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Came across this - all in one take and completely live music played and recorded at the time of the take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxH-II0OsA and the BTS making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigGfcMoFE8 Wonder how many takes before they got their "one take". Apparently they...

I find myself not liking to write (screenplays, novels, short stories etc.) at my desk anymore. That means a desktop (currently a 27" iMac) is out. I like the idea of writing on the go wherever I may find myself - literally. It could be the park, a cafe - or my bed! I find that a laptop is just...

This is a 2017 movie by Hirokazu Koreeda the Japanese director who also did this year's Oscar nom Shoplifters. For my money, The Third Murder is a much better film. The plot is clever and engaging with some excellent twists. It is also shot beautifully, with some truly excellent camera blocking...

Hirokazu Koreeda wrote and directed this, and it won the top prize at Cannes, and was the Japanese submission for Best Foreign Language landing on the shortlist. A critical and audience success. Let me just say right off the bat, that touching films about kids and families are not my cup of tea...

What a sharp contrast to The Favourite. Where the Favourite was daring, innovative and surprising, The Wife is shopworn, bland, and devoid of the least innovation. The basic plot is beyond lame - really quite childish, a highschool take on "treatment of women authors" - completely implausible...

I'm surprised there has been no discussion of this movie here, considering it's a pretty ballsy and somewhat innovatively done film from a technical POV. It's not a perfect movie, but I give it massive props for trying something new - especially the use of sound, really pushing it to the limit...

We truly are living in a golden age of television. Here's a brilliant european series out of Germany, a collaboration between German state TV and the private Sky channel. Netflix scooped up the North American rights and set it loose January of this year. This is the most expensive TV series...

Can I just say, right off the bat - M A S T E R P I E C E. And for emphasis again - MASTERPIECE This is truly the best of the best. I rank it in the pantheon of top shows right beside The Wire and Breaking Bad. The acting is out of this world. Benicio Del Toro of course, but also Paul Dano -...

I rather liked season 1 of True Detective, despite the weak plot. The highlights for me was the acting and interaction between Harrelson and McConaughey - just outstanding. The cinematography was excellent, the mood good and so on. As I mentioned, the plot was the weakest link here and the...

The series gathered a lot of acclaim and awards, and justly so... for the first season. It's a fun romp and there is solid writing and solid comedy lines and situations. The lead actress Rachel Brosnahan is amazing, a genuine talent and arresting screen presence. For that matter, all the actors...

A brief interview on cnet: https://www.cnet.com/news/inside-an-indie-making-a-film-from-scratch/ "If you have a story stuck in your head, tell it. Don't wait for someone to tell you it's good enough. Don't ask permission. No one ever did anything thinking they couldn't. Get it out, in...

The Guilty 2018 is the Danish entry for best foreign language film for the oscars. It's quite brilliant. It's so good, hollywood is remaking it with Jake Gyllenhaal, because they know a good thing when they see it, and know well enough to steal it :) If you want to see what can be done with...

Computational image acquisition is marching apace. Both stills and video. I hate to say it, but unless dedicated cameras catch up with this new techology, they'll start falling behind. Thoughts?

Seems this has been at least a critical hit, with plenty of reviews praising it to the skies. RT score of 89% and IMDB 7.4. What am I missing? I thought this was one of the weakest horror films I've seen in a long time, hardly meriting the classification of "horror". It was as scary as a bowl of...

So, season 2 dropped a few days ago, and I just finished watching the 10 episodes. After an excellent season 1: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?358297-Ozark-Season-1 the big question was - would season 2 hold up? Be worse? Better? How would they handle recapping to re-orient the...

I watched this as much for the content as for what he did with the iPhone 7 Plus. The film itself was not terrible, but still a disappointment - the script was not tight, and the main villain was of the "implausibly omnipotent and omnipresent" variety, which took away from the realizm; as a...

I'm hostile to Hostiles. It has nice photography (DP: Masanobu Takayanagi), and Christian Bale is good as usual, but his talent (and that of other fine actors here) is wasted on a turgid PC vehicle. It has the usual PC tropes of the "noble Indian" and faux deep implications of "violence bad for...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6029106/ Absolute gem! Excellent writing, brilliant acting, and outstanding direction. Anything else? Why, yes! It's also superbly edited, the camera work is fresh and extremely accurate for the genre, and what is very rare, the music choices are beyond reproach. Oh...

2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - well deserved IMHO. I loved this movie. It is so refreshing to see things actually well done - for example music, which usually is quite poor, is excellent here, beautifully shot, well acted, a lovely story that has layers of subtlety without being...

I like to support new directors, so I went to see "Midnighters", a first feature for director Julius Ramsay, with the screenplay written by his brother Alston Ramsay. Here is an interview with the director: http://collider.com/julius-ramsay-interview-midnighters/ Spoilers may follow. It's a...