9 posts tagged “film”
Most of the brilliant minds responsible for Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back with a new project:
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.
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 of the Apple TV to reflect the changes in the new 2.0 version. (It's mostly very positive.)Instead of taking my Apple TV out of the living room, attaching it to a video capture device in my office, and taking a few shots, I decided to see if Apple PR had any representative shots I could use. They do: You can find them right here.
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.
Seriously. What the $%#@ is wrong with this company? I appreciate that CC is available at all, really. But don't advertise it using a movie that doesn't support the feature. There are people out there who actually do want to rent or own it.
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 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?"
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.
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
GunShot SlowMotion Piano Effects - 59
T . R . S t u d a n s k i - S a v a n t E d i t o r
S a v a n t - cast and production credits
R o b e r t E l v i n - b i o g r a p h y
The recent film trilogy Cube , Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero were evidently remakes of an old television play called (trapped in a) Cube.
The original TV Cube is on YouTube, 53 low fidelity minutes, worth every one.
The first Cube film was quite gripping and high tech and makes good use of math as a plot element. Cube 2: Hypercube went a bit far in the thriller/horror sense, but you'll want to see it if you liked Cube. I haven't seen Cube Zero.
Other films featuring higher math and physics as part of the plot are Primer and Aronofsky's Pi.
