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Mostly old friends, but new ones are neat too.
These are all workshops for my cinematography class. No audio for the first two, since naturally we were supposed to focus on the visual. The first didn't have to really be a scene, just 8 basic shots, but I wanted to do something more interesting. The second was for an exercise in continuous motion, and kind of came together at the last minute, thus the light level changes. The third was to see how we would handle a 3-person scene, since it's much harder than shooting a 2-person. The script is a scene we were given; it's from "The Sure Thing." Enjoy.
New band to watch out for: Paradise Boys.
I love music. The whole art form. I've always listened to: The Beatles; U2; Rachmaninov; Billy Joel; Ella Fitzgerald; every musical known to man; Ray Charles; Paul Simon; Mozart; The Police; Carly Simon; Kathleen Battle; Huey Lewis; The Beach Boys; They Might Be Giants; Agnes Wolohan Smuda; and John Wolohan.
Recent favorites include: Tegan and Sara; Aqueduct; Sleater-Kinney; The White Stripes; Architecture in Helsinki; Beethoven; Radiohead; Blackalicious; Aimee Mann; 50 Foot Wave; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah; Maria Callas; The Arcade Fire; M83; Death Cab for Cutie; Daft Punk; David Bowie; Deerhoof; The Dresden Dolls; Edith Piaf; Kaiser Chiefs; Cake; Le Tigre; Massive Attack; Modest Mouse; Nine Inch Nails; Nirvana; Oasis; Pixies; Chili Peppers; Snow Patrol; Styx; The Sundays; Tenacious D; Weezer; The Who; Wolf Parade; and random performers of J-Pop and J-Rock.
Just saw Primer. So too should you. Current Big Favorite You Might'nt've Seen is: Hiroshima Mon Amour. A few more favorites: all Star Wars (esp. Ep V); Lawrence of Arabia; anything Paths of Glory or later from Kubrick; pretty much all Scorsese (esp. Mean Streets); all Kurosawa I've yet seen (esp. Seven Samurai); Raiders of the Lost Ark; Casablanca; all Jim Jarmusch I've yet seen (esp. Broken Flowers); LotR (of course); Ghost World; Secrets and Lies; anything involving David Mamet (esp. Spanish Prisoner); LA Story; Donnie Darko; Rounders (way before the poker craze); all Quentin Tarantino (esp. the Kill Billz); Clerks; every Matrix movie & The Animatrix; Memento; Rififi; Les Samourai; all Orson Welles all the time; all Miyazaki all the time (esp. Mononoke); Mimi wo Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart); Ghost in the Shell; Angel's Egg; Drunken Master (Jackie Chan's a safe bet); Iris; non-SW George Lucas (esp. American Graffiti); Richard Linklater (esp. Dazed and Confused); Spielberg (esp. AI); All About Lily Chou-Chou; Michel Gondry (esp. Eternal Sunshine); most Francis Ford Coppola (esp. The Conversation)...
Home Movies; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Arrested Development; Firefly; Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; Profit. Now the ones that WERE NOT cancelled: anything with Derren Brown; Prisoner; Six Feet Under; Sopranos; Seinfeld; Democracy Now; Daily Show; Colbert Report; The Office (British); Avatar; Lost; Battlestar Galactica (new); lots of anime including Evangelion, Naruto, Bleach, Gankutsuou, Ranma, Hikaru no Go, Fushigi Yuugi, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop etc.; Highlander.
Recent Favorite: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Anything by Neil Gaiman (esp. Sandman) or Alan Moore (esp. Watchmen); Tolkien; The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt; George Orwell; John Irving; Daniel Clowes; Kubrick by Michel Ciment; Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Obasan by Joy Kogawa; Last Orders by Graham Swift; The Beach and The Tesseract by Alex Garland; Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan.
Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Carl Sagan.Darkhawk.