over the last 20 years has become increasingly sophisticated in both technique and technology.
We may no longer have ubiquitous payphones, floppy disks, or our tapes of The Greatest Zukes Album, but we have the Internet, and therein lies Hackers. It’s in that place where I put that thing that time.
A discussion with Title Designer RICHARD MORRISON.
So it’s been 20 years since Hackers first hit theatres. What’s your relationship with the film been like since then?
It’s one of those films, when I’m teaching and stuff, a lot of youngsters ask about it because it’s obviously turned into a cult film.
Did you have any idea that that’s what would happen?
No, none at all. None of us realized what was going to be happening with computers at that time. We were still doing so much work in analogue.
What was the first meeting about this project like? How…
RSS & Email Subscribers: Check out the full Hackers article at Art of the Title.
from Art of the Title http://ift.tt/1M8iVQE
lunedì 14 settembre 2015
Vertov, sound technology, and 3D: Recent Blu-ray releases
from Observations on film art http://ift.tt/1FI8qi3
La Cineteca Nazionale premiata a Venezia per il restauro di "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma"
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1gm4lJN
Il premio Mouse d'Oro della critica online a 'Rabin - The last day', di Amos Gitai
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ipv4Hl
Nel centenario della nascita di Mario Monicelli, la Cineteca Nazionale presenta alla Mostra di Venezia il restauro di "Vogliamo i colonnelli"
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1UQB5bO
domenica 13 settembre 2015
Phubbing - Life in the bow
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KgjhAY
Molti incontri questa settimana al cinema Trevi. Tra l'altro, anteprima del Festival I mille occhi di Trieste
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1LrA0SD
DOMANI al SIFF - Salento International Film Festival: stasera la premiazione
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1M4S6gc
sabato 12 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Desde allá - Leone d'oro
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KeCKC6
Venezia 72 - Tutti i premi
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1J4ZP9j
Venezia 72 - I sogni del lago salato - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Q97dWP
Venezia 72 - La prima luce - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1NoDcTG
venerdì 11 settembre 2015
Il 12 e il 13 settembre, al cinema Trevi, Ugo Gregoretti ripresenta Il Conto (Montecristo)
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1NuGUg1
Venezia 72 - 11 minutes - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1L6Qsfh
Venezia 72 - Behemoth - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1J2M76T
Venezia 72 - Helmut Berger, Actor - Venezia Classici
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1O5w7sN
AL VIA DAL 29 SETTEMBRE LA STAGIONE DEL TEATRO AMBRA ALLA GARBATELLA DI ROMA CON "UNGRA" - il primo spettacolo teatrale in 3 D
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1NlVsgt
Venezia 72 - Marguerite - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1J20qIU
giovedì 10 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - L'esercito più piccolo del mondo - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iBlAbG
Venezia 72- Remember- Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1i13PSu
Episodio III
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1i0YYku
Venezia 72 - Tanna -
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FzuFXw
Self/less
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FzuECV
Operazione U.N.C.L.E.
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KGjunp
mercoledì 9 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Rabin, the Last Day - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1FymhaM
Venezia 72 - Ma (Evento Speciale) - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1LXStcr
DOMANI al SIFF - Salento International Film Festival il documentario d'inchiesta 'Green Lies
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OyPpnj
Venezia 72 - Anomalisa - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1JSXTCG
Venezia 72 - The Endless River - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1UB8NHv
Venezia 72 - Janis di Amy Berg - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1L0Qp4A
Venezia 72 - Italian gangster - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1IXSg4b
Venezia 72 - Sangue del mio sangue - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iwkWfK
martedì 8 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Man down - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ivcLAd
Cosenza, 10 settembre: Ugo G. Caruso conversa con Leonardo Colombati autore del romanzo "1960"
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1VM7wdD
Venezia 72 - Madame Courage - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1M9fImL
Le proiezioni di settembre e ottobre del doc "L'ultimo metro di pellicola" di Elio Sofia
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1M9fImF
Scade l'1 ottobre il bando gratuito per cortometraggi dell'As FilmFestival (al Maxxi di Roma, 14 e 15 novembre), realizzato da ragazzi con Sindrome di Asperger
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Oa4Vbe
Venezia 72 - Equals - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1LUMbKF
Al via il bando del Premio Nazionale "Musica contro le mafie"
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Oa4Vba
Giancarlo Giannini al CineCocktail: 'Mi ha inventato la Wertmuller'
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Oa4UUU
Dall'8 al 11 settembre al cinema Trevi, la rassegna "Barbara Steele, la regina del gotico", con film di Freda, Margheriti, Mastrocinque, Franciosa, Festa Campanile, Salce, Schlöndorff, Monicelli e altri
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1i9oeFQ
Venezia 72 - Non essere cattivo - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1IVqPIg
Venezia 72 - Viva la sposa - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1IVqPrY
Olive Kitteridge (2014)
“I'm waiting for the dog to die so I can shoot myself.” — Olive Kitteridge
To quote American designer Charles Eames: “The details are not the details.”
It’s just so in the leisurely opening to Olive Kitteridge, HBO’s 4-part miniseries about a woman unravelling in a picture-perfect small town tucked away in New England. This impressionistic sequence takes its time, following in the footsteps of title sequences to shows like Six Feet Under and Dexter, allowing the items and small rituals on display to tell their stories with grace and stoic aplomb. What first appears to be snow, falling starkly against a dark background to melancholy music by composer Carter Burwell, is confectioner’s sugar on a doughnut — the sweet delightfully mixed in with the sour. Then follow pills in the shape of a flower, an embroidered heart leaking, the stain from a drink peering out from itself, stockinged feet in the garden, a landscape becoming wallpaper. The audience is invited to continuously ask: Who is Olive, among these small things?
Nominated for a 2015 Emmy in Outstanding Main Title Design.
A discussion with Designer and Art Director SYNDERELA PENG, former designer with yU+co, current creative director at FX Networks.
Before we start talking about Olive Kitteridge, I thought maybe we could get a little background. Where did you start out? How did you get into motion design?
SP: So, I studied illustration at Art Center and then I worked for like a year, two years, and then decided I wanted to – I needed to learn more typography so I went back to school. I went through the program at CalArts for their design masters. I had known Garson Yu…
RSS & Email Subscribers: Check out the full Olive Kitteridge article at Art of the Title.
from Art of the Title http://ift.tt/1LUwtiF
lunedì 7 settembre 2015
A Massa Marittima (Gr) un omaggio a Luciano Tovoli
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1iszlcR
Venezia 72 - L'attesa - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1O8Rad0
Venezia 72 - L'Hermine - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1M5RV78
Venezia 72 - A bigger splash - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1NXBSsh
Venezia 72 - Early Winter - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1hQ7t1J
Il CSC-Cineteca Nazionale presenta alla Mostra di Venezia il restauro di "La Lupa" di Alberto Lattuada
from News dal Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia http://ift.tt/1ENloQH
Venezia 72 - El Clan - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1K1umde
domenica 6 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Sobitye - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1UAso59
Venezia 72 - The Danish Girl - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1UAdpbs
Venezia 72 - Mountain - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1VGP3PD
Venezia 72 - Black Mass - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1EIq7Dq
Venezia 72 - A peine j'ouvre les yeux - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1O63OcN
sabato 5 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Spotlight - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1g1JpHT
Venzia 72 - In Jackson Height - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Kx8fxE
Episodio II
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Kx8gSc
Venezia 72 - Tharlo - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1O3SWvU
Venezia 72 - Francofonia - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1PRVLhS
In un posto bellissimo.
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1hJWKWs
venerdì 4 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Boi Neon - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1XqU3tL
Venezia 72 - Klezmer - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OhCdDc
SIFF - Salento International Film Festival: questo week-end
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ilIaoJ
I CineCocktail tornano a Venezia con Studio Universal con Ambra Angiolini e Lina Wertmuller
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1NRBnjo
Venezia 72 - Un monstruo de mil cabezas - Orizzonti
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Xos3H3
giovedì 3 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Looking for Grace - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ECrAL9
Ossigeno 2015 - Popstairs A Roma tre quartieri, tre interventi di street art, tre icone “pop”.
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1hDHp9Q
Venezia 72 - Beast of no nation - Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ikb4FP
Episodio I
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1OcvBWC
Venezia 72 - Winter on fire - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1ik4Dm5
Venezia 72 - Gli Shakespeare veneziani di Orson Welles
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Up1Bhq
Venezia 72 - Lolo - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1JPpCY4
A Venezia72 torna Green Drop Award
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1hBK5ot
Venezia 72 - Jia (Famiglia) - Settimana della Critica
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1hBCFBs
mercoledì 2 settembre 2015
Venezia 72 - Underground Fragrance - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1Fk0WBI
Venezia 72 - Storie sospese - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KrMZZX
Venezia 72 - Everest - Fuori Concorso
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1IIIG58
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
“Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time in a screwed up place does not necessarily make you screwed up.” — Mark Hunter
It’s all there... the hustle and bustle of any suburban American high school at 8am, school buses, teachers, students, lockers, classrooms, bells ringing, an intentional for-shot remake of The Breakfast Club open with a Molly Ringwald look-alike getting out of dad’s Mercedes. The cool kids, the regular kids, the dweebs, the defeated, the autocratic teachers, all playing their parts. Everybody knows what’s coming next. Everybody knows it’s another Hughesian teen angst-fueled opus.
Except it isn’t.
This is an Allan Moyle film. The Canadian writer/director laughed out of Hollywood for making Times Square, a movie about the New York punk scene descending into the New Wave with two girls as main characters. This is Leonard Cohen. This is Bad Brains and Henry Rollins and Ice-T. This is pirate radio proclaiming everything in America is “completely fucked up” in the opening line of Christian Slater’s voiceover. These are iconoclasts. And this is iconoclast designer Pablo Ferro introducing them to the unsuspecting status quo.
Ferro does so skillfully, of course. Under Slater’s warped voiceover, Moyle’s camera pans over a no-moon nighttime suburbia, abruptly turning in the opposite direction to illuminate what has to be the most boring tract of all the tract homes in America. This is what we were looking at under the darkness? Fade to red. Red? Yes, death to monotony.
Awaken to letterforms. It’s graffiti, the visual language of the disenfranchised, acid green and dripping. The letters are Pablo Ferro’s, tall and thin, with no dull edges. The letters rebel, confront, and demand our attention. We’re stirred. Cue the Hughes stereotypes at High School, USA.
By the time Cohen’s wise baritone plays in the protagonist’s refuge, “Everybody Knows” we’re in for something very different than a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal frolicking in forced high school harmony. This verbal bloodletting is a challenge to the viewer’s own prejudices. This is disillusionment and crude angst being broadcast into the darkness.
A discussion with Title Designers PABLO FERRO and ALLEN FERRO.
So, tell us about Pump Up The Volume. How did you work on that?
Pablo: We made that look like a stencil.
Allen: That was the tabletop shoot that we did with the yellow stencil lettering.
Pablo: The director [Allan Moyle] – that’s what he did as a kid in New York. He’d make a stencil and paint on the wall. He cracked me up because sometimes he’d like some dripping and sometimes he didn’t want any dripping. I said, “You can’t control the drip, you can only add more…
RSS & Email Subscribers: Check out the full Pump Up the Volume article at Art of the Title.
from Art of the Title http://ift.tt/1fUudfs
Southpaw – L'ultima sfida
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1KGuDTQ
Venezia 72 - Island City - Venice days
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1LKfEXz
martedì 1 settembre 2015
TRAILERS FF: AL VIA LE VOTAZIONI ONLINE DEL PUBBLICO PER IL MIGLIOR TRAILER DELL'ANNO
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1N03rPW
Sometimes a reframing…
from Observations on film art http://ift.tt/1KCxBse
Addii - Wes Craven e un'America da incubo
from Close-Up.it - storie della visione http://ift.tt/1X9xSbi