Films like Barbie and Oppenheimer were (falsely) said to have been made without CGI. Are VFX artists being unfairly airbrushed from movie-making, Ryan wonders…
Poles apart in terms of story and tone though they were, last year’s Barbie and Oppenheimer were both partly marketed on their use of traditional filmmaking techniques and lack of CGI. Greta Gerwig and her team built physical (and very pink) sets for Barbie Town, we were told; Christopher Nolan had used untold barrels of fuel and good, old-fashioned pyrotechnics to simulate the detonation of the first atomic bomb.
For several weeks, outlets carried stories with headlines like, “Barbie Filmed These Scenes Without CGI,” (Yahoo) and such choice quotes as “It’s exactly as they’d have done it in the 1910s” – which came from movie historian Pamela Hutchinson, speaking to The Guardian last July. Vogue magazine ran a lengthy feature about Barbie’s production which stated,...
Poles apart in terms of story and tone though they were, last year’s Barbie and Oppenheimer were both partly marketed on their use of traditional filmmaking techniques and lack of CGI. Greta Gerwig and her team built physical (and very pink) sets for Barbie Town, we were told; Christopher Nolan had used untold barrels of fuel and good, old-fashioned pyrotechnics to simulate the detonation of the first atomic bomb.
For several weeks, outlets carried stories with headlines like, “Barbie Filmed These Scenes Without CGI,” (Yahoo) and such choice quotes as “It’s exactly as they’d have done it in the 1910s” – which came from movie historian Pamela Hutchinson, speaking to The Guardian last July. Vogue magazine ran a lengthy feature about Barbie’s production which stated,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAnna May Wong in Piccadilly.Trailblazing film star Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American to appear on US currency. Wong, whose legacy is overviewed in this Guardian article by Pamela Hutchinson, will be the face of more than 300 million quarters.Alice Diop has won the Prix Jean Vigo, an award given to a French director each year since 1951, for her first fiction feature Saint Omer. Earlier this year, the film won won two awards at the Venice Film Festival and was selected as the French entry for Best International Film at the 2023 Oscars.Paweł Pawlikowski’s next feature—tentatively titled The Island—will be led by Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. Per Variety, they play an American couple who “turn their backs on civilization to build a secluded paradise,” until a...
- 10/26/2022
- MUBI
“I’m really enjoying this. They’re so bad in America. They rinse them in fresh water and it kills the taste.”
Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol will be available on Blu-ray April 26th from Arrow Video
For five decades Claude Chabrol navigated the unpredictable waters of Cinema, leaving in his wake fifty-five feature films that remain among the most quietly devastating genre movies ever made.
The Swindle sees Chabrol at perhaps his most playful as a pair of scam artists, Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault, get in over their heads. But who is scamming who and who do you trust in a life built on so many lies? The murder of a 10-year-old girl sparks rumors and gossip in The Color of Lies, as suspicion falls on René (Jacques Gamblin) the dour once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive.
Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol will be available on Blu-ray April 26th from Arrow Video
For five decades Claude Chabrol navigated the unpredictable waters of Cinema, leaving in his wake fifty-five feature films that remain among the most quietly devastating genre movies ever made.
The Swindle sees Chabrol at perhaps his most playful as a pair of scam artists, Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault, get in over their heads. But who is scamming who and who do you trust in a life built on so many lies? The murder of a 10-year-old girl sparks rumors and gossip in The Color of Lies, as suspicion falls on René (Jacques Gamblin) the dour once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive.
- 4/8/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Big Top Hilarity”
By Raymond Benson
Finally! Chaplin fans can rejoice that The Criterion Collection has at last released the long-awaited missing entry in their run of excellent Blu-ray and DVD editions of the filmmaker’s feature films. For a while it appeared that The Circus, one of the auteur’s best and certainly, arguably, his funniest picture, was forgotten, as it’s been a few years since Criterion’s last Chaplin release. Now… here it is.
The Circus was made just as Hollywood was beginning the transition from silents to talkies. There were still plenty of silent pictures being produced in 1928, and the move to sound wouldn’t be seriously completed until 1930. Ironically, Chaplin chose to make an additional silent comedy in 1931, City Lights, and a semi-silent movie, Modern Times, in 1936!
Charlie is The Tramp, of course. Broke and penniless, he wanders near a traveling circus and, while eluding...
By Raymond Benson
Finally! Chaplin fans can rejoice that The Criterion Collection has at last released the long-awaited missing entry in their run of excellent Blu-ray and DVD editions of the filmmaker’s feature films. For a while it appeared that The Circus, one of the auteur’s best and certainly, arguably, his funniest picture, was forgotten, as it’s been a few years since Criterion’s last Chaplin release. Now… here it is.
The Circus was made just as Hollywood was beginning the transition from silents to talkies. There were still plenty of silent pictures being produced in 1928, and the move to sound wouldn’t be seriously completed until 1930. Ironically, Chaplin chose to make an additional silent comedy in 1931, City Lights, and a semi-silent movie, Modern Times, in 1936!
Charlie is The Tramp, of course. Broke and penniless, he wanders near a traveling circus and, while eluding...
- 10/9/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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