On the face of it, Roma hardly looks like a typical visual effects movie. In scrupulously re-creating the middle-class family life he knew growing up in Mexico City during the early 1970s, writer-director Alfonso Cuaron aims for a low-key realism that finds drama in even the most routine moments of ordinary life. But, in fact, the majority of the $15 million film, which began streaming Dec. 14 on Netflix, involves some degree of visual effects work, according to VFX supervisor Dave Griffiths of the film's lead VFX house, Mpc. Of course, Cuaron knows all about cutting-edge VFX techniques — his 2013 ...
- 12/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On the face of it, Roma hardly looks like a typical visual effects movie. In scrupulously re-creating the middle-class family life he knew growing up in Mexico City during the early 1970s, writer-director Alfonso Cuaron aims for a low-key realism that finds drama in even the most routine moments of ordinary life. But, in fact, the majority of the $15 million film, which began streaming Dec. 14 on Netflix, involves some degree of visual effects work, according to VFX supervisor Dave Griffiths of the film's lead VFX house, Mpc. Of course, Cuaron knows all about cutting-edge VFX techniques — his 2013 ...
- 12/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
While it's not exactly a horror film, per se, The Mule stars a few faces that are familiar to horror fans like ourselves and it's about drugs being stuffed up a dude's butt, two things that make it worthy of a mention here on Dread.
The whacky film has just been picked up for U.S. distribution, and we've pulled out all the details for ya today!
From the Press Release
XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the edgy, comedic thriller The Mule from Entertainment One Films International’s newly launched boutique sales arm Séville International. The film, written by Leigh Whannell & Angus Sampson, recently had its world premiere to great acclaim at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March. XLrator Media will release the film in Fall 2014 on its acclaimed “MacAbre” genre label. The deal was announced today by XLrator Media CEO Barry Gordon.
The Mule stars Hugo Weaving (The Hobbit,...
The whacky film has just been picked up for U.S. distribution, and we've pulled out all the details for ya today!
From the Press Release
XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the edgy, comedic thriller The Mule from Entertainment One Films International’s newly launched boutique sales arm Séville International. The film, written by Leigh Whannell & Angus Sampson, recently had its world premiere to great acclaim at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March. XLrator Media will release the film in Fall 2014 on its acclaimed “MacAbre” genre label. The deal was announced today by XLrator Media CEO Barry Gordon.
The Mule stars Hugo Weaving (The Hobbit,...
- 5/16/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
While some movies burn their images into our consciousnesses, what’s burned into every film are the flashing dots that appear in the upper-right hand corner that tell a projectionist that it’s time to switch reels. British filmmaker and artist Dave Griffiths has strung together several of these burned circles from different movies into one short film Love Is a Burning Thing. It’s a succession of clips featuring just those top corners, yet instead of these scenes being entirely incomprehensible from lack of visual information, the little visual and audio clues still let us know what type of film each scene is from. Plus, an odd narrative begins to develop.
As the film industry moves closer to a purely digital format, these projectionist cues are going to become a lost and needless artifact. And with the digital “restoration” fad of older films, many of the cues have probably...
As the film industry moves closer to a purely digital format, these projectionist cues are going to become a lost and needless artifact. And with the digital “restoration” fad of older films, many of the cues have probably...
- 1/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It’s lucky 13 for the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC. That is, their 13th annual fest is all set to run on Oct 8-16. That’s nine mind-blowing nights of experimental short films, live film performances and culture-shattering documentaries.
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
The fest kicks off on the 8th with a 16mm screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin that will be accompanied by a live soundtrack by DJ-son Bitter Herbs [Jason Flower]. The people’s revolution never sounded so funky! Then, the fest concludes on the 16th with the event “Uzos [Underwater Zombies from Outer Space]” and will feature performances by Ryan Beattie, Atomic Vaudeville, Slut Revolver, Wes Borg and more.
Smooshed between those two events will be the debut feature film by acclaimed ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where They May, which documents the amazing recreation of a bold escape made by slaves. Other feature length documentaries screening are: Teen Routines,...
- 10/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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