#feature films

[architectureandfilmblog]

AmericasMart, Atlanta, John Portman Architects (Building 3, 1979)

More than 80 movies, television shows and music videos have been filmed in John Portman's neofuturist buildings. The most frequently used are the Peachtree Centre, which appeared in ANT MAN AND THE WASP (2018), BABY DRIVER (2017), and dozens of other productions, and Westin Bonaventure, where INTERSTELLAR (2014) and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III (2006) were shot. The AmericasMart complex can be seen in DIVERGENT: INSURGENT (2014), FUTURAMA (EP.16) (2000). Photo by Isaiah King on Flickr

#john portman #americasmart #architecture #neofuturism #brutalism #modernist #feature films

[w-armansky-blog]

Hollywood’s film director Dorothy Arzner: the first, the first, the first

the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system

the only woman filmmaker directing top level studio pictures

the first woman in Hollywood who directed a sound film, Paramount’s first talking movie The Wild Party

the first female member of the Directors Guild of America

In the golden age of Hollywood, Dorothy Arzner was the only woman in a male-dominated space of film directoring. Started as an editor and writer Dorothy Arzner became a successful Hollywood director. With the ambition to become a doctor, she went abroad during World War I to work in the ambulance corp. When she returned, however, she decided she wanted to become a film director. Dorothy Arzner directed around 20 films over the course of her 24 years in film industry. She taught Francis Ford Coppola and with directing her feature films she launched the careers of actresses Clara Bow, Katherine Hepburn and Lucille Ball.

Dorothy Arzner was a shorthaired, boyish director, preferred to wear mostly pants. The way the mother goddess of women’s film-making was described by those who knew her:

"Sometimes, during the direction of a scene, she speaks so softly that it is necessary for her assistant to echo her orders in his chesty baritone. For the most part, she dresses in sport clothes and flat heels and eye-shading felt hats. There is something about her that commands immediate attention—and respect. It is an open secret on the Paramount lot that Miss Arzner's company is the best disciplined in the studio—and that it is self-disciplined."

"The only woman director in the 'movies' pondered gravely before answering. Shc sat quietly— a slight, almost frail figure. Black, short hair, with here and there a thread of gray, was brushed smoothly back from her wide, thoughtful forehead, and blue eyes under heavy brows looked at one steadily and directly. The face mobile and sensitive, harbored a strength and power for some reason rather surprising."

"Hers is a very satisfying face, brilliantly alive; her skin is clear and healthy, without aid of cosmetics; her eyes arc a deep, violet-blue, shadowed with long lashes, and I should hate to be the one to double-cross or try to fool those eyes. . she wears a severely tailored tweed suit, with mannish shirt and tie, when working. She orders her shirts by the dozen from a New York firm and says she feels this is the only sort of costume suited to her job."

"The case of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's lone woman director, illustrates two tenets of present-day industry. The first is that an intelligent woman can do pretty much any kind of work she sets her mind on doing, and the second is that she didn’t need to sacrifice her femininity in doing it. ... Hollywood's maverick woman megaphone wielder has dark brown hair brushed back from a high forehead in a short bob, and gray-blue eyes. She wears tailored suits on the set and all her clothes, tailored or evening, are in combinations of black and white or gray ..."

Can’t believe I never heard of Dorothy Arzner before.

source: Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Women Artists in Film) | Mayne, Judith. 1994, https://www.womeninblog.com/

#cinematography #dorothy arzner #female director #Hollywood #women's fashion #female #dga #film business #paramount pictures #film editor #silent movie #American cinema #films for women made by women #filmography #sound film #talkies #the 20th century #Paramount #filmmaker #feature films #gender #feminist #shirts #pants #lone #power #intelligence #maverick #escapism

[paulmaranto]

I enjoyed Barbie! It is a fun movie with a good story and excellent writing, directing and acting!

#barbie #barbie movie #the barbie movie #movies #feature films #new movie

[laiqverse]

Motion Graphics vs. Animation

Are you confused about the difference between motion graphics and animation? Learn the distinctions between the two and discover which one is right for you. Motion graphics and animation are two terms often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Both have their unique characteristics and uses, and understanding the differences between the two is crucial for anyone involved in the…

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#animation #Design #design elements #Designer #feature films #Graphic design #immersive #interactivity #laiq ahmed qureshi #LaiqQureshi #laiqverse #message #motion graphics #Storytelling #television shows #video games #viewer #visual communication

[meganlynnhostetler]

First red carpet. What a milestone. ♥️

Instagram: @meganlynnhostetler

#Actor #Actress #film festival #film festivals #fashion #beautiful #113 N Indigo Dr #Feature Film #Feature Films #113 #Red Carpet #Megan Lynn Hostetler #Chicago IIFF #Style #Smile #like #daily #cute #chicago IIFF 2022 #life #beauty #amazing #tumblr #photo #film #films #movie #movies #photography #makeup

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Three hundred twenty-one feature films are eligible for the 2023 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. There are 265 feature films eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category

#Janet Walker #Haute-Lifestyle.com #The-Entertainment-Zone.com #Academy Awards #Oscars #Best Picture #feature films #academy award nominee

[knowledgevariabledarcy]

#feature films #script #screenwriting #screenwriter #short movies #Youtube

[jpf-sydney]

Japanese film. 2022. Vol. 49

New item:

Introduction of around 80 Japanese films selected out of those officially released in theaters within Japan during previous year. The presented films are chosen by the Selection Committee. Also includes statistical data on Japanese film industry and contact details of Japanese film related companies and organizations. The same content is presented at JFDB (a UNIJAPAN managed Japanese film Database).

Shelf: 778.059 UNI 2022 Japanese film. 2022. Vol. 49.

Tōkyō : UniJapan, 2022.

203 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.

#feature films #jcentral

[darealchriscoma]

"Below are ten of the best horror movie remakes with scripts that you can find in our expansive screenplay library."

#screenwriting #screenplays #feature films #horror #halloween

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

#red said #also there are posts and tweets like THIS IS JUST FOR MCU FANS #like please go on demonstrating how you've adopted 'mcu fan' as a shorthand for 'person who likes films i don't' #or 'person who likes films that are popular' #because the defining features of mcu films are that they're high budget irony poisoned derivative works #targeted at a broad audience so aiming to be accessible and inoffensive #and it really seems. like 'accessible' is the part of that you object to #bc EEAAO is a highly original A24 indie film with a 14.5m budget which is NOTHING #it's made mostly with practical effects and sets #and most importantly it's beautifully painfully earnest. it's never trying to shy away or go Hey Look How Silly This Is 😏 #everything is driven by its earnest desire to talk about specific themes #i think the people comparing it negatively to mcu films are stuck on the fact that it's about a multiverse and it's got jokes #and colourful action scenes #but they miss that the referential jokes (like racacoonie) and setpieces aren't the point of the film

[architectureandfilmblog]

The villa of Commandant Höss: a "paradise" which shared a wall with Auschwitz.

ARCHITECTURE OF GENOCIDE: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023)

Before I saw this film, I'd assumed that it would illustrate the way architecture can be used to facilitate denial or self-deception. Like PARASITE (2019), in which one - in that case wholly fictional - family creates a lavish domestic retreat from which they can't see the overcrowding, poverty and suffering that surrounds them. But although Hedwig Höss speaks of planting vines to cover the wall they share with Auschwitz, there's no pretending this neighbour isn't there. The Höss's live in a pristine 1937 villa, with a manicured garden where they have parties and their children swim in a pool, and this juxtaposition is chilling. But they can still see the chimneys, and hear the screams, and nobody is denying what's next door.

This is one of the most horrifying movies I've seen, and that's due to the banality of the domestic scenes. We aren't watching a stereotypically deranged mass murderer, or even a psychopathic commandant at work inside the camp. Instead we see a comfortable house, a beautiful garden, two parents who love one another and their children. And who've somehow been able to assimilate the fact that millions are being murdered behind their garden wall.

The film is based loosely on a novel, but also on research into the lives of the real Höss's. A replica was built of their villa and garden, only metres from where the real home still stands. It's suggested that the real Rudolf and Hedwig considered themselves homesteaders, reclaiming rural territory for the 'master race', as was the Nazi ideal. In the film, Hedwig repeatedly emphasises the role of building and grounds as a status symbol. Their villa had been taken from its Polish owners and architecturally altered to fit the Höss's image. Most of the items inside would have been plundered from Jewish homes, and others, such as stools, and the wheelbarrow full of smaller seized items, would have been custom-made by prisoners. This isnt a home that is genteel in spite of the camp next door. On the contrary, everything about it, down to the fur coat on Hedwig's back, exists as a result of persecution and genocide.

The Zone was an exclusion area of over 40 sq. km around the camp, created after Poles and Jews were expelled from nearby villages. It's jarring how idyllic it appears in the film, with meadows, birdsong, a gently babbling river. While obviously not as horrifying as human apathy, the indifference of a place to the evil it houses is disconcerting, especially if you're in a profession like architecture or urban design, where places are thought to be somehow expressive of what occurs within them. We do see the horror occasionally seep beyond camp walls - a practiced scramble to leave sun loungers as crematoria smoke seeps into the garden, a wash of ash infiltrating the picturesque river.

It's likely that the filmmakers were using the extreme example of this family to remind us of our own ability to become apathetic and desensitised to the suffering of strangers, particularly when we feel our personal safety and comfort may be threatened. (Current campaigns to essentially criminalise poverty in the form of homelessness in certain cities, come to mind). Obviously the murder of millions is an evil on a completely different scale, and I have to believe that 99% of us wouldnt be capable of the Höss's actions, but it's a chilling and worthwhile reminder nonetheless.

#the zone of interest #architecture #rudolph hoss #nazi #auschwitz #feature films

[jarrows]

recently i reread a bunch of my favorite sherlock holmes stories (norw my beloved) and felt compelled to create my own diagram for 221B

#sherlock holmes #there are so many great blueprints and maps out there and i thought it would be fun to toss my own hat into the ring #trying to be accurate to what is mentioned in the books #while still allowing for some fun artistic embellishments #was a nice challenge! #i ended up doing lestrades office too but of course you never do see that in canon so it was much more vibes~ based #i am going to color this and spruce it up some but we needed break here before diving back in #since i think the timelapse of this drawing is longer than some feature films 💀💀💀 #anyway definitely open these images in a new tab and zoom in if you can bc these are really big

[knowledgebadmovies]

#she uh #she used to be mine #she understands me #indie film #feature films #Youtube

[meganlynnhostetler]

Instagram: @meganlynnhostetler

#Film Friday #113 N Indigo Dr #Feature Film #Movie #Film #My Movie #My Film #Actors On Tumblr #Filmmakers On Tumblr #Cinema #Movies #Films #Feature Films #Movie Poster #Healing #Inspiration #2022 #Adam Michael #Indie #Indie Film #Filmmakers #Actors #Aesthetic #MLH #Illustration #Megan Lynn Hostetler #Actress #Actresses #Anthony Dain #Youngstown

[humanoidhistory]

In this publicity still for 1968's Destroy All Monsters, it seems like Godzilla is pausing for a moment to decide which building he’ll demolish first.

#godzilla #gojira #kaiju #film #cinema #creature feature