Past couple of weeks I've watched...

Wolverine and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I'm going to say the same thing I said after watching Monsters Vs Aliens. Visual and audio effects, music, cinematography, all nailed in modern flicks.

What is invariable missing is STORY. Both these movies had bloody great big holes in their narratives. Was watching the extras on 'Revenge,' and George keeps making jokes about how the script isn't done, or ready, or 'hay it's finally here!'

You don't reckon!?!
It was bloody obvious that the script was the last thing that anyone thought about.
I guess it doesn't matter cause both these flicks were for the fan's who would have sucked up any old slop.

Other Films I saw were...

La Spagnola
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290867/


Somersault
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381429/
Both of which I really enjoyed. they were small stories, but riveting stuff.



Ice Age 3 is coming up and I've got a bad feeling bout this one.

Really enjoyed the first, thought the second was OK, but I don't know bout this last one.

Trailer for Story and Audience

I posted a 'write up' for a story idea that I developed for Story and Audience.

Here's the link to revisit it...

http://www.thepagemill.com/TheYearMyVoiceBroke/?p=66

I mentioned that we were all developing short trailers for our films and here is mine...

The second week of Story and Audience trailer (better encoding)

So cute, it does my ed in.

Last night Popcorn Taxi had a showing of the doco, Bananaz.

Enjoyed it. Those guys have way too much fun.

That said, Damon Albarn regulaly getting a 'touch of the nerves' and

chucking up in the green room didn't look like fun ;-)

Q&A after with director Ceri Levy.

He spent six years compiling this piece.

http://www.popcorntaxi.com.au/

http://www.bananazfilm.com/

Last weeks DVD's were...

American Gothic
Loved it when I first saw it in the nineties. I didn't realize that Sam Raimi was involved.
The series starts a little slow, but properly kicks in round the forth disk.
Looks like Twin Peaks had a bit of an influence.
Kinda weird working through the disks and watching the format get whittled at by the film makers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_(TV_series)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111880/




Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Classic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/

Was watching last week...

Party Animals
 Likable cast, and I dig stories about politics. Good cinematography with lots of tracking actors down corridors, and regular use of depth of field to separate characters from busy backgrounds. 

Good pedigree too.

Six degrees of separation for Party Animals...

1. This Life (same producers) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Life
2. Ultraviolet (writer worked on This Life and Jack Davenport appears in both)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_(TV_serial)
4. The young guy, who is the new Doctor Who, is one of the Party Animals.

Devil Wears Prada
Gave it a go cause I couldn't find anything else in the library at the time. Ok show but it bent my sense of reality big time. That Anne girl has a smile like a crocodile.

Planet Terror

Needed to watch this again to wash DWP out of my brain. This Grindhouse hommage double feature is 'the bomb'!

Frost/Nixon

Was good but I don't think it deserved the acclaim that it attracted.

Must be American navel gazing again?

Creating experience exercise: Getting the word out there

Spent an interesting day being led through the intricacies of Web

Marketing today by Laurel Papworth, who is an industry expert in

online presence building.

As I result, I now have a Twitter account.

I've been avoiding getting involved in yet online presence but it was

a class exercise so bugger it.

So if your interested in linking up with me over Twitter, my profile is...

http://twitter.com/davetimperley