11 posts tagged “film”
The Yes Men, those impervious impersonators of the world's most toxic rich people, are up to their hijinks again. Word over the wire is that they're coming out with a new movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, but their funny-bone still seems to be intact: t hey promise that "this film has one of the very few underwater ballet scenes you will ever see in a political documentary." Take a look.
Robert will be hauling a high-def
projector there for your viewing pleasure.
We will be drinking at a nearby North Beach watering hole afterward.
Cast party will be held November 2 at some "maritime club" or other.
UPDATE: The AMC channel is planning on re-making this classic as a cable television series. Read more here: Coppola's The Conversation to become AMC series
In The Conversation, written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman stars as a surveillance expert based in San Francisco.
What's not to like? Gene Hackman, San Francisco, Coppola, a lovely soundtrack, and subject matter that is extremely relevant today. If you haven't screened this flick, you are missing out.
It gives new meaning to the question "Can you hear me now?"
Most of the brilliant minds responsible for Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back with a new project entitled Cinematic Titanic:
Cinematic Titanic is a feature length movie riffing show and is an artist owned and operated venture created by Joel Hodgson, the creator of the Peabody award-winning Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Cinematic Titanic features the original cast and writers of MST3K, which is Hodgson (Joel Robinson), Trace Beaulieu (Crow), and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo). Filling out the ensemble is Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester) and Frank Conniff (TV’s Frank). Cinematic Titanic’s focus is to riff on the movies we love, which are ‘the unfathomable’, ‘the horribly great’, and the just plain ‘cheesy’ movies from the past. Our first feature length DVD Cinematic Titanic’s “The Oozing Skull” is available for purchase at EZtakes.com
Created by Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Cinematic Titanic peppers The Oozing Skull with the kind of hilarious, rapid-fire commentary that fans of fine movie riffing have come to know and love. Joining Joel are his original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast mates Trace Beaulieu and J. Elvis Weinstein, along with longtime MST3K writers and cast members Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. It's gonna get ugly, but then it's gonna get funny, so strap yourself in for the skull-oozing, gut-busting ride that is Cinematic Titanic.
Episode Two preview:
UPDATE: Episode Three available today. Here's the preview:
UPDATE:
Our editor Terry Studanski died suddenly this year while working on the project. The film will carry a dedication to his memory. His family and associates assisted with the recovery of the work in progress, and Potrero Post signed on and will soon wrap up the post production. A screening has been tentatively scheduled.
Savant - Sound Track 1 Savant - Sound Track 2
Etude for Clarinet and Piano - Robert Elvin, Richard Walker
Debussy's Mis takes - Robert Elvin, Steve Goldman, Richard Walker
T . R . S t u d a n s k i - S a v a n t E d i t o r
P O T R E R O P O S T - Savant post production
R o b e r t E l v i n - b i o g r a p h y
Alternate blog post title: pthurrott you're losing me just kidding!
Seriously though, I have a comment to make about this:
Apple is STILL lying about closed captioning in Ratatouille
Last month, I pointed out Apple's surreal use of the movie "Ratatouille" as an example of Closed Captioning support in iTunes during the teve Jobs keynote. It's surreal because Ratatouille, wasn't--and still isn't--available in a version with closed captioning from the iTunes Store. You can't rent a version with closed captioning, and you can't buy a version with closed captioning. And yet, there it was. As the poster child for closed captioning.
This week, I'm going to write an updated review ... and wouldn't you know it: Two of the three shots that are available shows... ta da... Ratatouille. Which, according to the screenshots--yep, you guessed it--is available with closed captioning. So I fired up iTunes just now to check. Nope, no CC. Then I fired up the Apple TV, again, even though I looked at this very movie last night. It does NOT have closed captioning support.
How ironic, that CC is also a shorthand for Creative Commons... it is easy to imagine a young Future French Film Genius making his or her own version of this movie en Français using whatever crude animation technique... Simply because there is no CC (closed captioning.)
You just know he'd be sued into a million morceaux petits... by Jobs (Pixar) not Jobs (Apple.)
What is the name of that movie with Jack Black, you know, the one where they own a video rental store that rents their own low-budget remakes of several classic titles? Ah, mon cheri, is it lovely to imagine living in such a world,
N'est-ce pas?
Pardon my French!
In The Cheap Detective, San Francisco plays Casablanca, Peter Falk plays Bogart, and he gets all the girls in the end. A must-see for all Casablanca fans.
